Holiday for Drumsticks

Holiday for Drumsticks

Directed By:		Arthur Davis
Produced By:		Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Released:		January 22, 1949
Series:		Merrie Melodies
Story:		Lloyd Turner William Scott
Animation:		Basil Davidovich Don Williams J.C. Melendez Emery Hawkins Herman Cohen (uncredited) Arthur Davis (uncredited)^[1]
Layouts:		Don Smith
Backgrounds:		Philip DeGuard
Film Editor:		Treg Brown (uncredited)
Voiced By:		Mel Blanc
Music:		Carl Stalling
Starring:		Daffy Duck Tom Turk Ma Pa Hillbilly Neighbor
Preceded By:		Hare Do
Succeeded By:		Awful Orphan

Holiday for Drumsticks is a 1949 Merrie Melodies short directed by Arthur Davis.

Plot

A group of hillbillies are preparing to slaughter The Turkey, and they are fattening it by providing it with roast beef, ham, fruits, vegetables, cakes, and pies. Daffy Duck, who happens to be one of the farm animals, is jealous of all of the food that the turkey is receiving. He wants all the food for himself and decides to tell the turkey that if he stops eating then the hillbillies wont eat him. Daffy eats all the food and at the same time tries to get the turkey to reduce himself. Things get a little weird when Thanksgiving comes, and the family doesn't plan on having turkey, it plans on having duck.

Availability

(1996) VHS & Laserdisc - Stars of Space Jam: Daffy Duck
(2017) Streaming - Boomerang App

Censorship

On ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, two scenes involving gun use were cut:^[2]
- Ma and Pa's neighbor firing a rifle at them (with Ma using the bullets to pour the coffee, Pa using the bullets to light the match for his pipe, the bullets hitting Pa's hat when he hangs it up, and Pa firing back at their neighbor, followed by his agonized scream).
- Daffy trying to lose weight by sweating it off in a sauna machine, only for Pa to shoot the sauna machine and it to shrink tightly around Daffy's neck.

Notes

Production Number: 1098
MPAA Number: 12268
The original closing titles are presumed to be lost, as the cartoon only exists with the 1957-59 Merrie Melodies closing titles.

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References

Daffy Duck Cartoons
1937	Porky's Duck Hunt
1938	Daffy Duck & Egghead • What Price Porky • Porky & Daffy • The Daffy Doc • Daffy Duck in Hollywood
1939	Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur • Scalp Trouble • Wise Quacks • Naughty Neighbors
1940	Porky's Last Stand • You Ought to Be in Pictures
1941	A Coy Decoy • The Henpecked Duck
1942	Conrad the Sailor • Daffy's Southern Exposure • The Impatient Patient • The Daffy Duckaroo • My Favorite Duck
1943	To Duck .... or Not to Duck • The Wise Quacking Duck • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • Scrap Happy Daffy • A Corny Concerto • Daffy - The Commando
1944	Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Plane Daffy • The Stupid Cupid
1945	Draftee Daffy • Ain't That Ducky • Nasty Quacks
1946	Book Revue • Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Hollywood Daffy • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947	The Birth of a Notion • Along Came Daffy • A Pest in the House • Mexican Joyride
1948	What Makes Daffy Duck • Daffy Duck Slept Here • The Up-Standing Sitter • You Were Never Duckier • Daffy Dilly • The Stupor Salesman • Riff Raffy Daffy
1949	Wise Quackers • Holiday for Drumsticks • Daffy Duck Hunt
1950	Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • His Bitter Half • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters
1951	Rabbit Fire • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest
1952	Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Rabbit Seasoning • The Super Snooper • Fool Coverage
1953	Duck Amuck • Muscle Tussle • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century • Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954	Design for Leaving • Quack Shot • My Little Duckaroo
1955	Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Stork Naked • This Is a Life? • Dime to Retire
1956	The High and the Flighty • Rocket Squad • Stupor Duck • A Star Is Bored • Deduce, You Say
1957	Ali Baba Bunny • Boston Quackie • Ducking the Devil • Show Biz Bugs
1958	Don't Axe Me • Robin Hood Daffy
1959	China Jones • People Are Bunny • Apes of Wrath
1960	Person to Bunny
1961	The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Daffy's Inn Trouble
1962	Quackodile Tears • Good Noose
1963	Fast Buck Duck • The Million Hare • Aqua Duck
1964	The Iceman Ducketh
1965	It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Moby Duck • Assault and Peppered • Well Worn Daffy • Suppressed Duck • Corn on the Cop • Tease for Two • Chili Corn Corny • Go Go Amigo
1966	The Astroduck • Mucho Locos • Mexican Mousepiece • Daffy Rents • A-Haunting We Will Go • Snow Excuse • A Squeak in the Deep • Feather Finger • Swing Ding Amigo • A Taste of Catnip
1967	Daffy's Diner • Quacker Tracker • The Music Mice-Tro • The Spy Swatter • Speedy Ghost to Town • Rodent to Stardom • Go Away Stowaway • Fiesta Fiasco
1968	Skyscraper Caper • See Ya Later Gladiator
1980	The Yolks on You • The Chocolate Chase • Daffy Flies North • Duck 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

[1] ttps://archive.org/details/animationbreakdowns20

[2] ttp://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-h.aspx

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