Ducking the Devil
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Ducking The Devil is a 1957 Merrie Melodies animated cartoon with Daffy Duck and the Tasmanian Devil.
[edit] Synopsis
At a zoo, a cage was reserved for Taz. Taz soon escapes and runs amock. Meanwhile, Daffy is at home in his duckpond, and reads about Taz's escape in a newspaper. Taz soon finds Daffy and gives chase after the black mallard. While fleeing from Taz's hungry jaws, Daffy hears a news bulletin posting a $5,000 reward for the Tasmanian Devil's return which also says Taz becomes docile when exposed to music. Using different kinds of music (some of which fail miserably) Daffy uses his own voice to calm the devil. Eventually, after serenading him for ten miles, Daffy leads Taz to his cage, slamming the door on the beast just as Daf's voice was about to give out. After Taz grabs some of the Duck's reward money which slipped on the ground, Daffy goes inside the cage and beats Taz up, and reassures the audience that he's a coward, "but a greeeedy little coward."
[edit] Trivia
"Zookeeper Burton", mentioned by a radio announcer in a newsflash that Daffy is listening to, is possibly a reference to Warners production manager John Burton. (It's rather funny that, even at this late date, the aging remnants of the old Termite Terrace gang would still be referring to themselves and their studio as a "zoo".)
This is the only original cartoon where Taz's costar wasn't Bugs Bunny.
