| Daffy Duck & Egghead | |
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 A director's note seen at the beginning of the film after Daffy and Egghead are introduced | |
| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Story by | J. B. Hardaway |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Danny Webb Tedd Pierce[1] |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Virgil Ross |
| Color process | Technicolor |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7:37 |
| Language | English |
Daffy Duck & Egghead is a 1938Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon produced in 1937 and directed byTex Avery.[2] The cartoon was released on January 1, 1938, and starsDaffy Duck andEgghead.[3]
Egghead (in a voice imitating radio comicJoe Penner) is annoyed by a silhouetted man in the theater audience (Tedd Pierce) who refuses to sit down. After he sits down twice and finally gets shot by Egghead when he will not stay down, out comes Daffy Duck biting his nose. While fighting, a tortoise (imitating radio comicParkyakarkus) comes and tries to give Daffy and Egghead new weapons. When the tortoise goes away, Egghead uses his real gun and Daffy tries to make himshoot the apple on his head. Egghead misses every time, so Daffy puts a blind sign, a cup of pencils, and disguise glasses on Egghead. Daffy then sings a song (considered semi-obligatory for a Merrie Melodies cartoon at the time), and when he concludes, his own reflection in the water surfaces in three dimension and shakes his hand before they swim away together.
Later, Egghead finally manages to capture Daffy by shooting a pair of gloves from his gun, knocking Daffy out and allowing Egghead to place him in a net. Just as Egghead celebrates, a duck from the mental ward (seemingly his reflective doppelgänger from the earlier scene) comes to claim Daffy. He thanks Egghead for helping to catch Daffy, and tells him that Daffy is 100 percent nuts. "Yeah?", Egghead asks. "Yeah!", answers the duck warden. At that moment, both he and Daffy beat Egghead up before woohoo-ing out into the distance. Egghead becomes fed up with the antics and decides to join them as the cartoon ends.
When the short was aired in theUnited States during the 1990s and 2000s onCartoon Network,Boomerang andThe WB, the scene in which Egghead kills the silhouetted audience member was cut.[6]
| Preceded by | Daffy Duck Cartoons 1938 | Succeeded by |