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.
Drip-Along Daffy (a Western-Type Hero) and his sidekick Ham-along Porky (Comedy Relief) head to the town of Snake-Bite Center, where Daffy elects himself as sheriff and has to clean up this one-horse town when outlaw Nasty Canasta comes-a lookin' fer a showdown!
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Daffy: I told you I'd clean up thisth one-horsth town! (puts on sanitation cap and wheels a street cleaner's basket)
Sherriff Porky: L-l-lucky for him, this IS a one-horse town.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- Sheriff Badge
- Toy Solider with loaded rifle
- Sanitation Cap and street cleaners wagon
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Porky sings the song, The Flower of Gower Gulch during the opening title and character introduction sequences.
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 of 'Hopalong', based on 'Hopalong Cassidy'.
- This cartoon was produced as a parody of the classic Western films that were widely popular at the time of its release, and features Daffy Duck as a "Western-Type Hero", Drip-Along Daffy, who, with his trusty "Comedy Relief" (Porky Pig) hopes to clean up a violence-filled "one-horse town".
- In a tongue-in-cheek nod 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 Elmer Fudd's prototype 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 Tex Avery's early "screwball" version of Daffy Duck.
Legacy
- This cartoon marked the debut of Nasty Canasta, who would make two more appearances: the 1954 short, My Little Duckaroo and the 1956 Looney Tunes short, Barbary-Coast Bunny, in which Canasta got a redeign.
- 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:
