The Essential Daffy Duck is a DVD set featuring cartoons focusing on Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, often running the gamut between being the best friend and sometimes arch-rival of Bugs Bunny...

. It was released on November 1, 2011.

Contents

The contents are split over two discs. The first disc features 15 classic Daffy Duck shorts (14 of which were previously released on Looney Tunes Golden Collection

Looney Tunes Golden Collection

The Looney Tunes Golden Collection was an annual series of six four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros.' home video unit Warner Home Video, each containing about 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts...

sets or Frustrated Fowl

Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

"Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl is a DVD of 15 new-to-DVD Daffy Duck cartoons that were released on August 10, 2010.-Contents:All shorts are presented uncensored and uncut, however 10 of the 15 shorts are cropped to widescreen...

plus his debut cartoon, Porky's Duck Hunt

Porky's Duck Hunt

Porky's Duck Hunt is an animated short film produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, directed by Tex Avery, and released on April 17, 1937 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Porky's Hare Hunt was the sequel to this one....

, which makes its DVD debut). The second disc features more recent shorts and TV appearances. However, in Region 2 this release includes only 1 disc of the first 11 classic shorts (Daffy Duck and Egghead, Plane Daffy, Nasty Quacks, My Little Duckaroo and the entire second disc are removed from this version).

Disc 1

#	Title	Co-Stars	Year	Director	TV Package
1	Porky's Duck Hunt Porky's Duck Hunt Porky's Duck Hunt is an animated short film produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, directed by Tex Avery, and released on April 17, 1937 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Porky's Hare Hunt was the sequel to this one....	Porky Porky Pig Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...	1937	Tex Avery Tex Avery Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...	Sunset Sunset Productions Sunset Productions was a television syndication division of Warner Bros. which existed in the 1950s.-Overview:Sunset Productions is best known as the company identified on a package of black-and-white Warner Bros. cartoons distributed in television syndication in the early 1950s...
2	Daffy Duck and Egghead Daffy Duck and Egghead Daffy Duck & Egghead is a 1937-produced, 1938-released Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It features the early, zany version of Daffy Duck, who spends the film harassing Egghead , marking the second appearance of Daffy Duck , his first in color, and first...	Egghead	1938	Tex Avery	a.a.p. Associated Artists Productions Associated Artists Productions was a distributor of theatrical feature films and short subjects for television. It existed from 1953 to 1958. It was later folded into United Artists. The former a.a.p. library was later owned by MGM/UA Entertainment and then Turner Entertainment. Turner continues...
3	The Daffy Doc The Daffy Doc The Daffy Doc is a 1938 Looney Tunes cartoon starring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. This cartoon was producedby Leon Schlesinger, and released by Vitaphone and Warner Bros.- Plot :...	Porky	1938	Bob Clampett Bob Clampett Robert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil...	Sunset
4	Plane Daffy Plane Daffy - Synopsis :One after another of a company of carrier pigeons fall prey to the seductive wiles of "Queen of the Spies" Hatta Mari. The alarm is raised at pigeon headquarters when Pigeon 13 goes AWOL with the female Nazi spy bird, to whom he reveals all his secrets...		1944	Frank Tashlin Frank Tashlin Frank Tashlin, born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director.-Animator:...	a.a.p.
5	The Great Piggy Bank Robbery The Great Piggy Bank Robbery The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short, produced in early 1945, and released in 1946. It was directed by Robert Clampett, and features Daffy Duck in Clampett's penultimate Warner cartoon and final Daffy Duck cartoon, produced shortly before he left...		1946	Bob Clampett	a.a.p.
6	Nasty Quacks Nasty Quacks Nasty Quacks is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was the final Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin, who is not credited as he had already left the studio for the second time...		1945	Frank Tashlin	a.a.p.
7	Book Revue Book Revue Book Revue is a 1945 Looney Tunes cartoon short featuring Daffy Duck, released in 1946, with a plotline essentially similar to 1938's Have You Got Any Castles?. It is directed by Bob Clampett, written by Warren Foster and scored by Carl Stalling. An uncredited Mel Blanc and Sara Berner provided...		1946	Bob Clampett	a.a.p.
8	Duck Amuck Duck Amuck Duck Amuck is a surreal animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons. The short was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation, the short subject division of Warner Bros. Pictures, as part of the Merrie Melodies series...	Bugs Bugs Bunny Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...  (cameo)	1953	Chuck Jones Chuck Jones Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...	Post-1948 Warner Bros. Television Warner Bros. Television is the television production arm of Warner Bros. Entertainment, itself part of Time Warner. Alongside CBS Television Studios, it serves as a television production arm of The CW Television Network , though it also produces shows for other networks, such as Shameless on...
9	Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century is a Merrie Melodies cartoon created in 1952 and released on July 25, 1953, starring Daffy Duck as space hero Duck Dodgers, Porky Pig as his assistant, and Marvin the Martian as his opponent...	Porky, Marvin Marvin the Martian Marvin the Martian is a fictional character appearing in the Looney Tunes cartoons. Marvin's likeness appears in miniature on the Spirit rover on Mars.-Conception and creation:...	1953	Chuck Jones	Post-1948
10	The Scarlet Pumpernickel The Scarlet Pumpernickel The Scarlet Pumpernickel is a 1949 animated Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1950, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese....	Porky, Sylvester Sylvester (Looney Tunes) Sylvester J. Pussycat, Sr., Sylvester the Cat or simply Sylvester, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory, often chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper... , Elmer Elmer Fudd Elmer J. Fudd/Egghead is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and the de facto archenemy of Bugs Bunny. He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon . His aim is to hunt Bugs, but he usually ends up seriously injuring... , Henery Henery Hawk Henery Hawk is a cartoon character from the American Looney Tunes series, who appeared in twelve cartoons. His first appearance was The Squawkin' Hawk, directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger. Henery's next appearance was Walky Talky Hawky which also featured Foghorn Leghorn and... , Melissa Melissa Duck Melissa Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons and the animated television series Baby Looney Tunes...	1950	Chuck Jones	Post-1948
11	My Little Duckaroo My Little Duckaroo My Little Duckaroo is a 1954 Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon short produced by Edward Selzer. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese....	Porky, Nasty Canasta Nasty Canasta Nasty Canasta is a character in the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series who made appearances in three cartoons. Created by animator Chuck Jones, Canasta is depicted as a tough, hulking, and brutish-looking outlaw. He was originally voiced by John T...	1954	Chuck Jones	Post-1948
12	A Star is Bored A Star Is Bored A Star Is Bored is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon of the Looney Tunes series, directed by Friz Freleng. The cartoon expands upon the rivalry depicted between Bugs and Daffy in such films as Chuck Jones' Rabbit Fire, this time placing the action in a show-biz setting...	Bugs, Elmer, Sam Yosemite Sam Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The name is somewhat alliterative and is inspired by Yosemite National Park...	1956	Friz Freleng Friz Freleng Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....	Post-1948
13	Deduce, You Say Deduce, You Say Deduce, You Say is a 1956 Warner Bros. cartoon short of the Looney Tunes series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese, with musical arrangements by Milt Franklyn. It features Daffy Duck as the dim-witted detective Dorlock Homes and Porky Pig as his sidekick Watkins Deduce, You...	Porky	1956	Chuck Jones	Post-1948
14	Ali Baba Bunny Ali Baba Bunny Ali Baba Bunny is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies short featuring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, directed by Chuck Jones and released in 1957. In 1994, it was voted #35 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field...	Bugs	1957	Chuck Jones	Post-1948
15	Robin Hood Daffy Robin Hood Daffy Robin Hood Daffy is a 1958 Warner Brothers theatrical cartoon short, part of the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese...	Porky	1958	Chuck Jones	Post-1948

Disc 2

Content	Year	Type	Previous DVD release
The Duxorcist	1987	Short	Space Jam
The Night of the Living Duck	1988	Short	Space Jam
"Duck Dodgers Jr."	1990	Segment from the Tiny Toon Adventures Tiny Toon Adventures Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures, usually referred to as Tiny Toon Adventures or simply Tiny Toons, is an American animated television series created by Tom Ruegger and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. It began production as a result of Warner Bros.... episode "The Return of the Acme Acres Zone"	Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
Superior Duck Superior Duck Superior Duck was a 1996 cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. A Looney Tunes theatrical short, it featured Daffy Duck as a caped crusader with super powers and featured cameos by Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety Pie, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Marvin the Martian, Porky Pig, The Tasmanian Devil and...	1996	Short	Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
Attack of the Drones	2003	Short	Australian edition of Looney Tunes: Back in Action
"The Green Loontern"	2003	Episode from the Duck Dodgers Duck Dodgers (TV series) Duck Dodgers is an American animated television series, based on the classic cartoon short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, produced by Warner Bros. Animation from 2003 to 2005. The series aired on Cartoon Network and starred Daffy Duck as the titular character... TV series	Green Lantern: First Flight
Daffy Duck for President Daffy Duck for President Daffy Duck for President is a children's book, published by Warner Bros. and the United States Postal Service in 1997 to coincide with the release of the first Bugs Bunny U.S. postage stamp. The book was written and illustrated by Chuck Jones, edited by Charles Carney, and art directed by Allen...	2004	Short	LTGC Volume 2 (Disc 3) Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on November 2, 2004. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements.-Related releases:... (bonus feature)

Special features

• All-New Career Profile - Daffy Duck: Ridicule Is the Burden of Genius
• 2 Vintage TV Programs:
  • Daffy Duck's Easter Special
  • Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special