Quackodile Tears

Quackodile Tears
Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck) series
Directed by Arthur Davis
Produced by David H. DePatie
(uncredited)
Story by Co-story artists:
John Dunn
Carl Kohler
Voices by Voice characterizations:
Mel Blanc
Additional voice characterizations:
June Foray
(uncredited)
Music by Music directed and orchestrated by:
Milt Franklyn
Animation by Character animation artists:
Gerry Chiniquy
Virgil Ross
Bob Matz
Lee Halpern
Art Leonardi
Effects animation artist:
Harry Love (uncredited)
Layouts by Character and background layout artist:
Robert Gribbroek
Backgrounds by Background paint artist:
Tom O'Loughlin
Studio Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s) March 31, 1962 (March 31, 1962)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 6'
Language English

Quackodile Tears [1] is a 1962 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Art Davis [2] and one of the few that shows Daffy without his collar. [3]

Plot

Honeybunch is sitting on an egg in her nest and knitting. She tells Daffy it's his turn to sit, but he refuses until she kicks his butt. He moves the egg for a moment to fluff up the nest, but the egg rolls away down the hill and into another nest full of eggs. Unbeknownst to him, these are alligator eggs. Unable to tell the difference, Daffy picks an egg at random and brings it back to his nest. The mother alligator sees him take an egg and cries out, and the father alligator chases Daffy. They squabble about the egg back and forth for a while until Honeybunch returns.

At one point, Daffy uses a grenade painted white as a trap for the crocodile. Honeybunch mistakes it as Daffy throwing away their egg, so she strangles Daffy and forces him to sit on that "egg", ignoring Daffy's explanation that it is a grenade, not the real egg. It explodes, setting his tail on fire.

She makes him sit on the real egg until it hatches into a baby alligator. And when Daffy starts clobbering the alligator with a bat, she tells her husband it's just an ugly duckling which will grow into a beautiful swan. Meanwhile Mrs. Alligator tells her husband something similar, since both families had swapped eggs.

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