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Stupor Duck is a 1956 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

Daffy Duck is Stupor Duck and his alter ego, Cluck Trent. He is faster than a (pop gun) bullet, more powerful than a speeding (barely-functional, 1800s-style) locomotive, and (almost) able to leap tall buildings like the "McKimson Assocates" [sic] building in a single bound.

Cluck, hoping for a promotion, eavesdrops on his editor, who is watching a "corny soap opera" on a TV in his office. The unseen show's villain is "Aardvark Ratnik," a Russian-accented terrorist hell-bent on world domination. Cluck concludes that Aardvark actually exists, is present in the editor's office and making his demands known lest the consequences. Cluck declares there's just one superhero that can stop "Aardvark": Stupor Duck.

After an errant change into a witch's costume (that Witch Hazel wore), Cluck put on his Stupor Duck outfit and begins his search for the non-existent antagonist. One by one, he spots "examples" of "Aardvark's" alleged work, screaming out before tackling each one "this looks like a job for Stuuuupor Duck!" Among them:

  • A skyscraper is being razed to make way for a new city hall; a member of the demolition crew beats Stupor up when Stupor prevents the building from falling, "Then the lights went out all over the world!"
  • A sinking ship turns out to be a submarine; Stupor gets blasted by a deck gun and then the ship fires a torpedo at Stupor, blowing him away when Stupor tries to save the sub from sinking.
  • A train wreck is actually a stunt scene for a new Warner Bros. movie; the crewman detonates the dynamite, unaware that Stupor is high in the sky holding the explosive; Stupor loses his feathers.
  • Finally, a nuclear missile is actually a rocket headed for the moon, with Stupor, who has lost his costume, holding on for dear life. Observers climbing a mountain repeat, "Look, up in the sky ..." as they watch the rocket and its screaming feathered passenger head into outer space.

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Censorship[]

  • When this cartoon aired on ABC, the part after Daffy/Stupor Duck saves the skyscraper from falling where the construction worker punches Daffy/Stupor Duck in the face was cut.[1]
  • When this cartoon aired on the syndicated Merrie Melodies show, the part where a submarine cannon shoots Daffy/Stupor Duck in the face was cut, but not the part where Daffy/Stupor Duck gets chased and blown up by the second missile.[1]

Goofs[]

  • The "McKimson Associates" building has "Associates" misspelled as "Assocates".

Notes[]

  • This cartoon was later used in Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island.
  • The engine on the train is a 4-4-0 (four leading wheels, four driving wheels, and no trailing wheels), called an "American" type due to the large number of the type that were produced and used in the United States.
  • The cartoon has a similar opening to the 1950s television series Adventures of Superman starring George Reeves as the titular superhero.
  • The train at the beginning during the line "More powerful than a speeding locomotive" was actually stock footage from "Hare Trigger".
  • The McKimson Assocates building is a reference to director Robert McKimson.
  • Daffy takes a pill from a box labeled Dr. Pierce’s Mild Pills for mild mannered people. Tedd Pierce is the writer of this cartoon.

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Preceded by
Rocket Squad
List of Daffy Duck cartoons
1956
Succeeded by
A Star Is Bored

References[]

  • Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3.
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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