Don't Axe Me
| Don't Axe Me | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | January 1, 1958 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan June Foray |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Ted Bonnicksen George Grandpré Tom Ray |
| Director(s) | Robert McKimson |
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Don't Axe Me is the four hundred and thirty-third Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 1, 1958. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Robert McKimson.
Daffy Duck is on the chopping block when the Barnyard Dawg suggest to Mrs. Fudd that they have Roast Duck for dinner and when she sends Elmer out to do Daffy in, he tries to prevent him from doing so.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Daffy: Now he tells her... SHEESH!
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Axe
- Elmer's rifle
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 1, 1958 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun of the phrase 'Don't Ask Me'.
- This is the first cartoon of 1958 and beginning with this Merrie Melodies short, it uses the 1957-59 Blue Color Rings at both intro and outro sequences of the cartoons.
- This is the final cartoon of the Golden Age Era to pit Daffy Duck and Barnyard Dawg against each other. And the final cartoon to pair Daffy and Elmer without Bugs Bunny. All 3 of them would appear together in one more short, the 1960 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Person to Bunny.
- The unseen character, Reverend Brown, has a voice that sounds similar like Marvin the Martian's. Even though he has only one line of dialogue at the end of the short.
- This is the only time where Elmer Fudd is married, as all other cartoons depict Elmer (like other major characters) as a single bachelor.
- Barnyard Dawg from the Foghorn Leghorn series is known as 'Rover' in this cartoon. Since the Barnyard Dawg had previously appeared outside the Foghorn Leghorn series twice: One Meat Brawl (with Porky Pig) and Daffy Duck Hunt (with both Daffy Duck and Porky Pig). Barnyard would appear one more time in a non-Foghorn cartoon later that year in Gopher Broke (with the Goofy Gophers).
Although, Birth of a Notion and A Bone for a Bone, however, do not count because those two shorts use the likeness of the character in terms of name (such in the case of A Bone for a Bone, which uses a different-looking dog with Barnyard's name George P. Dog) or physical appearance (such as in the case of Birth of a Notion, which uses a dog resembling Barnyard Dawg but with brown fur and different voice known as Leopold).
- The gag where Elmer's face is disfigured (in this case pulled off like flypaper) from a hot towel by Daffy in this cartoon is a partial reference to a similar gag from Wise Quackers (1949).
- This cartoon is unusual for its time period (1958), as the short depicts Daffy as both a greedy, self-centered characterization and the "screwball" characterization, similar to You Were Never Duckier (1948) and Daffy Dilly (1948), which were released about ten years before.
- This was the first ever short animated by Tom Ray, who would animate Robert McKimson's shorts until 1960, where he would then work for Chuck Jones' unit.
