Superior Duck

Superior Duck
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Airdate:	23 August 1996
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	34806
Starring:	Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers Foghorn Leghorn Tweety Wile E. Coyote Road Runner Tasmanian Devil Porky Pig as Eager Young Space Cadet Marvin the Martian
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Frank Gorshin as Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn Thurl Ravenscroft as Narrator Eric Goldberg as Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, Superman Jim Cummings as Taz Paul Julian as Road Runner (archived)
Director:	Chuck Jones
Written By:	Chuck Jones
Producer:	Chuck Jones Linda Jones Clough Stephen Fossatti
Animated By:	Thomas E. Decker Greg Whittaker Tom Ray Mike Polvani {uncredited} Nik Ranieri {uncredited} Greg Duffell {uncredited}
Assistant Animators:	Joe Achorn Ben Jones Warren O'Neill Herman Sharaf Greg Duffell Cory Wilson
Effects Animation:	Art Dent
Background Artist:	Jill Petrilak
Film Editor:	Julie Ann Lau
Camera Operator:	Ted Bemiller
Sound Effects:	Robb Wenner
Musician:	Cameron Patrick George Daugherty

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".

Availability

(1998) VHS
Superior Duck (uncut version)

(2009) DVD
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (uncut version)

(2011) DVD
The Essential Daffy Duck, Disc 2 (cut version)

(2011) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Three (restored, cut version)

(2015) DVD
4 Kid Favorites Looney Tunes Collection

(2016) DVD
Looney Tunes Double Feature The Looney Tunes Show Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

(2024) Blu-ray
Joe's Apartment (restored, cut version)

Streaming

Boomerang App (2017 - 2024) (restored, cut version)

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored, cut version)

Max (2024 - ) (restored, cut version)

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 has since been the version used in all television and streaming versions since the release of the DVD.

Notes

• This short was released theatrically alongside Carpool.
• This is the second Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to feature Tweety; the first was "No Barking" (1954).
• This is the first Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to feature:
  • Foghorn Leghorn would be followed by another produced cartoon by Chuck Jones "Pullet Surprise".
  • Tasmanian Devil, though, this is the only Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to feature him, as well as the only theatrical cartoon since his last appearance in "Fright Before Christmas" which was directed by Friz Freleng.
• This is the first cartoon to have Daffy interact with Wile. E Coyote and Foghorn with the latter since "The Yolks on You"
• The Chuck Jones website claimed the short was released in December 1995.

Gallery

Newspaper ad also advertising Carpool (1996)

Carpool TV Spot with "Superior Duck" (Chuck Jones Daffy Duck short, 1996)