Scrap Happy Daffy
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| Scrap Happy Daffy | |
| Daffy Duck series | |
| Directed by | Frank Tashlin |
|---|---|
| Story by | Don Christensen |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date | August 21, 1943 (USA) |
| Format | Technicolor, 8 min (one reel) |
| Language | English |
| IMDb page | |
Scrap Happy Daffy is a Warner Brothers World War Two short featuring Daffy Duck, directed by Frank Tashlin and released in 1943. Daffy is the guard of a scrap yard, doing his part to help America win the war against the Nazis, but the Nazis decide to destroy his scrap pile by sending a billy goat out to eat everything in sight.
[edit] Synopsis
Daffy is a guard at a scrap pile, encouraging Americans to "Get the tin out", "Get the iron out", and especially "Get the lead out". Singing "We're in to win", Daffy goes over the various things Americans can send to help with the war effort. However, this doesn't go down well with Hitler, who reads about Daffy's scrap pile helping to beat Mussolini, and ordering his men to 'destroy that scrap pile!'.
With the word out, a Nazi submarine sends a missle to the scrap pile - which has a billy goat inside, who immediately starts eating everything in sight. Daffy, hearing the noise, tries to find out what's making the noise. After temporarily pointing a rifle at a reflection of himself (thinking he cornered someone else), Daffy finds the goat hiccuping with the garbage inside him. However, when Daffy sees the goat has a Nazi emblem around its neck, Daffy starts messing with the goat. Temporarily getting the better of the goat, Daffy is almost undone when he tries to whack the goat with a mallet - but the mallet is stuck in the goat's horns, and the goat knocks Daffy around.
Daffy is ready to call it quits (saying "I wish I had a can of spinach", a direct reference to Popeye), but is encouraged by the ghosts of his 'ancestors' - ducks who landed on Plymouth Rock, who sailed with George Washington and who stood in for Abraham Lincoln. His spirits back up - since "Americans don't give up, and I'm an American... duck!" - Daffy turns into 'Super American'. Daffy flies after the goat, knocking the goat around. The goat makes a run for the submarine, but Daffy repels all bullets shot at him and starts yanking on the periscope. Just then, the scene changes to Daffy yanking on a fire hose and getting hosed down. Daffy wakes up, thinking it was all just a dream - until he looks up at the Nazi submarine sitting on top of the scrap pile, where the Nazis tell Daffy, "Next time you dream, include us out!"
