Golden Yeggs

Golden Yeggs
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	August 5, 1950
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Ken Champin Emery Hawkins
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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Golden Yeggs is the three hundred and twenty-first Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on August 5, 1950. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

When Daffy gets pinned for laying a golden egg at Porky's chicken ranch, it grabs the attention of Rocky and his gang, who make to counterfeit Daffy's golden eggs.

Memorable quotes

Daffy: Oh, my aching back!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc
Rocky	Mel Blanc
Gangster	Mel Blanc
Golden Goose	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Porky's farm
    • Rocky's hideout

Objects

• Golden egg
• Mini torpedo

Vehicles

• Rocky's car

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: August 5, 1950 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a play on "golden eggs" and the slang word "yegg"; meaning burglar, safecracker or gangster. "Yegg" was also used in the 1947 Looney Tunes short, Easter Yeggs.
• Beginning with this short, Freleng redesigned Rocky into a generalized caricature of the "tough guy" gangster, rather than being the Edward G. Robinson-caricature in his previous appearance in Racketeer Rabbit.
  • Friz used several of the same techniques that would make Yosemite Sam, his other villain relating to Bugs Bunny, such a humorous character: despite Rocky's tough-guy demeanor and traditional gangster clothing, he really is little more than a dwarf in a large hat.
• The short was censored on television in a number of ways:
  • On ABC, when Rocky fires at Daffy's head as a punishment for the latter not having laid an egg, it cuts to Rocky's thugs sitting around a table and looking to the right (from earlier in the cartoon). Daffy is then shown with the feathers gone from the top of his head without explanation.
  • On CBS, After Porky refuses to sell Daffy to Rocky's gang, the scene where he is revealed to have sprawled through was removed.
  • On Nickelodeon, an iris fades to black when Rocky fires his gun at Daffy, only to fade back in to reveal Daffy's missing feathers on his head.

Errors

• When this short was restored for the first volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, the audio is noticeably lower due to it being the 1998 dubbed version, which was the source of the soundtrack. The same issue also persists in later home media releases of this short.

Legacy

• Daffy's line, "You don’t know what you can do ‘til, ‘til you've got a gun against your head," was reused in the ending scene of Daffy's Diner.
• Porky's line, "Jumpin' Jupiter!", would eventually become a theatrical short with the same title in 1955, Jumpin' Jupiter.
• This short would be used in the second act of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, with some minor changes.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 28, 2003: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 on DVD.