Corn on the Cop

Corn on the Cop
Production company	DePatie–Freleng Enterprises
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	August 24, 1965
Starring	Mel Blanc Paul Julian
Producer(s)	David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng
Music composed by	Bill Lava
Story by	Friz Freleng
Animation	Manny Perez Warren Batchelder Bob Matz
Director(s)	Irv Spector
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Corn on the Cop is the five hundred and first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on August 24, 1965. It was written and produced by Friz Freleng, co-produced by David H. DePatie and directed by Irv Spector.

It's Halloween and there's a case of mistakened identity going on when an armed robber decides to disguise himself as Granny, causing confusion when constables Daffy Duck and Porky Pig mistaken her as the thief.

Characters

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Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc
Granny	Joanie Gerber
Armed Robber	Mel Blanc
Officer Flaherty	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • America
  • City
  • Apartment Building

Objects

• Halloween candy

Vehicles

• Acme Rocket Sled

Music

The music was scored by Bill Lava.

Crew credits

• Layout: Dick Ung
• Backgrounds: Tom O'Loughlin
• Film editor: Lee Gunther

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: August 24, 1965 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of the vegetable meal, 'corn on the cob'.
• This cartoon marks several milestones for the classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series:
  • This short is the final theatrical pairing of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig during the Golden Age of American Animation.
  • This is also the only such cartoon during the time that the Warner Bros. cartoons were being produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
  • This is the final official appearance of Porky Pig in the Golden Age of American Animation. Porky would appear via reanimated stock footage from **Robin Hood Daffy in Mucho Locos, a cartoon made later in the following year.
  • This is also the final appearance of Granny in the Golden Age of American Animation.
• This is the only time that Irv Spector, who was mostly known as a story artist, ever directed a theatrical short. Previously, he had largely worked as a writer for Paramount's Famous Studios cartoon studio.
• This is one of the few DePatie-Freleng era shorts to not feature Speedy Gonzales with Daffy Duck, the other two being Suppressed Duck and Tease for Two.
• This short also reveals Granny's actual last name, 'Webster', as mentioned in the closing when Daffy and Porky's superior police addresses Granny by her last name. As of this short, Granny's first and last name is Emma Webster.
• Also in this short, Granny is voiced by Joan Gerber instead of June Foray.

Errors

• When Porky makes his comment on Daffy's bad carpentry while taking out the wooden bridge's nails, his mouth doesn't move.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars: Porky Pig and Friends - Hilarious Ham