Daffy Dilly

Daffy Dilly
Title card of the original print
Directed byCharles M. Jones
Story byMichael Maltese
Produced byEddie Selzer
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byBen Washam
Lloyd Vaughan
Ken Harris
Phil Monroe
A. C. Gamer
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byPeter Alvarado
Color processCinecolor (original)
3-hue Technicolor (re-release)
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • October 30, 1948 (1948-10-30)
Running time
7:10
LanguageEnglish

Daffy Dilly is a 1948 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.[1] The cartoon was released on October 30, 1948, and stars Daffy Duck.[2]

Plot

Daffy Duck, a struggling novelty salesman, learns that tycoon J.B. Cubish will pay $1 million to anyone who can make him laugh before he dies. Desperate for the reward, Daffy tries various comical schemes to enter Cubish's mansion, but is thwarted by the butler, whom Daffy addresses as "Jeeves," "Ruggles," and "Meadows" (butlers in other fictional media). Accusing the butler of wanting Cubish to remain ill, Daffy improvises a tale of attempted murder, scaring the butler into fleeing. Finally reaching Cubish, Daffy's clumsy antics accidentally make Cubish laugh. Saved by laughter, Cubish hires Daffy as his jester, ending with Daffy resignedly accepting his fate as pies are thrown at him.

Production notes

The title Daffy Dilly is word play on daffodil.

Daffy Duck appeared as a salesman in multiple cartoons, including The Stupor Salesman, Fool Coverage, and Design for Leaving, where Elmer Fudd is his foil. Daffy Dilly served as the basis for the plot in the 1988 compilation feature Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, where Cubish leaves his fortune to Daffy under certain conditions, leading to ghostly encounters.

This cartoon received a Blue Ribbon reissue before 1956, along with four others, but it is the only one without its original titles restored for DVD release. Additionally, it is the only one originally released in Cinecolor (not Technicolor), and the restored version on Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl is presented without credits.

According to Pete Alvarado, originally, there was a television instead of a radio, but, in his words, "he kept it out because TVs weren't big enough yet when it came out".[3]

Home media

  • VHS - Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 3: The Vocal Genius
  • DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
  • Blu-Ray - Looney Tunes Collector's Vault: Volume 1

See also

References

  1. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 190. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ^ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/greg-ford-on-daffy-ducks-quackbusters/
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