Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Directed by:	Greg Ford Friz Freleng Chuck Jones Terry Lennon Robert McKimson Maurice Noble
Produced by:	Hal Geer Steven S. Greene Kathleen Helppie-Shipley Jean MacCurdy
Written by:	Greg Ford Terry Lennon John Dunn Michael Maltese Tedd Pierce
Starring:	Mel Blanc Mel Tormé Roy Firestone B.J. Ward Ben Frommer Julie Bennet June Foray (uncredited) Mark Kausler (uncredited)
Music by:	Milt Franklyn Bill Lava Carl Stalling Hal Willner
Edited by:	Treg Brown Jim Champin Rick Gehr Frank Raciti (sound effects)
Distributed by:	Warner Bros.
Release date:	24 September 1988
Running time:	72 minutes

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters is a 1988 Looney Tunes film, starring Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Sylvester, and Porky Pig. It is the final theatrical Looney Tunes production in which Mel Blanc provided the voices of the characters. The film was released to theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 24, 1988.

Film Segments

• "The Night of the Living Duck" (opening sequence). This cartoon is exclusive to the film.
• "The Stupor Salesman" (audio clip only when Daffy goes door-to-door)
• "Daffy Dilly" (used at beginning when Daffy tries to get to Cubish)
• "The Prize Pest" (1951) (used when Daffy recruits Porky)
• "Water, Water Every Hare" (1952) (Used for the Paranormalists At Large commercials)
• "Hyde and Go Tweet" (1960) (Sylvester encounters Tweety, who changes into a monster without him realizing it)
• "Claws for Alarm" (1954) (Porky and Sylvester's Dry Gulch assignment)
• "The Duxorcist" (1987) (Daffy's first assignment, where he ends up getting temporarily possessed). This was first released theatrically with Nuts, and it was shown as an individual cartoon short years later.
• "Transylvania 6-5000" (1963) (Bugs' Transylvania assignment)
• "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" (1961) (Bugs and Daffy's Himalayas assignment)
• "Punch Trunk" (1953) (a miniature elephant wanders through town, having many encounters with various people, with only a drunk man not expressing any shock whatsoever)
• "Jumpin' Jupiter" (1955) (seen in epilogue, identified as the Superstition Mountains)

Censorship

• When Cartoon Network aired this film, two scenes were censored:
  • The scene at the beginning showing Daffy selling cars was edited to remove Daffy offering cases of Billy Beer with each purchase.
  • The sequence of Porky traveling with Sylvester to the haunted hotel (actually rearranged and redubbed clips from "Claws for Alarm") has all the noose gags cut. This scene was reinstated in 2002 when they began airing "Claws for Alarm" uncut.

Availability

(1989) VHS

(1989) Beta

(1989) LaserDisc

(2009) DVD

(2015) DVD
4 Kid Favorites Looney Tunes Collection

(2016) DVD
Looney Tunes Double Feature The Looney Tunes Show Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

(2023) DVD
Best of WB 100th: Looney Tunes 10-Film Collection

Streaming

HBO Max Latin America / Brazil (2022 - 2024)

Max Latin America / Brazil (2024 - )

Trivia

• Real newspaper clippings were used to provide filler text on the newspaper zoom-in during the newly animated Daffy Dilly scene announcing the death of character J.P. Cubish. One of the clippings is taken from the February 9, 1987 issue of The Tampa Tribune, in which the AP reports the recovery of six young children from a cult known as The Finders. The Finders, at the time, was a subject of intense national interest. Two other articles are used for that scene: one telling the story of a hospital patient asking the general public for help with a blood disorder known as "Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura" (aTTP), and the other a clipping of a story describing ongoing embezzlement investigations into then Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley.

Notes

• Production Number: 255117
• MPAA Number: 29236
• Daffy's scream as he got hit by the wrecking ball is both Wile E. Coyote's and Sylvester's screams taken from both "To Beep or Not to Beep" and "Tugboat Granny", respectively.
• Music is reused from:
  • "Porky's Preview" (Opening logo)
  • "Ducking the Devil"
  • "Jumpin' Jupiter"
  • "Early to Bet"
  • "Punch Trunk"
  • "It's Hummer Time"
  • "What's Up Doc?"
  • "Muzzle Tough"
  • "Operation: Rabbit"
  • "Long-Haired Hare"
  • "The Windblown Hare"
• Audio is reused from:
  • "The Stupor Salesman"
  • "The Prize Pest"
  • "Rabbit Seasoning"

Gallery

Production Art

Production cel with a production background and cels from "Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers"

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Sketches of Bugs Bunny in "Transylvania 6-5000", note production code 255117.

External Links

• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters at the Big Cartoon DataBase