The Foxy Duckling

The Foxy Duckling is a 1947 Merrie Melodies short directed by Arthur Davis.
== Plot ==
An insomniac fox is desperately trying to get some sleep, with numerous sleeping pills and some clips to force his eyes shut not helping. He eventually finds the problem after reading a book - the pillow which is filled with various hard objects. Hoping to catch a duck to use its feathers, the fox finds a young duckling nearby painting a tree. He attempts to hide behind a tree and smash the duck with a mallet, but the duck paints the mallet and finds out, later luring the fox into a pond. He next tries a decoy duck, which results in a series of hunters shooting the fox behind a bush instead. The fox rides a rowboat and attempts to throw a rock at the duck, which leads to the duck redirecting the fox's boat onto where the rock is going to fall. The fox utilizes a makeshift diving board to dive into the pond, but the duck points the board in the direction towards a tree. He then uses an anvil with a rope dropped from a tree branch, which the duck ties to the fox's leg, sending him back to the pond.
The duck flees towards a large cliffside. As the fox tries to nab the duckling, he sees the canyon below it, and the duckling uses a camera with a boxing glove to force him back. Recovering from that, he attempts to reach the flying duck by using a makeshift bridge out of wood planks, but the duck saws down the branch and drops a feather onto the fox to add enough weight for the branch to collapse, sending the fox mortally falling down the canyon. Glad to eliminate the fox, the duckling attempts to head back home, but walks into an angel of the fox, who now quickly flies away from the chaser.
== Availability ==
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The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 4, Side 6
331779_front.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 1 (restored)
== Notes ==
* The fox is referred to as A. Fox on his house mailbox.
* There's only one line of dialogue in this cartoon; A. Fox leaves the house to get a duck and says, "I gotta get a duck! I gotta get a duck! I gotta get a duck!" 
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Toon In with Me. It was later released on Blu-ray on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1.
== Gallery ==
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TheFoxyDucklingLobbyCardPreliminarySketch.jpg|Preliminary sketch lobby card
Foxyduckling-mckimson.jpg|Model sheet by Thomas McKimson
== References ==
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Category:Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:1947
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Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
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Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
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Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
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