THE NIGHT WATCHMAN, 1938
LITTLE LION HUNTER (With Bob Givens; birth of the Mynah Bird), 1939
ELMER’S CANDID CAMERA (With Rich Hogan; embryonic Bugs and Elmer), 1940
GHOST WANTED (With Dave Monahan), 1940 (A small boy ghost several years before Casper)
BEDTIME FOR SNIFFLES (With Rich Hogan), 1940
INKI AND THE LION (With Rich Hogan), 1941
THE DRAFT HORSE, 1942
THE SQUAWKIN’ HAWK (Introducing Henery Hawk), 1942
THE DOVER BOYS, 1942
CASE OF THE MISSING HARE, 1942
SUPER-RABBIT, 1943
WACKIKI WABBIT, 1943
ODOR-ABLE KITTY (First introduction of Pepé Le Pew), 1945
Plus the following dialogue sheets from Rocket Squad, a takeoff of the old Dragnet TV show.
ROCKET SQUAD 1956
Writer: Tedd Pierce PRODUCTION NO. 1347
Daffy as a Webb-footed Joe Monday and his partner, Porky Tuesday
1. DAFFY: (Narrator) This is the Milky Way … a nice galaxy … Eight hundred and seventy-five billion trillion people live here … Yes, it’s a nice place to live … It’s my job to keep it that way … I’m a space cop. My name’s Monday. My partner’s name is Tuesday. He always follows me. It was Wednesday, January 23, 10:26 p.m.
2. PORKY: T-ten twenty-eight!
3. DAFFY: It was 10:28 p.m.… We were returning from a routine investigation in the Big Dipper area … a 712 … Malicious mischief … Schoolchildren had blown the ring off Saturn … When will parents learn to keep uranium out of their children’s reach?
4. PORKY: Yeh … wh-when?
5. DAFFY: 10:34 … Headquarters called.
6. CAPTAIN: Calling Prowl Jet 36 … Prowl Jet 36 … Come in, 36 … Over.
7. DAFFY: Joe Monday.
8. PORKY: O-over.
9. CAPTAIN: Joe … It’s the Flying Saucer Bandit again … First National Bank of Jupiter! Report in!
10. DAFFY: Wilco!
11. DAFFY: Wednesday, January 23 … 10:42 p.m.
12. PORKY: T-ten forty-six!
13. DAFFY: 10:46 p.m.… We returned to Headquarters.
14. PORKY: Isn’t modern science wonderful? People used to have to use stairs!
15. DAFFY: 10:52 … Back at the old desk … waiting for a call from the Chief … Half a cop’s life is spent in waiting … 10:53 … The Chief called.
16. CAPTAIN: Joe … come right over, please! I need your help immediately!
17. DAFFY: Right!
18. DAFFY: My interview with the Chief was brief and to the point … He wanted me to find out who the Flying Saucer Bandit was and then to place him under arrest.
19. DAFFY: I consented.
20. CHIEF: (Kisses Daffy’s feet)
21. DAFFY: 11:07 … We proceeded to the scene of the crime.
22. DAFFY: 11:21 … Checked in at scene of crime.
23. DAFFY: The crime robots were on the job.
24. DAFFY: They were searching out and collecting vital bits of evidence … picking up suspicious footprints … gathering up all significant objects. No clue is too small to escape their notice.
25. DAFFY: 12:15 a.m.… We returned to Headquarters with the clues.
25a. PORKY: A c-cop’s life isn’t all beer and skittles.
26. DAFFY: Now all the facilities of a great modern crime lab were brought to bear.
27. DAFFY: We identified the name of that song.
28. DAFFY: “Mother Machree.”
29. DAFFY: We proceeded to the Machree file …
30. DAFFY: It was a long one …
31. DAFFY: We finally found what we were after …
32. DAFFY: This criminal was so clever he’d never been suspected of anything.
33. DAFFY: The case was beginning to heat up. Our next step was the crimino-detecto set.
High-tech crime detection board
34. DAFFY: Machree was found to be at Elsa’s Blast-In … selecting a sandwich.
35. DAFFY: 12:40 a.m. He selected a pastrami on rye with mustard. That figured.
36. DAFFY: We didn’t have much time … He was a notorious fast eater.
37. DAFFY: 1:07 … He left the Blast-In.
38. DAFFY: 1:08 … We arrived at the Blast-In … Our deductions later proved that we had missed him by one minute.
39. DAFFY: 1:09 … We set out in pursuit.
The “Flying Saucer Bandit” with an unlikely alibi: ROCKET SQUAD (1956)
40. DAFFY: If cops won’t obey traffic regulations … how can we expect others to?
41. PORKY: 10:23 … We lost him in a large smog bank over Los Angeles.
42. PORKY: Hey … J-Joe … get a load of this.
43. DAFFY: (Loudspeaker) All right, Machree … we know you’re in there! Come on out!
44. DAFFY: Like all criminals, he had an elaborate alibi prepared.
45. MACHREE: I didn’t do nothin’… I didn’t do nothin’! Like I said, I didn’t do nothin’!
46. NARRATOR: This case was brought to trial April 23, 10:00 a.m. in Ultra Superior Court 13527B, Department of Astral Justice … As a result of this trial … the two arresting officers were sentenced to twenty years for false arrest …
47. PORKY: Th-thirty years …
It was only logical, of course, that Tedd would be in on the beginnings of Pepé Le Pew. If ever there was another pogo stick, it was Tedd Pierce. His devotion to women was at times pathetic, at times psychological, but always enthusiastic. Just as Pepé Le Pew could not envisage that any female would run away from him (“She is seeking for herself a trysting place. Alors, for the trysting place I can wait”), so Tedd could not really believe that any woman could honestly refuse his honestly stated need for her. He was Beau Ideal, Beau Sabreur, and Beau Geste all at once, with accent on the Geste. (It would have been impossible to have worked with Tedd and not come up with the idea of Pepé Le Pew.)
MICHAEL MALTESE
Michael Maltese, as he put it, was born of poor but Italian parents on a tiny island in the Atlantic—Manhattan.
Actually, Mike was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan when “lower” meant just that: low. His mother, I believe, was the proprietor of a tiny candy store below the street level of the five-story tenement where Mike was born and where his family lived.
He remembered being designated as a “slum child” by slumming ladies from the Upper West Side, which in 1916 was the most elegant section, facing Central Park.
“Mabel, look at the poor little slum child!” they probably exclaimed, delighted naturalists identifying a new species of toad. The slum child was not offended, because he had never heard the word “child” before, much less “slum.”
1950: Sixteen animators and two Oscars: FOR SCENTIMENTAL REASONS (best animated cartoon) and SO MUCH FOR SO LITTLE (best documentary short subject)—left to right, back row: Phil De Guard, Lloyd Vaughan, Madilyn Wood, Paul Julian, Roy Laufenburger, Abe Levitow, Dapper Director, Bob Gribbroek, Mike Maltese, Keith Darling, Marilyn Wood
