To Duck... or Not to Duck

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While Elmer Fudd is hunting fowl, he shoots Daffy Duck. However, Daffy is wearing a bullet-proof vest and only pretends to be wounded.While Elmer Fudd is hunting fowl, he shoots Daffy Duck. However, Daffy is wearing a bullet-proof vest and only pretends to be wounded.While Elmer Fudd is hunting fowl, he shoots Daffy Duck. However, Daffy is wearing a bullet-proof vest and only pretends to be wounded.

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7.2/10

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Mel Blanc

Daffy Duck
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Arthur Q. Bryan

Elmer Fudd
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Chuck Jones
Writer
- Tedd Pierce
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Trivia
Daffy is called by his name in this cartoon, one of the few times he's addressed as such.

Goofs
Laramore says, "There's something awfully screwy about this fight, or my name isn't Laramore --- and it isn't...!" This statement is invalid in two ways: first, his name actually IS "Laramore", and second, if that indeed isn't the hound's real name, then that would mean that the boxing match was in fact NOT suspicious in how it was being run, which of course it very much was.

Quotes
Daffy Duck: Sportsman? Listen, sport! You don't know the meaning of fair play! What chance has a poor helpless fluffy little winged creature like me against you?
[taking away each item from Elmer as he mentions it]
Daffy Duck: You, with your bullets, and your shotgun, and your knife, and your duck call, and your hunting coat, and your hunting dog, and all kinds of stuff like that there! What protection have I got? A bulletproof vest, I suppose!
[parts his feathers to reveal just that]
Daffy Duck: Heh-heh. How did that get there?

Connections
Edited into Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports (1989)

Soundtracks
We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again
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Written by Cliff Friend and Charles Tobias

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7/10

Very good, but compares poorly to later pairings of Daffy and Elmer

I guess I might have enjoyed this cartoon a lot more if it weren't for the fact that there were so many better Looney Toons cartoons that also paired Daffy and Elmer Fudd. The most famous of these later pairings also included Bugs Bunny and it was all about whether or not it was duck or rabbit hunting season. There also was another where Elmer took Daffy home after a hunt and Daffy pretended to be Santa! Both of these are classics.

As for this cartoon, the animation isn't quite as pretty as some of the cartoons from the late 40s, but it's still awfully good. The story begins with Elmer and his dog hunting. Daffy is hit and caught but he begins to verbally attack Elmer for "unsportsman-like behavior" and challenges him to a very one-sided and obviously fixed boxing match--with another duck as the referee. The laughs are there and there is a lot to like--but I never loved this or laughed like I did for the later times that I saw these two great Looney Tunes characters together.