Riff Raffy Daffy

Riff Raffy Daffy is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the word "riff-raff," meaning someone who is disreputable or undesirable.
== Plot ==
A homeless Daffy Duck is trying to find a place to sleep in a City Park. Daffy tries to sleep in a trash can, up a tree, and even in a gopher's hole, evicting the gopher, furniture and all. Porky Pig is a cop, who tells Daffy that sleeping in the park is against the law. After being kicked out of the park, Daffy complains that it is "the coldest night in sixty-four years" and wonders where he is going to sleep. Daffy spots a department store window with a comfortable living room-type display and goes inside. Porky sees him and comes in the store, using a skeleton key.
A series of chases ensues, with Daffy always outmaneuvering Porky, including twice where he tricks Porky into entering an empty elevator shaft. Daffy begs for sympathy from Porky for the sake of his two kids, which are actually wind-up toy ducks that look like Daffy. Porky takes pity, telling Daffy that he can stay at the store, and justifying it by saying to himself that he understands Daffy's situation because he has three kids of his own, which are actually wind-up toy pigs.
== Availability ==
GUFFAW AND ORDER.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Guffaw and Order: Looney Tunes Fight Crime
Christmas Looney Tunes.jpg|(1992) VHS Christmas Looney Tunes UK
Christmas Collection Looney Tunes UK VHS.jpg|(2003) VHS Christmas Collection Looney Tunes
SuperStars Porky.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham (restored in SD via Cinecolor print)
Lt ssfm2.jpg|(2017) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature Vol. 2, Disc 3
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 3.jpg|(2024) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 (restored in HD via Super Cinecolor print)
== Censorship ==
* On the ABC version of this short, two scenes are cut:http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-q-r.aspx
** The part where Daffy advances on Porky and Porky backs into and falls down an empty elevator shaft.
** The part after Porky captures Daffy in a hammock where Daffy steals some fireworks and lights them.
== Goofs ==
* When Porky Pig says, "Ble-ble-er-er with this!", his lips do not move.
== Notes ==
* This is the first cartoon to revive the Porky and Daffy headshots since 1944, now redesigned and used until 1951.
* This is the only Arthur Davis-directed cartoon to have Daffy and Porky together.
* This is one of only two Warner Bros. cartoons to which the original camera negatives do not survive, the other being the lost Private Snafu short "Secrets of the Caribbean". Because of this, it is the only cartoon to use Cinecolor prints for TV airings and home media releases, unlike most other cartoons in which "dupe" Technicolor elements were used after the 1980s.
** The latest restoration, which was used for Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3, utilizes a Super Cinecolor 35mm print from the studio vault. Super Cinecolor was a three-strip color process which created a wider color spectrum, making it more advanced than regular Cinecolor (which utilized only two-strips).https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/thad-k-reviews-looney-tunes-collectors-choice-vol-3/
== Gallery ==
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=== TV Title Cards ===
Screenshot 2020-11-14 163058.png|The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
== References ==
Category:1948
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Hollywood in Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
Category:Cartoons written by Bill Scott
Category:Cartoons written by Lloyd Turner
Category:Cartoons animated by Basil Davidovich
Category:Cartoons animated by Emery Hawkins
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Don Smith
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
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 Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons originally produced in Cinecolor