Fool Coverage

Fool Coverage is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Title ==
The title is a pun on the phrase "full coverage".
== Plot ==
Porky answers the door to Daffy, a pushy insurance salesman, who tries to convince Porky to sign up for a one-million-dollar insurance policy for getting a simple black eye (although there is some fine print to it). Although Porky is temporarily tempted, he calmly escorts Daffy to the door. However, Daffy is not about to give up - he follows Porky around the house, stopping him from doing potentially dangerous things and warning him off. For example, when Porky forgets a screwdriver in his oven, he lights a match and looks inside, pulling the screwdriver out. Daffy runs in, telling Porky about the dangers of using a match in an oven. Instead, he should have used a flashlight, as Daffy demonstrates - just as the oven explodes in his face.
Still trying to convince Porky of the dangers around the house, Daffy stuffs a closet full of junk, and proceeds to ask Porky for some items (such as a golf club), with Porky each time saying he doesn't have it. By the end, Daffy is desperate and asks if Porky has a yo-yo. Porky confirms he has one, and tells Daffy it's in the back of the closet. Daffy runs to the closet and opens the door, causing all the junk to fall on HIM - although he comes out of it, glumly playing with the yo-yo.
Daffy saws a hole in the floor, then places two rocking chairs. He coaxes Porky to rock. Then Daffy sits in the other rocking chair and he falls in the hole down into the cellar.
Daffy then attempts to spread lard in Porky's bathtub, but then soon follows Porky down to the cellar to fix a faulty light. Daffy then blows out a candle to show Porky that he could trip down the stairs (which happens to Daffy). Daffy then paints a stick of TNT white to make it look like the candle and lights it then hands it to Porky, Porky then hands it to Daffy, but when Daffy tries to get rid of it is explodes sending Daffy all the way up through Porky's house.
In the end, Porky is convinced that Daffy is right - the home is full of hazards (having seen all the accidents befallen Daffy), and he signs up for Daffy's policy, convinced all he has to do is get a black eye, and he'll get a million dollars. Daffy, however, cackles that Porky should have looked at the fine print - the million dollars is only paid out for a black eye as a result of a stampede of wild elephants running through his house between 3:55 and 4 PM on the Fourth of July, during a hailstorm. Porky is momentarily rebuffed, until a stampede of wild elephants comes through his living room! Daffy then nervously looks at the clock - 3:57 PM. The calendar - 4 July. He sticks his head outside - hailstorm! Porky displays his new black eye and asks to be paid, but Daffy tells him that the clause said "a stampede of wild elephants and one baby zebra" (even though he made up the part about the zebra) - and just then, a baby zebra comes trampling through the room. Daffy, laid out on the floor, picks himself up to wearily proclaim, "And one baby zebra!" before passing out.
== Availability ==
StarsOfSpaceJam Daffy.jpg|(1996) VHS Stars of Space Jam: Daffy Duck
Spacedaffy.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc Japanese Looney Tunes LaserDiscs Daffy Duck
Bumper05.jpg|(1997) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 5)
SuperStars Porky.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham (original titles restored)
lt ssfm2.jpg|(2017) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature Vol. 2, Disc 3
lt sosj dd dvd.jpg|(2018) DVD Stars of Space Jam: Daffy Duck
lt sosj cv1.jpg|(2018) DVD Stars of Space Jam Collection Volume 1
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2018 - ) (original titles restored)
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (original titles restored)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - ) (original titles restored)
== Notes ==
* The short reuses the animation for the stampeding elephant from "Room and Bird". The animation is repeated five times to make it look like a herd of elephants stampeding through.
* The opening music on the title card is an arrangement of the song "Keep Cool Fool," which was also used over the original title cards for "Greetings Bait" (1943) and "Doggone Cats" (1947).
* The working title was "Premium Ham".https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/robert-mckimsons-fool-coverage-1952/
* Daffy would later wear the same hat in "Muscle Tussle" the following year, also directed by Robert McKimson.
* This is the latest Porky Pig cartoon to receive a Blue Ribbon reissue.
== Gallery ==
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FoolCoverageAnimatorDraft.jpg|Animator draft
== References ==
Category:1952
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson
Category:Cartoons animated by Keith Darling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Carlos Manríquez
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist