Wise Quackers

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Wise Quackers
Lobby card.
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	January 1, 1949
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Manuel Perez Pete Burness Ken Champin Virgil Ross Gerry Chinquy
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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Wise Quackers is the two hundred and forty-ninethLooney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 1, 1949. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Friz Freleng.

While flying south for the winter, Daffy Duck crash lands on Elmer Fudd's farm. Rather than being shot, Daffy agrees to be Elmer's personal slave. Problematic, isn't it?

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Elmer Fudd	Arthur Q. Bryan

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Elmer's farm
    • Elmer's residence

Production

Development

Second lobby card.

At the end of the 1940s, Warner Bros. had largely dropped the usage of racist caricatures of Balck people in cartoons, which included previous entries such as cartoons belonging to the Censored Eleven. The short was the last Daffy Duck entry to feature stereotyped imagery of Black people.

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Hawley Pratt
• Backgrounds: Paul Julian

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 30, 1949 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• Daffy's line, "Tote that barge! Lift that bale!", comes from the song "Ol' Man River."

Everlasting Influence

• The gag where Daffy pretends to be a slave, and later Abraham Lincoln, to fool Elmer was repurposed by Bugs Bunny in Southern Fried Rabbit.
• A small sequence from this short would be used in Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl