Edgar Allan Pooh . . . about upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti, with a special emphasis on the U.S. Presidential Election of 2016. MY LITTLE DUCKAROO is just one in a string of such cautionary tales covering the first campaign in which the majority of Americans hate BOTH major party nominees. Named for the Trumpeter Swan in Real Life, Rich People Party Pol Don J. Trump is captured here to a "T" by that Mercenary Solipcistic Braggart, Daffy Duck. Playing Crooked Hillary is card cheat Nasty Canasta, who trumps Trump's "Royal Straight Flush Full House with Four Aces High" by waving a Three of Clubs and a revolver in the Vince Foster position. As Porky Pig paraphrases the Trumpster Throngs' chants of "Lock her up, Lock her up!" Nasty unveils Hillary's October Surprise Deus Ex Machina by GOING TOPLESS at the 6:10 mark of this animated short. Just as Julie "Singing Nun Mary Poppins" Andrews precipitated more than one thousand fatal Baby Boomer heart attacks by baring her breasts in a later flick called S.O.B., Nasty is telegraphing us that Hillary will try to squeak past Trump by seriously (if not permanently) incapacitating the Dittohead Hordes through a Third Debate Wardrobe Malfunction fully exposing whatever Kazongers she might be harboring.

slymusic As a sequel of sorts to "Drip-Along Daffy" (1951), "My Little Duckaroo" features the blundering, incompetent Daffy Duck as the Masked Avenger and Porky Pig as his comedy relief sidekick. Their target is the burly outlaw Nasty Canasta, for whom there is a $10,000 reward. Sure, Daffy can fix his wagon! My favorite scenes: Being a music lover, I almost always enjoy hearing the Looney Tunes characters burst into song, even if off-key, as Porky sings and plays guitar during the opening credits of this cartoon short. Daffy accidentally shoots the top of his head, with a nice honking horn sound effect as his ten-gallon hat plops back onto his now bald head. During a trumpet fanfare, Daffy shouts, "This looks like a job for....", when suddenly his cape covers his head and the fanfare stops; his horse then burps during Daffy's enthusiastic introduction of himself. And check out Daffy's Mexican bandito getup.If you can overlook the absolutely weak ending, you may agree that "My Little Duckaroo" is a fine comedy Western cartoon. Most of the time, the loudly arrogant Daffy tries to prove his worth to Nasty Canasta, who in return offers Daffy not the least vestige of recognition!

Lee Eisenberg Sort of a re-imagining of Chuck Jones's earlier "Drip-Along Daffy", "My Little Duckaroo" casts Daffy and Porky as a western hero and sidekick out to battle evildoers. Daffy of course can't take on their quarry.While the cartoon mostly has a repeating gag - Daffy challenges Nasty Canasta but nothing comes of it - I noticed something. Early in the cartoon, after identifying himself, Daffy basically explains that he's totally in it for the money. Certainly under Jones's watch this lisping member of the genus Anas had become very greedy - often bragging about his avaricious side - while Porky would bring some sanity to the situation. And now Daffy giddily talks about how he hopes to collect the reward.That's the main point that I notice in the cartoon. I figure that "MLD" was mostly intended as a placeholder. Worth seeing.

bob the moo Driven by a desire to see wrongs righted (and claim the massive reward), the Masked Avenger decides to go after criminal Nasty Canasta and bring him to justice. However, Canasta proves to be more than a match for the Avenger - mask or no mask.I'm a big fan of Daffy Duck but I vastly prefer him when he is in fully `crazy' mood, doing all sorts of manic things; I find that much funnier than his later greedy & selfish personae. Here, however he is in selfish mode - not in itself a sign of a bad cartoon, but here it is all part of the problem. Along with Porky as comedy relief, Daffy goes after a criminal but has very little response form him. Why the script decided to do this is beyond me as it means there is very little happening to really laugh at. The material throughout is pretty uninspiring and relies heavily on Daffy's delivery alone to make it enjoyable.Sadly, for me, Daffy's greedy character just isn't that funny at times (here being one of them) and his delivery in this cartoon is average at best. It's the fault of the material of course, and I was surprised just how weak the whole thing was. Porky is named the comedy relief but he has absolutely nothing to do outside of two or three lines of dialogue. Canasta is like some of the other `old west' villains that have tangled with other WB characters, but the decision to have him do almost nothing was a daft one.Overall this cartoon offers two big names and a mildly amusing set up, but, like me, I imagine many people will be bewildered by just how uninspiring the thing is.