Daffy Duck, outraged by the low prize for ducks at the National Poultry Show, disguises himself as a rooster to win the $5,000 prize. However, his plan goes awry when he is mistaken for a chicken and taken home by Henery Hawk. Trapped in a chicken-hawk's house, Daffy's attempts to prove he is a duck only lead to chaos. Eventually escaping, he rushes back to the contest but loses both the rooster and duck prizes to Henery's father and Henery himself.
You Were Never Duckier marked the start of a direction change for Daffy, from ascrewball, to a greedy, self-centered one (though, according to commentary byEric Goldberg on theLooney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5DVD, this cartoon showed Daffy as beingboth a greedy, self-centered characterand a screwball one). This cartoon was also the penultimate Henery Hawk cartoon tonot be directed byRobert McKimson, and one of only three to be directed by creatorChuck Jones (afterThe Squawkin' Hawk and followed byThe Scarlet Pumpernickel).
^Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989).Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 187.ISBN0-8050-0894-2.
