The Stupor Salesman
| The Stupor Salesman | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | November 6, 1948 |
| Run time | 7:00 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Lloyd Turner Bill Scott |
| Animation | Basil Davidovich Emery Hawkins Bill Melendez Don Williams Herman Cohen[1] |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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The Stupor Salesman is the two hundred and forty-fifth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 6, 1948. It was written by Lloyd Turner and Bill Scott,[2] produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Arthur Davis.
After Slug McSlug's successful heist from a bank, his restful retreat at a cabin is interrupted by Daffy as an overbearing salesman.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Daffy: I see you in there with your beady, little red rimmed eyes; criminal-type. Set close together. Say something! What do you take me for, a nincom... poop?
Daffy: Hey, bub! You need a house to go with this doorknob!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- City
- Last National Bank
- Auto paint shop
- Rural forest
- Slug's hideout
- City
- United States
Objects
- Stolen bank money
- Fake waterfall blindfold
- Pistol
- Daffy's suitcase
- Cleaning brush
- Aggressive Selling
- Wooden mallet
- Fake duck leg
- "Li'l Sure Shock" buzzer
- Sales book
- "Excelsior Sure Shine Shooting" iron polish
- Brass knuckles
- Cleaning iron
- Tommy gun
- Double-breasted bulletproof vest
- Oven
- "Sure Shock" lighter
Vehicles
- Slug's car
- Police car
- Mini helicopter
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 20, 1948 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The gag where Daffy calls himself a "nincompoop" at the mirror is taken from an earlier scene in Scrap Happy Daffy.
Errors
Critical reception
In The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons, animation historian Mike Mallory writes, "There is not a wasted cel in The Stupor Salesman. At first glance, the story of a bank robber who cannot escape the diabolical persistence of door-to-door salesman Daffy Duck (at his stream-of-consciousness best) sounds like a conventional pest-vs.-threat cartoon, but it is not. The short zooms by with the insistent pacing of the early Warner Bros. gangster films it aggressively parodies. Rarely, if ever, has one seven-minute cartoon burst its seams so thoroughly with inventive sight gags, throwaway jokes, and visual details."[3]
Home availability
- In the United States:
- October 30, 2007: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 on DVD.
- August 12, 2014: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 on Blu-ray.
References
- ↑ "Warner Cartoon Breakdowns #3: That Darnfool Duck!". Internet Archive.
- ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 191. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ↑ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.
