Stork Naked
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| Stork Naked | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | February 26, 1955 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Milt Franklyn |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Animation | Arthur Davis Virgil Ross Manuel Perez |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Stork Naked is the three hundred and ninety-second Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 26, 1955. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
After getting drink from making 3 baby deliveries, the Drunk Stork only has to deliver an egg to Daffy and his wife. But not wanting any children around the house, Daffy pulls out all measures in an attempt to keep the stork away.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Daffy: For once, that stork's gonna get a taste of his own medicine!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Mr. & Mrs. Pierce's apartment
- Native American tipi
- Daffy's residence
- France
- United States
Objects
- Artillery guns
- Searchlight
- Bombshells
- Beartraps
- Built-in trampoline in fireplace
- Guillotine
- Alligator pit
- Radar machine
- Club-like bat
- Trapdoor
- Carpet
- Rifle
- Cannon
- Rubber band
- Telephone pole
- Trashcan lid
- Axe
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 26, 1955 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun based on the phrase, "stark naked." You're welcome.
- Unlike most cartoons featuring the Drunk Stork, the stork starts out sober and becomes increasingly intoxicated with every delivery due to the parents requesting to celebrate with alcoholic beverages.
- This was previously hinted via the stork's dialogue back in Goo Goo Goliath.
- Even though Daffy is depicted as an egotistical antihero through the 1950s to the early-1960s, he is depicted as more than unusually antagonistic this short. He is also more prone to violence, upsetting his wife Daphne when he tells her he doesn't want a baby, and going to great lengths to keep the stork away, even if it means using dangerous booby-traps. However, Daffy at least retains some good nature in this short whilst interacting with Daphne.
- It is also one of the two shorts in this era (pre-1965) where Daffy is depicted like this; the other one being The Iceman Ducketh.
- The stork's first stop is the apartment of Mr. & Mrs. Pierce. This is a reference to longtime Termite Terrace writer, Tedd Pierce.
Errors
- When this short was released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, it was cropped down to a widescreen format. While it was restored to fullscreen on certain streaming platforms, it has not been re-released on home video as of yet.
Legacy
- The animation of Daffy escaping the cellar hatch whilst batting down the alligators and panting after closing the hatch doors would later be reused in the 1959 Looney Tunes short, China Jones.
- Also, the guillotine gag would also be reused in another Looney Tunes short of the same year, Here Today, Gone Tamale, with Sylvester repeating the exact same line as Daffy's.
- This short was used for The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special.
Home availability
- In the United States:
