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Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.Daffy Duck opens a detective agency for the supernatural along side his Looney Toon buddies.
Mel Blanc
- Daffy Duck
- (voice)
- …
Mel Tormé
- Daffy Duck
- (singing voice)
Roy Firestone
- Announcer
- (voice)
B.J. Ward
- Melissa Duck
- (voice)
Ben Frommer
- Count Bloodcount
- (archive footage)
- (voice)
Julie Bennett
- Agatha and Emily - The Two-Headed Vulture
- (voice)
- (as Julie Bennet)
Mark Kausler
- Egghead
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- GoofsThe title of the cartoon "Punch Trunk" is misspelled as "Punch Truck" in the end credits.
- Quotes
Count Bloodcount: I am a vampire.
Bugs Bunny: Oh, yeah? Well, abracadabra, I'm an umpire.
[an umpire uniform appears on Bugs]
Count Bloodcount: Hocus-pocus!
[turns into a bat]
Count Bloodcount: I'm a bat!
Bugs Bunny: Okay, I'm a bat, too. Abracadabra!
[turns into a baseball bat]
Count Bloodcount: [puts glasses on] You wouldn't hit a bat with glasses on, would you?
[Bugs as the baseball bat hits the bat on the head]
- Crazy creditsin the opening credits, the "Q" in "Quackbusters" is a cut circled cross.
- ConnectionsEdited from Daffy Dilly (1948)
- SoundtracksMonsters Lead Such Interesting Lives
Written by Virg Dzurinko and Greg Ford
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This is one of several Looney Tunes compilations made by Warner brothers in the 80s, and it was the one I watched the most- and still do when it's on TV- as a youth. It's another example from the others of old 50s cartoons put together into a plot that is meant just to string one short to the next, with Mel Blanc's obviously inconsistent voice filling in. Not that his voice at 80 is hard to take at all, but it does become jarring on repeat viewings to suddenly get that age gap just in-between lines of dialog, as if we as the audience didn't notice. The story for the film springs off from a short where Daffy- selling goofy objects on the cheap- tries to sucker JP Cubish for all of his loot by getting him to laugh (which he does finally, hilariously, by getting hit with pies). He leaves his fortune to Daffy with the provision that he use it in a 'service' kind of fashion. So, he opens up shop as a Ghostbuster racket, hiring out Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig for odd jobs out in Transylvania and haunted houses. It all leads up, in the end, to a humiliation due to a tiny elephant.
Like with the less successful string-together flicks of the early 80's, the storyline that is put together for Quackbusters is less than great, even a little too clunky. As a kid I didn't really put much bother to it, but again on repeat viewings it becomes about as obvious as Sylvester's jitters get. One such example is the very flat and ill-conceived bit where Daffy goes to the possessed woman's place. On the other hand, out of the all of the other animated films put together with the shorts- save for the Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Movie- this has the best shorts. My favorites include when Tweety gets the Heckle & Hyde treatment (very, very funny), or when Sylvester gets terrified by mice under a sheet. But the most indelible lines, in just sheer ludicrous and hysterical, fall-on-the-floor funny parts, are when Bugs tricks around the Blood Count ("Walla-walla-Washington", still gets me every time), and when Bugs and Daffy visit the Imbominable snowman. The film is also topped with a pre-short by a fairly humorous song sung by Mel Torme.
So, if you're one of those fans of Looney Tunes that hasn't seen the compilation films before, this is probably the best place to start, as the sum of the shorts are far greater and worth your time than what might be found in the other string-together films. That it still remains memorable more for the older shorts than the newer material is a credit of the late, great Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Robert McKimson (the three ORIGINAL directors of the films, not of the in-between segments).
Like with the less successful string-together flicks of the early 80's, the storyline that is put together for Quackbusters is less than great, even a little too clunky. As a kid I didn't really put much bother to it, but again on repeat viewings it becomes about as obvious as Sylvester's jitters get. One such example is the very flat and ill-conceived bit where Daffy goes to the possessed woman's place. On the other hand, out of the all of the other animated films put together with the shorts- save for the Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Movie- this has the best shorts. My favorites include when Tweety gets the Heckle & Hyde treatment (very, very funny), or when Sylvester gets terrified by mice under a sheet. But the most indelible lines, in just sheer ludicrous and hysterical, fall-on-the-floor funny parts, are when Bugs tricks around the Blood Count ("Walla-walla-Washington", still gets me every time), and when Bugs and Daffy visit the Imbominable snowman. The film is also topped with a pre-short by a fairly humorous song sung by Mel Torme.
So, if you're one of those fans of Looney Tunes that hasn't seen the compilation films before, this is probably the best place to start, as the sum of the shorts are far greater and worth your time than what might be found in the other string-together films. That it still remains memorable more for the older shorts than the newer material is a credit of the late, great Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Robert McKimson (the three ORIGINAL directors of the films, not of the in-between segments).
- Quinoa1984
- Aug 2, 2006
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- Daffy Duck: Vakvak Avcıları
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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By what name was Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) officially released in Canada in English?
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