Daffy Duck Slept Here

Porky Pig is in town for a convention and looking for a place to stay in one of the overbooked hotels. He manages to find one room for rent but will have to share it with another gentleman. Porky beds down for some sleep but finds his roommate is a crazy duck who comes home `pixelated' making lots of noise.

I caught this cartoon by chance on tv and was glad I did, being a fan of Daffy when he is crazy as he is here. The plot sees Porky taking a hotel room aware he has to share it but unprepared for the manic roommate that he finds himself with. Daffy doesn't make anything easy for him and the gags are a mix of the crazy (Daffy's invisible friend; `how do you suppose I'm doing THIS') through to a more traditional but no less funny fight for the covers.

Porky is very much the straight man of the piece, as he often is. He is an OK character but he really needs someone else to carry much of the comedic weight of any cartoon. Daffy easily does this and is a slightly toned down version of his usual crazy self; toned down to give a slightly more balanced character. He is hilarious the whole way through and fans will be happy for the cartoon to end with him doing his trademark bounce around the room, whooping all the way!

Overall this is another good cartoon with Porky and a crazy Daffy. The two are very good together, even if the bulk of the work is done by Daffy. Fans of the crazy duck will love this short and everyone else should find laughs too.

Daffy is annoying here - VERY annoying. But I guess he cannot help it, he's a crazy little black duck (with undiagnosed ADD). I like Daffy despite his irritating behaviour, however it becomes a wee bit boring after a while. For some reason I feel Porky was good here, coping for a surprisingly long time with Daffy's manner - and being rather cute. Daffy is a good character, entertaining all the way, though annoying to poor Porky (he never seems to be annoying to the audience here, when I am the only one in the audience anyway).

Porky Pig needs a place to spend the night, but unfortunately, at the city he stops at, all the hotels have no vacancy - except for one. Porky manages to book a room - and he finds he has to share it with a very annoying roommate. Daffy seems to go to all ends to frustrate poor Porky, every way funny for us...

I recommend this fun (and fun-ny!) Daffy Duck and Porky short to anyone who does not like to see Porky too bullied in Looney Tunes, a crazy, brilliant Daffy and a good plot theme in a cartoon. Enjoy "Daffy Duck Slept Here"! :-)

8 and a half out of ten.

Looney Tunes shorts were a huge part of my childhood, and Daffy Duck along with Bugs Bunny was always one of my favourites. Daffy Duck Slept Here is brilliant, and always has been one of my favourites. The animation is beautiful and fluid, and the music and sound effects, always having been a major part of the Looney Tunes shorts' success, are jaunty and never out of place. The story crackles with energy, with the ending especially hilarious, the writing is fresh, witty and delightfully oddball as well with Daffy's closing line one of the funniest of any Looney Tunes cartoon and the sight gags imaginative and coming by thick and fast as you'd expect. Porky plays it straight and is not as bland as he can be, but the star is Daffy who is just brilliant, hilarious and charismatic as he always is. Mel Blanc's vocals are exceptional. All in all, fantastic, not a bad word to say about it. 10/10 Bethany Cox

We have here Daffy being as obnoxious as he can be as he tortures Porky Pig, with whom he is sharing a room. This is an early McKimson, and one of his best. In a couple of years, Chuck Jones would take Daffy and remold his personality, but here we see a fine mechanical rendition of the little black duck.

With a convention in town, all the hotels are filled up. Even the flophouse as a sign outside that reads, "Gwan - Beat It!" Even Fido's doghouse has a "no vacancy" sign out front.

Porky Pig is desperate for a room. Finally, one vacancy opens up and Porky beats the multitudes to it, but he'll have to share the 30th floor room with "some gentleman." Unfortunately for Porky, that "gentleman" is Daffy Duck!

Needless to say these two guys are not going to get a peaceful night's sleep being in the same room and especially in the same bed. The doings are so-so in the humor department, nothing of the laugh-out-loud variety.

The best jokes were the sight gags in the between before the two "stars" hooked up in the story so, in the end, this didn't turn out to be one of the better Looney Tunes efforts. It can be seen on the LT Golden Collection Volume Three.