Drip-Along Daffy
| 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
Daffy: Let justice be done! Tear up that mortgage! Unhand that farmer's daughter! Cease that... that... Seems awfully breezy in here. Uh, cease that rustling. Slight pause while I adjust my accoutrements.
Daffy: Make mine a double pasterized milkshake, bartender, with a swami-yogurt chaser.
Bartender: No kiddin'?
Daffy: Fool around with me, will ya? Ya ornery mangy-bearin' coyotes.
Daffy: Mary had a wittle wamb! It's fweece was white as snow!
Porky: And evewywhere that M-Mawy went, the wamb was sure to go!
Daffy: Listen, homber! If you're not outta town by sundown, you better come a-shootin' with six-gun a-blazing and a-firing! I plumb reckon!
Daffy: I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!
Porky: L-l-lucky for him, this is a one-horse town.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- "Cobra Fang Juice" bottle
- "Hydrogen Bitters" bottle
- "Old Panther" bottle
- 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 the beginning of the cartoon.
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 the fictional cowboy 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.
Errors
- In the initial sketch design of the lobby card (as seen above), Daffy has his cowboy hat on. However, the actual lobby card did not include the hat.
- When Daffy accidently rips his pants off at the saloon, he is shown wearing a pair of pink boxers with white cross patterns. However, he doesn't wear them while still with his pants on.
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
- Daffy and and Porky's roles as "Western-Type Hero" and sheriff, respectively, would be used in Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem.
Home availability
- In the United States:
