Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
Directed by	Charles Visser
Produced by	Frank Molieri
Written by	Ray De Laurentis
Music by	Gordon Goodwin
Editing by	Rob Desales
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release date(s)	November 14, 2006 (2006--)
Running time	45 minutes
Language	English
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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas is a 2006 animated direct-to-video film starring the Looney Tunes and directed by Ivan Reitman. The movie is a spoof of the Charles Dickens tale A Christmas Carol.

Synopsis

As the movie's title implies, Daffy Duck stars in an Ebenezer Scrooge-like role in the Looney Tunes retelling of this classic tale.

In the beginning of the movie, Bugs Bunny pops up out of his hole to clear away the snow, and explains to us he's a rabbit of all seasons, despite the fact rabbits are associated with Easter. He is then almost run over by Daffy Duck's gas guzzling Humvee.

Daffy is the owner of the Lucky Duck Mall (a Wal-Mart like megastore), and he treats his employees (played by other Looney Tunes) very shabbily. Despite Bugs' scolding him for berating Playboy Penguin, Daffy still acts snobbish and tries to abscond with the money Priscilla Pig, Egghead Jr., and Barnyard Dawg Jr. are collecting for charity. Daffy especially has trouble with his hover scooter, and gets beat up by his own employees (through no fault of their own) and the customers (since he insulted them). After Daffy states he hates the holidays, Bugs warns him about the Ghosts of Christmas, which Daffy simply scoffs at.

After working his employees to the bone on Christmas Eve, Daffy expects them all back at 5:30am on Christmas Day, so he can make more money off of last minute shoppers. Assistant Manager Porky Pig (in a Bob Cratchit-like role, reprising his role from the previous spoof of A Christmas Carol) pleads to let him go home for Christmas and spend time with his daughter, Priscilla, who is in a Tiny Tim-like role, but Daffy refuses. Later that day, the spirit of his deceased business idol Sylvester The Investor (Sylvester the Cat) warns him to change his ways or be doomed to the same fate. He tells Daffy that three spirits will visit him. Daffy, trapped in the store by a snowdrift, locks himself in his vault to be safe. But the ghosts are not that easily stopped. The Ghosts of Christmas Past (Granny and Tweety) take him back to his childhood, where they see Daffy lived at the Lucky Duck Orphanage and, every Christmas, was ignored by potential parents, which explains his cruelty in the Present Day.

The Ghost of Christmas Present (Yosemite Sam) shows him how sad his employees are and tells him if he doesn't change his ways, his future is very bleak. The Ghost of Christmas Future (the Tasmanian Devil) comes and shows him that because of his greed he is dead and his store is permanently closed, leaving everyone out of a job, but allowing them to spend Christmas with their families just like they wanted.

When Porky's daughter promises to visit Daffy every Christmas because no one should be alone on that holiday, Daffy's cold heart melts and he proclaims to be a changed man. Returning to the present, he gives Porky a promotion, everyone the gifts that they want and a promise of a raise. There is a brief moment when he slides back to his greedy self, contemplating just how he is going to recover all the costs, but it immediately fades. After Bugs munches on a candy cane, the camera pulls out of the mall to end the movie.

Characters

• Daffy Duck - Owner of Lucky Duck Superstore
• Porky Pig - Assistant Manager of Lucky Duck Superstore
• Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Marvin the Martian, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, Gossamer, The Three Bears - Lucky Duck Employees
• Sylvester the Cat - "Sylvester the Investor's" Ghost
• Granny and Tweety - Ghosts of Christmas Past
• Yosemite Sam - Ghost of Christmas Present
• Tasmanian Devil - Ghost of Christmas Future

Bugs Bunny himself doesn't have a big role in the main storyline, and is apparently there to simply provide his trademark commentary to the events. In addition, Penelope Pussycat once again has a non-speaking role and Lola Bunny is not even in the movie.

Cast

• Joe Alaskey - Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew
• Bob Bergen - Porky Pig, Tweety/Ghost Of Christmas Past, Speedy Gonzales
• Jim Cummings - Taz/Ghost Of Christmas Future, Gossamer
• June Foray - Granny/Ghost Of Christmas Past
• Maurice LaMarche - Yosemite Sam/Ghost Of Christmas Present
• Tara Strong - Priscilla Pig, House Wife
• Billy West - Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd

Trivia

• Sylvester's character was killed when a disgruntled employee squashed him "nine times" with a forklift. This is an homage to pet food commercials and previous Looney Tunes shorts where Sylvester has "nine lives".
• The Road Runner's beeps are commented on by another character for the first time. Daffy, with his head caught in the ceiling, says, "There's something about that sound you make, it just plain jangles my nerves!"
• This is the first major role for Speedy Gonzales since his character was returned to the Looney Tunes lineup in 2002 (Warner Bros. felt that his character was insensitive to Mexicans, but relented after various Hispanic groups felt he was a "positive" character).
• This is the first new Looney Tunes movie since 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
• This is the second Looney Tunes adaptation of A Christmas Carol. The first time was in the first portion of the 1980s television special Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (it was later released as a separate short titled Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol), and it had Yosemite Sam in the Scrooge role, but also had Porky in the Bob Cratchit role.
• In the flashback Daffy looks the same way he did in Baby Looney Tunes.
• Unlike A Christmas Carol, Porky's daughter does not die like in the story when Bob Cratchit's son dies because of Mr. Scrooge's greed.
• Gordon Goodwin wrote the whole soundtrack and recorded it with the Big Phat Band and it was later released on Immergent Records.
• Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig make fun of Daffy Duck's spittin' problem in this movie. Right after Bugs warns Daffy to stay away from the "s" words till he got past the spittin' problem, Porky suggests Daffy should see a speech thearapist. Daffy punishs Porky by demoting him to assistant-assistant manager.
• Second time Porky Pig is prevented from saying "That's All, Folks." At the end, after wiping a circle in the fogged up window, he starts his famous catchphrase, but Priscilla Pig interrupts him and says it herself. Ironically, during the scene where Bugs and Porky make fun of Daffy's spittin' problem, Daffy didn't criticize Porky for his stuttering problem.
• Daffy's suggestion of using Granny and Tweety's time travel technique to bet ahead on the winner in the horse races makes reference to what Marty McFly suggested to Doctor Emmett Brown in Back to the Future Part II, only Biff Tannen used that idea.
• Daffy came up with the Lucky Duck Mega Mart mall by simply tearing down the Lucky Duck Orphanage, that made his life so miserable. At that time, he thought "the world is a cold and cruel place and the only way to survive is to be twice as cold and cruel."
• Daffy once wrote in his will that in the event of his death, he would get the entire Lucky Duck Mega Mart. Apparently, that was illegal, and so in the bleak future, all of his employees would be out of a job.
• During the scene where Daffy's trying out his Employee Dejector on Porky, the sound effects team chose to use the classic Hanna-Barbera sound effects instead of the classic Warner Bros. sound effects done by classic film editor Treg Brown.
• For the movie's Christmas theme, Bugs munches a candy cane instead of a carrot, when he asks "What's Up, Doc?"
• The movie's DVD features include deleted scenes which were intended for the movie, but removed to keep it at its forty-six minute time limit.
• During one of the deleted scenes, Daffy putting an ornament on a frail little Christmas tree that bend over and drops the ornament mirrors what happens to Charlie Brown in A Charlie Brown Christmas.
• In an alternate ending, it's next Christmas and Daffy tries to make Priscilla happy by hanging up the star on the Christmas tree so he can get her delicious cookies. He tries hanging up the star with hilarious results.
• This is the last Looney Tunes movie to be produced by Sander Schwartz, whom would leave Warner Bros. Animation the following year.

External links

• Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas at the Internet Movie Database

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