The Scarlet Pumpernickel

The Scarlet Pumpernickel is a 1950 Looney Tunes cartoon short in which Daffy Duck tries to sell an over-the-top drama script to a Hollywood director, in which he envisions himself as a swashbuckling vigilante named the Scarlet Pumpernickel, trying to rescue his love interest, the Fair Lady Melissa, from a forced marriage to the Grand Duke (Sylvester). Dialogue Sylvester: And who might you be, thirrah? Daffy Duck: Mayhap perchance, foppish that I am, I might be the Scarlet Pumpernickel? Sylvester: You?! The Scarlet Pumpernickel?! [Sylvester and Porky burst out laughing, but Daffy simply raises his eyebrows at the audience.] Sylvester: The Scarlet P-p-pumpernickel! En garde! [Hero and villain cross swords] Daffy Duck: Riposte! Sylvester: Café au lait! Daffy Duck: Champs-Élysées! Ha ha, ya ain't got a chance! I'm the hero of this picture, and you know what happens to the villain! Sylvester: So what's to know? [Melissa screams in fear as the two start swashbuckling. The scene fades to J.L's office] Daffy Duck: Fight! Fight! Fight! J.L.: And then what? Then what happened? Daffy Duck: Then what, then, what... Oh, and the storm broke in all its fury and the dam broke! J.L.: Yeah, yeah, then what happened? Daffy Duck: The cavalry rode to the rescue, but they were a little too late. J.L.: THEN WHAT?! Daffy Duck: The volcano erupted, and threw lava over everything in sight! J.L.: Yeah, yeah, then what happened? Daffy Duck: The price of foodstuffs skyrocketed! J.L.: Is that all? Daffy Duck: [crawling out from under his pile of pages, overcome with exhaustion] "Is that all"?! There was nothing for the Scarlet Pumpernickel to do, but blow his brains out, which he did. [shoots through his hat] It's getting so you have to kill yourself to sell a story around here! External links 0042928 Scarlet Pumpernickel, The Category:American animated short films Category:Traditionally animated short films Scarlet Pumpernickel, The Scarlet Pumpernickel Scarlet Pumpernickel Scarlet Pumpernickel Scarlet Pumpernickel Scarlet Pumpernickel Scarlet Pumpernickel Category:Films directed by Chuck Jones Category:Swashbuckler films Category:Chuck Jones films Category:Children's animated fantasy short films