. . . favor Alistair Sim's 1951 version of A CHR!STMAS CAROL as the most memorably poignant film version of novelist Charles Dicken's Christmas Tale (with Bill Murray's SCROOGED edging out Mr. Magoo's rendering of Ebenezer 21% to 19% for runner-up honors). Certainly only a stone-cold Hearted humbug could maintain even one dry eye during the final scene of Sim's characterization, when a comely maid grants him entrance to his nephew Fred's Christmas evening dinner party, as the house guests sing the ballad "Barbara Allen" in the background. Just a few years after Sim's evocative performance, the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated shorts people use ROBIN HOOD DAFFY to build upon World War Two's warm after-glow toward all things English in general (and Sim's aforementioned live-action feature film in particular) by having Porky Pig (assuming the role here of Friar Tuck) warble "Barbara Allen" to Daffy Duck's hapless title character. ROBIN HOOD DAFFY makes it clear that--unlike Bugs Bunny's turn as RABBIT HOOD--Daffy is far less likely than Tiny Tim to be just one of the "Men in Tights," let alone their leader.

Genre: Animated short, duck, pig, slapstick, based on Robin Hood.Main characters: Daffy Duck (acting as Robin Hood) and Porky Pig (acting as Friar Tuck).Actors: Mel Blanc (Daffy Duck and Porky Pig).What happens: Starring Daffy Duck as Robin Hood, he meets the hysterical Porky Pig as Friar Tuck. Friar Tuck is looking for Robin Hood, but he refuses to believe that it IS Robin Hood…My thoughts: This is a very slapsticky Daffy Duck short (and as you may know I am not awfully fond of slapstick) however I like it quite a lot! I like how even though it has SO much slapstick, there is always a teeny bit of wit to top it off! I also love how they sometimes speak in old fashioned English like "I am whom thoust seekest. I am Robin Hood" and stuff like that. I also like the background animation, well-drawn wonky forests and paths. I also like the song at the very beginning. Recommended to: Daffy Duck fans and admirers (like me) and people who like slapstick and wit in a cartoon! Enjoy! :-)

This short is an extremely funny teaming of Daffy with Porky as his "straight man" (with Porky's antics the cause of a lot of the funniest bits). I have to talk about something specific in the short, so let this be my spoiler warning: Any cartoon where Porky Pig sings the first verse of "Barbara Allen" is one my permanent list of favorites. When I first saw this cartoon, hearing an old tradition song issuing forth in the dulcet tones of Porky Pigs had me rolling on the floor and it still makes me laugh like a loon to this day.The fun in this cartoon is watching Daffy and his progressively desperate (and increasingly unsuccessful) attempts to convince Porky that he really is Robin Hood, honest and for truly, he is! This has been released on a Looney Tunes Golden Collection on DVD and it (and the rest of the Collections) are well worth having and all most highly recommended!

Daffy is a Robin Hood type who fights the sheriff and is famous from his wanted posters. His reputation is given a knock when he falls into a river and is laughed at by a fat friar pig (Porky). All Daffy's attempts to prove himself and impress the jolly Friar just seem to backfire and he can't convince him that he is the Robin Hood that Porky seeks.I'm a really big fan of Daffy Duck and always feel that he is at his best when he is in his early persona of being manic and wacky. Even when he becomes more cynical and greedy he still manages to be one of my favourite Warner Brothers characters. Here he is very much the butt of the film's jokes - a role that I'm never totally happy to see him in as I do like him as a character more than a fall guy. However here the jokes are funny and imaginative so I didn't mind so much in this case. The character he plays is basically a fall guy but the ways in which he falls had me laughing out loud - whether it was the rope swing or the shaft fight, I was loving it!I don't like to see Daffy just plain mocked but he takes it very well here and is funny himself rather than just being a patsy. Porky is also good but doesn't manage to steal the show from Daffy in the way he often can in these combination films of theirs. With no other characters to speak of, Daffy carries the film very well and gets the majority of the laughs - I still prefer to see him giving rather than getting, but this is funny nonetheless.Overall this cartoon is very funny with a good sense of cruel wit running through it. Fans of the original little black duck may be upset to see him take such punishment but I personally was relieved that Daffy managed to make this film as funny as he did.