The Wise Quacking Duck

The Wise Quacking Duck is a 1943 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
== Title ==
The title is a play on a "wise cracking" duck.
== Plot ==
A mild-mannered man is sent by his wife to go out and kill a duck for dinner. He picks Daffy as his victim. The two face off and do battle, only for Daffy to lose to Mr. Meek with him blowing his feathers off and cooking him in the oven. Mr. Meek hears Daffy scream in the oven, feels guilty, and opens the oven door. Daffy is bathing himself in gravy. "Say, now you're cooking with gas."
== Caricatures ==
* Bill Thompson's character Wallace Wimple
* Jerry Colonna - fortune teller
* Red Skelton - "You cwushed by widdle head!"
== Availability ==
Lt ddcffatd.png|(1986) VHS Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring "Ain’t That Ducky"
Cartoon Moviestars 9.jpg|(1989) VHS Cartoon Moviestars, Just Plain Daffy
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-2-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 2, Side 8: The Art of Daffy
lt bumper woolworths.jpg|(1995) VHS Bumper Edition (Woolworths Exclusive)
Niyguftdresw4tzrxdhctfygu.jpg|(1996) VHS Further Adventures of Daffy Duck
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 3
lt watch.jpg|(2008) DVD Watch on the Rhine (1995 Turner dubbed version)
LTPC VOL 2 DVD.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc One
LTPC VOL 2 Blu Ray.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc One
Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection- Looney Tunes.jpg|(2013) DVD Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes
LooneyTunesSpotlightVol8-210x300.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 8 Disc 2
=== Streaming ===
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== Censorship ==
* Some TV versions that aired on local affiliate stations in the United States shorten the part where Daffy (as a fortuneteller) hits Mr. Meek on the head with a mallet so he can read the bumps on his head, similar to ABC's censorship on a similar scene from "Bowery Bugs".http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-u-z.aspx
* Cartoon Network's Arabia channel cuts the entire part where Daffy stripteases to distract Mr. Meek, since this is considered inappropriate in Islamic countries.
== Goofs ==
*The Meek farmhouse apparently is open-air without a ceiling or roof. When Daffy takes to the air after Mr. Meek runs into the wall, he is flying in the open air. He is shown against a sky background when he drops the egg, but when it hits its target, Mr. Meek is in his living room again.
*When Daffy's entire coat of feathers fall off after doing a striptease into the oven in front of Mr. Meek, he is shown wearing boxers underneath. After losing his feathers from getting shot with a rifle at the end by Mr. Meek, Daffy appears completely nude.
**It is possible that Daffy's boxers must have disappeared alongside his feathers after getting shot with the rifle by Mr. Meek.
== Notes ==
* "The Wise Quacking Duck" is the only known color cartoon of the 1942–43 season to use the black and white fonts of "WARNER BROS." and "Present". It is also the only Looney Tunes short released in 1943 to remain under copyright.
* This is the first cartoon known to have the logo of the Screen Cartoonists' Guild in the credits.
* The gag where Daffy stripteases to distract Mr. Meek is recycled from "Cross Country Detours".
* The man from this short known as Mr. Meek, would later appear in the 1991 Looney Tunes TV special Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster in the audience, alongside the starving castaways from Wackiki Wabbit, Granny, and Yosemite Sam.
* Mr. Meek would later appear in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "California's Crusty Bronze" as a health inspector.
* The entire scene near the end where Daffy becomes a fortuneteller to Mr. Meek would later serve as an inspiration for the "Daffy Psychic" series of interstitials for Looney Tunes Cartoons.
** Coincidentally, Mr. Meek also makes an appearance in the interstitial "New Love". 
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:1943
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Earl Klein
 
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:1943
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Earl Klein
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Earl Klein
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
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 produced by Leon Schlesinger
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