Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas

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Bah Humduck: A Looney Tunes Christmas
Bah Humduck: A Looney Tunes Christmas

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

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

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, Priscilla, who is in a Tiny Tim-like role, 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 Ghosts of Christmas Past (Granny and Tweety) take him back to his childhood, where they 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.

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Bugs Bunny himself doesn't have a big role in the main storyline, and is apparently there to simply provide his trademark commentary to the events.

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[edit] Trivia

  • Sylvester's character was killed when a disgruntled employee squashed him "nine times" with a forklift. This is an homage to pet food commercials and previous Looney Tunes shorts where Sylvester has "nine 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, "There's something about that sound you make, it just plain jangles my nerves!"
  • This is the first major role for Speedy Gonzales since his character was returned to the Looney 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.
  • This is the second Looney Tunes adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The first time was in the first portion of the 1980s television special Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (it was later released as a separate short titled Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol), and it had Yosemite Sam in the Scrooge role, but also had Porky in the Bob Cratchit role.
  • In the flashback Daffy looks the same way he did in Baby Looney Tunes.
  • Unlike A Christmas Carol, Porky's daughter does not die like in the story when Bob Cratchit's son dies because of Mr. Scrooge's greed.

[edit] External links

The Looney Tunes films
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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