Suppressed Duck (1965) User Reviews

Not incredibly good.

[Mightyzebra · 6/10 · 6 October 2007]

One rather confusing change of Daffy in this cartoon: He is the hunter and not the hunted. You would probably think that this role would make him somewhat pathetic or just plain bad, but he turns out to be pretty entertaining, if unnecessarily greedy. The hunted turns out to be a very entertaining character as well.

Unfortunately, this is not all that good a Daffy Duck short and the animation is a little under the weather, especially of Daffy (actually one thing they had right of Daffy's animation is his size - in a lot of episodes he is WAY too big!). This episode also has some slapstick - good for some but not necessarily for others.

So, recommended to the general Daffy Duck fan, but if you are a Daffy Duck fan who prefers a nicer, more wild and crazy (possibly hunted) duck, then this episode may fall flat on its face to you. So there.

Daffy is going out to hunt bears in this cartoon. Ready with his gun in the forest, he hears an announcement saying that there is going to be a side for the hunters and a side for the bears. This totally frustrates and bamboozles Daffy and sets about trying to kill a bear.

6 and a half out of ten.

Too many Negative reviews on here.

[lukeneedssand · 6/10 · 26 June 2021]

I'll just tell you I think I watched this one as a kid, (I slightly remember some of the imagery) but Recently watched again, I was pleasantly surprised to find out it was 1965. I liked it, and that's good enough for me. Im not expecting anything mind-blowing here, and I try to review Looney tunes that aren't talked about often and Sometimes I am sick of hearing praise about, and This cartoon is kinda unique, because they Put daffy in the Hunter role this time. I enjoyed this cartoon while watching it with a much younger child, and she enjoyed it as well.

All in all, I feel like this cartoon and even some of the daffy/speedy ones such as a Haunting I will go are not so bad.

6.4/10.

Daffy Duck is hunting for a "four-point grizzly bear" in . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 4 June 2021]

. . . SUPPRESSED DUCK. This is a hoot. The really hilarious aspect of Daffy's quest is that bears do NOT have antlers! What a riot! If grizzlies DID have head weapons, then they'd have no need for their infamous nine-inch nails. Of course, some wicked wenches have nails even longer then a grizzly's. These can really hurt, if you know what I mean.

Surprisingly enjoyable for a 1965 Daffy cartoon

[bob the moo · 10 April 2004]

`Fearless' Daffy Duck goes out into the woods to hunt himself some bear. In the spirit of conversation, the forest has been marked out as to the hunting area - a fact that the bears all exploit by staying out of the hunting area. However Daffy has plans to draw at least one bear back into the hunting area.

Many of Daffy Duck's later cartoons are horrible. The ones made in the sixties feature a duck that is nothing like the original Daffy and often paired him with substandard characters (eg Speedy) in cartoons with poor jokes and very basic animation. While this cartoon has some of the low standards of the time, it is actually surprisingly funny. The jokes are pretty good and the whole film has a funny air to it.

A big problem with the short is Daffy in the role of Elmer Fudd - Daffy does not suit the hunter role and it is to the cartoon's credit that it was entertaining enough to make me forget that. I much prefer his crazier, funnier character than the later twist to a greedy driven duck. The real surprise though is the bear - he is very funny and quite a character. He was a surprise as one-off characters are often very badly drawn as characters and usually only serve as another body for the main character to interact with. The park ranger however, is pretty poor and often kills any laughter dead!

The cartoon is not badly animated but it is distinctively average but it made me laugh. The cartoon doesn't compare to the best of Daffy but for a 1960's Daffy cartoon it is much better than expected.

Dumb

[utgard14 · 4/10 · 26 December 2014]

This is pretty bad. Aside from the television-quality animation and the annoying music, the concept is pretty uninspired. Daffy Duck, acting nothing like Daffy, is going bear hunting when he's warned by a forest ranger (over an intercom, no less) that there is a clearly marked boundary in the forest that hunters can't cross. So what follows is a one-note gag where Daffy is taunted by an obnoxious bear but can't cross the white line or else the ranger will show up and threaten him. None of this is remotely funny nor does it seem like Daffy or Looney Tunes at all. At one point Daffy isn't paying attention to what he's doing and walks off a cliff. That's a tired old gag made all the worse by the bizarre change in backgrounds to accommodate the joke. Basically Daffy is in the forest but suddenly there's a background from a Road Runner cartoon just so he can do the cliff gag. Don't even get me started on when the forest ranger uses a tank and a bomb-dropping plane. There's weird funny and weird stupid. I'll let you decide which this is.

What were they thinking?

[planktonrules · 3/10 · 16 July 2013]

Back in the 1960s, the cartoon division at Warner Brothers (Looney Tunes) was a ghost of what it used to be in their glory days. Their cartoon output was way down and the quality of these shorts was also way down. But, the worst part of it was what they were doing to Daffy Duck. Inexplicably, they put him in some of the strangest and least satisfying pairings imaginable. The worst were with Speedy Gonzales--a character which had nothing in common with Daffy. Their chemistry was terrible and these cartoons are among the studio's poorest. Here in "Suppressed Duck", the Looney Tunes folks are again placing Daffy in the most ridiculously inappropriate pairings. Here, the duck is going bear hunting!! Why?! Why is a duck (usually, an animal that is hunted--and a vegetarian) out trying to kill a HUGE predator?! I have no idea--nor did the writers, as the gags were only okay but none of it made much sense. The only real positive is that the animation, for 1965, is very good. But with unlikable characters and ridiculous situations, it's far from the sort of film that made Looney Tunes great.

For a mid-60s Looney Tunes cartoon, it could have been much worse- that still doesn't mean it's particularly good

[TheLittleSongbird · 4/10 · 23 July 2016]

The Looney Tunes cartoons suffered a significant decline in quality in the mid-late-60s especially. There were some poor ones before then, but too many of the cartoons from this particular period are so heavily problematic.

'Supressed Duck', as far as the cartoons from this period go, is not as bad as the worst of the Daffy/Speedy series or the worst of the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons. That still doesn't mean it's any good.

While not brilliant as such, for 1965, the animation was surprisingly not that awful. Was expecting much worse, considering this is the mid-60s we're talking about. It's certainly not perfect, there is a lack of fluidity, the bear's character design does look weird and the background art in the cliff gag sticks out like a sore thumb and just doesn't belong, actually looking like it was recycled out of a scrappily drawn Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon. However, there are some nice vibrant colours rather than flat ones, some good detail in the backgrounds (not as limited, sparse or as hasty-looking as feared) and Daffy looks reasonable, especially when compared to how he looked in his outings with Speedy.

Of the three characters, faring best was the bear, again surprisingly good for a late-output one-off character. He is pretty amusing and is pretty likable, there are a couple of mild smile-worthy moments, all of which coming from him. Mel Blanc as always provides stellar vocals.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the music of Bill Lava. Lava's scores very rarely fitted with the cartoons he scored for, and often sounded discordant and cheap, distracting from the rest of the cartoon than being dynamic or enhancing. That's the case in 'Supressed Duck'. Apart from the bear, 'Supressed Duck' just isn't that great in terms of humour, the dialogue lacks its usual sharpness and wit and replaced with increasing dumbness and pace-killing interjections, even though brief the pacing grinds to a halt in these parts, from the ranger. The gags are tired in timing and while faring alright visuals-wise suffer from having ridiculousness and stupidity taken to extremes. And just how predictable and out of place was that cliff gag?

Daffy is one of the best, funniest and most interesting in personality characters in animation, and, while not ruined as much as when with Speedy, the more emphasis on the greed rather than the manic and the weird mix of Elmer and Coyote makes him out of character and very difficult to root for let alone by entertained by. The ranger just slows the cartoon down whenever he appears (always partially seen), is hugely unfunny and serves no real point to the cartoon. Daffy and the bear's chemistry really doesn't gel, not helped by that it doesn't ever make sense and is never explained, almost as wrong as with Daffy and Speedy.

On the whole, for mid-late-60s Looney Tunes there's worse, but this is a long way from Golden Age Looney Tunes (doesn't qualify for anywhere near Bronze Age, know that doesn't exist but hope you get the drift of what is trying to be said here). 4/10 Bethany Cox

Daffy Duck bows out of what has to be his final hunt . . .

[oscaralbert · 4/10 · 16 October 2015]

. . . with a whimper, not a bang. Just like that Minnesota dentist who won eternal notoriety for being tagged with the murder of Africa's last wild lion this summer, Daffy is a slob hunter in SUPPRESSED DUCK with no regard for American laws or the U.S. military units called in to suppress his murderous inclinations (which include slaying a talking bear in the midst of the latter's ground-breaking poetry recital). This animated short is not the least bit funny, and cuts so many corners that it looks like one of those "kitchen sink" pizzas with its garish purple rocks, lavender trees, and lilac mountain ranges. It's as if Warner Bros. said, "Let's see if anyone notices us cutting back 99% on cartoon cost and quality. Let's find out if we can get away with taking a plot from the ROADRUNNER's reject spindle, and lazily transform Wile E. Coyote into Daffy Duck, letting the latter fall down Mr. Coyote's nemesis canyon to save on the "Background" budget. Also, since "Beep Beep" and "Meap Meap" rhyme, let's make ROADRUNNER into a doomed poet bear." This crass exercise results in a big eyesore which is highly boring.