The Henpecked Duck

The Henpecked Duck
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Notes:	1.) This was the final cartoon to use the "Porky in a Drum" opening. 2.) The computer-colorized version, and certain prints of the black-and-white version, have the wrong opening music playing over the opening logos, i.e. the 1936-37 "Porky Signature" theme as heard on "Porky's Badtime Story" and "Porky's Railroad", instead of the correct 1941-45 "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" theme music. 3.) During the title card, The Wedding March from the "incidental music" of Felix Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream can be heard in the background score. 4.) Proud of his magic trick, Daffy mutters to himself, "If Major Bowes could see me now," a reference to The Major Bowes Amateur Hour, a popular talent competition show of the time. 5.) This cartoon entered the Public Domain in 1969.
Series:	Looney Tunes
Production No.:	78
Starring	Daffy Duck Porky Pig Mrs. Daffy Duck
Home Video Releases:	(2017) DVD - Porky Pig 101, Disc 5
Found in Streaming Devices:	Boomerang App (-)
Supervision	Robert Clampett
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Story	Warren Foster
Animation	John Carey
Uncredited Animators	I. Ellis Norman McCabe Veve Risto Cal Dalton
Uncredited Character Designs	John Carey
Uncredited Backgrounds	Richard H. Thomas
Uncredited Film Editor	Treg Brown
Uncredited Voice Characterizations	Mel Blanc (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Junior Duck, Divorce Court Crowd) Sara Berner (Mrs. Daffy Duck, Hen, Divorce Court Crowd)
Musical Direction	Carl W. Stalling
MPAA No.:	7327
Release date(s):	August 30, 1941
Preceded by	Sport Chumpions
Followed by	Snowtime for Comedy

The Henpecked Duck is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.

Plot

Porky Pig presides as judge over divorce proceedings at the "Court of Inhuman Relations." He calls the case of "Duck vs. Duck." Daffy and Mrs. Duck approach the judge's stand. Mrs. Duck shouts over and over, "I want a divorce!"

Porky asks her to relate to the court what happened. She explains that she had left Daffy in charge of keeping their egg warm while she visited her mother. Daffy grew bored, so he took the egg and performed a magic trick, causing the egg to disappear and then reappear. Impressed with himself, he tried the trick a second time but was unable to make the egg reappear. When Mrs. Duck returned home, he had replaced the egg with a door knob, hoping to fool her. She discovered this, and ends her story by shouting "I want a divorce!" thrice more, but this time, not in a blind rage, but extremely close to tears.

Daffy pleads for one more chance, and Porky grants his request. He tries the trick again and the egg reappears, to the court's shock. The egg hatches and the Ducks reconcile their differences.

Gallery

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Unrestored original black and white title card

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Redrawn colorized title card

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Redrawn colorized title card (Nickelodeon)

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"I want a divorce!"

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"Say, is there a magician in the house?"

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"Yipe! The little woman."

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"Case dismissed!"

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Lobby card

References

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