Plane Daffy
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| Plane Daffy
Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck) series |
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 Title card for Plane Daffy |
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| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc Kent Rogers |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Cal Dalton Art Davis I. Ellis |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Distributed by |  MGM/UA Home Entertainment (1998) (VHS)Warner Home Video (2006) (DVD) |
| Release date(s) | September 16, 1944 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes (one reel) |
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Plane Daffy is a Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin which stars Mel Blanc and Kent Rogers.
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[edit] Synopsis
One after another of a company of carrier pigeons falls prey to the seductive wiles of "Queen of the Spies" Hatta Mari. The alarm is raised at pigeon headquarters when pigeon 13 goes AWOL with the female Nazi spy bird, to whom he reveals all his secrets (After she plied him with a Mickey). Self-described woman-hater Daffy volunteers for the next mission, but he has to swallow his secret message when the temptress corners him as well. After a frenetic battle at slinky Mari's pad, she x-rays Daffy and broadcasts the secret ("Hitler is a stinker") to Hitler. Goebbels and Goering have to shoot themselves in the head after agreeing with it.
[edit] Trivia
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- Daffy Duck does not appear in the cartoon until it is more than halfway over.
- According to DVD commentary on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Hatta Mari's blond hair and cartoonishly top-heavy body figure would later be seen on 1950s actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield.
[edit] Censorship
On Cartoon Network and TNT airplay, the ending when Hitler's henchmen agree with the "military secret" that Hitler is a stinker cuts to Daffy ending the short saying "We get rid of more Nutzis that way!" to remove the part where the henchmen shoot themselves in the head. However, the cut scene was shown during the ToonHeads Wartime Cartoons special on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in a montage near the end with a voiceover explaining that many of the outdated references and offensive stereotypes have prevented a lot of World War II cartoons from being seen on television after the war.
