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Mexican Joyride is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.

Title[]

The title is a play on the 1944 Broadway musical Mexican Hayride.

Plot[]

Daffy Duck drives to Mexico for a vacation, and after a harrowing experience with the local cuisine that literally sets his mouth afire, Daffy goes to a bullfight ring to observe the spectacle. When Daffy jeers at the bull El Toro, the horned beast removes the clothes from the human matador and puts them on Daffy as a challenge to the duck to fight the bull in the ring. Daffy foils the bull with a proposed wager on a hat trick, betting the bull to guess under which of three sombreros Daffy is hiding. Daffy sees to it that the bull guesses wrong and supplies a machine gun for the impoverished bull to commit suicide. The bull realizes that he is being fooled and, firing the machine gun, chases Daffy out of the bullfight ring. Daffy scrambles to his car to leave Mexico, thinking he has escaped the belligerent bull. But the bull is riding in the back seat of Daffy's vehicle, unbeknownst to Daffy.

Music Cues[3][]

  • La dernière sérénade [The Gaucho Serenade] (by Nat Simon, John Redmond and James Cavanaugh)
    • Plays during the opening credits and sung my Daffy (with alternate lyrics) in the opening scene
  • Ahí, viene la conga (by Raúl Valdespí)
    • Plays when the cars are in a conga line at the border of the U.S.A and Mexico
  • La Cucaracha (traditional)
    • Plays when Daffy hops out of the car
  • Mexican Hat Dance [El jarabe tapatío] (by Felipe A. Partichela)
    • Plays when Mexican food is shown
  • La Cucaracha (traditional)
    • Plays again when Daffy is eating
  • Muchacha (by Harry Warren)
    • Plays several times throughout the picture
  • La Cucaracha (traditional)
    • Plays again when the bull is searching for Daffy in the hats
  • Brahms' Lullaby aka "Cradle Song" (by Johannes Brahms)
    • Plays when Daffy tells the bull to commit suicide
  • La dernière sérénade [The Gaucho Serenade] (by Nat Simon, John Redmond and James Cavanaugh)
    • Plays at end when Daffy and the bull are in the car

Availability[]

Censorship[]

  • When aired on the American feeds of the Turner-owned networks TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, all scenes of the bull holding a gun to his head to commit suicide (after Daffy tricks him into believing he gambled away all his money and that there is no way out except suicide) are cut.[4] None of the three U.S. channels edited or altered the rather darkly comic scenes of Daffy offering the bull a pistol, then offering the bull an automatic after the bull misses (with Daffy stating, "Here, butterfingers. Try a few more shots--on the house!"), and the scene in which Daffy has a butcher shop prepped and is waiting for the bull to kill himself with the automatic so he can harvest the meat from his corpse (along with Daffy's line "Farewell, stupid!").
    • Most international versions of Cartoon Network and Boomerang have aired this scene uncut.[5]

Notes[]

  • Daffy references radio personality Chester Riley's catchphrase, "What a revolting development this is," from The Life of Riley.
  • Daffy suggests a Good Neighbor Policy, a reference to the United States' foreign policy towards nations in Central and South America during the 1930s. The "Good Neighbor Policy" suggestions mentioned were cigarettes, sparkling champagne and gin rummy.
  • During one scene when Daffy screams in front of the audience after a harrowing experience with the local cuisine that literally sets his mouth afire, there is a fireplace, complete with wood on fire, visible in his throat.
  • This short was one of three non-Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1947 not to be re-released into the Blue Ribbon program. The others were "Catch as Cats Can" and "A Pest in the House".
  • Scenes from this short were used during the beginning of the ToonHeads episode "Toro! Toro!" (an episode centered on how bullfighting is depicted in cartoons).[citation needed] (April 2018)
  • Vitaphone release number: 1567.[6]

Gallery[]

References[]

Daffy Duck Cartoons
1937 Porky's Duck Hunt
1938 Daffy Duck & EggheadWhat Price PorkyPorky & DaffyThe Daffy DocDaffy Duck in Hollywood
1939 Daffy Duck and the DinosaurScalp TroubleWise Quacks
1940 Porky's Last StandYou Ought to Be in Pictures
1941 A Coy DecoyThe Henpecked Duck
1942 Conrad the SailorDaffy's Southern ExposureThe Impatient PatientThe Daffy DuckarooMy Favorite Duck
1943 To Duck .... or Not to DuckThe Wise Quacking DuckYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatScrap Happy DaffyA Corny ConcertoDaffy - The Commando
1944 Tom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyPlane DaffyThe Stupid Cupid
1945 Draftee DaffyAin't That DuckyNasty Quacks
1946 Book RevueBaby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesHollywood DaffyThe Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947 Birth of a NotionAlong Came DaffyA Pest in the HouseMexican Joyride
1948 What Makes Daffy DuckDaffy Duck Slept HereThe Up-Standing SitterYou Were Never DuckierDaffy DillyThe Stupor SalesmanRiff Raffy Daffy
1949 Wise QuackersHoliday for DrumsticksDaffy Duck Hunt
1950 Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelHis Bitter HalfGolden YeggsThe Ducksters
1951 Rabbit FireDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize Pest
1952 Thumb FunCracked QuackRabbit SeasoningThe Super SnooperFool Coverage
1953 Duck AmuckMuscle TussleDuck Dodgers in the 24½th CenturyDuck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954 Design for LeavingQuack ShotMy Little Duckaroo
1955 Beanstalk BunnySahara HareStork NakedThis Is a Life?Dime to Retire
1956 The High and the FlightyRocket SquadStupor DuckA Star Is BoredDeduce, You Say
1957 Ali Baba BunnyBoston QuackieDucking the DevilShow Biz Bugs
1958 Don't Axe MeRobin Hood Daffy
1959 China JonesPeople Are BunnyApes of Wrath
1960 Person to Bunny
1961 The Abominable Snow RabbitDaffy's Inn Trouble
1962 Quackodile TearsGood Noose
1963 Fast Buck DuckThe Million HareAqua Duck
1964 The Iceman Ducketh
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffySuppressed DuckCorn on the CopTease for TwoChili Corn CornyGo Go Amigo
1966 The AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper CaperSee Ya Later Gladiator
1980 The Yolks on YouThe Chocolate ChaseDaffy Flies NorthDuck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th 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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