Drip-Along Daffy
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Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | November 17, 1951 |
Starring | Mel Blanc |
Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
Story by | Michael Maltese |
Animation | Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam Ken Harris |
Director(s) | Charles M. Jones |
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Drip-Along Daffy is the three hundred and forty-third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 17, 1952. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Chuck Jones.
A Western-type hero and his comedy relief head to the town of Snake-Bite Center, where the former elects himself as sheriff to clean up the town from Nasty Canasta.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Western-Type Hero: I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!
Comedy Relief: L-l-lucky for him, this is a one-horse town.
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Snake-Bite Center
- Saloon
- Snake-Bite Center
- United States
Objects
- Toy soldier with loaded rifle
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Porky sings the song "The Flower of Gower Gulch" during beginning.
Crew Credits
- Layouts: Robert Gribbroek
- Backgrounds: Philip De Guard
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 17, 1951 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- Part of the title, "Drip-Along" is a pun on "Hopalong," which is derived from Hopalong Cassidy.
- This cartoon was produced as a parody of the classic Western films that were widely popular at the time of its release.
- In a reference to The Lone Ranger's horse Silver, Daffy's horse is named Tinfoil.
- The final scene is a nod to the ending of the 1937 Merrie Melodies short, Egghead Rides Again, which featured Egghead given the job of cleaning up after the cows and horses following his failure as a cowboy. Coincidentally, Egghead's voice in that cartoon is very similar to the early "screwball" version of Daffy Duck.
Legacy
- Nasty Canasta would make two more appearances in the 1954 short My Little Duckaroo, and the 1956 Looney Tunes short Barbary-Coast Bunny.
- Scenes from this cartoon were used in the TV specials How Bugs Bunny Won the West and Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
Home availability
- In the United States: