Duck Soup to Nuts is a 1944 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
Title[]
The title is an amalgam of the titles of the Marx Brothers classic film Duck Soup and The Three Stooges film Soup to Nuts.
Plot[]
Daffy is relaxing in a pond with a group of other ducks and notes that "I kinda stand out in a crowd," as the other ducks are depicted as standard mallards. Suddenly a gunshot goes off and all the ducks dunk their heads underwater for cover (Daffy, noticeably, puts a swimming cap on his head before similarly dunking his head). Porky enters and lets off another shot, which sends the other ducks flying away.
Porky takes aim at Daffy and orders him out. When Daffy comes out, still with his feet in the air, he quickly disarms Porky and tells the hunter that he's no ordinary duck. "I'm just slopping over with talent", Daffy claims, and proceeds to show this off by "singing", "dancing", and "acting", in which he gives Porky a glimpse of his contract with Warner Bros., When this gag is over, Daffy offers to read the bumps on Porky's head, providing the bumps himself! Porky tries holding a shotgun to Daffy, but Daffy responds to this threat by looking inside the shotgun to see a woman in a bathing suit. When Porky takes a look, he sees Daffy in the same pose! Porky shoots Daffy out, and Daffy runs back to the pond, where Porky cannot chase him since he can stay underwater "practically indefinitely."
Daffy is underwater singing when he notices Porky has jumped in with a diving helmet. Daffy walks up to Porky as "the Fuller Brush Man!", and knocks on Porky's helmet. When Porky tells him to "come in," Daffy opens the front of the helmet, causing Porky to jump out and start bailing out the water with a bucket. Eventually, all the water is gone, and Daffy flips around like a fish out of water. When Porky refuses to believe that Daffy is a fish, Daffy counters that he doesn't believe Porky is a pig - he believes that Porky is an eagle. Daffy switches what Porky says. Porky decides to prove that he's an eagle by jumping off a tree. When this doesn't work ("I told you I was a pig!"), Porky uses up all his ammo trying to shoot Daffy. However, he still has his "trusty six-shooter."
Before Porky can kill Daffy, Daffy asks to say goodbye to his wife and kids. Letting out a Tarzan-type yell, and then coughing at the end, his wife Celia and three kids, Sylvester, Lathrop, and Stanislaus, come to say a tearful goodbye. Porky walks away, feeling that he'd be a rat if he were to shoot someone with a wife and kids. and he lets him go. Just as Porky is out of sight, Daffy's "family" turn out to be four derby-wearing, cigar-smoking male ducks who laugh at how easily they tricked Porky, with one of them asking Daffy for money for their involvement in the scam. Their laughter is interrupted by Porky's shooting at them with his rifle, and all five of them jump around, "hoo-hoo"-ing as they jump into the lake.
Quotes[]
- Daffy: Okay, maybe you’ll be interested in a little phrenology, which is by no means the least of my many accomplishments.
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Notes[]
- This cartoon is notable for containing some gags that would appear in later cartoons featuring Daffy, such as "Boobs in the Woods" and "Rabbit Fire".
- One was the reverse psychology gag, when Daffy convinces Porky he is an eagle.
- The Latin Spanish redub of this short replaces partially the reissue opening music theme with 1938-41 Merrie Melodies opening music cue.[2]
- The original titles have been reported to exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3]
- However, while a print with the original titles is known to exist, the original titles reported to exist in the UCLA archive are likely not on a 35mm print. As Warner Bros. only restores 35mm prints, the cartoon was restored with the Blue Ribbon titles instead.
- Vitaphone release number: 1237[4]
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References[]
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19723261213libr/page/67/mode/1up?view=theater
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/looney-tunes-tooncast/Duck+Soup+to+Nuts+(R).mp4
- ↑ https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/checklist.html
- ↑ Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts (in en). McFarland, page 281. ISBN 978-0786412792.