Der große Sparschweinraub

One of the best things Bob Clampett has ever created... period. There is almost no words needed for this thing because it is just amazing and hilarious from start to finish. This cartoon is such a blast that even just watching Daffy read a comic book is great. The pacing is great; characters are great, just everything is great. If you're a Looney Tunes fan but you haven't seen this wonderful piece of art then what are you still doing reading this review?! GO. WATCH. IT. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyhoo, this is just an absolute cartoon masterpiece and I highly recommend it..

Daffy causes his own concussion and goes into a dream state where he becomes a famous detective, Duck Twacy. He is in search of a missing piggy bank. In order to solve the crime he must meet up with several arch criminals with weird names (like in the Dick Tracy strip). Of course, this is Bob Clampett and these are Warner Brothers characters. There is lots of hooting and hollering on the part of our inimitable duck. He is obsessed with comic books and can think of nothing else. Like so many of these characters, Bugs, Yosemite Sam, and others, he always seems to land on his feet in the end. Well, not quite in this one.

Daffy Duck's going nuts waiting for the mail. When it arrives, and his Dick Tracy comic book is there, he's ecstatic! Daffy is literally sweating as he reads about Tracy's crime-fighting exploits. By the way, once again, the colors in this Looney Tunes cartoon are fantastic. The bold, bright colors are just stunning from start-to-finish.

Anyway, Daffy just loves Dick Tracy and would give anything to be like him. After hitting himself and temporarily knocking himself out, he fantasizes he's "Duck Twacy" and the real fun of the cartoon begins as he goes to find out who stole his piggy bank.

I liked the 1940s' hat on "Twacy," the way he moaned "Agony!," his remark to the cab driver,the neon signs advertising "Gangster's Hideout," the trap door, and, of course, all the closeups on the faces of "Snake Eyes" and the other crooks.

I can't rave about this as much as some of the reviewers here. I've seen better Daffy Duck cartoons, but it's still a good one. It may be the most colorfully drawn of them all, though. It looks spectacular.

Anyone who says that cartoons are only for kids must have never seen "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". One day, while reading a Dick Tracy comic book, Daffy Duck gets excited and accidentally knocks himself out. He dreams that he's "Duck Twacy". After getting some calls about stolen piggy banks (and finding that his own piggy bank is gone), he sets about looking for the culprits. When he arrives at a house, he not only finds the culprits, but discovers that they're the weirdest group of gangsters imaginable. For example, "Snake Eyes" has dice for eyes, and "Batman" is a baseball bat. Needless to say, it all leads to a big showdown.

Part of what was so great about the old Looney Tunes cartoons was how they poked fun at the popular culture of their eras. There will never be another kind of cartoons like those.

. . . to upcoming calamities, catastrophes or apocalyptic extinction events is called "the canary in the coal mine," a seer, a prognosticator or a Warner. Probably the most famous Cassandras in American History were the Warner Brothers. At great financial loss, these far-sighted siblings employed a crew of clairvoyants, magi and augers to keep our U. S. A. Homeland abreast of ill portents ranging from Tomorrow to this Our Modern 21st Century. THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY is one such opus which speaks mightily to we citizens of Today. The concluding half of this cartoon features deft caricatures of Don Juan's entire cabinet. I particularly enjoyed the dice eyes of health corroder RFK, Jr. As the Duck Man illustrates, the only surefire way to deal with such a mob of malingering miscreants is to mow them down with a Tommy rifle.