Design for Leaving

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Design for Leaving is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the 1932 Noël Coward comedy play Design for Living, and the 1933 Gary Cooper film based upon it.
== Plot ==
Daffy is a fast-talking door-to-door salesman from the ACME Future-Antic Push Button Home of Tomorrow Household Appliance Company, Inc. Daffy visits Elmer Fudd at his house as he was leaving for work and says that Acme has authorized him to install, at no cost, a complete line of ultra-modern automatic household appliances (on a ten-day free trial). Elmer tries to speak but is repeatedly interrupted by Daffy, who grabs Elmer by the arm and escorts him to a bus to take him to the office. Despite Elmer's protests (even saying he has his own car), Daffy puts him on the bus, which unknown to Elmer has a sign on the back that reads "Duluth Express Non-Stop".
Later that day, Elmer furiously returns to his house, hitching a ride in a truck from the Duluth Van and Storage Co. Daffy greets Elmer at the front door and welcomes him to his new future-antic push button home. Elmer sees that his house is different and asks Daffy what he's done, but Daffy quickly pushes a button and a machine removes Elmer's hat and coat. Daffy then guides Elmer to a massaging chair. Elmer likes it at first, but Daffy pushes a button and Elmer receives an aggressive massage, which dazes him. The chair then automatically puts a cigar in Elmer's mouth and lights it, but the smoke activates a robot fire extinguisher from another room which douses Elmer with a bucket of water. Daffy states that the extinguisher is very sensitive to heat and probably needs adjusting, then guides Elmer into the kitchen. Daffy encourages Elmer to bask in the kitchen's "treasure trove of work-saving appliances" and demonstrates a new knife sharpener which ends up destroying the blade on one of Elmer's knives. Undaunted, Daffy points out the garbage disposal, which is revealed to be a pig which is housed under the kitchen sink.
Daffy then shows Elmer the "main control panel" which operates all of the new appliances. Daffy pushes a button marked "Wall Cleaner" and a robotic device emerges to clean the walls but it removes Elmer's wallpaper instead, humorously removing the outer clothing from a portrait painting in the process. Daffy tries to adjust the device but he adjusts it the wrong way and it starts removing the plaster. Daffy quickly deactivates it, then asks Elmer if he is tired of looking at his dirty windows, and when Elmer says "Well, I...", Daffy summons a machine which covers Elmer's window with bricks, and says that he'll "never have to looks at those dirty windows again". Elmer becomes furious, telling Daffy that he is "burning up" which again activates the fire extinguisher and Elmer is doused with another bucket of water. "I tried to warn you!" Daffy tries to continue the demonstration, but Elmer objects, saying that something bad happens to him whenever Daffy pushes a button. So Daffy agrees to let Elmer push a button. Elmer spots one, saying in his distinct voice, "I think I'll push this wed one." Daffy stops Elmer, shouting, "No, no, no, no, no! Not the WED one! Don't EVER push the WED one!" Elmer says, "Well, I'll push this one then," and pushes another button that reads "Burglar Alarm", and a mechanical dog comes out of the wall and bites him.
Daffy then takes Elmer into a bedroom and shows him a device which will automatically tie a necktie from the options of Bow, Four-in-hand, Five-in-hand, False Granny, Windsor, Smindsor, and an unlabeled option. Daffy tries to demonstrate it but the machine ties Elmer up into a manner of a noose. "Help! Get me down!" Daffy shuts off the machine and casually refers to the style as the "Alcatraz Ascot" as if it were a type of necktie, the unlabeled option. Elmer is exhausted, telling Daffy that he wants all of the "push-button nonsense" removed and tries to go upstairs and take an aspirin, but cannot do so because his stairway has been removed. Daffy confidently boasts that there is no need to walk up stairs in a push-button home, and uses an elevator-like device to bring the "upstairs downstairs". Elmer seems impressed but asks what happens to the downstairs, and Daffy, saying "Say, that's a good question! What do you say we find out?" raises the upstairs which shows that everything downstairs has been destroyed.
Elmer asks if there is "any more cwever gadgets to demonstwate, Mr. Smarty Salesman?", and when Daffy says no, Elmer makes a phone call but the conversation is inaudible. When Elmer hangs up there is a knock on his front door and a large crate is brought inside. Elmer opens the crate and starts the motor, telling Daffy about his new "future-antic push-button salesman ejector" which grabs Daffy by the shoulders and wheels him out of the house, kicking him repeatedly. With Daffy gone, Elmer remembers the red button and wonders "what that wed button is for?" He pushes it and a display reads "IN CASE OF TIDAL WAVE". A hydraulic lift raises his house high into the air. Elmer looks out of the front door, and Daffy flies by in a helicopter and says, "For a small price, I can install this little blue button to get you down!"
== Availability ==
W UK10552 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo17The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 17
Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection Elmer.JPG|(1986) VHS Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers
ClassicCollection.jpg|(1995) VHS Classic Collection (WHSmith Exclusive Video)
Lt collection elmer fudd.jpg|(1996) VHS Elmer Fudd
SUPERIOR DUCK.jpg|(1998) VHS Superior Duck
400px-Looney Tunes Super Stars - Daffy Duck - Frustrated Fowl.jpg|(2010) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (cropped to widescreen)
lt ssfm2.jpg|(2017) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature Vol. 2, Disc 1
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - ) (fullscreen)
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (fullscreen)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - ) (fullscreen)
== Censorship ==
* The ABC version of this cartoon cuts out the brief shot of Elmer getting hanged by the neck by his necktie-tying machine (with Daffy referring to the setting as the "Alcatraz ascot").https://web.archive.org/web/20240224055622/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-d.aspx
* Some syndicated versions cut out the part where Elmer notices that his staircase is missing as he prepares to go upstairs to take an "aspwiwin".
*The version shown on Nickelodeon cut both Elmer getting hanged by his own tie and Elmer telling Daffy to remove the automated house setting and leave while Elmer goes upstairs to "...take an aspiwin", only to find the stairs to his house removed. The edited version goes from Elmer jumping around in pain after getting bitten by the robot dog to the elevator scene.
== Goofs ==
* When Elmer encounters the "Hat and Coat Remover", he says "Hey, what is this?", but his lips only move to the word "hey".
== Notes ==
* Daffy reprises a salesman role that he previously played in "Daffy Dilly" (1948), "The Stupor Salesman" (1948) and "Fool Coverage" (1952).
* The Blue Ribbon reissue, despite labeling itself as a Merrie Melodies cartoon, retains the Looney Tunes opening and closing themes.
* The Boomerang app lists this as a Porky Pig short, despite Porky not appearing in it. This is most likely due to its similarities to "Fool Coverage", which Porky does star in.
* The working title was "Future Antics".
* On 1 December 2021, a 16mm print of this short with the original opening and closing titles was uploaded online.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agmKSd4w2J0
** Although the original opening and closing titles are known to exist, it was restored with the Blue Ribbon titles.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:1954
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Elmer Fudd Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
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 Eddie Selzer