Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

It is the time of the dinosaurs. Caspar Caveman and his pet dinosaur are going hunting. They encounter Daffy Duck at a local lake, but the duck keeps escaping.

Casper Caveman is Fred Flintstone but less appealing. I am not sure to whom he is supposed to be referencing. The character needs to be dumber and less too cool for school. He seems to be modeled after a crooner. I do not like him and that is the vast majority of my problem. The Honeymooners is still over a decade away, but that's what this needs to be. He needs to be Ralph Kramden. I really do not like Casper's design and personality.

For no particular reason our story is laid in the stone age"-millions and billions and trillions of years ago-probably before any of you people were even born.

A caveman called Casper Caveman is hungry and wants some breakfast,he gets a craving for duck so he gets his pet dinosaur Fido to help him find one,they eventually find a duck and it turns out to be Daffy Duck.

****/*****

4/5 STARS

A Truly UNDERRATED AND MISUNDERSTOOD CLASSIC

-DILLON HARRIS

The animation may be rather dated, the story a little sparse and the pace rushed in places, but Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a pleasant enough cartoon. Daffy is funny and manic here, as are a vast majority of the gags and the ending is an unexpected surprise. The music is lovely, and the dialogue good. Casper the Caveman comes very close to stealing the show with his mannerisms and all that and is very reminiscent of Jack Benny, not only with the voice but the dialogue as well. I have to say though Fido is adorable, for a dinosaur he really is a cutie. I loved it when he got hit by the thing that was meant for Daffy and he starts dancing.

Overall, pleasant enough but a somewhat rudimentary entry in the Looney Tunes canon. 7/10 Bethany Cox

I find this quite a good Daffy Duck episode. Daffy is absolutely brilliant, but this is not really his episode. He is more of a side character. The people who are supposed to be the side characters and yet feel like the main characters, are Casper the Caveman and Fido the apatosaurus. You guessed it - this is set in the dino age. It is very incorrect to history, for example, humans have never been with dinosaurs. Luckily this does not spoil the episode. Anyway, unlike a few people on this site, I do not think Casper Caveman is the highlight of the episode. In fact, I think he is too harsh at points and it is only in the middle of the episode when he becomes slightly likable. Fido the dinosaur is likable throughout, very silly, cute and dog-like. Daffy is still in his early stage, with his constant "woo-hoo" and craziness, this is why he is so good. The animation is also pleasant as well. At this time the animators were still good, in later cartoons they just came up with any background that first came into their heads.

Casper the Caveman is very hungry and is ready for breakfast. Taking Fido the dino with him on his search, Casper soon finds Daffy. He tries to hunt him - but this little black duck is not going to make things easy for him!

Recommended to people who like the early Daffy Duck and dinosaurs, enjoy "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur", a pleasant Looney Tunes classic to watch! :-)

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939)

*** (out of 4)

A caveman wakes up hungry so he grabs his dinosaur and the two go out looking for food. They stumble across Daffy Duck but he's not going to be so easy to catch.

This is another very funny short that manages to have two great characters and one less than stellar one. I will say that I think the caveman isn't all that interesting and even the vocal work for him is rather forgettable. With that said, the rest of the short is full of fun action and plenty of nice laughs including one sequence where Daffy paints a duck with bad results for the caveman. As you'd expect the animation is excellent and with the laughs this is certainly worth watching.