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The Super Snooper is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

Daffy Duck is Duck Drake, a "Private Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat". He receives a call that summons him to the J. Cleaver Axe-Handle Estate, where somebody has supposedly been murdered. He arrives at the house and suspects a lady duck of committing the crime. The lady duck shows him affection; however, Daffy forces her to reenact the murder. Along the way, Daffy is shot, crushed by a falling piano, and eventually run right over by a train. The lady duck then tells him that he is at the wrong address and that the real murder site is down the road, but not before showering him with love by chasing him through the house and out the door.

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Censorship[]

  • When this short aired on WSAZ in the 1980s, the titles and the opening shot of the building were cut due to time constraints, so the short now beings in the middle of Daffy saying "Room 711".[2]

Notes[]

  • A drake is the name of a male duck, so it is appropriate for Daffy to have this fictional last name.
  • The engine on the train is a 4-6-0 engine (four leading wheels, six driving wheels, and no trailing wheels). In the mid-19th century, this wheel arrangement became the second most popular configuration for new steam locomotives in the United States. This type of engine is commonly referred to as a ten-wheeler.
  • This is the final original Looney Tunes cartoon still retaining its original titles to use the Daffy Duck opening card. It is also the only Daffy Duck short with the blue rings and red backgrounds to have this effect.
    • This is also the last cartoon to have a mugshot of a character besides Bugs Bunny.
  • The music heard during the opening credits is reused from "Hair-Raising Hare".
  • This short reuses a piano gag from "Canned Feud".

References[]

  1. ā†‘ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 162. 
  2. ā†‘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci9HWCZNPqI

External Links[]

Daffy Duck Cartoons
1937 Porky's Duck Hunt
1938 Daffy Duck & Egghead ā€¢ What Price Porky ā€¢ Porky & Daffy ā€¢ The Daffy Doc ā€¢ Daffy Duck in Hollywood
1939 Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ā€¢ Scalp Trouble ā€¢ Wise Quacks
1940 Porky's Last Stand ā€¢ You Ought to Be in Pictures
1941 A Coy Decoy ā€¢ The Henpecked Duck
1942 Conrad the Sailor ā€¢ Daffy's Southern Exposure ā€¢ The Impatient Patient ā€¢ The Daffy Duckaroo ā€¢ My Favorite Duck
1943 To Duck .... or Not to Duck ā€¢ The Wise Quacking Duck ā€¢ Yankee Doodle Daffy ā€¢ Porky Pig's Feat ā€¢ Scrap Happy Daffy ā€¢ A Corny Concerto ā€¢ Daffy - The Commando
1944 Tom Turk and Daffy ā€¢ Tick Tock Tuckered ā€¢ Duck Soup to Nuts ā€¢ Slightly Daffy ā€¢ Plane Daffy ā€¢ The Stupid Cupid
1945 Draftee Daffy ā€¢ Ain't That Ducky ā€¢ Nasty Quacks
1946 Book Revue ā€¢ Baby Bottleneck ā€¢ Daffy Doodles ā€¢ Hollywood Daffy ā€¢ The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
1947 Birth of a Notion ā€¢ Along Came Daffy ā€¢ A Pest in the House ā€¢ Mexican Joyride
1948 What Makes Daffy Duck ā€¢ Daffy Duck Slept Here ā€¢ The Up-Standing Sitter ā€¢ You Were Never Duckier ā€¢ Daffy Dilly ā€¢ The Stupor Salesman ā€¢ Riff Raffy Daffy
1949 Wise Quackers ā€¢ Holiday for Drumsticks ā€¢ Daffy Duck Hunt
1950 Boobs in the Woods ā€¢ The Scarlet Pumpernickel ā€¢ His Bitter Half ā€¢ Golden Yeggs ā€¢ The Ducksters
1951 Rabbit Fire ā€¢ Drip-Along Daffy ā€¢ The Prize Pest
1952 Thumb Fun ā€¢ Cracked Quack ā€¢ Rabbit Seasoning ā€¢ The Super Snooper ā€¢ Fool Coverage
1953 Duck Amuck ā€¢ Muscle Tussle ā€¢ Duck Dodgers in the 24Ā½th Century ā€¢ Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
1954 Design for Leaving ā€¢ Quack Shot ā€¢ My Little Duckaroo
1955 Beanstalk Bunny ā€¢ Sahara Hare ā€¢ Stork Naked ā€¢ This Is a Life? ā€¢ Dime to Retire
1956 The High and the Flighty ā€¢ Rocket Squad ā€¢ Stupor Duck ā€¢ A Star Is Bored ā€¢ Deduce, You Say
1957 Ali Baba Bunny ā€¢ Boston Quackie ā€¢ Ducking the Devil ā€¢ Show Biz Bugs
1958 Don't Axe Me ā€¢ Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones ā€¢ People Are Bunny ā€¢ Apes of Wrath
1960 Person to Bunny
1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit ā€¢ Daffy's Inn Trouble
1962 Quackodile Tears ā€¢ Good Noose
1963 Fast Buck Duck ā€¢ The Million Hare ā€¢ Aqua Duck
1964 The Iceman Ducketh
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House ā€¢ Moby Duck ā€¢ Assault and Peppered ā€¢ Well Worn Daffy ā€¢ Suppressed Duck ā€¢ Corn on the Cop ā€¢ Tease for Two ā€¢ Chili Corn Corny ā€¢ Go Go Amigo
1966 The Astroduck ā€¢ Mucho Locos ā€¢ Mexican Mousepiece ā€¢ Daffy Rents ā€¢ A-Haunting We Will Go ā€¢ Snow Excuse ā€¢ A Squeak in the Deep ā€¢ Feather Finger ā€¢ Swing Ding Amigo ā€¢ A Taste of Catnip
1967 Daffy's Diner ā€¢ Quacker Tracker ā€¢ The Music Mice-Tro ā€¢ The Spy Swatter ā€¢ Speedy Ghost to Town ā€¢ Rodent to Stardom ā€¢ Go Away Stowaway ā€¢ Fiesta Fiasco
1968 Skyscraper Caper ā€¢ See Ya Later Gladiator
1980 The Yolks on You ā€¢ The Chocolate Chase ā€¢ Daffy Flies North ā€¢ Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24Ā½th 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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