Golden Yeggs

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Golden Yeggs
series = Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig)


caption = The title card of "Golden Yeggs".
director = I. Freleng
story_artist = Tedd Pierce
animator = Arthur Davis Gerry Chiniquy Ken Champin Virgil Ross Emery Hawkins
voice_actor = Mel Blanc Stan Freberg (brief appaearance, as Goose)
musician = Carl Stalling
producer = Eddie Selzer
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
release_date = August 5 1950 (USA)
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 6 minutes, 51 seconds
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0042512

"Golden Yeggs" is a 1949 Merrie Melodies short animated film, released on August 5 1950 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. and directed by Friz Freleng. It features Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in a forerunner of the Rocky and Mugsy cartoons, with Rocky already in his present-day form.

The story was written by Tedd Pierce and animated by Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross and Emery Hawkins. Paul Julian painted the backgrounds and Hawley Pratt designed the layouts. Mel Blanc provided all the voices and Carl Stalling the music.

"Yegg" is a slang term for a burglar or safecracker. The same play-on-words was used in the title of the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon, "Easter Yeggs".

ummary

When Daffy takes credit for the golden egg Porky finds in his henhouse, Rocky and his gang hustle him back to their den and demand more output. Daffy tries to stall for time, at one point asking for surroundings that would make him more comfortable. Rocky and his henchmen oblige, but then demand the egg.

Daffy tries to stall for time, but is given five minutes to lay his egg or else. The duck tries various ways to escape his predicament, but is stopped at every turn. When time runs out, the gangsters stalk Daffy ... only to find he really has laid a golden egg!

Daffy is relieved that he met Rocky's demand and will be allowed to go free ... until Rocky escorts the duck into a room containing dozens of egg crates and orders him to "Fill 'em up!" Daffy moans, "Aw, my achin' back!" and faints.

One scene features Rocky reading "Life" magazine. Coincidentally, both Warner Bros. and "Life" are now subsidiaries of Time Warner.

Censorship

*On the ABC airing of this cartoon, the part where Daffy is shot in the head by Rocky after confessing that he hasn't laid any eggs is replaced with a repeat shot of the mob members playing cards and reading magazines (from earlier in the cartoon). This is also how the scene was shown in the compilation film "The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie"
*The Nickelodeon version also edited the scene that was cut on ABC, but the scene was edited with a fake iris-out just as Rocky says, "So long, pal" and a fake iris-in after Daffy is shot.
*The CBS airing of this cartoon leaves in the gun gag at the end, but cuts an early scene where after Porky tells the mobsters he doesn't want to sell Daffy, Daffy is then shown being carried out and the scene cuts to Daffy in the mobsters' apartment. What was cut was a short scene of Porky in a trough with a shovel broken over his head, burnt matches in his hooves, and money shoved in his hands, looking beaten up, and uttering, "T-t-they talked me into it."

External links

* [http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=589 Golden Yeggs at The Big Cartoon Database]