The Super Snooper

The Super Snooper is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Plot ==
Daffy Duck is Duck Drake, a "Private Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat". He receives a call that summons him to the J. Cleaver Axe-Handle Estate, where somebody has supposedly been murdered. He arrives at the house and suspects a lady duck of committing the crime. The lady duck shows him affection; however, Daffy forces her to reenact the murder. Along the way, Daffy is shot, crushed by a falling piano, and eventually run right over by a train. The lady duck then tells him that he is at the wrong address and that the real murder site is down the road, but not before showering him with love by chasing him through the house and out the door.
== Caricatures ==
* Peter Lorre - the butler laughs like him.
== Availability ==
CARTOON CAVALCADE DAFFY DUCK 2.jpg|(1988) VHS Daffy Duck's Madcap Mania
DAFFY DUCK'S SCREEN CLASSICS.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc Daffy Duck's Screen Classics: Duck Victory
lt big jim mclain.jpg|(2007) DVD Big Jim McLain
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 1 (restored)
Lt spotlight 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 5 Disc 1 (restored)
Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Volume 1.jpg|(2009) DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1, Disc 1 (part of The Porky Pig Show, without the opening and closing titles)
lt spotlight df2.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack
Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection.png|(2020) DVD Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection, Disc 5
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max Latin America / Brazil (2021 - 2024)
lt max.jpg|Max Latin America / Brazil (2024 - )
== Censorship ==
* When this short aired on WSAZ in the 1980s, the titles and the opening shot of the building were cut due to time constraints, so the short now beings in the middle of Daffy saying "Room 711".https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci9HWCZNPqI
== Notes ==
* Beginning with this cartoon, Daffy's would be redesigned to better resemble the design currently used in shorts by Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, rather then the one McKimson made for Daffy since the mid-40s. McKimson's older design however was still used for production drawings before it was changed.
* The cartoon's premise is a parody of trench-coat detective film noir films of the 1930s-1950s, most notably the ones involving murder crimes from femme fatales.
*Daffy's detective alias "Duck Drake" is obviously a reference to the fact that drakes are male ducks, and Daffy is a male duck.
* The shapely lady duck physically resembles Melissa Duck, but is not the same character.
*In the opening scene, an office with the name "R. Givens" written on it appears in the background, a reference to Robert Givens.
*The engine on the train is a 4-6-0 engine (four leading wheels, six driving wheels, and no trailing wheels). In the mid-19th century, this wheel arrangement became the second most popular configuration for new steam locomotives in the United States. This type of engine is commonly referred to as a ten-wheeler.
*This is the final original Looney Tunes cartoon still retaining its original titles to use the Daffy Duck opening card. It is also the only Daffy Duck short with the blue rings and red backgrounds to have this effect.
**This is also the last cartoon to have a mugshot of a character other than Bugs Bunny.
*The music heard during the opening credits is reused from "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (1942) and "Hair-Raising Hare" (1946).
*This short reuses a piano gag from "Canned Feud" (1951).
==Goofs==
* When the shapely lady duck fires the revolver, she holds the trigger but multiple shots are heard, despite the fact that a revolver can only fire repeatedly by releasing and pulling the trigger.
Category:1952
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
==Gallery==
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==References==
es:The Super Snooper
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1952
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
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 with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas
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