The Taming of the Screwball

The Taming of the Screwball is the sixth webisode of the Mysterious Phenomena of the Unexplained series of Webtoons cartoons.
== Plot ==
Daffy Duck recalls how he started to believe in mystery phenomena after seeing a ghost. His story takes place in a theater, where Daffy and Porky were organizing a production of "Shakespeare's Greatest". Being the opportunistic little black duck he is, Daffy planned on having the play perform poorly and close on opening night so that he and Porky can keep all the money that the investors think the pair had spent on the show. Needing a "disgustingly bad actor" in order to pull this scam off, they give their janitor, Taz, the lead role.
As expected, Taz ends up messing up his lines whilst reciting Hamlet during the play, with his Yorick skull prop complaining about the performance and assuming that Shakespeare must be turning over in his grave. In his coffin, Shakespeare's ghost was indeed turning over because of Taz's poor performance and, unable to tolerate a "thespian who fails at his job", decides to deal with it himself. He arrives at the theater just as the audience start pelting Taz with food, and casts a spell on him to make him speak 'wellith'. Taz's performance is transformed, and the audience is enjoying it. Daffy, seeing Shakespeare, brings out a book of magic and casts his own spell ("Abracadabra, wallakazaz, give me back Taz and make him a spaz!") to undo Shakespeare's, leading to a brief duel between the playwright and the duck. Fed up, Shakespeare casts a spell on Daffy that transforms him into a female performer, and the audience cheers Daffy's performance. In the aftermath of this, Shakespeare begins to bask in his now-renewed posthumous fame.
== Availability ==
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== Notes ==
* The Daffy in the intro was reused from "Fowl Play".
* Shakespeare's clock is later shown in "Loch Ness Mess".
* The skull is later shown in the second "Sports Blab" webtoon.
* The original webtoon had an interactive segment in which the viewer could click on Daffy and Shakespeare to change Taz with the respective effects of making him mess up his lines or speak "welleth". Taz would say at the start of this segment, "Um, line please. Anybody?"
* The premise of the webtoon is similar to the plot of Mel Brooks' The Producers and its later adaptations, the major difference here being the substitution of the Nazi imagery with Shakespearean themes, likely to avoid controversy.
* Shakespeare's speaking in rhyme is a reference to the apparent curse of his grave.
== Characters ==
* Daffy Duck
* Porky Pig
* Tasmanian Devil
* Ghost of William Shakespeare
== Video ==
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Category:Webtoons
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Taz Cartoons
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
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