The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a 1946 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the 1941 film The Great Train Robbery.
== Plot ==
On a farm, Daffy waits for his new Dick Tracy comic book to the tune of Raymond Scott's song "Powerhouse". The mailman then arrives, and he receives the comic book. To the tune of the Poet and Peasant overture, he sprints to a corner of the farm and reads it. Then, he wishes to become Dick Tracy and then knocks himself out by accidentally punching himself.
He then imagines himself to be "Duck Twacy, the famous detec-a-tive." Ignoring a piggy bank theft crime wave, he goes into action when he learns that his own bank has also been stolen from his secure safe. He calls a taxi to follow a car but leaves without him ("Keeps them on their toes."). Daffy, at one point bumped into one Sherlock Holmes and told him he is working on the side of the street.
Daffy's search leads him to a tram with Porky as the driver leading to the gangsters' not-so-secret hideout, where he faces off against all the dangerous criminals in town: Mouse Man, Snake Eyes (spoof of B.B. Eyes), 88 Teeth (spoof of 88 Keys), Hammerhead, Pussycat Puss (who looks like Sylvester), Bat Man (a parody name of the real Batman, whose owner, DC Comics, is now owned by WB), Doubleheader (spoof of Tulza "Haf-and-Haf" Tuzon), Pickle Puss (spoof of Pruneface), Pumpkinhead, Neon Noodle (spoof of Frankenstein), Jukebox Jaw, Wolfman (spoof of the real Wolf Man), Flattop, Rubberhead, Tin Man, Honk Head, and a host of other unnamed grotesques (the villains are obvious parodies of Dick Tracy's rogues gallery). He declares "You're all under arrest!!" The villains then roar at our hero and the chase begins.
The bad guys use well-known Dick Tracy villain Flattop's head (perhaps a Mount Rushmore-style variant) as an airstrip with planes taking off. Rubberhead "rubs him out" with his head as an eraser but Daffy appears at the door. Pumpkinhead meanwhile moves in with submachine gun blazing. Daffy tosses a hand grenade directly to Pumpkinhead's head, which becomes a stack of pumpkin pies.
After being chased about, Daffy eventually turns the tables on the villains and traps them inside a hallway closet. He slams the door shut on them and eradicates the group with sustained fire from a Tommy gun (which, if this were not a cartoon, would be a grim scene indeed, echoing the climactic scene from Warner's film The Big Sleep, released the same year).
He faces one last adversary, Neon Noodle (who survived because he is a mere neon outline with no physical "center" for Daffy to shoot), whom Daffy defeats by turning into a neon sign that reads "Eat at Joe's" (a standard WB cartoon gag). He then finds the missing piggy banks, including his own. He begins to kiss his bank, but since he is dreaming he doesn't realize that he is on the farm again, kissing a real female pig. The plump yet slightly curvaceous pig is rather smitten by Daffy since she believes he's trying to woo her with the barrage of smooches he plants all around her face while saying things like "I've found you at last!" He wraps his kisses up with a peck to the pig's little nose. So in an elegant female voice she says "Shall we dance?" and lovingly kisses him right in the mouth. Now wide awake, Daffy wipes the kiss away disgustedly and runs away. The lady pig says "I love that duck!" and laughs.
==Caricatures==
*Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
*Marlin Hurt - "I love that man/duck!"
*Josef von Sternberg - "I'm gona r-r-r-r-r-rub you out, see! R-r-r-r-r-rub you out!"
==Television== 
*a.a.p. (1957-mid 1990s)
*Bugs Bunny and Friends [TBS] (1979-late 1980s)
*Tom and Jerry's Funhouse [TBS] (1988–1997)
*Bugs Bunny and Friends [TNT] (1988–1998)
*The Bugs Bunny Show [TBS] (early 1990s-1997)
*Bugs and Daffy Tonight [Cartoon Network] (1992–1994)
*Droopy's Guide to the Cartoon Network (1992)
*The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1995–2004)
*Acme Hour [Cartoon Network] (1998–2003)
*Toonheads [Cartoon Network] (1998–2003)
*The Bob Clampett Show [Cartoon Network] (2000–2005)
*The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001–2004)
*Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003–2005; 2017)
*TCM (2004–2007)
*Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network (2009–2010) AAP print
*Bugs Bunny and Friends [MeTV] (2021–present)
*Sunday Night Cartoons [MeTV] (2021–present)
*Toon In with Me [MeTV] (2021–present)
==Availability==
Lt ddcffatd.png|(1986) VHS Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals (only in PAL release)
Cartoon Moviestars 6.jpg|(1988) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy!
LT Laserdisc 5.jpg|(1988) LaserDisc Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy! and Porky!
Cartoon Moviestars 5.jpg|(1989) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Cartoons for Big Kids
LT Laserdisc 4.jpg|(1989) LaserDisc Cartoon Moviestars: Cartoons for Big Kids
Golden Age LT Vol 1.jpg|(1991) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 1, Side 4: Bob Clampett
The golden age of looney tunes vhs 4.jpg|(1992) VHS The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 4: Bob Clampett
Niyguftdresw4tzrxdhctfygu.jpg|(1996) VHS Further Adventures of Daffy Duck
LTCE VOL 1 ALL-STARS.jpg|(1999) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition, Vol. 1: All-Stars (1995 USA Turner Dubbed Version)
8158quVPv4L. AC SL1500 .jpg|(2003) VHS Daffy Duck (2003)
Golden Collection box 2.jpg|(2004) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2, Disc Three
Large.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 2 Disc 1
Lt cbts1.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Tweety and Sylvester Volume 1
The Essential Daffy Duck.jpg|(2011) DVD The Essential Daffy Duck, Disc 1
51LA0AzTVqL. SL500 AA300 .jpg|(2011) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc One
Lt bbot tp.jpg|(2011) DVD Tweety Pie
LTPC VOL 1 DVD.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc One
Looney Tunes Showcase - Volume 1.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume 1
Lt 3fcbo.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes 3 Feature Collection Best Of
Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection- Looney Tunes.jpg|(2013) DVD Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes
Lt spotlight df.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 2-3 Repack
Lt spotlight v1-3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 1-3 Repack
=== Streaming===
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
Lt warner bros discovery ride.png|Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE (2021 - 2023) (restored)
==Censorship == 
*When this cartoon aired on the Kids WB shows Bugs 'n' Daffy and The Daffy Duck Show, the scene of Daffy locking all the criminals in a closet, blasting them with his Tommy gun, and all of the criminals falling out in rapid succession was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-g.aspx
== Reception ==
In the 25 July 1946 edition of movie trade publication Film Daily, the film was given the ranking "Very Good", stating;
"Daffy Duck, that exuberant spirit, out-does himself while admiring Dick Tracy, and experiences some of the thrills and chills that come to the super sleuth."https://archive.org/details/filmdaily90wids/page/n191/mode/2up?q=%22great+piggy+bank+robbery%22
In recent years, the short has achieved cult classic status, and is said by many people to be one of Clampett's greatest cartoons.
John Kricfalusi, the creator of Ren and Stimpy and fan/protege to director Bob Clampett, named this as his favorite cartoon on the DVD commentary for Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2.
In 1994, it was voted #16 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In the book, animation historian Steve Schneider said of the film; 
"Bob Clampett's forever priceless "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" is clearly a work of the highest cinematic poetry, for prompting the film's manic hilarity are a sequence of images that remain among the most indelible in cartoon history."The scene where Daffy encounters the gangsters has become a viral internet meme in May 2024.
==Notes== 
*Daffy's early line about Dick Tracy, "I love that man!" and the pig's closing line, "I love that duck!" are references to a popular catch-phrase of the time, "Love dat man!", said by the character Beulah on the radio series Fibber McGee and Molly. Clampett would use the gag again in his next and final cartoon at Warner Bros. Cartoons, "The Big Snooze".
*In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "New Character Day", there was a segment called "The Return of Pluck Tracy" where Plucky Duck is in the same role that Daffy had here. Here, Pluck Tracy had to rescue Shirley the Loon's aura (who is really Hatta Mari) from gangsters like Ticklepuss, Boxcars, Millipede Pete, etc.
** In another Plucky-based Tiny Toons short called "Bat's All Folks", Bat-Duck (Plucky's Batman-like alter ego) reveals his many foes in a similar manner to Duck Twacy in this short.
*When Duck Twacy takes a street car to the gangsters' hideout, the conductor is a thinly-disguised Porky Pig dressed in a driver's uniform and a handlebar mustache.
*This is the first Looney Tunes cartoon with a new opening and closing arrangement of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", which would be used until 1955.
*Some sources erroneously credit animation by Robert McKimson, who had his own directing unit at the time this cartoon was in production.
**Michael Sasanoff is also often mis-credited as co-director with Bob Clampett, however Sasanoff's involvement in the short is unknown and more likely worked on it as an uncredited co-writer.
* Daffy says "Sufferin' succotash" while waiting for his Dick Tracy comic. This line would eventually become the catchphrase of Sylvester, who also has a lisp in his voice.
*In the scene in which Daffy is seen through a door in silhouette as Duck Twacy, his shadow briefly morphs into Dick Tracy's trademark profile.
*Although the sound effect is heard, the WB shield does not zoom to the viewers. This error also occurred in "Kitty Kornered".
* An episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold titled "Legends of the Dark-Mite" contains a sequence which heavily parodies the cartoon. Unlike when Daffy faces criminals which are parodies, here Bat-Mite faces actual Batman villains (namely Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, Mad Hatter, Catman, Polka-Dot Man, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Killer Moth, Kite Man, Zebra-Man, and Tiger Shark). As an example, miniature Kite Man figures launch off the top hat of the Mad Hatter.
*A clip from the cartoon is shown in Son of Batman.
*This cartoon was the third cartoon in the a.a.p. package to bear that company's logo on a Cartoon Network broadcast since the return of Looney Tunes to that channel in 2009 after a three-year hiatus (with a five-year hiatus for the post-7/48 package), the first two such cartoons also starred Daffy Duck: "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" and "Nasty Quacks". The a.a.p. print of this cartoon aired on the 2010 New Year's Day LT marathon.
*This cartoon was mentioned on an episode of Golden Book Video Killers where Daffy Duck was too scared after watching What Was That?
*This was the third cartoon and second Looney Tunes cartoon shown on Cartoon Network when the channel launched on October 1, 1992, just after "Rhapsody Rabbit". Both were part of a special called "Droopy's Guide to The Cartoon Network".
*Daffy's line after falling into the trap door "Was that trip really necessary?" is a reference to the World War II slogan "Is this trip really necessary?", which discouraged Americans from doing non-essential travelling in order to save oil, gas and rubber (tires) for the benefit of the WWII soldiers fighting overseas. At the time the cartoon was released in theaters, World War II had ended.
* "Flat Top" is the only actual Dick Tracy villain depicted in the cartoon, but he is never explicitly named or labeled. He is shown launching miniature fighter planes off the top of his head.
*Warren Beatty wanted this cartoon to be re-released in theaters preceding his live-action movie Dick Tracy (1990). Disney (who was making and distributing the film) refused.
*When the mailman delivers Daffy's mail, one of the letters is addressed to Rod Scribner, who was one of the animators on this short.
*This cartoon was shown in theaters with Of Human Bondage during its original release.
*The production code might have presumed the cartoon was going to be a Merrie Melodies cartoon instead of a Looney Tunes cartoon.
*The working title of the cartoon was "Duck Twacy".
*This is the final cartoon that Bob Clampett fully directed before his departure from Warner Bros., moving to Screen Gems. His unit was overtaken by Arthur Davis, who had completed most cartoons that Clampett was directing before leaving the studio.
* Mouse Man, the giant criminal mouse, would later reappear in Looney Tunes Cartoons episode "Kitty Krashers". Unlike this cartoon, he does not wear any clothes in that short.
* The shot of Hammer Head was sometimes featured in the background in Zorak's room during Cartoon Network's programming block Cartoon Planet.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgcvhWp4UA 1:27 Hammer Head appears on a poster
==Gallery==
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== References==
 
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:1946
Category:Cartoons that contain excerpts from "Powerhouse"
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Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
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 with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Thomas McKimson
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Thomas McKimson
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
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