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Draftee Daffy is a 1945 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.

Plot[]

Having read about the U.S. fighting forces pushing the Nazi troops back during World War II ("A thshmathing frontal attack on the enemy rear?"), Daffy is in a patriotic mood. However, his mood quickly changes to fear when he gets a call that "The Little Man from the Draft Board" wants to see him.

Hiding in his house, Daffy looks out, eventually seeing the little man, who attempts to hand him a telegram (presumably with Daffy's conscription order). Daffy continues to try and outrun the little man, who seems to be everywhere that Daffy happens to be at the moment.

Daffy even goes so far as to plant a bomb near the man, finally, Daffy locking him in a safe, bricking the safe up, putting up a wall over the bricks, chortling, "So long, Dracula!", running to the roof and taking off in a rocket. However, the rocket soon plunges back to earth, causing Daffy to crash-land in Hell. Shrugging off this turn, Daffy spots a demon and tells him, "Oh well, at least I put one over on that dope from the draft board!" The demon takes off his mask to reveal he's the man from the draft board, who then replies with the popular catchphrase of the "Richard Q. Peavey" character from The Great Gildersleeve, "Well, now, I wouldn't say that," and proceeds to chase Daffy into the distance, letter still in hand.

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  • Daffy had already been depicted as serving in the armed forces in two earlier cartoons, "Daffy - The Commando" and "Plane Daffy".
  • The setup of Daffy and The Little Man from the Draft Board in this cartoon is very similar to that of the wolf and Droopy from the Tex Avery cartoons from rival studio MGM (particularly the Droopy cartoon "Dumb Hounded"), as The Little Man from the Draft Board often pops up everywhere Daffy is, causing the duck to flee to escape from him throughout the picture to avoid getting drafted into the army.
  • The Little Man from the Draft Board makes a cameo in the Tiny Toons episode, "Buster's Directorial Debut" and later in the Animaniacs episode, "Pitter Patter of Little Feet".
  • This is the first Looney Tunes to have the black background with red Color Rings, a color scheme that had previously been used in the 1942-43 season. However, the background is smaller than the 1942-43 season.
  • Along the bottom of the painting of General MacArthur, Cornett Wood's name can be seen.
  • This was the last cartoon that was released during Bob Clampett's time at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio before he left four months later.
  • This was the final short within the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies line to have a focus on the still ongoing World War II; released over three months before the declaration of victory in Europe and eight months before the final surrender of Japan ending the conflict.
  • The Little Man from the Draft Board's question "Is this trip really necessary, son?" refers to the government's attempt to curb the public's consumption of fuel during the war. It was also used by Bugs in "Baseball Bugs".

Gallery[]

Daffy Duck Cartoons
1937 Porky's Duck Hunt
1938 Daffy Duck & Egghead ā€¢ What Price Porky ā€¢ Porky & Daffy ā€¢ The Daffy Doc ā€¢ Daffy Duck in Hollywood
1939 Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ā€¢ Scalp Trouble ā€¢ Wise Quacks
1940 Porky's Last Stand ā€¢ You Ought to Be in Pictures
1941 A Coy Decoy ā€¢ The Henpecked Duck
1942 Conrad the Sailor ā€¢ Daffy's Southern Exposure ā€¢ The Impatient Patient ā€¢ The Daffy Duckaroo ā€¢ My Favorite Duck
1943 To Duck .... or Not to Duck ā€¢ The Wise Quacking Duck ā€¢ Yankee Doodle Daffy ā€¢ Porky Pig's Feat ā€¢ Scrap Happy Daffy ā€¢ A Corny Concerto ā€¢ Daffy - The Commando
1944 Tom Turk and Daffy ā€¢ Tick Tock Tuckered ā€¢ Duck Soup to Nuts ā€¢ Slightly Daffy ā€¢ Plane Daffy ā€¢ The Stupid Cupid
1945 Draftee Daffy ā€¢ Ain't That Ducky ā€¢ Nasty Quacks
1946 Book Revue ā€¢ Baby Bottleneck ā€¢ Daffy Doodles ā€¢ Hollywood Daffy ā€¢ The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947 Birth of a Notion ā€¢ Along Came Daffy ā€¢ A Pest in the House ā€¢ Mexican Joyride
1948 What Makes Daffy Duck ā€¢ Daffy Duck Slept Here ā€¢ The Up-Standing Sitter ā€¢ You Were Never Duckier ā€¢ Daffy Dilly ā€¢ The Stupor Salesman ā€¢ Riff Raffy Daffy
1949 Wise Quackers ā€¢ Holiday for Drumsticks ā€¢ Daffy Duck Hunt
1950 Boobs in the Woods ā€¢ The Scarlet Pumpernickel ā€¢ His Bitter Half ā€¢ Golden Yeggs ā€¢ The Ducksters
1951 Rabbit Fire ā€¢ Drip-Along Daffy ā€¢ The Prize Pest
1952 Thumb Fun ā€¢ Cracked Quack ā€¢ Rabbit Seasoning ā€¢ The Super Snooper ā€¢ Fool Coverage
1953 Duck Amuck ā€¢ Muscle Tussle ā€¢ Duck Dodgers in the 24Ā½th Century ā€¢ Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954 Design for Leaving ā€¢ Quack Shot ā€¢ My Little Duckaroo
1955 Beanstalk Bunny ā€¢ Sahara Hare ā€¢ Stork Naked ā€¢ This Is a Life? ā€¢ Dime to Retire
1956 The High and the Flighty ā€¢ Rocket Squad ā€¢ Stupor Duck ā€¢ A Star Is Bored ā€¢ Deduce, You Say
1957 Ali Baba Bunny ā€¢ Boston Quackie ā€¢ Ducking the Devil ā€¢ Show Biz Bugs
1958 Don't Axe Me ā€¢ Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones ā€¢ People Are Bunny ā€¢ Apes of Wrath
1960 Person to Bunny
1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit ā€¢ Daffy's Inn Trouble
1962 Quackodile Tears ā€¢ Good Noose
1963 Fast Buck Duck ā€¢ The Million Hare ā€¢ Aqua Duck
1964 The Iceman Ducketh
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House ā€¢ Moby Duck ā€¢ Assault and Peppered ā€¢ Well Worn Daffy ā€¢ Suppressed Duck ā€¢ Corn on the Cop ā€¢ Tease for Two ā€¢ Chili Corn Corny ā€¢ Go Go Amigo
1966 The Astroduck ā€¢ Mucho Locos ā€¢ Mexican Mousepiece ā€¢ Daffy Rents ā€¢ A-Haunting We Will Go ā€¢ Snow Excuse ā€¢ A Squeak in the Deep ā€¢ Feather Finger ā€¢ Swing Ding Amigo ā€¢ A Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's Diner ā€¢ Quacker Tracker ā€¢ The Music Mice-Tro ā€¢ The Spy Swatter ā€¢ Speedy Ghost to Town ā€¢ Rodent to Stardom ā€¢ Go Away Stowaway ā€¢ Fiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper Caper ā€¢ See Ya Later Gladiator
1980 The Yolks on You ā€¢ The Chocolate Chase ā€¢ Daffy Flies North ā€¢ Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24Ā½th Century
1987 The Duxorcist
1988 The Night of the Living Duck
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995 Carrotblanca
1996 Superior Duck
2003 Attack of the Drones
2004 Daffy Duck for President
2012 Daffy's Rhapsody
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