4/6/2023 0 Comments Duck in a submarine cartoon"Once upon a time, in a cabin in the snow, two cousins who didn't trust each other were trying to steal the bag of money sitting on the floor in front of me."Hot Dogs! Hot Dogs!" - First spoken words, in The Karnival Kid, first released on May 23, 1929.Unbeknown to him, the explosion was for a film shoot the crewman in charge of the dynamite doesn't notice Stupor Duck carrying it away and detonates it, causing black feathers to fall to the ground. You Just Ruined the Shot: Stupor Duck sees outlaws putting dynamite on a rail bridge, so he flies in to take the dynamite away.He refastens it just before diving downward. Just before Stupor Duck stops the collapsing building, the back of his suit comes unbuttoned, revealing his tail.As mentioned above, the shoulder pads of Stupor Duck's outfit are lopsided when he originally dons it.Upon noticing, he realizes "Whoop, wrong costume!" before going back in and to change into the right one. Unplanned Crossdressing: When Cluck Trent goes into the broom closet to change into Stupor Duck, he comes out on a broom, dressed as a witch.Tempting Fate: After getting blasted by the submarine's cannon, Stupor Duck dares "Ratnik" to 'try that again'.Played for Laughs because of his inefficiency. Out-of-Context Eavesdropping: Daffy overhears Aardvark Ratnik's threats from inside the editor's office and quickly changes into Stupor Duck, not realizing that Ratnik is actually a character on the TV show the editor was watching.Stupor Duck: Then the lights went out all over the world! Non Sequitur, *Thud*: At one point, Stupor Duck is punched directly in the face by an angry contractor.No Antagonist: Daffy thinks there is a criminal mastermind afoot, but all of the mishaps he suffers are a result of his own hubris and the so-called "villain" is just a hammy actor his editor is watching on a corny soap opera.Negated Moment of Awesome: Stupor Duck prevents a building from falling over.except that it was slated to be demolished to make room for a new City Hall.Mad Bomber: What Aardvark Ratnik seems to be, considering that his only appearance in the short is a snippet of the In-Universe TV show in which he's an antagonist that has him threatening to cause lots of Monumental Damage. The falling building was being demolished, the sinking ship was actually a submarine, the bridge exploding was part of a movie shoot, and the missile was an experimental rocketship test.
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