Along Came Daffy

Along Came Daffy is a 1947 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and written by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce.[1] The cartoon was released on June 4, 1947, and stars Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam.[2]

Along Came Daffy
Directed byI. Freleng
Produced byEdward Selzer
Story byMichael Maltese
Tedd Pierce
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl Stalling
Edited byTreg Brown
Animation byManuel Perez
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Gerry Chiniquy
Layouts byHawley Pratt
Backgrounds byPhilip DeGuard
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • June 4, 1947 (1947-06-04)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Along Came Daffy is one of only two Warner Bros. shorts (the other being 1962's Honey's Money) in which Yosemite Sam is not paired with Bugs Bunny. (At one point, Daffy does imitate "carrot chewing" and ask, "Eh, what's cookin', Doc?", a variant of Bugs's "What's up, Doc?" catchphrase.)

The cartoon is a color remake of 1942 black-and-white short Daffy's Southern Exposure from a different point of view, which was directed by animator Norman McCabe.[3]

Plot

Yosemite Sam and his black-haired twin are starving in a snowbound cabin. In a scene reminiscent of 1943's Wackiki Wabbit, the two hungry men start to hallucinate and see each other as food due to extreme starvation.

Daffy Duck turns up as a door-to-door salesman. Upon realizing he is a duck, the two Sams chase Daffy all over the cabin, to try to turn him into a duck dinner. Eventually Daffy is able to explain that he is selling cookbooks, and happens to have a complimentary turkey dinner with all the trimmings in his sample case. He lays out the spread and makes a quick exit as the famished Sams sit down to eat.

Before the two Sams can take a bite, a hoard of hungry mice dash from out of the woodwork and strip the turkey clean in a few seconds. At the point of despair, they hear another knock on the door. Daffy is there again, offering some after-dinner mints. The two Sams grab him and pull him inside. Daffy is able to stick his head out the door for a moment and tell the audience, "Well, here we go again!" He then gets yanked back inside and the door closes to a black-out that ends the cartoon.

See also

References
  1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 176. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. "Director Norman McCabe". ToonHeads. Season 7. Episode 11. December 28, 2002. Cartoon Network.


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