Along Came Daffy is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
Plot[]
Two starving men (one of which looks like Yosemite Sam; the other also looks like Yosemite Sam, but with black hair) in a snowbound cabin start to hallucinate and see each other as food items, and even fight with a similarly-starving mouse over one measly pea they could find in the cabin.
Door-to-door cookbook salesman Daffy Duck arrives but they slam the door in his face. Moments later their peanut-sized brains realize he is a duck and they just passed up a potential duck dinner, and so they invite him back in and chase him all over the cabin. Eventually, Daffy explains that he happens to have a complimentary turkey dinner in his sample case. He opens the case and out springs the meal. He makes a quick exit as the famished men sit down to eat.
Before they can take a bite, a horde of hungry mice dash from their hole and strip the turkey clean. The men hear another knock on the door. Daffy is there again, offering some after-dinner mints. The men grab him and pull him inside. Daffy sticks his head out the door for a moment and says, "Well, here we go again," before being yanked back inside.
Notes[]
- After one starving hermit puts the other in the oven, Daffy uses a variation of Bugs Bunny's catchphrase: "Ehh... (munching noises) what's cookin', doc?", albeit without the carrot.
- This cartoon is a color remake of "Daffy's Southern Exposure"[2] from a different point of view, while also incorporating plot elements from the short "Wackiki Wabbit" (1943). Co-incidentally, both this cartoon and "Wackiki Wabbit" are written by Tedd Pierce, feature contributions from both Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce in one way or another, and have a similar concept of two starving men attempting to cook and eat the animal protagonist after hallucinating to eat each other out of starvation.
- The original titles had the song "I'd Be Lost Without You" playing over them.[3]
- The two men are similar to Yosemite Sam. Despite this, the ToonHeads episode "Our Man Sam" mistakes one of the men as the same character as Yosemite Sam.[4]
- Although the original 1946-1955 Looney Tunes ending music cue is preserved on the Blue Ribbon reissue, the Turner dubbed version (both US and EU) replaces the original ending music cue with the 1941-55 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.
- The 2020 restoration uses the USA Turner dubbed version as the source of its soundtrack and has this error as well.
- Later, a Tom and Jerry cartoon short named Of Feline Bondage utilizes a similar shaved-to-a-bikini gag at the ending.
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Censorship[]
- The WB removed the part where after all of the duck decoys are shot with Daffy remaining, one of the men shoots his gun at Daffy, blowing feathers from Daffy's carcass and leaving some of the feathers in the form of a bikini bathing suit once the smoke clears.[5]
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References[]
- ā https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19733271213libr/page/116/mode/1up?view=theater
- ā https://archive.org/details/CartoonNetworkToonHeadsDirectorNormanMcCabefirstHalf
- ā https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/more-lost-looney-tunes-title-cues/
- ā https://archive.org/details/Toonheads_222_Our_Man_Sam
- ā http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-a.aspx
- ā https://www.whataboutthad.com/wb-production-number/