The Iceman Ducketh

This short shows Daffy in all of his obnoxious glory. While entertaining enough, the gags are old-hat and much of what happens is predictable and almost telegraphed. By no means a bad cartoon, but not terribly exciting either. Worth watching, it shows fairly often on Cartoon Network. Recommended.

Daffy Duck is hunting Bugs Bunny in the height of winter time. However Bugs has no intention of being killed so that Daffy can have a warm winter fur and uses the conditions to his advantages, including a group of bears trying to hibernate.

Despite a clever little reference in the title, this cartoon is actually not up to a great deal. The animation is average at best and it gives the characters a real cheap feel to see them so basically drawn. It gave me the impression that the cartoon was rushed together and maybe not given as much care and attention as it should have had. Both Daffy and Bugs look very basic, like they have no touches to them but have just been traced from a more complex drawing!

The plot is average, personally I wasn't really feeling the whole Daffy as a hunter thing and it didn't really work for me. It isn't used to nay great effect and Bugs wasn't really as slippery and funny as he can be. A big problem for me was the characters of the two leads – they didn't seem to actually have any. Certainly neither was really used well and they could easily have been any old character for all the uniqueness either brought to the piece.

Overall the quality of animation should ring bells – it shows a lack of care which can also be seen in the plot, the characters and the comedy. Funny title, not much else.

Daffy Duck attempts to hunt down the wisecracking rabbit for his fur. That's all there is too this plot.

This short is just not very good at all. In fact, it is a contender for the worst Bugs Bunny short of the original series. The animation is just so stiff and lifeless. You could tell that they had budget problems and the visuals look bland at best. Bugs and Daffy just look too basic and robotic. The human designs are just flat out ugly to look at. There just isn't a lot of that energy most Looney Tunes shorts have. Bugs and Daffy are both unlikable. Bugs is just too cocky here and borderline mean-spirited in this short for me to root for him. Daffy on the other hand wants to kill Bugs over his fur. Really? One, he could have shot one of the bears that would give him more fur. Two, Daffy hunting is just completely out of character for him and not in a good way. He is just as mean-spirited as Bugs and feels like this short was made by someone who hated Daffy. It's really bad when you end up rooting for the bear to maul both of them. As far as the jokes go, some of them gave me a chuckle, but there was nothing funny in this short that you wouldn't have seen in better Bugs vs hunter shorts. The gags are very repetitive and predictable. Also, it is a bit shorter than the other shorts, but that might be a good thing. Mel Blanc's voice work is the one thing that this short has going for it. He did a great job as he always does with the characters.

The Iceman Ducketh is such a weak short. It just reeks of mediocrity, especially when you compare it with other shorts. Bugs and Daffy both deserve better than this. It's not that it's unwatchable, which it's not, but it is just not worth it. Anything this short does, nearly every other Bugs Bunny and/or Daffy Duck short does a million times better. There no real reason to watch this, unless you really want to see why the 60's was not the best decade for Looney Tunes.

This was a hilarious cartoon. The jokes and gags by now were not new but characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck can keep them funny for years. And they certainly did that in this one. Those two together in a cartoon always assures a laugh riot. This one of the best Looney Tunes cartoons ever made.

Daffy and Bugs have always been friendly rivals, good humored, and the humor was for harmless laughs. I agree with the poster that the Daffy depicted in this later WB cartoon is totally out of character. He NEVER intends to kill Bugs for his fur.

This and many of the other mid to late 60s WB cartoons reflects the end of the Golden Age of Cartoon Shorts. I suppose changing tastes and sense of humor were emerging, although I at age 33 consider most of the old '40s and '50s toons very ageless and appealing, clever, political at times, aimed at an adult audience, wrought with violence of the very playful kind and therefore harmless to any child who has common sense.

But these later '60s cartoons aren't nearly as appealing. Gone are the classic musical quilts of Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, replaced by Bill Lava's less inspiring "'60s beach" music. Gone is the good humor and wit that carried audiences through tough times like WWII. This violent, hateful Daffy, with not a bit of humor about him, probably did little to comfort those upset with the crisis in Southeast Asia.

Getting too political for my own good, I will stop here. All I can say is, I'm sure glad those old classic cartoons of early WB glory are still on the Cartoon Network!!!