As a huge lifelong fan of Looney Tunes and of Daffy Duck (one of Looney Tunes' best characters), while not quite one of my favourites The Super Snooper is a very entertaining spoof of film noir. There is not much to criticise here actually. A couple of jokes are a tad corny (the ending didn't quite work for me) and it does feel a touch heavy on the slapstick occasionally. Nevertheless it is still very entertaining indeed. Contrary to one reviewer, I for one thought the animation was very good. Sure there has been better animation before, but it is bright, colourful and atmospheric, the backgrounds are suitably detailed and fluid and the characters are very well drawn, as said the atmosphere evoked is highly effective. Carl Stalling can be counted on to provide a good music score, and he certainly does, great even. It is beautifully orchestrated and characterful as well as enhancing the action brilliantly in the way few other composers scoring cartoon shorts did so well. Dialogue is smart, fresh and witty and the story spoofs the film noir genre in a brilliantly clever and remarkably suspenseful way. The gags a vast majority of the time work really well and the best of them like the piano, bullet-holes-in-Daffy's bill, the train and the goofy walk gags are incredibly funny. The characters work well on their own and complement each other beautifully. Daffy carries the cartoon with brilliant comic timing and great charisma, while the Lady Duck (possible inspiration for Jessica Rabbit?) is a deliciously seductive and potentially deadly counterpart. Mel Blanc gives as always stellar vocal characterisations, again demonstrating his incredible and unequalled ability to voice multiple characters and give each of them a unique and different personality from one another. Marian Richman's voice acting is also very suited to the Lady Duck. In conclusion, very entertaining and very good. Just not the best of Looney Tunes, or one of my favourites. 8/10 Bethany Cox

. . . Warner Bros. anticipates the day when Americans can pay for services through their phones, as most of us do daily now. An anonymous caller makes two phone payments to private eye Duck Drake (portrayed by Daffy Duck)--the first for his time, the second for his expenses. The rest of this piece raises the issue of whether Daffy will become a pioneering cartoon gigolo. I did not view SUPER SNOOPERS with the benefit of an alternate commentary soundtrack, so I do not know for sure whether the wedding music concluding this Sadie Hawkins fowl affair was Warner Bros.' idea, or a finale dictated by America's Pre-Release Film Censorship Board. Frequent Looney Tunes viewers familiar with Warner's penchant for staging gay marriages among its stable of animated male stars might be surprised that Daffy is running off with (or running from) a less anachronistic female here. But if you look closely at this alleged duck chick, she may sport the head of a bird, but she's certainly drawn with the legs of a woman. Waddle your heart out, Daffy.

Daffy Duck as a private eye?! Difficult to fathom, isn't it? Yet he is indeed "The Super Snooper", donning the customary trench coat, hat, cigarette, and ineptness as he visits a wealthy estate and tries to trap a slinky dame into a confession. In doing so, the hapless duck is hilarious!My favorite scenes in this cartoon are: the piano gag; bullet holes in Daffy's bill; and Daffy & the butler doing their goofy walk.Need help solving a mystery? Then call on Daffy Duck, "The Super Snooper". Of course, it would help if he actually pays more attention to where the scene of the crime is!

I very much enjoyed this Daffy Duck episode, for the following reasons: 1. The idea was very good, Daffy Duck can pull off a detective role very well (as you may already know even if you have not watched this particular episode). 2. The woman character was excellent, she CERTAINLY liked Daffy! 3. The way Daffy narrated the story at the beginning and then re-did the mystery in the middle and towards the end were very well done and clever. 4. The funny-walk scene is hilarious and well-animated. 5. There were many amusing points in the episode, if a tad slapsticky at times.In this episode, Daffy stars as Duck Drake, a detective, who one day receives a call which does not interest him, until the caller posts a huge wad of cash through the phone. Daffy decides, now he has such a good fare, he will go out and investigate the mystery. He turns up at a very large merchant house, where a suspicious butler welcomes him in, with a funny walk, which Daffy imitates (and this was nearly twenty years before the Ministry of Silly Walks began!). He then meets a very over-dramatic, seductive woman duck and Daffy guesses what happened and why she is the murderer. Will he find out if she really committed the crime..? The only thing that I did not find top notch in this episode was the animation, it was not the best for Looney Tunes. Also, there is a little too much slapstick for me.Very well worth watching, I recommend this to people who like Daffy Duck, to people who like his detective roles or who want to see them and to people who like it when Daffy is paired with a woman duck. Enjoy "The Super Snooper"! :-)