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Daffy's Diner is a 1967 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

Daffy runs a duplicitous diner near Guadalajara, serving overpriced mouseburgers with rubber mice as substitutes for actual mice, as he hasn't seen one in ages and wants to save on costs. However, one angry cat named El Supremo, or as Daffy calls him, "a sucker", discovers the trick after choking on the rubber mouse and demands a real mouseburger. At this point, Daffy encounters Speedy, whom he tries to cook.

The mouse discovers his intentions and escapes to the desert, with Daffy in hot pursuit. Daffy is foiled each time by Speedy running up a cactus, Daffy accidentally knocking a cactus on himself, and being scared by Speedy into a trash can, prompting the waste management official to think he has gone crazy after Daffy tells him to put him down from within the can.

Finally, the cat demands his burger within two minutes, forcing Daffy to dress himself as a mouse and put himself in a bun, much to El Supremo's amusement. He states, "You never know what you can do until you have a gun pointed at your head".

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Notes[]

  • This is the the last of three DePatie-Freleng Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts to use a few Hanna-Barbera sound effects (most notably the "wind whistle scat" DePatie-Freleng would go on to frequently use throughout the 1970s), the other two being "Clippety Clobbered" and "Sugar and Spies".
  • This is the final Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short to be produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises as the next three would be produced solely by Format Films before Warner Bros.-Seven Arts took over. It is also the only DePatie-Freleng short to be released in 1967.
    • Eventually, Warner Bros. gained access to their black and white Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts (excluding the 1931-33 Merrie Melodies shorts, except "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!") once again after the sold them to Sunset Productions in 1955.
  • This is the final cartoon that Robert McKimson directed until "Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)" in 1968.
    • This is also the last cartoon directed by Robert McKimson in Friz Freleng’s unit as he return to his own unit when he directed his shorts in the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era.
  • The last line is also used in "Golden Yeggs".
  • Daffy's mouse burger consists of the following:
    • A foam rubber mouse
    • Hot sauce with chili peppers.
    • Old Axle grease.
    • DDT from fresh insecticide to disguise the flavor of the foam rubber mouse.
  • MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Toon In with Me.
    • The restored print of this short incorrectly uses the "A VITAGRAPH RELEASE" byline from the Looney Tunes ending cards, whereas the unrestored prints use the "A VITAPHONE RELEASE" byline from the Merrie Melodies ending cards.
  • This is the last cartoon in the original LT and MM series to be worked in someone's unit (as McKimson directed this short in Freleng's unit), that would later work on any of the shorts in the Post-Golden Age Media (as well as the television specials and compilation films).

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1930s
Porky's Duck HuntDaffy Duck & EggheadWhat Price PorkyPorky & DaffyThe Daffy DocDaffy Duck in HollywoodDaffy Duck and the DinosaurScalp TroubleWise QuacksNaughty Neighbors
1940s
Porky's Last StandYou Ought to Be in PicturesA Coy DecoyThe Henpecked DuckConrad the SailorDaffy's Southern ExposureThe Impatient PatientThe Daffy DuckarooMy Favorite DuckTo Duck or Not to DuckThe Wise Quacking DuckYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatScrap Happy DaffyA Corny ConcertoDaffy - The CommandoTom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyPlane DaffyThe Stupid CupidDraftee DaffyAin't That DuckyNasty QuacksBook RevueBaby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesHollywood DaffyThe Great Piggy Bank RobberyThe Birth of a NotionAlong Came DaffyA Pest in the HouseMexican JoyrideWhat Makes Daffy DuckDaffy Duck Slept HereThe Up-Standing SitterYou Were Never DuckierDaffy DillyThe Stupor SalesmanRiff Raffy DaffyWise QuackersHoliday for DrumsticksDaffy Duck Hunt
1950s
Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelHis Bitter HalfGolden YeggsThe DuckstersRabbit FireDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize PestThumb FunCracked QuackRabbit SeasoningThe Super SnooperFool CoverageDuck AmuckMuscle TussleDuck Dodgers and the 24 1/2 CenturyDuck, Rabbit, Duck!Quack ShotDesign for LeavingMy Little DuckarooBeanstalk BunnyStork NakedSahara HareThis is a Life?Dime to RetireThe High and the FlightyRocket SquadStupor DuckA Star is BoredDeduce, You SayAli Baba BunnyBoston QuackieDucking the DevilShow Biz BugsDon't Axe MeRobin Hood DaffyChina JonesApes of WrathPeople Are Bunny
1960s
Person to BunnyThe Abominable Snow RabbitDaffy's Inn TroubleQuackodile TearsGood NooseFast Buck DuckThe Million HareAqua DuckThe Iceman DuckethIt's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the HouseMoby DuckAssault and PepperedWell Worn DaffySuppressed DuckCorn on the CopTease for TwoChili Corn CornyGo Go AmigoThe AstroduckMucho LocosMexican MousepieceDaffy RentsA-Haunting We Will GoSnow ExcuseA Squeak in the DeepFeather FingerSwing Ding AmigoA Taste of CatnipDaffy's DinerQuacker TrackerThe Music Mice-TroThe Spy SwatterSpeedy Ghost to TownRodent to StardomGo Away StowawayFiesta FiascoSkyscraper CaperSee You Later, Gladiator
1970s-present
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie GhouliesCarnival of the AnimalsDaffy Duck's Easter SpecialDaffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving SpecialDuck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th CenturyThe DuxorcistNight of the Living Duck(Blooper) BunnyInvasion of the Bunny SnatchersCarrotblancaSuperior DuckDuck Dodgers in Attack of the DronesDaffy Duck for PresidentDaffy's Rhapsody
See Also
The Bugs Bunny ShowThe Porky Pig ShowThe Merrie Melodies ShowThe Daffy Duck Show (1978)Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic IslandTiny Toon AdventuresMerrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny & FriendsDaffy Duck and the Great Paint CaperDaffy Duck: The Marvin MissionsBugs N' DaffyThe Daffy Duck Show (1996)Space JamDaffy Duck: Fowl PlayDuck Dodgers: Starring Daffy DuckBaby Looney TunesDuck Dodgers (TV series)Looney Tunes: Back in ActionBah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes ChristmasThe Looney Tunes ShowLooney Tunes: Rabbits RunNew Looney Tunes


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