Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas is a 2006 animated direct-to-video film starring the Looney Tunes and directed by Ivan Reitman. The movie is a spoof of the Charles Dickens tale, A Christmas Carol.
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[edit] Synopsis
As the movie's title implies, Daffy Duck stars in an Ebenezer Scrooge-like role in the Looney Tunes retelling of this classic tale.
Daffy is the owner of the Lucky Duck Mall (a Wal-Mart like megastore), and he treats his employees (played by other Looney Tunes) very shabbily. After working them all day on Christmas Eve, he expects them all back at 5:30am on Christmas Day. Assistant Manager Porky Pig (in a Bob Cratchit-like role, reprising his role from the previous spoof of A Christmas Carol) pleads to let him go home for Christmas and spend time with his daughter, but Daffy refuses. Later that day, the spirit of his deceased business idol Sylvester The Investor (Sylvester the Cat) warns him to change his ways or be doomed to the same fate. He tells Daffy that three spirits will visit him. Daffy, trapped in the store by a snowdrift, locks himself in his vault to be safe. But the ghosts are not that easily stopped. The Ghost of Christmas Past (Granny and Tweety) takes him back to his childhood, where we see Daffy lived at the Lucky Duck Orphanage and, every Christmas, was ignored by potential parents.
The ghost of Christmas Present (Yosemite Sam) shows him how sad his employees are and tells him if he doesn't change his ways, his future is very bleak. The ghost of Christmas Future (the Tasmanian Devil) comes and shows him that because of his greed he is dead and his store is permanently closed, leaving everyone out of a job.
When Porky's daughter promises to visit Daffy every Christmas because no one should be alone on that holiday, Daffy's cold heart melts and he proclaims to be a changed man. Returning to the present, he gives Porky a promotion, everyone the gifts that they want and a promise of a raise. There is a brief moment when he slides back to his greedy self, contemplating just how he is going to recover all the costs, but it immediately fades.
Bugs Bunny himself doesn't have a role in the main storyline, and is apparently there to simply provide his trademark commentary to the events.
[edit] Characters
- Daffy Duck - Owner, Lucky Duck Superstore
- Porky Pig - Assistant Assistant Manager, Lucky Duck Superstore
- Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Gossamer - Lucky Duck Employees
- Sylvester the Cat - "Sylvester the Investor" (deceased)
- Granny and Tweety - Ghost of Christmas Past
- Yosemite Sam - Ghost of Christmas Present
- Tasmanian Devil - Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
[edit] Cast
- Joe Alaskey - Daffy Duck/Sylvester/Marvin the Martian
- Dee Bradley Baker - Taz/Ghost Of Christmas Future
- Maurice LaMarche - Yosemite Sam/Ghost Of Christmas Present
- Bob Bergen - Porky Pig/Tweety/Speedy Gonzales
- June Foray - Granny/Ghost Of Christmas Past
- Billy West - Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd
[edit] Trivia
- Sylvester was killed when a disgruntled employee squashed him "9 times" with a forklift. This is an homage to pet food commercials and previous Looney Tunes shorts where Sylvester has "9 lives".
- The Road Runner's beeps are commented on by another character for the first time. Daffy, with his head caught in the ceiling, says, "That sound you make. It's very annoying!".
- This is the first major role for Speedy Gonzales since his character was returned to the Lonney Tunes lineup in 2002 (Warner Bros. felt that his character was insensitive to Mexicans, but relented after various Hispanic groups felt he was a "positive" character).
- This is the first new Looney Tunes movie since 2003's Looney Tunes: Back In Action.
- Second time the Looney Tunes spoofed A Christmas Carol. In A Looney Tunes Christmas, Yosemite Sam was Scrooge, while Porky Pig was Bob Cratchit.
[edit] External links
| The Looney Tunes films |
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| Featurette |
| Adventures of the Road-Runner |
| Behind-the-scenes documentaries |
| Bugs Bunny: Superstar | Chuck Amuck: The Movie |
| Greatest Hits retrospectives |
| Centering on Bugs Bunny |
| The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie | The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie | Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales |
| Centering on Daffy Duck |
| Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island | Daffy Duck's Quackbusters |
| Original cinematic material |
| Space Jam | Looney Tunes: Back in Action |
| Direct-to-video releases |
| Tweety's High Flying Adventure | Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas |
| Cameos |
| Two Guys from Texas | My Dream Is Yours | It's a Great Feeling | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Gremlins 2: The New Batch |
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