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One of the great classics of animation, Bob Clampett's 'The Great Piggy Bank Robbery' is one of the best cartoons ever made and the perfect starting point for anyone interested in Clampett's work. Daffy Duck eagerly awaits the arrival of his new Dick Tracy comic but while reading it he accidentally knocks himself out and dreams that he is Duck Twacy, investigating the theft of his piggy bank. Working from a terrific script by Warren Foster, Clampett injects his trademark wild energy and bizarre execution of gags to make 'The Great Piggy Bank Robbery' spellbindingly energetic and unforgettably eerie. The moment when Daffy finds himself face to face with a roomful of oddball villains is a tour de force with astonishing moment after astonishing moment. It culminates in the breathtaking scene in which Daffy machine guns them all to death and they topple towards the camera one by one into a big pile. There are plenty of other incredible moments to look out for, including Daffy being rubbed out, tracking footprints across the ceiling and separating up his own body parts to escape from a huddle of bad guys. 'The Great Piggy Bank Robbery' is almost as much of a one-duck show as Chuck Jones's 'Duck Amuck', allowing Daffy to do all the talking as he tracks down and eludes the criminals. Mel Blanc does a wonderful job as Daffy babbles away to the audience. Being a huge Daffy Duck fan, 'The Great Piggy Bank Robbery' was obviously going to be one of my all-time favourites and it vies with 'Duck Amuck' for the position of my very favourite of all time. It is unequivocally Bob Clampett's greatest masterpiece.

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.

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.

. . . 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.

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.