Night of the Living Duck

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Night of the Living Duck
series = Merrie Melodies


caption = title card
director = Greg Ford
Terry Lennon
story_artist = Greg Ford
Terry Lennon
animator = Brenda Banks
Norm McCabe
Frans Vischer
Rebecca Rees
Mark Kausler
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Mel Tormé (singing voice)
musician = Music is from Previous cartoons which was conducted by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn
producer = Kathleen Helppie
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = September 23, 1988 (released at New York Festival)
September 24, 1988 (released with "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters")
color_process =
runtime = 6 min.
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0095737

"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.

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?"

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.
*Alfred E. Neuman appeared briefly in this short holding some drinks.