The Iceman Ducketh

The Iceman Ducketh is not awful, but it isn't great either. It does have a great title, excellent voice work and a decent score. And while none of them are particularly original, the gags and dialogue are amusing, and the story was a good one. However, the animation looked rushed and lacked a sense of vibrancy, and it certainly didn't help that the pacing throughout The Iceman Ducketh was too fast unfortunately. But I was more disappointed in the treatment of Daffy, I agree he was too bitter an unlikeable here. That was disappointing as I love Daffy. Bugs fared better, but he lacked that arrogance and craftiness that sets him as different from the other Looney Tunes cartoons. Overall, disappointing but watchable. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Daffy and Bugs have always been friendly rivals, good humored, and the humor was for harmless laughs. I agree with the poster that the Daffy depicted in this later WB cartoon is totally out of character. He NEVER intends to kill Bugs for his fur.

This and many of the other mid to late 60s WB cartoons reflects the end of the Golden Age of Cartoon Shorts. I suppose changing tastes and sense of humor were emerging, although I at age 33 consider most of the old '40s and '50s toons very ageless and appealing, clever, political at times, aimed at an adult audience, wrought with violence of the very playful kind and therefore harmless to any child who has common sense.

But these later '60s cartoons aren't nearly as appealing. Gone are the classic musical quilts of Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, replaced by Bill Lava's less inspiring "'60s beach" music. Gone is the good humor and wit that carried audiences through tough times like WWII. This violent, hateful Daffy, with not a bit of humor about him, probably did little to comfort those upset with the crisis in Southeast Asia.

Getting too political for my own good, I will stop here. All I can say is, I'm sure glad those old classic cartoons of early WB glory are still on the Cartoon Network!!!

This was a hilarious cartoon. The jokes and gags by now were not new but characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck can keep them funny for years. And they certainly did that in this one. Those two together in a cartoon always assures a laugh riot. This one of the best Looney Tunes cartoons ever made.

When Daffy finds out that a Klondike trading post is paying for rabbit fur, he sets out to trap Bugs. Naturally Bugs runs circles around Daffy and throws everything the duck tries back on him. This is the last Bugs & Daffy theatrical short until 1990. It's also one of the worst I've ever seen. The animation is really cheap-looking and sketchy with boring backgrounds. The gags are all predictable and not at all funny. Other reviewers have said that Daffy seems a little more mean-spirited and ugly this time around. I think they may just be projecting somewhat due to the "killing Bugs for his fur" angle. Really, nothing Daffy does here is worse than what we've seen from him before and certainly no worse than your average Wile E. Coyote plot to kill the Road Runner. Shooting guns and using dynamite is the worst of it and that's all handled with typical cartoonishness, nothing approaching real violence. So, while I didn't care for the cartoon, my problem with it wasn't one of characterization or violence. It just wasn't funny or pleasing to look at.

This short shows Daffy in all of his obnoxious glory. While entertaining enough, the gags are old-hat and much of what happens is predictable and almost telegraphed. By no means a bad cartoon, but not terribly exciting either. Worth watching, it shows fairly often on Cartoon Network. Recommended.