It's duck season, so Daffy plays hunter Elmer and a hungry fox off against each other.It's duck season, so Daffy plays hunter Elmer and a hungry fox off against each other.It's duck season, so Daffy plays hunter Elmer and a hungry fox off against each other.
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Mel Blanc
- Daffy Duck
- (voice)
- …
Arthur Q. Bryan
- Elmer Fudd
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dave Barry
- Daffy Duck gurgling sounds
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaDaffy calls Elmer Fudd by his first name several times in this short. He also breaks the fourth wall briefly at the very end of the cartoon and addresses the audience. And the fox sounds like an early incarnation of the dog character, Foghorn Leghorn's nemesis.
- GoofsElmer is carrying a double barrel shotgun. But at one time he uses a slide action to load the shotgun. Shotguns can either be double barrel or slide action (in which case it has only one barrel). But there is no such thing as a double barrel slide action shotgun.
- Quotes
Daffy Duck: Let us flee to glamorous Hollywood. I can get you a screen test with Warner Brothers.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: Lingo Bingo (2021)
- SoundtracksKing for a Day
Music by Ted Fio Rito
Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young
Sung by Mel Blanc (as Daffy Duck)
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It's the Spanish-American War (or maybe I'm reading too much into it).
When we first meet the famously wacky quacker in "What Makes Daffy Duck", he explains to us how hard it is to be a duck during hunting season, the way that one always has to hide from everything. But then, Elmer Fudd and an unidentified fox catch sight of him and proceed to vie for him. Needless to say, Daffy always knows how to outsmart them both.
One might interpret this cartoon as an analogy for the Spanish-American War. Both countries wanted control of Cuba and fought each other over it - they never considered letting Cuba become independent - much like how Elmer and the fox fight over Daffy with no thought as to how he feels.
Of course, I'm the sort of person who reads a little far into stories, so I'm probably seeing something that's not really there. "WMDD" was most likely intended as zany entertainment to get shown before a feature film (and it is really funny). Daffy is his usual far out self - pulling a shower out of mid air, and later doing the same with oil - while Elmer is the eternal sap, as Daffy offers him a contract at Warner Bros (I guess that movie studios never miss a chance to advertise themselves).
Anyway, really good.
One might interpret this cartoon as an analogy for the Spanish-American War. Both countries wanted control of Cuba and fought each other over it - they never considered letting Cuba become independent - much like how Elmer and the fox fight over Daffy with no thought as to how he feels.
Of course, I'm the sort of person who reads a little far into stories, so I'm probably seeing something that's not really there. "WMDD" was most likely intended as zany entertainment to get shown before a feature film (and it is really funny). Daffy is his usual far out self - pulling a shower out of mid air, and later doing the same with oil - while Elmer is the eternal sap, as Daffy offers him a contract at Warner Bros (I guess that movie studios never miss a chance to advertise themselves).
Anyway, really good.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Feb 19, 2007
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was What Makes Daffy Duck (1948) officially released in Canada in English?
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