The Henpecked Duck

The Henpecked Duck is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett.
== Plot ==
Porky Pig presides as judge over divorce proceedings at the "Court of Inhuman Relations." He calls the case "Duck vs. Duck." Daffy and Mrs. Duck approach the judge's stand. Mrs. Duck shouts over and over, "I want a divorce!"
Porky asks her to relate to the court what happened. She explains that she had left Daffy in charge of keeping their egg warm while she visited her mother. Daffy grew bored, so he took the egg and performed a magic trick, causing the egg to disappear and then reappear. Impressed with himself, he tried the trick a second time but was unable to make the egg reappear. When Mrs. Duck returned home, he had replaced the egg with a door knob, hoping to fool her. She discovered this and ends her story by shouting "I want a divorce!" three more times, but this time not in a blind rage but extremely close to tears.
Daffy pleads for one more chance, and Porky grants his request. He tries the trick again, and the egg reappears, to the court's shock. The egg hatches, and the Ducks reconcile their differences.
== Availability ==
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 5
=== Streaming ===
File:Lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 -)
== Notes ==
* This was the final cartoon to use the "Porky in a Drum" opening.
* The computer-colorized version, and certain prints of the black-and-white version, have the wrong opening music playing over the opening logos, i.e. the 1936-37 "Porky Signature" theme as heard on "Porky's Badtime Story" and "Porky's Railroad", instead of the correct 1941-45 "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" theme music.
** As the re-restoration aired on MeTV is sourced from this print, this error persists in the re-restoration.
* During the title card, The Wedding March from the "incidental music" of Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream can be heard in the background score.
* Proud of his magic trick, Daffy mutters to himself, "If Major Bowes could see me now," a reference to The Major Bowes Amateur Hour, a popular talent competition show of the time.
* This cartoon entered the public domain in 1969 since Warner Bros.-Seven Arts didn't renew the copyright.
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Saturday Morning Cartoons.
** Prior to it airing on the network, numerous clips of the restoration were leaked on YouTube, before eventually airing on MeTV on 21 May 2022.
== Gallery ==
Lt mrs daffy the henpecked duck 1941.jpg
Lt mrs daffy the henpecked duck 1941 divorce.jpg|"I want a divorce!"
Lt mrs daffy the henpecked duck 1941 umbrella.jpg
The Henpecked Duck (1941).mp4 000289166.png|"Say, is there a magician in the house?"
The Henpecked Duck (1941).mp4 000314503.png|"Yipe! The little woman."
Screen Shot 2014-08-03 at 22.19.23.png|"Case dismissed!"
Screenshot 2022-05-22 025349.png|Screenshot of 2021-22 restoration from MeTV airing
hpda16b.jpg|Production drawing
HenpeckedLobby.jpg|Lobby card
THDLC2.jpg|Lobby card
== References ==
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:1941
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
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 Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Public domain films