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Yeah! "Actually it's only a buck and a quarter staff but I ain't tellin' him." What a riot! Then Porky's contageous laughter after Daffy comes out of the water. It's great stuff, man, great stuff! At least when they were in their original form and didn't have new crap added in that wasn't funny.
shareMy favorite moment in THIS cartoon (or at least it's in my top five):
Daffy's just bailed out of an ailing fighter-plane. The Evil Animator erases his parachute and quickly sketches an anvil in its place. Plummet, splat.
Cut to a shot on the ground where Daffy is standing on wobbly legs, punch-drunk and concussed. Stars whirl around his head. With a hammer in hand (where he got the hammer, Chuck Jones only knows!) he bangs arrhythmically on the anvil like a retard, uttering the following lines by Longfellow:
DAFFY: (slurred and nearly incoherent)
"Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
Meanwhile the Evil Animator intervenes again, erasing the anvil and substituting a live bombshell.
"The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy...."
Oblivious, Daffy continues banging away. He strikes one time too many. In the wake of a mighty explosion, he now stands wobbly, punch-drunk AND crispy-fried:
DAFFY: (wailing the last line plaintively)
"hHhaaaAAaAannnnds...."
(I have to go now. Just remembering the visual makes my eyes tear up with laughter. :) )
I had no idea what that was when I was younger, but it was still funny with him reciting stuff and banging the anvil while he sounded drunk and then Bugs switches the anvil for a bomb.
share"Now how about some color, stupid! HEY!" (gets slapped on with all sorts of weird colors) "NOT ME, YOU SLOP ARTIST!"
for some reason I always crack up in that moment, partly cause of the lines, partly cause of the deranged music, mostly cause of the demented colors used. genius...that other part towards the end also is a contender as funniest moment in a Tunes cartoon ever- it's the only time where Daffy reaches the poetry of Curly from the 3 Stooges.
"NOT ME, YOU SLOP ARTIST!"
It is indeed a Looney Tunes Classic.
"Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie."--Welles
This is indeed the best cartoon ever made, my favorite part is when Daffy is so frustrated by the goings on, that he's willing to get into a fistfight with himself. Truly a classic.
shareDaffy: Daffy Duck he had a farm, E-I-E-I-O. And on his farm he had an igloo E..I..E...I.....OOHH.
*sigh* I swear of all the great looney tune shorts, Duck Amuck is by far the best. I cry every time I see it on Boomerang.
Grow your own dope... plant a man.
The timing after he's been drawn to look like the weird flower-headed character.
Daffy: That's funny. For some reason I don't quite feel like myself. Oh I feel all right. And yet I. I uh...EEEKKK!!'
That 'I Uh' gets me with it's timing.
A-ha-ha-ha, you're really weird!-Willy Wonka
Two moments stand out for me: as Daffy tries to cope with weird sound effects, he tries to say something, but when he opens his mouth, we hear a rooster's "cock-a-doodle-doo!". That gets me going every time. And this scene always makes me laugh:
(After tearing the black curtain to shreds:)
"Let's get this picture started!"
(The screen irises out to a title card reading "The End", with end fanfare playing)
"NO!!! NO!!!"
(Pushes title card offscreen)
My favorite Daffy Duck cartoon!
Favorite momentes:
When the "artist" takes away all the sound effects
"And on his farm he had an igloo, e-i-e . . . i . . . OH! (i LOVE the way he says "OH!")
I pretty much like all the scenery changes
Musketeers to a farm
Farm to the North Pole
North Pole to Hawaii
Hawaii to a blank screen LOL!
The black curtain, with the shriek . .
"Let's get this picture started!" (The End title card with the fanfare music) LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
WHY isn't Looney Toons on Boomerang anymore? It USED to be!
Don't Genius Live in a Lamp?-Patrick Star
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Yeah, I agree. Close to tears, he says "Let's get this picture started", the fanfare they had just before the THAT'S ALL FOLKS usually appeared plays, and down comes the cue card...
THE END
"NOOOOOO!!! NOOOOOO!!!" poor Daffy screams as he desperately pushes the card aside! LOL
Hilarious!!! It was the tormented scream that wotdunnit!!! Me and my sisters used to sit paralysed with laughter whenever that scene came on!
Pure cartoon genius!
I love that sense of bemusement when Daffy mutters, "It isn't as though I haven't lived up to my contract. Goodness knows. And, goodness knows, it isn't as though I haven't kept myself trim, goodness knows! I've done that!" He just can't understand how these awful humiliations can be heaped on the head of such a hard-working, upstanding duck. Wonderful. Daffy is my own personal god.
shareMaybe Daffy should've just gave up at that point.
shareWB has made a Game for Nintendo DS with the same name and story
You have to make Daffy freak out like in the classic cartoon
its really funny
and the cartoon is one of my favorites of all time
but "Duck Dodgers in the 24/5 century" is awesome too
I'll agree with some of you, the scene that Daffy asks the animator to "get this picture started" and then the end shows and Daffy says "NO, NO!" and pushes the title card was the best part. This is by far the best Daffy picture of all time. Along with one of Chuck Jones best and one of the best from Warner Brothers. To bad it wasn't even nominated for best short, it probably would had won.
share"We're shovin' right off, we're shovin' right off... again?" <splash>
Always cracks me up, especially the look on Daffy's face just before he sinks. Also, the "Cock-a-doodle-do!", followed by that uproarious laugh gets me! Genius!
Three claws on his knees, he's not human.
Well, he sure got a close-up, all right. A little scary for me, since Daffy is frowning.
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