The Wise Quacking Duck is a 1943 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Title[]
The title is a play on a "wise cracking" duck.
Plot[]
A mild-mannered man is sent by his wife to go out and kill a duck for dinner. He picks Daffy as his victim. The two face off and do battle, only for Daffy to lose to Mr. Meek with him blowing his feathers off and cooking him in the oven. Mr. Meek hears Daffy scream in the oven, feels guilty, and opens the oven door. Daffy is bathing himself in gravy. "Say, now you're cooking with gas."
Caricatures[]
- Bill Thompson's character Wallace Wimple
- Jerry Colonna - fortune teller
- Red Skelton - "You cwushed by widdle head!"
Availability[]
Streaming[]
Censorship[]
- Some TV versions that aired on local affiliate stations in the United States shorten the part where Daffy (as a fortuneteller) hits Mr. Meek on the head with a mallet so he can read the bumps on his head, similar to ABC's censorship on a similar scene from "Bowery Bugs".[4]
- Cartoon Network's Arabia channel cuts the entire part where Daffy stripteases to distract Mr. Meek, since this is considered inappropriate in Islamic countries.[4]
Notes[]
- "The Wise Quacking Duck" is the only known color cartoon of the 1942-43 season to use the black and white fonts of "WARNER BROS." and "Present". It is also the only Looney Tunes short released in 1943 to remain under copyright.
- The gag where Daffy stripteases to distract Mr. Meek is recycled from "Cross Country Detours".
- The man from this short known as Mr. Meek, would later appear in the 1991 Looney Tunes TV special Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster in the audience, alongside the starving castaways from Wackiki Wabbit, Granny, and Yosemite Sam.
- Mr. Meek would later appear in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "California's Crusty Bronze" as a health inspector.
- Vitaphone release number: 1121[5]
Music-Cues[6][]
- Why Don't You Fall in Love with Me? (by Mabel Wayne)
- Plays during the opening credits and opening scene
- Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (by Stephen Foster)
- Sung by Daffy Duck as "Jeanie with the Light Brown Feathers"
- Java Jive (by Ben Oakland)
- Plays when Daffy serves coffee
- Shortnin' Bread (traditional)
- Plays when Daffy jumps around on the pies
- Captains of the Clouds (by Harold Arlen)
- Plays when Daffy bombs Mr. Meek with an egg
- It Had to Be You (by Isham Jones)
- Plays when Daffy Duck performs the striptease
- Giddap Mule (by Leonard Ware)
- Plays when Daffy enters as a palm reader
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References[]
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165808603900578&set=pb.619090577.-2207520000
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/animationbreakdowns9/The+Wise+Quacking+Duck+(1943).mp4
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-u-z.aspx
- ↑ Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. McFarland, page 278. ISBN 978-0786412792.
- ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036542/soundtrack/