| Rocket Squad | |
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| Merrie Melodies / Daffy Duck & Porky Pig series | |
The Rocket Squad title card |
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| Directed by | Chuck Jones |
| Produced by | Eddie Selzer (uncredited) |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Ken Harris Richard Thompson Abe Levitow Ben Washam |
| Layouts by | Ernie Nordli |
| Backgrounds by | Philip De Guard |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | March 10, 1956 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 6 minutes 35 seconds |
| Language | English |
Rocket Squad is a 1956 Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short produced by Eddie Selzer. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce starring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig as futuristic space cops who patrol the Milky Way Galaxy. It is a parody of Dragnet.
Rocket Squad appears on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3 four-disc DVD box set.
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In this futuristic setting, Daffy Duck is Sgt. Joe Monday and narrator of the story. His partner, Det. Schmoe Tuesday (Porky Pig), and himself are returning from a routine investigation of a 712-malicious mischief ('School children blew one of the rings off of Saturn. When will parents learn to keep uranium out of their children's reach?') in the Big Dipper area, when they receive a call from the police chief. They return to headquarters and await the police chief's call ('10:52: Back at the old desk, waiting for a call from the Chief. Half a cop's life is spent in waiting. 10:53: the Chief called.'). We then hear Daffy exclaiming that the police chief is asking him to pursue the Flying Saucer Bandit, but see the police chief on his knee's begging and crying for Daffy to take the case. Upon telling the viewer's that he consents to take the case, we see the police chief kissing his feet.
Sgt. Monday and Det. Tuesday then report to the scene of the crime. The crime robots are already there picking up clues to aide Daffy and Porky in their ability to identify the Flying Saucer Bandit. They return to the station with a bag of clues, and empty them into the Univac clue machine, which pops out a music sheet for a piano. The music sheet is placed into a piano, which plays out the song Mother Machree, identified by Daffy. They proceed to the George 'Mother' Machree file where they begin their pursuit of the Flying Saucer Bandit.
They learn that the Flying Saucer Bandit is at a restaurant ordering a sandwich, to which they hurry because he is known as a 'notoriously fast eater'. Upon arriving, they realize they have missed the bandit, and continue their chase ('1:07: He left the Blast-Inn. 1:08: We arrived at the Blast-Inn. Our deductions later proved that we had missed him by one minute. 1:09: We set out in pursuit.') We see Porky and Daffy in hot pursuit of 'Mother' Machree when they lose him in a smog bank over Los Angeles. Porky points out a smog cloud flying away, when they pull up and tell Machree to come out, to which Daffy informs us he has an elaborate alibi already cooked up ('I didn't do nothing... I didn't do nothing! Like I said, I didn't do nothing!'). This leads into the conclusion of the cartoon in which Daffy and Porky are sentenced to twenty years in prison for false arrest (thirty years actually, as Porky state so afterwards).
List of cartoons featuring Daffy Duck
List of cartoons featuring Porky Pig