The Stupid Cupid (1944)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Frank Tashlin

Writer:

Warren Foster (writer)

Release Date:

25 November 1944 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Cupid (who looks suspiciously like Elmer Fudd) is on the prowl around the farm. With his ever-accurate...

Plot Keywords:

Cupid | Elmer Fudd | Looney Tunes | Surrealism | Evil Smile

Cast

Mel Blanc

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Daffy Duck / Elmer Fudd / Rooster / Dog / Cat / Bluebird / Emily (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Approved (PCA #9706)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

This is one of the few cartoons where Elmer Fudd is paired with Daffy Duck. Usually Elmer is paired with Bugs Bunny.

Quotes:

Daffy Duck: Say, keep your arrows out of other people's businessesses... buster! You shot me last year, and look what happened. Tied down. No more fun. Now look at me. A has-been. A hen-pecked duck. A canvasback Cassanova. And it's your fault, you bare-backed bandit. So beat it, bub. Take a powder. Scram!

Movie Connections:

References The Henpecked Duck (1941)

Soundtrack:

Let the Rest of the World Go By

quite hilarious, but you gotta admit that Elmer looks weird in a diaper

We often see images of Cupid shooting people with arrows and making them fall in love, but what if the people didn't want his arrows? That's the premise of Frank Tashlin's "The Stupid Cupid". In this case, Cupid (played by Elmer Fudd) shoots people with arrows with suction cups...and the subsequent love is more like the sort of relationships that one would expect to see in the 1970s.

Anyway, when the little guy prepares to shoot Daffy Duck, Daffy resists and explains how their encounter the previous year led to Daffy's unhappy marriage and excess children (needless to say, Daffy says this at near breakneck speed). Finally, Cupid manages to shoot Daffy, and...well, let's just say that what follows is the sort of stuff that I couldn't have even predicted in a classic Warner Bros. cartoon! I just gotta wonder how much fun they must have had creating this stuff.

So, while this may not have been the greatest cartoon that they made, it's certainly a hilarious one. Preceding the main plot line, there's even one of the "now I've seen everything" gags (if you're unfamiliar with these, then you'll understand it once you see the cartoon). Really funny.