What's so unique about this and Slick Hare is how they express WB's change in style throughout the years - numerous of the earlier "inanimate animated" and "caricature party" cartoons had humour that dated faster than Merrie Melodies in the Golden Age and consisted mainly of skits. This, for example, would be seen by people who aren't animation enthusiasts as simple and cute today if it weren't for Bob Clampett letting his psyche loose and Daffy Duck in a zoot suit. The "living book shop" story to beat.

Ain't it a shame that even Chuck Jones lost it over the years? While some of his shorts from this era were decent, like his attempt at doing Feed the Kitty with a huge asshole as the lead, they just weren't witty enough. Take this short for instance, a short that seems to emphasize the "one-joke premise" schtick heavily and relies too much on cameos and recycled gags for its own good. Stupor Duck is superior short here.

Remember when Daffy Duck was paired up with Taz for a change? It was fun to see what would happen if his prey was someone who wasn't the mastermind that Bugs was. Now he's paired up with Witch Hazel! And Speedy again? Gawd, there is such wasted potential here.

Re-used Chuck Jones animation, pathetic concept, unfunny, boring writing, absolutely no reason for Speedy to be there, sigh. As stupid as See Ya Later Gladiator is, this laziness makes that look like Duck cluckin' Amuck.

Regardless of its occasional fakeness, American Sniper is a tense, shocking and thought-inducing biopic that is one of Clint Eastwood's better works since Invictus even though I'm going to be pissed if the Academy loves this movie so much that it gets the Best Picture award over Boyhood and Birdman.