The Ducksters 1950 ( dir Chuck Jones)

The Ducksters is one of those cartoons which is good but requires more than one viewing to fully appreciate it.

The cartoon starts off with Porky bound to a conveyer belt, ready to be sliced up by a buzzsaw and then the whole thing stops and Daffy enters the scene and the audience finds out that we are on a radio gameshow called 'Truth or AHHHHHHHHHHH', where the contestant has to answer a question. If he gets it wrong Daffy springs some sort of punishment on the contestant. Dafyy obviously doesn't want to part with the cash prize so he asks a myriad of difficult or impossible to answer questions so Porky is subjected to many tortures. Probably my personal favourite scene is when a member of the studio audience tells Porky not to answer a question and Daffy whips out a pistol and promptly shoots him.

Finally Porky actually manages to win the prize and he buys the studio and then puts Daffy through all the tortures Porky went through in the cartoon. In other words it's a total role reversal short.

At first the picture seems empty, even lacking in adventure, but peel away the surface and you see a commentary on a censored looney tunes cartoon, and parodies of radio programs and entertainment industry. It's Chuck Jones being his anarchic self and that is what makes 'The Ducksters' a great cartoon.