Daffy Duck & Egghead

Daffy Duck & Egghead is a 1938 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[1] The cartoon was released on January 1, 1938, and stars Daffy Duck and Egghead.[2]

Daffy Duck & Egghead
Directed byFred Avery
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Story byJ. B. Hardaway
StarringMel Blanc (uncredited)
Danny Webb
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byVirgil Ross
Irven Spence
Paul Smith
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • January 1, 1938 (1938-01-01) (U.S.)
Running time
7:37
LanguageEnglish
A director's note seen at the beginning of the film after Daffy and Egghead are introduced

Plot

Egghead (in a voice imitating radio comic Joe Penner), who is annoyed by a silhouetted man in the theater audience who refuses to sit down. After he sits down twice and finally gets shot by Egghead when he will not stay down, out comes Daffy Duck biting his nose. While fighting, a tortoise (imitating radio comic Parkyakarkus) comes and tries to give Daffy and Egghead new weapons. When the tortoise goes away, Egghead uses his real gun and Daffy tries to make him shoot the apple on his head. Egghead misses every time, so Daffy puts a blind sign, a cup of pencils, and disguise glasses on Egghead.

Later, Egghead finally manages to capture Daffy by shooting a pair of gloves from his gun, knocking Daffy out and allowing Egghead to place him in a net. Just as Egghead celebrates, a duck from the mental ward comes to claim Daffy. He thanks Egghead for helping to catch Daffy, and tells him that Daffy is 100 precent nuts. "Yeah?", Egghead asks. "Yeah!", answers the duck warden. At that moment, both he and Daffy beat Egghead up before woohoo-ing out into the distance. Egghead becomes fed up with the antics and decides to join them as the cartoon ends.

Voice cast

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck, Ambulance Duck

Danny Webb or Cliff Nazarro as Egghead

Availability

Production notes
  • Daffy Duck & Egghead features the early, zany version of Daffy Duck, who spends the film harassing Egghead (later to become Elmer Fudd), marking the second appearance of Daffy Duck (after Porky's Duck Hunt), his first in color, and first where he is given his current name. It includes a set-piece song-and-dance number by Daffy, doing his own variation of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" (later the theme for Looney Tunes).[4]
  • Some scenes were reused from the previous Looney Tune cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt, from Daffy nipping the hunter's nose, to his whooping and hollering as he bounced in and out of the water.
  • This cartoon was re-released into the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies program on April 20, 1946. The original opening, credits, and closing tile cards were found and restored with the release of the third volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection in 2005.

Censorship

When the short was aired in the United States during the 1990s and 2000s on Cartoon Network, Boomerang and The WB, the scene in which Egghead kills the silhouetted audience member was cut.

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. 66. 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 June 6, 2020.
  3. "Warner Home Video". dailymotion.com. Retrieved May 1, 2017.
  4. "Daffy Duck & Egghead". Big Cartoon DataBase, August 30, 2014
Preceded by
Porky's Duck Hunt		 Daffy Duck Cartoons
1938		 Succeeded by
The Daffy Doc
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