The title becomes part of the action when Egghead knocks over the letters.
Tex Avery and Rich Hogan have several other gags where characters interact with things that aren’t generally interacted with (title cards, a radio). The pace of this cartoon is quicker than Avery’s fake travelogues at Warners, where a narrator needs to set up each gag. A few of the gags are reminiscent of things he would try out at MGM after left Warners in 1941.
Mel Blanc provides a silly laugh for Egghead while Berneice Hansell is Poker-Huntas.
I did like the ending of " Daffy Duck's Quackbusters ", where they brought " Egghead " out of retirement as a singing telegraph man to let Daffy know is business has be " Dissss-Possessed! ". Kind of a warm hearted salute to a long gone character.
ReplyDeleteDecades later, a live-action variation of this gag appeared in the opening moments of Johnny Dangerously (1984). Got a huge laugh in the theatre.
ReplyDeleteI was the voice of "Egghead" in Quackbusters. It's unbelievable!
ReplyDeletei know that was You Voicing Egghead in that Looney Tunes Compilation film i do own on DVD! you also voiced a character in Marv Newland's Collab on "Anijam" 1984!
DeleteWow Mark, That was you! My two sons were not only raised on the Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons, but that movie as well. Thanks for the momeries.
DeleteI did the voice and animated the black preacher in "Anijam". He was based on a local Pasadena preacher, Rogers G. DeCuir, who I think is STILL holding forth at the Holy Deliverance Pentecostal Church, also in Pasadena. I used to love doing voices, but never could make a living at it.
DeleteA Pocahontas parody, 54 years before Disney producing the animated movie.
ReplyDeleteEgghead makes a cooler Johnny Smith than Mel Gibson. And Poker-Huntas more closely resembled the original.
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