Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas

Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
Genre:	Christmas
Format:	Animated Direct-to-video
Directed by:	Charles Visser
Produced by:	Frank Molieri Sander Schwartz
Written by:	Ray De Laurentis
Starring:	Joe Alaskey Bob Bergen Billy West
Music by:	Gordon Goodwin
Edited by:	Rob Desales
Release date:	14 November 2006
Running time:	45 minutes

Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas is a 2006 animated direct-to-video film starring the Looney Tunes characters and directed by Charles Visser. It is a spoof of the popular Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol.

This is, to date, the shortest Looney Tunes direct-to-video film, clocking at a runtime of 45 minutes.

Plot

Bugs Bunny pops up out of his hole to clear away the snow. He explains that depsite rabbits traditionally being associated with holidays like Easter (a spring holiday in the Northern Hemisphere), his favorite holiday is actually Christmas (a winter holiday in the Northern Hemisphere). Daffy Duck nearly hits him with his gas guzzling Hummer.

Daffy is the owner of the Lucky Duck Superstore, and he treats his employees very shabbily. Despite Bugs' scolding him for berating Playboy Penguin, Daffy still acts snobbish and tries to abscond with the money Priscilla Pig, Egghead Jr., Henery Hawk and Barnyard Dawg Jr. are collecting for charity. Daffy especially has trouble with his hover scooter, and gets beat up by his own employees (through no fault of their own) and the customers (since he insulted them). After Daffy states he hates the holidays, Bugs warns him about the Ghosts of Christmas, which Daffy simply scoffs at.

After working his employees to the bone on Christmas Eve, Daffy expects them all back at 5:30am on Christmas Day, so he can make more money off of last minute shoppers. Assistant Manager (later Assistant Assistant Manager) Porky Pig pleads to let him go home for Christmas and spend time with his daughter Priscilla, but Daffy refuses. Later that day, the spirit of his deceased business idol Sylvester the Investor warns him to change his ways or he'll be doomed to the same fate. He tells Daffy that three spirits will visit him. Daffy, trapped in the store by a snowdrift, locks himself in his vault to be safe. But the ghosts aren't that easily stopped.

The Ghosts of Christmas Past (Granny and Tweety) take him back to his childhood (with his design from Baby Looney Tunes reused) -- it turns out that Daffy was an orphan as kid and spent his whole childhood at a place called the Lucky Duck Orphanage, where he was always ignored by potential parents during the Christmas season -- while Granny and Tweety certainly do feel bad for him (especially since this is a large part of why Daffy became the way he is as an adult), they're quick to point out that it still doesn't excuse his current behavior towards other.

The Ghost of Christmas Present (Yosemite Sam) then appears and shows him how sad his employees are and tells him if he doesn't change his ways, his future is very bleak. By this time, Daffy is starting to feel tender emotion (though he doesn't attribute it as guilt), which earns him another one of the Ghosts' numerous beatings. By this time, he actually fears the visit of the last ghost and begs Bugs to hide him from it. After a reenactment of Bugs and Daffy's hiding routine, he's left alone when the last ghost appears.

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come (the Tasmanian Devil) comes and shows him that because of his greed and selfishness, he's dead and his store is permanently closed -- while at a cemetery, with see Porky and his daughter, Priscilla, visiting Daffy's grave. According to Porky, Daffy tried naming himself as his own heir in his will (which of course is impossible), so Daffy's store was forced to shut down, leaving his employees out of a job. But despite becoming unemployed, they can at least spend the holidays with their families, which is ultimately what they wanted. After her dad leaves, Priscilla stays behind and claims that she never hated Daffy -- like him, she can understand how it feels to be alone at the holidays, and feeling that no one (not even someone like Daffy) should be alone on a day like Christmas, promises to come visit his grave every year on the holiday. Priscilla leaves a plate of Christmas cookies at Daffy's grave before following her dad out of the cemetery -- touched by Priscilla's kindness, Daffy's cold demeanor melts and his heart breaks -- realizing his greedy, selfish nature was to cover up his real wish to be part of a family, Daffy vows to become a kinder, friendlier and, overall, more generous person.

Returning to the present, he makes Porky the store manager, hires Playboy Penguin as one of his employees, gives all of his employees the gifts they desired along with a raise and a paid vacation. There's a brief moment when he slides back to his greedy self, contemplating just how he is going to recover all the costs. However, it immediately fades when Priscilla presents a plate of duck-shaped cookies and calls him "Uncle Daffy." Daffy thinks she's pushing it until she kisses him on the cheek and he lets her call him "Uncle Daffy" (implying that he finally got his wish to be part of a family). After Bugs munches on a candy cane, the camera pulls out of the mall to end the movie. Porky and Priscilla finish the movie by saying Porky's famous line: "T-T-T-That's all folks!"

Characters

• Daffy Duck - Owner of Lucky Duck Superstore
• Porky Pig - Assistant Manager of Lucky Duck Superstore
• Priscilla Pig - Young Daughter of Porky Pig
• Egghead Jr., Barnyard Dawg Jr., Henery Hawk - Carolers
• Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg, Ralph Wolf, Slowpoke Rodriguez, Cottontail Smith, The Gambling Bug, The Gremlin, Spike and Chester, The Three Bears, Crusher, Sam Sheepdog, Claude Cat, Miss Prissy, Goofy Gophers, Hippety Hopper, Little Red Riding Hood, Beaky Buzzard, Pete Puma, Hubie and Bertie - Lucky Duck Employees
• Gossamer- Lucky Duck Mall Security Guard
• Penelope Pussycat - Customer
• Playboy Penguin - A Homeless Penguin/Future Lucky Duck Employee
• Sylvester the Cat - "Sylvester the Investor's"
• Granny and Tweety - The Ghosts of Christmas Past
• Yosemite Sam - The Ghost of Christmas Present
• Tasmanian Devil - The Ghost of Christmas Future

Bugs Bunny himself does not have a main role in the main storyline, and is only there to simply narrate his trademark commentary to the events. In addition, Lola Bunny does not appear. Despite the appearance of Sam Sheepdog, Ralph Wolf does not appear, possibly to avoid confusion with Wile E. Coyote. Cecil Turtle has a different appearance, he is dressed as Santa Claus and is not speaking any lines. Francois, one of the two French chefs from French Rarebit makes a small cameo appearance as Wile E. Coyote's own personal chef.

Cast

• Joe Alaskey - Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew
• Bob Bergen - Porky Pig, Tweety/Ghost of Christmas Past, Speedy Gonzales
• Jim Cummings - Taz/Ghost of Christmas Future, Gossamer
• June Foray - Granny/Ghost of Christmas Past
• Maurice LaMarche - Yosemite Sam/Ghost of Christmas Present
• Tara Strong - Priscilla Pig, House Wife
• Billy West - Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd
• Paul Julian - Road Runner (archive sound)

Notes

• The design of Daffy as a child in the orphanage slightly resembles his baby self in Baby Looney Tunes.
• The scene where Tweety beats up Daffy Duck for being mean after showing his past as an orphan is a bit inconsistent considering that he never had anyone in his life who cared for him and had to make ends meet.
• Pretty Pudgy Piggy might be a parody of popular franchise Barbie.

Gallery

Title sequence

Priscilla Pig, Porky's daughter in the special

External Links

• Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas at the Christmas Specials Wiki