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{{Infobox Shorts
[[File:Aquaduck.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Title Card]]
 
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|name = Aqua Duck
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|image = Aqua Duck title card.png
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|Director = [[Robert McKimson]]
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|producer = [[David H. DePatie]]
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|airdate = September 28, 1963
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|series = [[Looney Tunes]]
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|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]
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|Starring = [[Daffy Duck]]<br>Pack-rat
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|previous = [[The Unmentionables]]
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|next = [[Mad as a Mars Hare]]
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|video = [[File:Aqua Duck (1963)-0|thumb|center|280px]]
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|Writer = [[John W. Dunn]]
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|Animators = [[Warren Batchelder]]<br>[[Ted Bonnicksen]]<br>[[Keith Darling]]<br>[[George Grandpré]]
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|Layout-artist = [[Robert Gribbroek]]
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|Background-artist = [[Robert Gribbroek]]
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|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]]
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|Musician = [[William Lava|Bill Lava]]
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}}
 
'''Aqua Duck''' is a [[1963]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Robert McKimson]].
   
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== Plot ==
Aqua Duck is a 1963 cartoon starring [[Daffy Duck]]. It was directed by [[Robert McKimson]].
 
 
[[Daffy Duck|Daffy]] is wandering in the desert. Desperately thirsty, he digs to find water but finds a large gold nugget instead. He decides to keep it for himself, but is spotted by a pack-rat who takes the gold. Daffy is able to get it back, but loses his sanity under the broiling sun. Delirious, he role-plays a hotel guest, a baseball player and commentator, a barroom customer, and a dance hall patron.  The rat keeps tracking him, offering water for the nugget.
   
==Plot==
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== Censorship ==
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On [[CBS]]' ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show'', the part where Daffy pulls a gun on the pack rat when the pack rat takes his gold nugget was cut.
   
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== Notes ==
Daffy is stuck in the desert. He is desperate to find water, so he digs and he finds a large gold nugget. He decides to keep it for himself, but is spotted by a pack-rat and it is taken from him. Daffy is able to get it back, but in the process loses his sanity. The rat keep chasing him, offering water for the nugget.
 
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* Only a small portion of this cartoon was used in ''[[Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales]]''.
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* This cartoon was also used in the TV special, ''[[How Bugs Bunny Won the West]]''.
   
==Trivia==
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== Gallery ==
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<gallery>
*this was similar to [[midas and the gold touchers]]
 
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Aquaduck.jpg |Pre-restoration title card
[[Category:Animated short films]]
 
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1619.png|The scene that was censored on CBS
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</gallery>
[[Category:1963 films]]
 
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[[Category:Films directed by Robert McKimson]]
 
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=== TV Title Cards ===
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Lt aqua duck the bugs bunny show.jpg|''[[The Bugs Bunny Show]]''
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{{DaffyDuckShorts}}
 
[[Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons]]
 
[[Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons]]
 
[[Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson]]
 
[[Category:Shorts]]
 
[[Category:1963]]
 
[[Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts]]
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[[Category:Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales Cartoons]]
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[[Category:Cartoons written by John Dunn]]
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[[Category:Cartoons with music by Bill Lava]]
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[[Category:Cartoons animated by Keith Darling]]
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[[Category:Cartoons animated by Warren Batchelder]]
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[[Category:Cartoons animated by George Grandpré]]
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[[Category:Cartoons animated by Ted Bonnicksen]]
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[[Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek]]
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[[Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Robert Gribbroek]]
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[[Category:Cartoons produced by David H. DePatie]]
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[[Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown]]
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[[Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown]]
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[[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc]]

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Aqua Duck
Aqua Duck title card
Directed By: Robert McKimson
Produced By: David H. DePatie
Released: September 28, 1963
Series: Looney Tunes
Story: John W. Dunn
Animation: Warren Batchelder
Ted Bonnicksen
Keith Darling
George Grandpré
Layouts: Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds: Robert Gribbroek
Film Editor: Treg Brown
Voiced By: Mel Blanc
Music: Bill Lava
Starring: Daffy Duck
Pack-rat
Preceded By: The Unmentionables
Succeeded By: Mad as a Mars Hare

Aqua Duck is a 1963 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot

Daffy is wandering in the desert. Desperately thirsty, he digs to find water but finds a large gold nugget instead. He decides to keep it for himself, but is spotted by a pack-rat who takes the gold. Daffy is able to get it back, but loses his sanity under the broiling sun. Delirious, he role-plays a hotel guest, a baseball player and commentator, a barroom customer, and a dance hall patron.  The rat keeps tracking him, offering water for the nugget.

Censorship

On CBS' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, the part where Daffy pulls a gun on the pack rat when the pack rat takes his gold nugget was cut.

Notes

Gallery

TV Title Cards


Daffy Duck Cartoons
1937 Porky's Duck Hunt
1938 Daffy Duck & EggheadWhat Price PorkyPorky & DaffyThe Daffy DocDaffy Duck in Hollywood
1939 Daffy Duck and the DinosaurScalp TroubleWise Quacks
1940 Porky's Last StandYou Ought to Be in Pictures
1941 A Coy DecoyThe Henpecked Duck
1942 Conrad the SailorDaffy's Southern ExposureThe Impatient PatientThe Daffy DuckarooMy Favorite Duck
1943 To Duck .... or Not to DuckThe Wise Quacking DuckYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatScrap Happy DaffyA Corny ConcertoDaffy - The Commando
1944 Tom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyPlane DaffyThe Stupid Cupid
1945 Draftee DaffyAin't That DuckyNasty Quacks
1946 Book RevueBaby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesHollywood DaffyThe Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947 Birth of a NotionAlong Came DaffyA Pest in the HouseMexican Joyride
1948 What Makes Daffy DuckDaffy Duck Slept HereThe Up-Standing SitterYou Were Never DuckierDaffy DillyThe Stupor SalesmanRiff Raffy Daffy
1949 Wise QuackersHoliday for DrumsticksDaffy Duck Hunt
1950 Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelHis Bitter HalfGolden YeggsThe Ducksters
1951 Rabbit FireDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize Pest
1952 Thumb FunCracked QuackRabbit SeasoningThe Super SnooperFool Coverage
1953 Duck AmuckMuscle TussleDuck Dodgers in the 24½th CenturyDuck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954 Design for LeavingQuack ShotMy Little Duckaroo
1955 Beanstalk BunnySahara HareStork NakedThis Is a Life?Dime to Retire
1956 The High and the FlightyRocket SquadStupor DuckA Star Is BoredDeduce, You Say
1957 Ali Baba BunnyBoston QuackieDucking the DevilShow Biz Bugs
1958 Don't Axe MeRobin Hood Daffy
1959 China JonesPeople Are BunnyApes of Wrath
1960 Person to Bunny
1961 The Abominable Snow RabbitDaffy's Inn Trouble
1962 Quackodile TearsGood Noose
1963 Fast Buck DuckThe Million HareAqua Duck
1964 The Iceman Ducketh
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffySuppressed DuckCorn on the CopTease for TwoChili Corn CornyGo Go Amigo
1966 The AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper CaperSee Ya Later Gladiator
1980 The Yolks on YouThe Chocolate ChaseDaffy Flies NorthDuck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1987 The Duxorcist
1988 The Night of the Living Duck
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995 Carrotblanca
1996 Superior Duck
2003 Attack of the Drones
2004 Daffy Duck for President
2012 Daffy's Rhapsody