Mexican Joyride

Mexican Joyride is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the 1944 Broadway musical Mexican Hayride.
== Plot ==
Daffy Duck drives to Mexico for a vacation, and after a harrowing experience with the local cuisine that literally sets his mouth afire, Daffy goes to a bullfight ring to observe the spectacle. When Daffy jeers at the bull El Toro, the horned beast removes the clothes from the human matador and puts them on Daffy as a challenge to the duck to fight the bull in the ring. Daffy foils the bull with a proposed wager on a hat trick, betting the bull to guess under which of three sombreros Daffy is hiding. Daffy sees to it that the bull guesses wrong and supplies a machine gun for the impoverished bull to commit suicide. The bull realizes that he is being fooled and, firing the machine gun, chases Daffy out of the bullfight ring. Daffy scrambles to his car to leave Mexico, thinking he has escaped the belligerent bull. But the bull is riding in the back seat of Daffy's vehicle, unbeknownst to Daffy.
== Music Cueshttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039620/soundtrack/ ==
* La dernière sérénade [The Gaucho Serenade] (by Nat Simon, John Redmond and James Cavanaugh)
** Plays during the opening credits and sung my Daffy (with alternate lyrics) in the opening scene
* Ahí, viene la conga (by Raúl Valdespí)
** Plays when the cars are in a conga line at the border of the US and Mexico
* La Cucaracha (traditional)
** Plays when Daffy hops out of the car
* Mexican Hat Dance [El jarabe tapatío] (by Felipe A. Partichela)
** Plays when Mexican food is shown
* La Cucaracha (traditional)
** Plays again when Daffy is eating
* Muchacha (by Harry Warren)
** Plays several times throughout the picture
* La Cucaracha (traditional)
** Plays again when the bull is searching for Daffy in the hats
* Brahms' Lullaby aka "Cradle Song" (by Johannes Brahms)
** Plays when Daffy tells the bull to commit suicide
* La dernière sérénade [The Gaucho Serenade] (by Nat Simon, John Redmond and James Cavanaugh)
** Plays at end when Daffy and the bull are in the car
== Availability ==
lt mexican.jpg|8mm (Associated Artists Productions print)
Cartoon Moviestars 6.jpg|(1988) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy! (A.A.P print)
LT Laserdisc 5.jpg|(1988) LaserDisc Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy! and Porky! (A.A.P print)
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-2-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 2, Side 6: McKimson & Davis (A.A.P print)
Niyguftdresw4tzrxdhctfygu.jpg|(1996) VHS Further Adventures of Daffy Duck
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 3.jpg|(2024) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 (restored)
== Censorship ==
*TNT, and the American versions of Cartoon Network and Boomerang (international feeds have the scene uncut) cut all scenes of bull holding a gun to his head to commit suicide (after Daffy tricks him into believing he gambled away all his money and that there is no way out except suicide). Despite this cut, none of the three U.S. channels edited or altered the rather darkly comic scenes of Daffy offering the bull a pistol, then offering the bull an automatic after the bull misses (with Daffy stating, "Here, butterfingers. Try a few more shots--on the house!"), and the scene in which Daffy has a butcher shop prepped and is waiting for the bull to kill himself with the automatic so he can harvest the meat from his corpse (along with Daffy's line "Farewell, stupid!").
==Notes ==
*Daffy references radio personality Chester Riley's catchphrase, "What a revolting development this is," from The Life of Riley.
*Daffy suggests a Good Neighbor Policy, a reference to the United States' foreign policy towards nations in Central and South America during the 1930s. The "Good Neighbor Policy" suggestions mentioned were cigarettes, sparkling champagne and gin rummy.
*During one scene when Daffy screams in front of the audience after a harrowing experience with the local cuisine that literally sets his mouth afire, there is a fireplace, complete with wood on fire, visible in his throat.
*This short was one of three non-Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1947 not to be re-released into the Blue Ribbon program. The others were "Catch as Cats Can" and "A Pest in the House".
*Scenes from this short were used during the beginning of the ToonHeads episode "Toro! Toro!" (an episode centered on how bullfighting is depicted in cartoons), even though the cartoon itself didn't air on that episode.
==Gallery==
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File:(1947-11-29) Mexican Joyride.mkv 20240316 194020.878.png|Restoration error: DVNR artifacts
File:Looney Tunes Collector's Choice, Vol. 3 t14.mkv 20240312 164509.422.png|A fireplace visible in Daffy's throat after eating spicy Mexican cuisine.
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File:Looney Tunes Collector's Choice, Vol. 3 t14.mkv 20240312 165301.286.png|Daffy offering the bull cigarettes as part of the "Good Neighbor Policy".
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File:Looney Tunes Collector's Choice, Vol. 3 t14.mkv 20240312 164947.919.png|"Farewell, stupid"
File:Looney Tunes Collector's Choice, Vol. 3 t14.mkv 20240312 164458.418.png|"Caramba!"
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Mexican-joyride600.jpg|Lobby card
19553838 1568458863186252 3063527864221796238 n (5).jpg|Lobby card
Mexican model sheet.png
Herman model.png|A model sheet of a matador
Herman tooo.png|Model sheet of Daffy's matador outfit
==References==
 
Category:1947
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Hollywood in Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons animated by Basil Davidovich
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Thomas McKimson
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
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
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Bullfighting Cartoons