Wednesday 27 December 2023

Throw Up Your Hands

“Drop that duck!” Elmer Fudd orders the one-shot fox in What Makes Daffy Duck?



“Throw up your hands!” he shouts. So the fox does. Except his “gloves” come off, twirl in the air and slip back on his paws.



Art Davis made some fine Daffy Duck cartoons and this is my favourite of his, Don Williams, Bill Melendez, Emery Hawkins and Basil Davidovich animate, with the story credited to Bill Scott and Lloyd Turner.

4 comments:

  1. This has got to be my favorite gag in a WB cartoon. I still crack up every time. It’s so out of nowhere!

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  2. It is a great gag. Love the last line; " Obviously, I'm dealing with inferior mentalities."

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  3. I always regretted that Warner Bros. shut down the fourth unit and merged it with the other three. Davis had a lot of Clampett's craziness without overdoing it. As he showed with "Bowery Bugs," he had a nice handle on the main star character.

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  4. Is it just me, or did Art Davis animate some shots in his own cartoons? There are scenes in this one and others that seem like pared-down examples of his wilder animation - like when Elmer and the fox approach from either side. Plus a good chunk of “Bye Bye Bluebeard”.

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