| Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck and Porky Pig) series | |
| Directed by | Chuck Jones[1] |
| Produced by | Chuck Jones |
| Story by | Michael Maltese Chuck Jones |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Dean Elliot |
| Animation by | Phil Monroe Manny Perez Irv Anderson Ben Washam Lloyd Vaughan |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | 1980 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 min (one reel) |
| Language | English |
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century is a 1980 cartoon starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin Martian. It is the sequel of Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century. It was the first Daffy and Porky cartoon since 1965. This cartoon first aired on November 20, 1980, as part of an animated TV special called Daffy Duck's Thanks-For-Giving with scenes that would later be cut when this cartoon was reformatted as a short.
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Daffy Duck reprises his famous role of Duck Dodgers in another spoof of Saturday afternoon space serials. Assigned to locate the rack-and-pinion molecule needed for yo-yo polish, Dodgers and his assistant, an eager young space cadet (Porky Pig), crash their spaceship into a giant egg-shell, where they find Marvin Martian, who is, as usual, scheming to destroy Earth, in an attempt to solve the "fuel problem". Marvin asks Dodgers to visit the boudoir of Gossamer, a giant, hairy monster in sneakers, and the frightened Dodgers flees. Porky uses electronic clippers to literally haircut Gossamer into nothingness, and Dodgers, furious of his assistant's all-too-literal interpretations of his commands, repeatedly fires his ray gun at Porky's rear.
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