Superior Duck is a 1996 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.
Title[]
The title is a play on "Super-Man".
Plot[]
Daffy is a superhero named "Superior Duck" who tries to do good, but can't get started due to an unprofessional Narrator messing up his intro. There are cameo appearances by Foghorn Leghorn, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Tasmanian Devil, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, and Superman. After dealing with the unreliable narrator for a good amount of time, Daffy eventually gets fed up with him and fires him, deciding that he will resort to saving the human race, but Superman intervenes and tells him to "bug off". Daffy takes a literal approach to the suggestion by changing in a phone booth and becoming "Superior Bug".
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- This short was released theatrically alongside Carpool.
- This is the second Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to feature Tweety; the first was "No Barking" (1954).
- The Chuck Jones website claimed the short was released in December 1995.[1]
Censorship[]
- When the cartoon was restored and released on The Essential Daffy Duck DVD in 2011, the scene when the narrator keeps screwing up on the introduction to Superior Duck such as "Faster than a speeding bullet." and "Able to leap the tallest buildings." was cut for unknown reasons despite DC Comics being owned by Warner Bros. The edited version is also included on the Boomerang app and HBO Max.
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Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons | ||||
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1946 | Walky Talky Hawky | |||
1947 | Crowing Pains | |||
1948 | The Foghorn Leghorn | |||
1949 | Henhouse Henery | |||
1950 | The Leghorn Blows at Midnight • A Fractured Leghorn | |||
1951 | Leghorn Swoggled • Lovelorn Leghorn | |||
1952 | Sock a Doodle Do • The EGGcited Rooster | |||
1953 | Plop Goes the Weasel! • Of Rice and Hen | |||
1954 | Little Boy Boo | |||
1955 | Feather Dusted • All Fowled Up | |||
1956 | Weasel Stop • The High and the Flighty • Raw! Raw! Rooster! | |||
1957 | Fox-Terror | |||
1958 | Feather Bluster • Weasel While You Work | |||
1959 | A Broken Leghorn | |||
1960 | Crockett-Doodle-Do • The Dixie Fryer | |||
1961 | Strangled Eggs | |||
1962 | The Slick Chick • Mother Was a Rooster | |||
1963 | Banty Raids | |||
1964 | False Hare | |||
1980 | The Yolks on You | |||
1996 | Superior Duck | |||
1997 | Pullet Surprise | |||
2004 | Cock-a-Doodle Duel |