It's duck season, so Daffy plays hunter Elmer and a hungry fox off against each other.It's duck season, so Daffy plays hunter Elmer and a hungry fox off against each other.It's duck season, so Daffy plays hunter Elmer and a hungry fox off against each other.
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- Stars
Mel Blanc
- Daffy Duck
- (voice)
- …
Arthur Q. Bryan
- Elmer Fudd
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dave Barry
- Daffy Duck gurgling sounds
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaDaffy calls Elmer Fudd by his first name several times in this short. He also breaks the fourth wall briefly at the very end of the cartoon and addresses the audience. And the fox sounds like an early incarnation of the dog character, Foghorn Leghorn's nemesis.
- GoofsElmer is carrying a double barrel shotgun. But at one time he uses a slide action to load the shotgun. Shotguns can either be double barrel or slide action (in which case it has only one barrel). But there is no such thing as a double barrel slide action shotgun.
- Quotes
Daffy Duck: Let us flee to glamorous Hollywood. I can get you a screen test with Warner Brothers.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: Lingo Bingo (2021)
- SoundtracksKing for a Day
Music by Ted Fio Rito
Lyrics by Sam Lewis and Joe Young
Sung by Mel Blanc (as Daffy Duck)
Featured review
Hail fire and sharp teeth, that's what!
In `What Makes Daffy Duck", duckhunting season is just a thinly disguised analogy for war. But the use of machine gun and anti aircraft sound effects also add to the loony flavor Daffy was famous for in the Forties. Hunter Elmer Fudd faces some competition from a hungry fox. Leave it to the little black duck to try and bamboozle both of them. But this is a sly fox (although he does take a lot longer to regain his senses after knocking himself out than the other toons).
Daffy's every move is exaggerated. His arms move faster than the human eye can perceive, he constantly breaks the fourth wall and even conjures up a bathtub out of thin air to take his morning shower. His screwy behavior even starts to rub off on the two hunters: Elmer dresses up as a lady duck (Daffy promises him a screen-test with Warner Bros) and when the fox is ordered to `throw up his hands' we learn why cartoon characters always wear those silly white gloves.
In the end `What makes Daffy Duck' can be considered a prelude of sorts to the famous Hunter trilogy: `Rabbit Fire' (1951), `Rabbit Seasoning' (1952), and `Duck! Rabbit! Duck!' (1953), in which hunting season would get even more confusing for Elmer.
8 out of 10
Daffy's every move is exaggerated. His arms move faster than the human eye can perceive, he constantly breaks the fourth wall and even conjures up a bathtub out of thin air to take his morning shower. His screwy behavior even starts to rub off on the two hunters: Elmer dresses up as a lady duck (Daffy promises him a screen-test with Warner Bros) and when the fox is ordered to `throw up his hands' we learn why cartoon characters always wear those silly white gloves.
In the end `What makes Daffy Duck' can be considered a prelude of sorts to the famous Hunter trilogy: `Rabbit Fire' (1951), `Rabbit Seasoning' (1952), and `Duck! Rabbit! Duck!' (1953), in which hunting season would get even more confusing for Elmer.
8 out of 10
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- Chip_douglas
- Feb 6, 2004
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was What Makes Daffy Duck (1948) officially released in Canada in English?
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