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Daffy is an agent representing Sleepy Lagoon, trying to sell him to talent scout Porky. Daffy spends a great deal of time and energy explaining and demonstrating what the kid can do, while the kid sits on a couch licking a giant sucker.
Yankee Doodle Daffy
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Daffy Refait L'Histoire, Manager Daffy, Daffy imprésario, 达菲鸭 胜利之歌, Wiązanka melodii Kaczora Daffy'ego
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USA
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15 May 1943
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Fucking masterpiece. Daffy Duck being an insufferable asshole is the stuff that reignites my will to live. This is art
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I realize if you haven't seen this short it'll seem like I'm making this up, but the Sleepy Lagoon joke is pretty weird and leaves a bad aftertaste in what is otherwise a home run Freleng short. I really don't mean or have any right to moralize but it made me go "whoa" and you deserve to know how these made me go.
*Edit* It may just be an innocent reference to the song. That seems more likely. At the very least, I prefer that being the case.
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Daffy duck being musical, crazy, energetic and annoying porky pig makes for an entertaining short.
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This one hits your quiet little planet like a screaming comet! It might be my favorite Looney Tunes short. It is only as profound as a cartoon about a duck trying to get another duck hired by a pig who is a talent agent who has to get on a plane in 5 minutes, can be, but fuck! We are Porky, so very serious with our achievements and appointments and our "Ya know I don't have much time for this" mantra. Daffy is here to set us free! He wants to explode our world of logic, he wants to make us late for our serious little airplane ride. Daffy waltzes in with the mysterious "kid" Sleepy Lagoo and reality is…
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Man, the last agent I had couldn’t even get me a JFL audition at the Creek and the Cave, much less a meeting with THE Porky Pig!!!!
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Mostly an excuse for putting Daffy in silly costumes and animating him in wild, exaggerated ways, and that is, to be clear, a very good thing to have come up with an excuse for. I don't think the gags are as strong as Freleng's best films of this period; this is largely driven by Daffy being manic more than Daffy doing specifically funny things, and that takes a more determined sense of go-for-broke pacing than we see here (I would particularly make note of the first 70 seconds as being remarkably non-urgent and repetitive, very much to the detriment of the overall rhythm). Also, the last joke isn't very strong. Still, it's quite a lot of fun to just watch…
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The fact this came out a year after Yankee Doodle Dandy and they didn’t even think to parody it… Shame!