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Tom Turk and Daffy
Tom Turk and Daffy
Directed by	Supervision:; Charles M. Jones
Story by	Michael Maltese; Tedd Pierce (As The Staff)
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Mel Blanc; Billy Bletcher (unc.)
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Ken Harris; Ben Washam (unc.); Robert Cannon (unc.); Rudy Larriva (unc.)
Layouts by	Bernyce Polifka (unc.)
Backgrounds by	Bernyce Polifka (unc.)
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.
Release date	February 12, 1944;
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

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Tom Turk and Daffy is a 1944 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.^[2] The cartoon was released on February 12, 1944, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.^[3] Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce are both the writers of the short, and are credited here as "The Staff".

The voices of Daffy and Porky were provided by Mel Blanc, while Tom Turk was voiced by Billy Bletcher.^[1]

Plot

On a cold snowy day, Daffy Duck is making a snowman until he hears gunfire in the distance. A turkey, named Tom Turk, desperately begs Daffy to hide him from Porky Pig, who here is portrayed as a pilgrim hunting for a turkey for a turkey dinner. Daffy agrees and hides Tom in the snowman he made and, accusing Porky of insinuating Daffy of hiding Tom ("Sir! Do you mean to insinuate that I'd hide your d-d-darned old t-t-turkey?"), proclaims to Porky that he won't tell him where his turkey went ("Well, I ain't talkin', see? My lips are sealed."), as locks appear on his beak. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "What a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal. What a pal". However, Daffy eventually gives in after Porky mentions all the food he would've prepared for dinner, including candied yams, standing on a stool marked "stool pigeon", rushing the snowman with Tom inside in front of Porky, and putting up hundreds of signs pointing to it. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "Quisling".

Tom Turk, betrayed by Daffy's perfidious attitude, digs under the snowman and plucks his back feathers onto Daffy, who was breaking down for being a stool pigeon to him. Porky then mistakes Daffy as the turkey he was hunting, which Daffy denies ("Turkey? Who's a turkey? Now wait a minute, Myles Standish. I'm a duck. Quack, quack, quack! I can swim. Observe."), and Porky proceeds to chase him across the snowy landscape, with Daffy rolling down each hill in a giant snowball. Daffy hides, then deliberately pelts Porky with snowballs offscreen, then wallops him on the head with a mallet in a giant flying snowball. He gets some water out of a frozen lake and throws it at Porky. The water freezes into a bucket-shaped piece of ice as it flies at Porky, hitting him. Daffy remarks, "Cool as a cucumber". Porky wakes up, and chases him. Daffy deliberately throws water on himself, freezing for protection. Porky hits him with his gun, breaking the ice in half, only to vibrate. Daffy uses water from a river to make an ice bridge, and, disguised as a toll collector, tricks Porky into paying the 10¢ toll. Porky crosses the ice bridge, only to realize that Daffy made a dunce, a dope, and a sucker out of him when he envisions himself first wearing a dunce cap, then as a bottle of dope, and finally a sucker. This makes him angry, and then he starts running in place, angrily smiling, kicking snow back as he has finally lost his sanity, and then runs at Daffy. Daffy, realizing he's angered Porky, runs as Porky angrily chases him, on the warpath against him, charging through rocks and snow (which Daffy runs on top of), and running out of a pile of snow as a snow tank. Daffy runs over a giant pile of snow (which Porky runs straight through, literally splitting it apart), then ditches him, then runs back to Tom, who was building another snowman. Daffy meets up with him again, and begs Tom to help him hide from Porky. Tom agrees, and "attempts" to hide Daffy in different places, but finds all of them fruitless. The cartoon ends with Tom continuously "hiding" Daffy in different places into the night.

Cast

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck, Porky Pig
Billy Bletcher as Tom Turk (uncredited)

Notes

The screenwriters of this cartoon are not credited by their actual names, instead, they are credited as "The Staff". It is unknown who actually wrote this short.
Tom Turk later reappeared in the 1949 Daffy Duck short "Holiday for Drumsticks", albeit redesigned and having a different voice.
This is the final Chuck Jones short that was animated by Rudy Larriva.^[4]
The word Tom Turk mutters while inside the snowman is "Quisling",^[5] which is the name of the Norwegian Prime Minister Vidkun Quisling who sold out to the Nazis which would be synonymous with "traitor" and "Benedict Arnold" forever after, which, his betrayal towards Norwegians, resulted in a relatively bloodless invasion of Norway by the Nazis while Quisling himself is granted preferential custody of his occupied nation.^[6]

Home media

VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Porky Pig and Friends
LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes
DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham

References

^ ^a ^b Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 58. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 147. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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External links

Tom Turk and Daffy at IMDb

[scott-1] Scott, Keith (2022). Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. BearManor Media. p. 58. ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.

[Beck-2] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 147. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[3] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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 ==Plot==
-On a cold snowy day, [[Daffy Duck]] is making a [[snowman]] until he hears gunfire in the distance. A [[Turkey (bird)|turkey]], named Tom Turk, desperately begs Daffy to hide him from [[Porky Pig]], who here is portrayed as a [[pilgrim]] hunting for a turkey for a turkey dinner. Daffy agrees and hides Tom in the snowman he made and proclaims to Porky that he won't tell him where his turkey went, as locks appear on his beak. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "What a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal. What a pal". However, Daffy eventually gives in after Porky mentions all the food he would've prepared for dinner, including [[candied yams]], standing on a stool marked "[[stool pigeon]]", rushing the snowman with Tom inside in front of Porky, and putting up hundreds of signs pointing to it. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "[[Quisling]]".
+On a cold snowy day, [[Daffy Duck]] is making a [[snowman]] until he hears gunfire in the distance. A [[Turkey (bird)|turkey]], named Tom Turk, desperately begs Daffy to hide him from [[Porky Pig]], who here is portrayed as a [[pilgrim]] hunting for a turkey for a turkey dinner. Daffy agrees and hides Tom in the snowman he made and, accusing Porky of [[wikt:insinuate|insinuating]] Daffy of hiding Tom ("Sir! Do you mean to insinuate that I'd hide your d-d-darned old t-t-turkey?"), proclaims to Porky that he won't tell him where his turkey went ("Well, I ain't talkin', see? My lips are sealed."), as locks appear on his beak. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "What a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal, what a pal. What a pal". However, Daffy eventually gives in after Porky mentions all the food he would've prepared for dinner, including [[candied yams]], standing on a stool marked "[[stool pigeon]]", rushing the snowman with Tom inside in front of Porky, and putting up hundreds of signs pointing to it. Inside the snowman, Tom Turk mutters, "[[Quisling]]".
 Tom Turk, betrayed by Daffy's perfidious attitude, digs under the snowman and plucks his back feathers onto Daffy, who was breaking down for being a stool pigeon to him. Porky then mistakes Daffy as the turkey he was hunting, which Daffy denies ("Turkey? Who's a turkey? Now wait a minute, [[Myles Standish]]. I'm a duck. Quack, quack, quack! I can swim. Observe."), and Porky proceeds to chase him across the snowy landscape, with Daffy rolling down each hill in a giant [[snowball]]. Daffy hides, then deliberately pelts Porky with snowballs offscreen, then wallops him on the head with a [[mallet]] in a giant flying snowball. He gets some water out of a frozen lake and throws it at Porky. The water freezes into a [[bucket]]-shaped piece of ice as it flies at Porky, hitting him. Daffy remarks, "Cool as a [[cucumber]]". Porky wakes up, and chases him. Daffy deliberately throws water on himself, freezing for protection. Porky hits him with his gun, breaking the ice in half, only to vibrate. Daffy uses water from a river to make an ice [[bridge]], and, disguised as a [[toll collector]], tricks Porky into paying the 10¢ [[Toll (fee)|toll]]. Porky crosses the ice bridge, only to realize that Daffy made a [[dunce]], a [[Stupidity|dope]], and a [[Gullibility|sucker]] out of him when he envisions himself first wearing a [[dunce cap]], then as a bottle of [[Cannabis (drug)|dope]], and finally a [[Lollipop|sucker]]. This makes him angry, and then he starts running in place, angrily smiling, kicking snow back as he has finally lost his [[sanity]], and then runs at Daffy. Daffy, realizing he's angered Porky, runs as Porky angrily chases him, on the [[wikt:warpath|warpath]] against him, charging through rocks and snow (which Daffy runs on top of), and running out of a pile of snow as a snow [[tank]]. Daffy runs over a giant pile of snow (which Porky runs straight through, literally splitting it apart), then ditches him, then runs back to Tom, who was building another snowman. Daffy meets up with him again, and begs Tom to help him hide from Porky. Tom agrees, and "attempts" to hide Daffy in different places, but finds all of them fruitless. The cartoon ends with Tom continuously "hiding" Daffy in different places into the night.