Happy Go Ducky
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| Happy Go Ducky
Tom and Jerry series |
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 The title card of Happy Go Ducky. |
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| Directed by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Produced by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Story by | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Voices by | Red Coffee (as Quacker) |
| Music by | Scott Bradley |
| Animation by | Kenneth Muse Bill Schipek Ken Southworth Herman Cohen Lewis Marshall James Escalante |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | January 3, 1958 |
| Color process | Technicolor, CinemaScope, Perspecta Stereo |
| Running time | 6 minutes 24 seconds |
| Preceded by | Tom's Photo Finish |
| Followed by | Royal Cat Nap |
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Happy Go Ducky is a 1956-animated, 1958-released Tom and Jerry cartoon directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. The cartoon's working title was One Quack Mind before the directors finally chose Happy Go Ducky, a pun on the phrase Happy go lucky. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Bill Schipek, Ken Southworth, Herman Cohen, Lewis Marshall and James Escalante. The backgrounds were designed by Roberta Greutert and the layouts by Richard Bickenbach. Despite having an Easter theme, the cartoon was not originally released at Easter, and there is speculation that the cartoon had been planned for release in Easter 1957, but these plans were shelved.
[edit] Plot
On Easter morning, the Easter Bunny leaves an Easter egg for Tom and Jerry. However, the egg is not a chocolate egg; instead, out hatches a duckling named Quacker, who insists on swimming in everything in the house: Tom's milk dish, the fish tank, the watercooler, the bathtub, and the kitchen sink. Tom and Jerry put Quacker back in his egg and tape the egg shut, but Quacker escapes. The last straw occurs when Quacker is swimming in the shower cubicle and floods the house. Tom and Jerry conspire to drop Quacker off at a nearby public park, but their plan backfires when Quacker returns, this time along with more ducklings, flooding the entire house with water. Quacker tells them that he and the other ducks have a surprise for them and says, "All together, fellas!" and the ducks all shout at once in unison to Tom and Jerry, "HAPPY EASTER!" and swim around them in the end.
[edit] Trivia
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- Tom and Jerry are friendly to each other in this short, though they do fight over the egg at the beginning.
- In the bathroom, one towel is monogrammed with a T and another with a J, implying that Tom and Jerry are actually the owners of the house rather than its owners' pets.
- The production/direction credits read "Joseph Barbera and William Hanna" rather than the usual "William Hanna and Joseph Barbera"
