Duck Soup to Nuts

Duck Soup to Nuts is a 1944 Looney Tunes short directed by I. Freleng.
== Title ==
The title is an amalgam of the titles of the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup and The Three Stooges film Soup to Nuts.
== Plot ==
Daffy is relaxing in a pond with a group of other ducks and notes that "I kinda stand out in a crowd," as the other ducks are depicted as standard mallards. Suddenly a gunshot goes off and all the ducks dunk their heads underwater for cover (Daffy, noticeably, puts a swimming cap on his head before similarly dunking his head). Porky enters and lets off another shot, which sends the other ducks flying away.
Porky takes aim at Daffy and orders him out. When Daffy comes out, still with his feet in the air, he quickly disarms Porky and tells the hunter that he's no ordinary duck. "I'm just slopping over with talent", Daffy claims, and proceeds to show this off by "singing", "dancing", and "acting", in which he gives Porky a glimpse of his contract with Warner Brothers. Daffy then offers to read the bumps on Porky's head, providing the bumps himself! Porky tries holding a shotgun to Daffy, but Daffy responds to this threat by looking inside the shotgun to see a woman in a bathing suit. When Porky takes a look, he sees Daffy in the same pose! Porky shoots Daffy out, and Daffy runs back to the pond, where Porky cannot chase him since he can stay underwater "practically indefinitely."
Daffy is underwater singing when he notices Porky has jumped in with a diving helmet. Daffy walks up to Porky as "the Fuller Brush Man!", and knocks on Porky's helmet. When Porky tells him to "come in," Daffy opens the front of the helmet, causing Porky to jump out and start bailing out the water with a bucket. Eventually, all the water is gone, and Daffy flips around like a fish out of water. When Porky refuses to believe that Daffy is a fish, Daffy counters that he doesn't believe Porky is a pig - he believes that Porky is an eagle. Daffy switches what Porky says. Porky decides to prove that he's an eagle by jumping off a tree. When this doesn't work ("I told you I was a pig!"), Porky uses up all his ammo trying to shoot Daffy. However, he still has his "trusty six-shooter."
Before Porky can kill Daffy, Daffy asks to say goodbye to his wife and kids. Letting out a Tarzan-type yell, and then coughing at the end, his wife Celia and three kids, Sylvester, Lathrop﻿, and Stanislaus, come to say a tearful goodbye. Porky walks away, feeling that he'd be a rat if he were to shoot someone with a wife and kids. and he lets him go. Just as Porky is out of sight, Daffy's "family" turn out to be four derby-wearing, cigar-smoking male ducks who laugh at how easily they tricked Porky, with one of them asking Daffy for money for their involvement in the scam. Their laughter is interrupted by Porky's shooting at them with his rifle, and all five of them jump around, "hoo-hoo"-ing as they jump into the lake.
== Quotes ==
*Daffy: Okay, maybe you'll be interested in a little phrenology, which is by no means the least of my many accomplishments.
== Availability ==
Viddy-Oh! For Kids VHS 1.jpg|(1986) VHS - Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: The Best of Bugs Bunny and Friends
Viddy-Oh! For Kids VHS 9.jpg|(1986) VHS - Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Porky Pig and Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Tick Tock Tuckered"
Cartoon Moviestars 9.jpg|(1989) VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Just Plain Daffy
Golden Age LT Vol 1.jpg|(1991) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 1, Side 6: Friz Freleng
Lt galt vhs 6.jpg|(1992) VHS - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 6: Friz Freleng
Golden Collection box 2.jpg|(2004) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2, Disc Three
Large.jpg|(2005) DVD - Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2 Disc 1
lt cbts1.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Tweety and Sylvester Volume 1
lt bbot tp.jpg|(2011) DVD Tweety Pie
lt 3fcbo.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes 3 Feature Collection Best Of
lt spotlight df.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 2-3 Repack
lt spotlight v1-3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 1-3 Repack
=== Streaming ===
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Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* This cartoon is notable for containing some gags that would re-appear in later cartoons featuring Daffy.
** One was the reverse psychology gag, when Daffy convinces Porky he is an eagle. This would later be used in "Rabbit Fire" (1951), but on a different subject.
** Another is the gag about a psychic reading the bumps on a characters head, but creating new lumps instead would be reused in "Draftee Daffy" (1945).
** The gag where a beautiful woman is said to be inside of a gun would be reused in "Quacker Tracker" (1967).
* The Latin Spanish redub of this short partially replaces the reissue opening music theme with 1938-41 Merrie Melodies opening music cue.
* The original titles have been reported to exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/checklist.html
** However, while a print with the original titles is known to exist, the original titles reported to exist in the UCLA archive are likely not on a 35mm print. As Warner Bros. only restores 35mm prints, the cartoon was restored with the Blue Ribbon titles instead.
== Gallery ==
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Duck Soup to Nuts (1944).mp4 000130150.png|"Say, are you following me, bub?!"
File:Duck Soup again.jpg|Gerry Chiniquy Animation drawing
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File:PAN WarnerBros-18.webp|Animation drawing
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File:Duck Soup to my nuts.png|Dick Bickenbach Animation drawing
File:To Nuts.jpg|Dick Bickenbach Animation drawing
File:Duck Soup to Nuts.jpg|Dick Bickenbach Animation drawing
File:Butts and Nuts.jpg|Dick Bickenbach Animation drawing
File:Duck Soup again 2.jpg|Dick Bickenbach Animation drawing
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== References ==
es:Duck Soup To Nuts
fr:Chasse en cours
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:1944
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Cartoons with missing Leon Schlesinger credits
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist