Night of the Living Duck
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| Night of the Living Duck
Merrie Melodies series |
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| Directed by | Greg Ford Terry Lennon |
| Produced by | Kathleen Helppie |
| Story by | Greg Ford |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc Mel Tormé (singing voice) |
| Music by | Music is from Previous cartoons which was conducted by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Brenda Banks |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | September 23, 1988 (released at New York Festival) September 24, 1988 (released with Daffy Duck's Quackbusters) |
| Running time | 6 min. |
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Night of the Living Duck is a six minute 1987-animated, 1988-released Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Daffy Duck, directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon.
[edit] Plot
Daffy Duck is reading a scary comic book. The story ends in a cliffhanger, and Daffy rifles his bookcase looking for the next issue. A Smodzilla clock falls, and beans Daffy, making him think he's the featured act in a nightclub. All the customers at the nightclub are classic movie monsters. Fortunately, there was a bottle of "Eau de Tormé" in Daffy's dressing room, which makes him sing like Mel Tormé. He sings "Monsters Lead Such Interesting Lives" to the room, and they love it. Then he goes around the room, greeting the patrons, but his good-natured ribbing of "Smogzilla" doesn't go over well with the giant lizard, who eats Daffy. Daffy wakes up, to find himself stuck in a wastebasket, along with the comic he was looking for, with "Smodzilla" on the cover. Daffy scoffs, and the cover comes to life, saying, "You were expecting maybe Calvin Coolidge?"
[edit] Trivia
- This is the last Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon where Mel Blanc voices one of his characters.
- This cartoon was the opening sequence for 1988's Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, which was released a day after this short was released.
