Warner Bros. Discovery took 200 classic Looney Tunes shorts off its streaming platform, stunning fans. Beastobsessed breaks down why it’s a disastrous move for the legacy of animation:
short “Duck Amuck,” Daffy Duck does something rare for a cartoon character: He breaks the fourth wall.
What else is he to do, when the off-screen animators are clearly playing tricks on him? Within two minutes, Daffy is thrust from aparody into a barnyard scene, then a winter wonderland, and finally a Hawaiian paradise—before the setting leaves entirely. “Look, Mac,” he says to the camera. “Let’s get organized around here. How about some scenery?” A pencil appears, drawing some simple buildings. “How about some color, stupid?” Daffy, unsatisfied, demands next. A paintbrush dumps blue paint on him, then erases his body and replaces it with something Seussian: a polka-dotted torso with a flower around his head.
This meta playfulness carries on for the full cartoon, as Daffy fights against the animator in charge. Starring in cartoons is Daffy’s job, and this off-screen mischief maker is making that job impossible to do. It’s one of the most daring, funniest cartoon shorts in modern animation history. Kids love it for the silliness of Daffy fighting against pencils, paintbrushes, and the general rules of filmmaking. Adults love it for its self-awareness, creating a surprisingly hilarious romp out of the act of animation itself. And now it’s gone.
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