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00:00Hi, Eric Goldberg here, and we are going to watch one of my favorite Daffy's, You Were
00:25Never Duckier.
00:26Now this and Daffy Dilly and A Pest in the House were three cartoons that Chuck Jones
00:31made where it was really a kind of transitional Daffy.
00:35He wasn't quite the insane, crazy Daffy that Avery and Clampett had been doing, and he's
00:42not quite the greedy, nasty, self-preservation Daffy that came out in Rabbit Fire and later
00:50cartoons that Chuck did.
00:52This is a Daffy who nonetheless is propelled by greed.
00:56He wants to win this prize, but he is like a bull in a china shop.
01:02He's very energetic, the animation is looser, and he has a very appealing personality by
01:08being obnoxious.
01:10You know, it's like he's relentless, nothing's going to stop him.
01:15And I find that very, very funny, and it's a very different characterization.
01:20Mmm, so far, so good.
01:30These opening scenes are animated by Phil Monroe.
01:33Great pose on the rooster there.
01:37I do have the darndest dreams.
01:41Nice little subtle delivery from Mel Blanc too.
01:45And of course, if you're going to fake being a chicken, what better to use than a plumber's
01:49helper and a feather duster and a rubber glove?
01:54Now, this cartoon features Henry Hawk, and even though Henry Hawk was a character that
02:01was popularized by Bob McKimpson in the Foghorn Leghorn series, a lot of people may not realize
02:08that Chuck actually invented Henry Hawk and introduced him in a cartoon called The Squawkin'
02:12Hawk, where he really didn't want to eat his worm for dinner.
02:17And so Chuck brought him back again for this cartoon, which I believe was done in the same
02:22year as the Oscar-nominated Walkie Talkie Hockey, which was McKimpson's version of Henry
02:29Hawk and the first Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.
02:32Now, you've got some great animation coming up here by Ken Harris.
02:42He could have taken the easy way out, but as this tiny little chicken hawk is trying
02:48to lift Daffy, look at both the perspective on Daffy and the weight, because he's struggling
02:55to kind of keep his balance underneath this big heavy thing that he's carrying.
03:00So none of this animation is the easy way out.
03:03He's actually turning them around in perspective, and you can see a bit of float, and it's just
03:08great stuff.
03:09It could have just been done with a simple up and down, but it wasn't.
03:19Now they get to turn boxes around, too.
03:29Use of the camera there with the upside-down Daffy's-eye view of Henry.
04:00Now, there's a real Chuck Jones drawing on Sarsi Perilla.
04:16Now, for some reason, Daffy in these close-ups has holes in his bill that look like they've
04:21been punched there with an office punch.
04:24They're rather more exaggerated than they are in other cartoons, but I guess Chuck was
04:29just experimenting with it.
04:41Look at all this nice loose animation, all the overlap on the tail and overlap on the
04:46rubber glove.
04:54It's a great take that's fun to look at single frame.
05:05Daffy's got multiple eyeballs and various other things going on there.
05:15Perfect Chuck timing.
05:24Now, we come to a whole section here animated by Ben Washam.
05:29Great loose stuff, like on the chef's hat and on the rubber glove.
05:37I like the fact that he goes back up to hanging.
05:54He was down, but he has to go back up there.
06:07Watch this walk that George Chicken Hawk has as he's coming forward.
06:20Boy, does that have weight and power.
06:25And Benny, who did these nice kind of loose runs and zips, did that bit as well.
06:37Roy Vaughn, who did that last scene in this series of scenes too, also had a good line
06:47in zips.
07:02Ah, back to the plot.
07:07Great Ben Washam zip.
07:23This cartoon is very interesting because it's one of the few where Daffy kind of really
07:28loses.
07:29Daffy was almost always a winner in previous cartoons, but he can't even make a decent
07:36duck for five bucks.
07:40He's humiliated by Henry Hawk with a convincing clothespin on his bill.