''Tom Turk and Daffy'' is a 1944 Warner Bros. ''

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'' cartoon directed by

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. The cartoon was released on February 12, 1944, and stars

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and

Daffy Duck Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character created for Leon Schlesinger Productions by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck, he has appeared in cartoon series such as ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Mel ...

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and

Tedd Pierce Edward Stacey "Tedd" Pierce III (August 12, 1906 – February 19, 1972) was an American screenwriter and voice actor of animated cartoons, principally from the mid-1930s to the late 1950s. Biography Pierce was the son of a stockbroker, Samue ...

are both the writers of the short, and are credited here as "The Staff". The voices of Daffy and Porky were provided by

Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for comedy r ...

, while Tom Turk was voiced by

Billy Bletcher William Bletcher (September 24, 1894 – January 5, 1979) was an American actor. He was known for voice roles for various classic animated characters, most notably Pete in Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse short films and the Big Bad Wolf in Disn ...

Plot

On a cold snowy day,

is making a snowman until he hears gunfire in the distance. A

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, named Tom Turk, desperately begs Daffy to hide him from

, who here is portrayed as a

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hunting for a turkey for a turkey dinner. Daffy agrees and hides Tom in the snowman he made and proclaims to Porky that he won't tell him where his turkey went, as locks appear on his beak. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "What a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal. What a pal". However, Daffy eventually gives in after Porky mentions all the food he would've prepared for dinner, including

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, standing on a stool marked " stool pigeon", rushing the snowman with Tom inside in front of Porky, and putting up hundreds of signs pointing to it. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "

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". Tom Turk, betrayed by Daffy's perfidious attitude, digs under the snowman and plucks his back feathers onto Daffy, who was breaking down for being a stool pigeon to him. Porky then mistakes Daffy as the turkey he was hunting, which Daffy denies ("Turkey? Who's a turkey? Now wait a minute,

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. I'm a duck. Quack, quack, quack! I can swim. Observe."), and Porky proceeds to chase him across the snowy landscape, with Daffy rolling down each hill in a giant

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. Daffy hides, then deliberately pelts Porky with snowballs offscreen, then wallops him on the head with a

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in a giant flying snowball. He gets some water out of a frozen lake and throws it at Porky. The water freezes into a

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-shaped piece of ice as it flies at Porky, hitting him. Daffy remarks, "Cool as a

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, and, disguised as a toll collector, tricks Porky into paying the 10¢ toll. Porky crosses the ice bridge, only to realize that Daffy made a

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, a dope, and a

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out of him when he envisions himself first wearing a

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, then as a bottle of dope, and finally a

. This makes him angry, and then he starts running in place, angrily smiling, kicking snow back as he has finally lost his

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, and then runs at Daffy. Daffy, realizing he's angered Porky, runs as Porky angrily chases him, on the

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against him, charging through a rock and snow, running out of a pile of snow as a snow

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. Daffy ditches him in a snow bank, then runs back to Tom, who was building another snowman. Daffy meets up with him again, and begs Tom to help him hide from Porky. Tom agrees, and "attempts" to hide Daffy in different places, but finds all of them fruitless. The cartoon ends with Tom continuously "hiding" Daffy in different places into the night.

Cast

as Daffy Duck, Porky Pig *

as Tom Turk (uncredited)

Home media

* VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Porky Pig and Friends * LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes * DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham

References

External links

* {{Porky Pig in animation 1944 films 1944 animated films Looney Tunes shorts Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films Short films directed by Chuck Jones Daffy Duck films Porky Pig films Films scored by Carl Stalling Thanksgiving in films Vitaphone short films Films produced by Leon Schlesinger 1940s Warner Bros. animated short films Films with screenplays by Michael Maltese 1940s English-language films

Plot

Cast

Home media

See also

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