Robin Hood Daffy is a 1958 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.
Plot[]
Daffy Duck is the legendary outlaw Robin Hood, playing a lute. As he plays and sings, he trips down a lake bank. Porky Pig as Friar Tuck is watching and laughing. Daffy tries to prove his skill with a quarterstaff, "Ho! Ha ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!" but strikes himself in the bill. He revisits the routine in his head and when he reaches "Thrust" again, his bill snaps upwards again. He tries his staff routine again, but while he is spinning, Porky stops it with a small stick, spinning Daffy back into the lake.
A humiliated Daffy leaves, but Porky follows him and asks if he knows the whereabouts of Robin Hood's hideout as he wants to join his band of outlaws. Daffy proudly announces that he is Robin Hood, but Porky refuses to believe him. To prove himself, Daffy will rob a rich traveler and give his money "to some poor unworthy slob."
Daffy fails in each attempt to stop the traveler, usually injuring himself in the process, be it accidentally firing himself from his own bow, or slamming into a succession of trees while trying to swing on a rope.
Eventually the rich traveler, oblivious to Daffy's failed attempts to rob him, reaches his castle unharmed. The frustrated Daffy gives up and, with a shaven head and wearing a habit, joins Porky, calling himself Friar Duck. As the film irises out, Daffy's bill snaps back up yet again.
Daffy's song is set to the traditional tune of a 17th-century broadside ballad, Come, Lasses and Lads.
Oh, join up with me, so joyous and free
And away to old Sherwood hie,
For I'm Robin Hood, and I'm very good
At avoiding the Sheriff's eye.
So we'll trip along merrily,
O'er the greensward so gracefully,
To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it,
Trip it up and down, (he literally trips)
To trip it, trip it, trip it, trip it,
So trip it up and down.