Daffy Duck & Egghead

Daffy Duck & Egghead is a 1938 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery. 
== Plot ==
Egghead (in a voice imitating radio comic Joe Penner) is annoyed by a rotoscoped shadowman in the audience who doesn't sit down. Egghead shoots the audience member and the member falls after going through extended "death throes". Egghead hears a call from the grass, and out comes Daffy Duck biting his nose (just like he did to Porky Pig in "Porky's Duck Hunt"). While fighting, a tortoise (with a voice imitating radio comic Parkyakarkus) comes and tries to give Daffy and Egghead new weapons. When the tortoise goes away, Egghead uses his real gun and Daffy tries to make him shoot the apple on his head. Egghead misses all the times, even when Daffy's near him, so Daffy puts a blind sign and a cup of pencils and the disguise glasses on Egghead, with Daffy saying, "Too bad." Daffy then walks away and sings a variation of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" by himself, then shakes hands with his reflection from the lake and they both dive back into the water.
Later, Egghead finally catches Daffy, using a glove which knocks Daffy on the head. Egghead jumps for joy, until an ambulance comes. A duck comes out and thanks Egghead for catching Daffy. The duck describes Daffy as "Crazy! Looney-tuney! and more importantly 100% nuts!!" However, the two ducks start acting crazy again, and Egghead acts crazy himself.
== Caricatures ==
* Joe Penner - Egghead's voice
* Tony Labriola's character Oswald - "Oh, yeah."
* Harry Parke's character Parkyakarkus - turtle
== Availability ==
Cartoon Moviestars 6.jpg|(1988) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy!
LT Laserdisc 5.jpg|(1988) LaserDisc Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy! and Porky!
Golden Age LT Vol 1.jpg| (1991) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 1, Side 2, Firsts
The golden age of looney tunes vhs 2.jpg|(1992) VHS The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 2: Firsts
Niyguftdresw4tzrxdhctfygu.jpg|(1996) VHS Further Adventures of Daffy Duck
Golden Collection box 3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc Four (restored with original titles)
The Essential Daffy Duck.jpg|(2011) DVD The Essential Daffy Duck, Disc 1 (restored with original titles)
== Goofs ==
* When Daffy gives Egghead a cigar for "winning" the duel, he smashes it on the ground and the cigar completely disappears.
== Censorship ==
* On Cartoon Network and Boomerang (USA feeds only; overseas Cartoon Network and Boomerang channels have aired this uncut), and The WB, the scene where Egghead shoots an audience member after telling him to sit down was cut.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jg7OY9uAI&t=1s&list=PLgIIsWrdjwE4gFV-Tsowasc88ALZpQwya&index=5http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-d.aspx The "shooting the annoying audience member" gag later used in "Rhapsody Rabbit" and "The Ducksters" was left uncut on Cartoon Network and Boomerang (the WB also censored the gag in "Rhapsody Rabbit" and "The Ducksters" never aired on the WB).
== Notes ==
* When the film was reissued in 1946, it was renamed to Daffy Duck and Egghead, replacing the ampersand with the word "and."
* This is the first color appearance of Daffy Duck as well as being his first appearance in the Merrie Melodies series. More importantly, it is the first in which Daffy is mentioned by name.
* The cartoon's ending is later reused in the ending of Walter Lantz's Andy Panda cartoon, "Knock Knock" (1940), which marked the debut of Woody Woodpecker; both cartoons were written by Ben Hardaway.
* This is the only cartoon where Daffy's collar is blue instead of white.
* This is the first cartoon where the 10 paces gag is used.
* Daffy would sing his own variation of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" again, albeit with different lyrics, in "Boobs in the Woods" (1950).
* After the "Love-Lure" duck decoy is deployed by Egghead, then rejected by Daffy, he plants a sign that states "T’aint funny McGee." This would have been familiar to audience members as it was a frequent retort from Molly to Fibber in the long-running radio series "Fibber McGee and Molly."
* In 1995, Turner made recreated opening titles for this cartoon. The opening was from "Wacky Wild Life", followed by a recreated BR Merrie Melodies card, then the original title card fades in. The other cartoon to have recreated Blue Ribbon titles in the Turner "dubbed version" is "The Night Watchman".http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/blueribbon3.aspx
** Additionally, the dubbed version replaces the ending cue with the 1941-55 "Merrily We Roll Along" theme. As the restored version's soundtrack is sourced from the US dubbed version, this error persists on the original title print.
* The man in the audience is writer Tedd Pierce.
* The film was copyrighted on 26 November 1937.Catalog of Copyright Entries
==Gallery==
Daffy duck and egghead1 1721.jpg|Daffy Duck and Egghead: two "nuts"
Daffy Duck and Egghead Scene 1.jpg
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Daffy Duck and Egghead Scene 2.jpg|Egghead shooting an audience member, a scene that has been censored on the WB and on the USA Cartoon Network and Boomerang feeds
Daffy Duck and Egghead Scene 3.jpg|Daffy biting Egghead's nose
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Daffyduckegghead.jpg|The turtle makes Daffy and Egghead duel with guns
Daffy-Duck-and-Egghead-1938.jpg|The Nut-House Duck thanks Egghead for capturing Daffy
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DSrm0XOXcAAPfHk.jpg|Production background with Jungle Natives cel from "The Isle of Pingo Pongo"
Egghead2.jpg|Egghead's model sheet
Daffy1938.jpg|Daffy's model sheet
Ddegghead-big.jpg|Comparisons of Blue Ribbon title cards of the cartoon between the original reissue version (top) and the Turner "dubbed version"'s recreated version (bottom)
Cf282cfd8642a9e58b7a617930e6054c.jpg|Lobby card
==References==
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Egghead Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Shorts
Category:1938
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist