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Genre
  
Animation, Short, Comedy

Film series
  
Merrie Melodies

Language
  
English

6.8/10
IMDb

Director
  
Writer
  
Tedd Pierce (story)

Music director
  
Carl Stalling

Duration
  

Muscle Tussle Daffy Duck Ep 69 Muscle Tussle Video Dailymotion

Cast
  
Release date
  
April 18, 1953

Similar movies
  
Merrie Melodies movies, Related Robert McKimson movies

Muscle Tussle is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1953 and reissued in 1961 as a Blue Ribbon, directed by Robert McKimson and featuring Daffy Duck.

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Synopsis

Daffy goes to the beach with his girlfriend Melissa (voiced by an uncredited Gladys Holland, an actress heard in United Productions of America's adaptation of Madeline, 1952), and wants to take her picture. While posing she sees a muscle-bound duck and turns her attention toward him. Daffy gets upset and tells the muscle-bound duck (a soft-spoken yet still arrogant fellow) to get lost who replies that he'll bob Daffy so hard he'll have to open his vest to eat if he says one more word. Not intimidated, Daffy challenges him to do so, and he replies by hitting Daffy so hard that his head sinks into his stomach. In a daze, Daffy orders "One cheeseburger, hold the onions". Melissa goes off with the muscle-bound duck saying goodbye to Daffy calling him a "scrawny little nine pound weakling" which offends Daffy as he considers himself a "scrawny little ten pound weakling." Daffy tries to win back his girl and takes some muscle tonic, bought from a glad-handed traveling salesman who happens to be nearby, which he thinks has made him as strong as the muscle-bound duck. Daffy repeatedly falls short in his attempts to demonstrate his strength, but through a fluke (and one of the salesman's props, a "five thousand-pound" barbell), manages to dispatch of his rival in the end. The muscle bound duck lifts the "barbell" and gets rocketed thousands of feet in air. When he plummets back to Earth in a squatted down form, he tells the couple "You all can call me shorty!", and waddles off.

Edited version

  • The ABC version of this cartoon cuts the part where the big, muscular duck pounds Daffy's head into his shirt.
  • References

    Muscle Tussle Wikipedia
    Muscle Tussle IMDb Muscle Tussle themoviedb.org