Plane Daffy

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Plane Daffy
series = Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck)


caption = Title card for "Plane Daffy"
director = Frank Tashlin
story_artist = Warren Foster
animator = Cal Dalton
Art Davis
I. Ellis
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Kent Rogers
musician = Carl W. Stalling
producer = Edward Selzer
studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = flagicon|USA September 16, 1944
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 minutes (one reel)
preceded_by =
followed_by =
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0037180

"Plane Daffy" is a Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, featuring the voices of Mel Blanc and Kent Rogers.

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.

Trivia

* Daffy Duck does not appear in the cartoon until it is more than halfway over.
* According to DVD commentary on the "", Hatta Mari's blond hair and cartoonishly top-heavy body figure would later become a reality in the 1950s with actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield.

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special on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in a montage near the end with a voiceover explaining that many of the outdated references and offensive stereotypes have prevented a lot of World War II cartoons from being seen on television after the war.

External links

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* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8497365978584081026 Plane Daffy on Google Video]