. . . 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.

"My Little Duckaroo" is a cartoon from 1954, so it is already over 60 years old, and it runs for 7 minutes like they usually do. Despite the combination of the legendary Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese and Mel Blanc working on this one, the outcome is not too memorable. Daffy is in the Wold West again and tries to take care of a bad guy who is much bigger and stronger than him. And this time, not even his comedy relief Porky can save him from the bad guy. The villain's name already tells us that a lot in here is about playing cards. If we learn anything from this little movie, then it is that western films were extremely popular in the 1950s and even made it into the animation genre. The jokes aren't all bad, but it's nowhere near the best Warner Bros have to offer around that time. I personally do not recommend the watch unless you really really love cartoons.

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!

This is an excellent example of the full development of Chuck Jones' Daffy character, Daffy's later greedy & self centred character is a much better vehicle for delivering the more sophisticated humour in this cartoon than the original manic, slapstick character created by Tex Avery in 1937.This cartoon is an extension of an earlier classic - Drip-along Daffy, in which Daffy attempts to bring the notorious outlaw Nasty Canasta to justice, when various attempts by the Cisco Kid (aka Daffy), Super Duck (also Daffy) and the Masked Avenger fail to budge Nasty Canasta, Daffy resorts to using physical means, stating he is going to give Nasty Canasta a "fist beating, frontier style" and to "fix his little red wagon" the expression on the face of the scrawny Daffy as Nasty Cansata rips his shirt by flexing his enormous muscles is priceless.From the classic attempt By Daffy to emulate Nasty Canasta by rolling a cigarette in his mouth (which of course fails dismally and explodes) to the classic "Cisco Kid" poker and arrest/bare knuckle fight scenes this is one big laugh for those who enjoy the 50's Daffy.