Skyscraper Caper

Skyscraper.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 1.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 2.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 3.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 4.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 5.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 6.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 7.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 8.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 9.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 10.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 11.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 12.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 13.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 14.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 15.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 16.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 17.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 18.jpg|This scene (and the previous scene of Speedy throwing the rope down) was cut on NBC and Nickelodeon
Skyscraper Caper SS 19.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 20.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 21.jpg
Skyscraper Caper SS 22.jpg
Skyscraper Caper is a 1968 Looney Tunes short directed by Alex Lovy.
== Plot ==
One night, Daffy Duck sleepwalks out of his house. Speedy Gonzales notices Daffy and yells at him to wake up, but Daffy falls into a pond. Speedy tells Daffy he has sleepwalked and offers for five pesos to help Daffy to sleep normally. Speedy's job is to ring a bell whenever Daffy walks out of the bed, but wanting to get some sleep as well, Speedy rigs the bell on a string to the bed. This works on the first attempt, but the second time, Daffy gets up on the other side of the bed and sleepwalks around the bed and out the house again into the ACME construction site.
Speedy wakes up to find Daffy gone. He frantically rings the bell to wake him up, but can't find him in the house. He finds Daffy at the construction site and tries to ensure Daffy is safe. He covers up a pitfall using a metal bar. Eventually, an ice cream merchant rings a bell, waking Daffy as he falls off the edge of the structure. Speedy brings Daffy a noose and suggests that he pull himself up. After crawling out, he activates a jackhammer and falls off the edge again. He grabs the minute hand of a clock, making the clock to go haywire and bop the hour hand on his head before exploding. After ricocheting to a canopy, it breaks off, and he falls down a telephone line. Speedy manages to save Daffy with a wheelbarrow and walks him back home. After Daffy reawakens, he thinks he had the worst nightmare, but Speedy says otherwise.
== Censorship ==
* In NBC's The Daffy and Speedy Show and Nickelodeon's Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, the scene of Speedy Gonzales saving Daffy from falling off an I-beam at a construction site with a lasso, only for the lasso to wrap around Daffy's neck like a noose was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx Although this has never aired on Cartoon Network's or Boomerang's American channels (mostly because of the networks' bans on Speedy Gonzales cartoons for racial stereotyping), Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels outside of America have aired this uncut (as evidenced by the video on this page). This scene also aired uncut on MeTV.
== Notes ==
* This is one of the rare occasions where Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales are portrayed as friends instead of enemies. This short is also the only one where they are friends throughout the whole short, with no conflict to interfere with their friendship.
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of this short on Saturday Morning Cartoons.
* This cartoon was used in the intro for Looney Tunes on Nick at Nite.
== Gallery ==
SkyscraperCaperRestoredMeTVCredits1.jpeg
SkyscraperCaperRestoredMeTVCredits2.jpeg
SkyscraperCaperRestoredMeTVCredits3.jpeg
Skyscraper-caper250.jpg|Lobby card
=== TV Title Cards ===
File:Screenshot 2021-02-25 at 9.49.47 AM.png|The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
File:Screenshot 2021-01-15 at 7.02.45 PM.png|The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (Final Season)
== References ==
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:1968
Category:Shorts
Category:Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Cartoons
Category:Speedy Gonzales Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Alex Lovy
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons written by Cal Howard
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons animated by Ted Bonnicksen
Category:Cartoons animated by Volus Jones
Category:Cartoons with music by Bill Lava