Drip-Along Daffy
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Western hero Daffy and buddy Porky enter a lawless Western town where Daffy goes head-to-head with Nasty Canasta.
Characters
Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Nasty Canasta, Bartender
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones (as Charles M. Jones)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Nasty Canasta, Bartender, Ice Cubes)
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Animation
- Animator
- Phil Monroe, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam, Ken Harris
- Layouts
- Robert Gribbroek
Art Department
- Backgrounds
- Philip DeGuard
Production notes
Gower Gulch was the nickname of a Los Angeles neighborhood which was home to several low-budget film studios, many of which specialized in Westerns.
This was Nasty Canasta first appearance.
Porky's final line at the end when he is made the new sheriff, "Lucky for him (Daffy), it is a one-horse town" is cut from current TV prints.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Songs include: "The Flower of Gower Gulch" (Michael Maltese), Performed by Porky Pig.
This was Nasty Canasta first appearance.
Porky's final line at the end when he is made the new sheriff, "Lucky for him (Daffy), it is a one-horse town" is cut from current TV prints.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Songs include: "The Flower of Gower Gulch" (Michael Maltese), Performed by Porky Pig.
Pictures
Reviews
Drip-Along Daffy
Not only one of the best cartoons ever made, it's also one of the best Westerns ever made. Leave it to Jones to kick butt in two genres at once.
It was around this time that Daffy was given some new schtick to perform. As break from his WOO HOO WOO HOO personality, Daffy would get laughs trying to convince us that he could play the hero. This cartoon has him act as a Western hero (which features a gun fight down main street that even rivals High Noon, a live action western that would be made one year later).
However, Porky was given new schtick in this cartoon as well. Here he plays the straight man in a different way. Instead of being bothered by Daffy, he merely sits back and quietly snickers as Daffy makes a fool of himself trying to beat Nasty Canasta.
With Chuck Jones' directorial finesse, Porky can sum up his scorn for Daffy in those "heroic" roles with just one sly wink or utterance of fake adulation. Porky would reprise this role in future cartoons like Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century, Robin Hood Daffy, Deduce You Say, China Jones, etc. In fact, this same dynamic is also found on the Honeymooners when Alice is once again scptical of one of Ralph's hair-brained chemes or whenever George Castanza would come up with a plan to improve his life that Seinfeld knew was stupid he'd sarcasticly repeat "Oh, I like this idea."
Certainly, the comedy stylings of Porky were far-reaching indeed.
Drip-Along Daffy
This cartoon is first-class all the way, and has many of my all-time favorite comedy lines.
Daffy tries to straighten out a lawless Old West town in this Western-movie sendup, with the help of Comedy Relief, Daffy's, um, comedy-relief deputy, played by a grizzled Porky.
A sample of the comedy was this great bit: Daffy kicks in the batwing doors and pulls both guns, challenging all to a bit of gunplay. Of course, as he does so, his pants fall around his feet. After a second, Daffy notices, "Awfully breezy in here!". Then he spies his problem and says, "Slight pause whilst I adjust my accoutriments!"
The timing was perfect, of course, and stayed that way as he did stuff like this all thru the picture.
Daff's complete unawareness that he had NO chance in any fight just cracked me up...
Drip-Along Daffy
Daffy as Mr. Everyman never soared for me, and he doesn't here as a sheriff with Porky as his deputy.
I have never cared for any Daffy-Porky teamings anyway and that includes Duck Dodgers.
Porky's greatest partner was definitely Sylvester in the haunted house.
Nasty Canasta however stands as about one of the creepiest scariest villians there ever was for me.
Yosemite Sam scared me a couple of times and then there was Black Jacque Shellaque, but this character was unflinching.
While "Drip Along" may have dialogue, the characterization of Daffy in comparison to woo-woo or "I'm a greedy little coward" just doesn't suit him here.
I personally prefer greedy Daffy as it is.
The preparation of the evil drink is nowhere near as grand as when Daffy drank the gas, nitro, gunpowder and everything else to outdo Bugs on the stage in another cartoon.
Just another facet of Daffy to me. It didn't catch on as Daffy the rival to Bugs is much stronger and defined.