| Nasty Quacks | |
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Sara Berner (uncredited) Robert C. Bruce |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Art Davis I. Ellis Richard Bickenbach Anatolle Kirsanoff (uncredited)[1][2] |
| Layouts by | Bob Givens |
| Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 7:08 |
| Language | English |
Nasty Quacks is aWarner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon directed byFrank Tashlin, released on December 1, 1945, and starringDaffy Duck.[3][4]
In a suburban household, a father gifts his daughter, Agnes, a black duckling that soon matures into the infamous Daffy Duck. Daffy's disruptive antics test the father's patience, but Agnes staunchly defends her beloved pet. The father's frustration escalates, leading to a comical chase around the house, until he hits upon a plan to distract Agnes with a new, cute yellow duckling. Determined to eliminate his rival, Daffy stalks the duckling with an axe but decides he can't kill the little one, instead intending to accelerate their growth with vitamins before taking them down. Unexpectedly, the duckling transforms into a grown, white female duck, leaving Daffy stunned. The joyous father’s celebration is short lived when he discovers Daffy cohabiting peacefully with the new duck and their offspring, ending the tale with Daffy's characteristic storytelling.
This was the final Daffy Duck cartoon, and the second to last overall, directed by Tashlin. The director is not credited as he had already left the studio. The voices of the male characters are performed byMel Blanc. The film also introduced a love interest for Daffy.
Animation historianGreg Ford writes, "A comparison might be made to the plot of the hit playThe Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an insufferable dinner guest becomes incapacitated and overstays his welcome for endless, grueling months. Daffy, as Warner Bros.' blue-collar answer toGeorge S. Kaufman andMoss Hart's patrician wordsmith Sheridan Whiteside, terrorizes the household not with acerbic putdowns but exuberant, palsy-walsy camaraderie... One of the cartoon's funniest bits finds the borderline bratty Agnes swooshing in to Daffy's defense before her father does the duck corporal harm. While other animation directors showed an antsy reluctance to caricature females, Tashlin distinguished himself as an equal-opportunity exaggerator."[5]
Nasty Quacks is available on theLooney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD,The Essential Daffy Duck DVD set, and theLooney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 DVD and Blu-Ray sets.
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