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).
- Vitaphone release number: 1567.[6]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3281213li/page/163/mode/1up?view=theater
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/animationbreakdowns29
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039620/soundtrack/
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ4SkBkoSK8
- ↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-m.aspx
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books/about/Vitaphone_Films.html?id=mmtZAAAAMAAJ