Daffy Duck Hunt is a 1949 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
Title[]
The title is a combination of the name Daffy Duck and the word "duck hunt".
Plot[]
Porky and Barnyard Dawg are hunting ducks. Daffy sneaks up behind them and empties the gunpowder from their shells, then walks off with the phrase "Duck hunters is the cwaziest peoples!" (a reference to Lew Lehr's Fox Movietone News catchphrase, "Monkeys is the cwaziest people."). When Porky takes aim at Daffy, Daffy is able to continue taunting him, even dancing as a can-can dancer with a bullseye on his rear end - to no ill effect. Porky sends his dog to get Daffy, and the dog decides to trick Daffy, crying loudly that Porky will torture him if he doesn't come back with a duck. Daffy agrees to let the dog "capture" him and carry him back to Porky.
Once they get back to Porky's house, Porky throws Daffy in the deep freeze and goes upstairs for a nap. Once out of sight, Daffy starts knocking on the freezer door to be let out. After a brief fight between his good and bad conscience, the dog lets Daffy out of the freezer, reasoning he can let the duck warm himself a bit and then put him back. Daffy tries to leave the house---claiming, in a non sequitur, "There's a guy waitin' for me!"---but is blocked by the dog, who tries to shush him, but he rudely refuses. After making a bunch of noise, Daffy jumps into the dog's mouth just as Porky comes to see what all the noise is about. Upon coming down, Porky thinks the dog is trying to steal the duck for himself, and subsequently beats him. Porky then throws Daffy back in the freezer. The dog is tired of Daffy sassing him, but the duck continues to act silly around him (dressed in heavy winter gear, screaming about needing to get medicine through "tons of ice! NO ESCAPE!", then dead-panning, "How's things been with you?"). When Porky appears, wondering what all the noise is about, Daffy once again jumps into the dog's mouth. A furious Porky once again thinks his dog is stealing Daffy, and pounds him once again. Porky then places Daffy back into the freezer.
Finally, the dog has had enough of Daffy's erratic behavior and grabs an axe to finish him off. After a chase through the house, Porky, finally having enough of the dog's so-called shenanigans, comes in, declares the dog as a traitor and threatens the dog's life if Daffy isn't in the freezer. Porky opens the freezer, but both are shocked when Daffy, dressed as Santa Claus, jumps out and starts singing "Jingle Bells". Both Porky and the dog start singing along, until Porky sees that the current month is April. Enraged, Porky knocks Daffy down and is ready to use the axe until he sees a stamp on Daffy: "Do not open until Xmas." Daffy smiles and says, "Christmas. By that time, I'll figure a way out of this mess!" The cartoon ends with the iris out over Daffy's left eye, which then closes.
Caricatures[]
- Lew Lehr - "Duck hunters is the cwaziest peoples!"
Availability[]
The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 15
Daffy Duck's Madcap Mania
Daffy Duck's Screen Classics: Duck Victory
Looney Tunes Collection - Porky Pig
Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 3)
Daffy Duck's Madcap Mania Time-Life edition
Classic Bumper Collection
Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 4: Daffy Doodles
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1, Disc Four (restored with DVNR)
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 1, Disc 2 (restored with DVNR)
Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volume 2
Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volumes 1 & 2, Disc 2
Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 2
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 1-3 Repack
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Notes[]
- Much like "One Meat Brawl" directed by Robert McKimson two years prior, this cartoon depicts Barnyard Dawg as Porky's hunting dog, except this time their hunting target is Daffy Duck instead of Grover Groundhog, and Barnyard is not referred to by the name "Mandrake" at all.
- This marks a rare occasion where Barnyard Dawg does not use his familiar voice and one of four occasions where Barnyard appears in a non-Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.
- The "typical" Barnyard Dawg voice is used as the "Devil" on this version's shoulder as he debates whether to let Daffy out of the freezer.
- The gag of a character tricking another character into thinking it is a certain holiday (in this case, Daffy tricking Porky into thinking it's Christmas in the middle of April) was reused from "The Wabbit Who Came to Supper".
- The "Do Not Open Till Xmas" gag previously appeared at the end of "Patient Porky".
- This is supposed to be a follow-up or a color remake of "Porky's Duck Hunt".
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