His Bitter Half

I watched His Bitter Half because I love Looney Tunes and I love Daffy Duck. The cartoon itself is wonderful, not Daffy's best, but highly amusing, and I couldn't help feeling sorry for Daffy. I mean he has to deal with not only his loud and abrasive new wife, but also her bratty son Wentworth, and with hilarious consequences. The constant physical abuse of Daffy, the part with the gun and the sling at the fairground and Wentworth's dynamite disguises are just a few of the highlights of this cartoon. The animation is colourful and lively, the music is wonderful, the dialogue is hilarious and the visual gags all work to perfection. The voice work is impeccable, Mel Blanc brilliantly voices Daffy and Wentworth, while Daffy's abusive wife sounds a lot like June Foray, and if it is she does a stellar job. Overall, a delightful cartoon. 10/10 Bethany Cox

More of Daffy Duck experiencing misfortune, in this case from a tough widow duck and her misbehaving son. How it sucks to be cinema's most famous lisping waterfowl! Obviously we're going to interpret Friz Freleng's "His Bitter Half" differently now that gender roles have changed (back then it was assumed that the woman would wait on the man). Even so, you gotta love the things that the widow and her offspring do to Daffy. Good one.

Single Daffy Duck reads in the wanted section of the paper that a big, fat grey female duck wants to get married. Daffy is quickly hitched and is also quickly henpecked. After finishing a day full of chores, he meets their son, an annoying duck named Wentworth. After playing "Indian" (and getting scalped), he is forced to take Wentworth to the fair, and gets beat up by a tough guy thanks to his son. Daffy then is force to help Wentworth shoot off fireworks for the Fourth of July, and is blasted. When he is told to bring Wentworth to the zoo, he refuses, even when the wife says, "Are ya gonna take Wentworth to the zoo, or am I going to hafta' pull every feather off your scrawny carcass?!" Daffy packs his bags and leaves, with a featherless behind.