Riff Raffy Daffy
Riff Raffy Daffy is a 1948 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Arthur Davis.[1] The cartoon was released on November 27, 1948, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.[2]
| Riff Raffy Daffy | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Arthur Davis |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
| Story by | William Scott Lloyd Turner |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Don Williams Emery Hawkins Basil Davidovich J.C. Melendez |
| Color process | Technicolor (production) Cinecolor (release) |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | November 27, 1948 |
Running time | 6:48 |
| Language | English |
Plot
A homeless Daffy Duck is trying to find a place to sleep in a City Park. Porky Pig is a patrolling cop, who is telling Daffy that sleeping in the park (vagrancy) is against the law, which Daffy not only tried to sleep on a park bench, in a trash can, up a tree, and even in a gopher's hole - evicting the gopher, furniture and all. After being kicked out of the park, Daffy complains that it is "the coldest night in 64 years" and wonders where he is going to sleep, after opening his big beak about the snow suddenly covering the scene.
Daffy spots a department store window with a comfortable living room-type display and goes inside. Porky sees him and the argument between the two began, albeit their voices were silenced by the glass boundary in the display. Daffy uses a glass-cutter and a latch to create a makeshift door with the glass and the sounds of incoherent crosstalk went on for a few seconds, only for Daffy to return inside the display, closed the glass door, and then pulled down the shade saying to Porky, "Scram!"
Porky comes in the store using a skeleton key with an actual skull on the one end. Daffy joked about the particular key and tricked the officer into a chair and have a cigar, along with a spritzer of soda water. Daffy then finds a bed to resume sleeping before Porky tries to hit the vagrant with a club, only to have Daffy warn the officer about violating the "sanctity of the American Home" and intimidates him towards the empty elevator shaft, causing him to fall. And as Daffy brags to himself, Porky came back upstairs and clubs the vagrant on the head. Before Daffy fell unconsciously, he asked Porky for an aspirin for a splitting headache. The officer felt ashamed for hitting Daffy too hard and when he tries to wake him up, Daffy yelled, "I love you, Hortense!" and gave Porky a smooch on the forehead and managed to escape for a moment. Daffy was unfortunately cornered by Porky, armed with the bow and arrow. The vagrant begged the officer not to do anything rash while distracting him with hidden brush from a nearby glue bottle onto Porky's grip, causing him to be sent flying instead of the arrow and crashed into a grandfather clock, with its resident cuckoo shoving the inept officer out before making its call.
Daffy then tries to sleep in the hammock where Porky grabbed both ends and dragged the vagrant out. Little did the officer know, Daffy grabbed a bottle rocket from a nearby shelf and lit its fuse and got away. Then Daffy, disguised as the elevator man, ordered the customer to face the front into entering an empty shaft again with the rocket exploding him upwards before falling down again in a fiery fashion.
Then Daffy sleeps in a recliner chair when Porky came back with an axe in hand, but then the vagrant later sleeps in a sleeping bag as Porky tries again, only to get bonked with a mallet by a snoozing Daffy.
The officer then tries to lure Daffy by borrowing a duck call, only to have the vagrant surprising him from behind. The chase resumed, but was cut short by Porky crashed into a glass booth. Daffy then gave the officer a "sporting chance" with a shotgun. At first, the officer refused, but took the offer and fires the gun as the pellets pursued their target. Thankfully, Daffy managed to avoid them, only to get cornered by Porky's cannon, ready to shoot down the duck, but good. Daffy begged for sympathy from Porky for the sake of his two kids (Alfonse and Rodrigo, which are actually wind-up toy ducks that look like Daffy). Porky took 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).
See also
- Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1940–49)
- List of Daffy Duck cartoons
References
- Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 191. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.