Baby Bottleneck (1946)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Robert Clampett

Writer:

Warren Foster (story)

Release Date:

16 March 1946 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

It's the start of the Baby-Boom, and the overworked delivery system is full of glitches: Mother Goose gets a baby skunk...

Plot Keywords:

Baby | Cloth Diaper | Daffy Duck | Looney Tunes | Cartoon Stork

Cast

Sara Berner	...	Mama Gorilla (voice) (uncredited)
Mel Blanc	...	Porky Pig / Daffy Duck / Narrator / Stork / Scotty Dog / Dog Inventor / Various Babies (voice) (uncredited)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

Daffy also gets calls from Bing Crosby and Eddie Cantor. Both entertainers were known for their large broods; all boys for Crosby, all girls for Cantor.

Quotes:

[in the style of Jimmy Durante]
Drunken Stork: I'm mortified!
[hiccup]
Drunken Stork: I'm disgustipated!
[hiccup]
Drunken Stork: I do all da woik, and da faddahs get all da credit!
[hiccup]
Drunken Stork: Umbreago!

Movie Connections:

Featured in Behind the Tunes: Man from Wackyland - The Art of Bob Clampett (2004) (V)

Soundtrack:

Powerhouse

Another Clampett winner

The baby-delivering Stork is in a drunk stupor and the enlisted workers are far from competent making grievous mistakes. Delevering the wrong babies to parents. Porky Pig steps up to fix the whole thing out with Daffy Duch as his secretary, but things don't go as planned in this short, another classic by Bob Clampett. All the mix-ups are frequently very funny and i found myself laughing out load quite a few times, but the ending is the real kicker. Utterly hilarious!! This animated short can be seen on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2 and also features an optional commentary by Michael Barrier.

My Grade: A+