A character in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Daffy quotes from Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)

Joe Alaskey

Most-quoted character in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003): in 29 of its 47 quotes
Most scenes with: Bugs Bunny (14), D.J. (9), Kate (8)

Scenes with Daffy

29 scenes
Bugs
[D.J., Kate, Bugs, and Daffy approach a dead end]

Eh, just a suggestion, but all those in favor of not hittin' that wall, say "aye".

D.J. and Kate

AYE!!!

Daffy

Mother!

Spy car computer

Taking you to Mother!
[the car takes to the sky before it can hit the wall]

D.J.
[D.J. and Daffy Duck drive to Las Vegas.]

I'm not a security guard! For your information, it's just a job. It's what I do for money.

Daffy

Um-hmm.

D.J.

What I really do is... I'm... I'm a... I'm a stuntman.

Daffy

Hah! You, a stuntman? Please!

D.J.

I am! Did you see those Mummy movies? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is.

D.J.
[Daffy rolls his eyes, complete with cartoon sound effect]

Oh, no, you couldn't stand that! One day, he decides to say, "No-no-no! The Bren-Master does all his own stunts"!

Dusty
[At the Wooden Nickel, diva Dusty Tails changes while she talks about her career.]

I also work for the Agency. Professional assassin. It's really hard for me to juggle the two sometimes. I don't know what I'm gonna do when I have kids!

Dusty
[She comes out wearing a shiny black-leather catsuit.]

Do you know how hard it is to find a nanny with advanced weapons training?

Daffy
[gives a wolf-whistle]

How many galoshes died to make that little number?

Dusty
[D.J. tries to take the Mona Lisa Queen of Diamonds playing card from Dusty, who instead slips it inside her outfit]

That is so sweet! You, trying to take over for your father. These evil forces, they're bad people!

Daffy

Relax, sister! I don't know the meaning of the word "fear"!

[Daffy opens the door and finds himself facing a lit cannon.]

Say your prayers, Duck!

Daffy

"Fear: Noun. A state of terror". Aaaah!

Foghorn Leghorn
(to D.J.)

Card, sir?

D.J.

Hit me.

Foghorn Leghorn

Don't-- I say, don't 'cha wanna look at your cards first, son? Boy's 'bout as sharp as a bowlin' ball.

Daffy
[Daffy and D.J. finally escape the Wooden Nickel]

I say we do Cirque de Soleil and call it a night.

Daffy
[D.J. makes a mad dash for his car]

How 'bout the Liberace Museum?

[Kate and Bugs drive through the streets of Las Vegas, looking for Daffy.]

There's gotta be 314 hotels and 142 casinos in Las Vegas! We are never gonna find that duck.

Bugs
[Suddenly, Daffy runs into the street and is promptly plastered onto the windshield. Kate gasps.]

Hee-hee. Daff never misses a cue.

Bugs
[D.J. arrives, peels off Daffy, and tosses him into the back seat, upside down, next to Bugs.]

Eh, what's up, Duck?

Daffy

Don't you start with me.

D.J.
[D.J. notices Kate in the driver's seat of the car]

You!

You!

Daffy
[to Bugs]

You!

Bugs

Him?

Daffy

Her!

Bugs and Daffy

Them!

[Driving alongside the good guys, Nasty Canasta lights a stick of dynamite to throw into their car.]

Dynamite?! Who has dynamite?!

Daffy
[scoffs]

Welcome to my world.

Bugs
[just before the heroes' flying car crashes, it stops a few feet above the desert ground]

Ha! Outta gas.

[fade to black]

What?! It doesn't work like that!

Bugs
[Cut back to car, which smashes into the ground; fade to black again]

Thanks, Toots.

D.J.
[In the desert, D.J. spots a Wal-Mart store, rippling in the heat]

Hey, look at that!

Bugs

Is it a mirage, or just product placement?

Daffy

Who cares? With shopping convenience at such low prices!

Daffy
[Daffy runs toward the image.]

Water! Fresca! Mountain Dew! Your product name here! Woo-hoo-hoo!

DJ
[to Kate]

Is this your idea?

[She opens her mouth to object, then gets defensive.]

The audience expects it. They don't even notice this kind of thing anymore.

Bugs
[D.J. shares his disappointed look with the audience; later, the intrepid adventurers depart the desert Wal-Mart with beverages]

Nice of Wal-Mart to provide these Wal-Mart beverages in retoin for us saying "Wal-Mart" so many times.

Bugs
[Wile E. Coyote observes the heroes trudging through the desert.]

I told ya we shoulda made that left toin at Albuqwirky.

Daffy

Don't start that again!

[At the Louvre, as Daffy grabs the playing-card lens, Elmer Fudd jams his shotgun into the back of Daffy's head.]

I'll take that!

Bugs

Em, what gives, Doc? We made thoity-five pictures together.

Well, as it tuwns out, I'm secwetwy evil.

Daffy
[snorts]

That's showbiz for ya!

Now, make with the card, so I can pwease my dark masters!

Daffy
[Bugs and Daffy enter the Persistence of Memory painting to evade Elmer Fudd. Elmer follows, enters, and takes aim, until his gun melts, remaining true to the theme of the painting. Bugs and Daffy laugh at him and run off, but they too start melting; their voices are slow and toned to a low key]

Well, this is surreal.

[Producing icons that represent each word he says]

Stop, or I'll fire! [Attempts to take aim again]

Bugs and Daffy

Yipe!
[Elmer fires, but the bullets are only propelled a few inches away. Elmer starts to melt completely out of shape. Bugs and Daffy make their way to the next painting through the wallpaper]

Bugs
[After Elmer Fudd leaps out of La Grande Jatte (by pointillist Georges Seurat), Bugs reads to him from a museum guide.]

Pointillism. A technique using individual dots of pigment, which, taken together... [whips out a pocket electric fan] ...make an image. [turns on the fan.]

Aw, crud! [Elmer's dots start to disperse, until only his shoes are left.]
Bugs (to audience): I think, when you go to the movies, you should learn somethin'.
[Daffy is busy redrawing himself.]

Daffy
[From behind, we see the elephant come upon a picturesque lost city in the jungle.]

What a fantastic view!

Bugs

Unless you're in the audience, in which case you've been staring at an elephant's behind for thoity seconds.

Marvin
[Outside the ACME satellite, Marvin the Martian (who Bugs and Daffy previously almost got rid of) holds an ACME Bubble Gun on Bugs.]

You tricked me!

Bugs

Eh, what's up, Darth?

Daffy
[while Bugs fights Marvin outside a spaceship, Daffy cowers inside, sucking his thumb]

What am I gonna do? What would Damian Drake do? What would Duck Dodgers do? [pause] Wait a minute, I am Duck Dodgers!

Daffy
[he spins and changes into his Duck Dodgers outfit.]

A-ha! I'm going to be the hero of this picture! [straps on a rocket] Duck Dodgers to the rescue!

Daffy
[the rocket explodes; Daffy straps on a second rocket] [dazed]

Duck Dodgers to the rescue!

Daffy
[another explosion; Daffy straps on a third] [dazed]

Duck Dodgers--

Daffy
[yet another explosion; Daffy angrily glares at a fourth rocket]

Duck!

Daffy
[yet another explosion; cut to Daffy, now outside with working rocket strapped on]

It's You-Know-Who to the rescue! [to the camera] It helps if ya don't say the name.

[first lines] [in the opening cartoon sequence, we see a series of "Rabbit Season" signs all over the forest, as Elmer Fudd sneaks towards Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole] [to the audience]

Shhh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. Ba ha ha ha!

Daffy Duck
[the camera zooms over to Daffy Duck putting a "Rabbit Season" sign on a tree, as Bugs Bunny helps him out]

I am a duck bent on self-preservationum.

Daffy Duck

Hold everything. [looking over the script] "Daffy gets blasted." Mm-hmm. Page 7: "Daffy gets blasted." Uh-huh. Page 8: "Daffy gets blasted again!" [to the boardroom members, Kate Houghton, and the Warner Bros.] What's the matter with you people? We can't do this kind of stuff anymore. [to the Warner Bros.] The Brothers Warner, show biz legends like me shouldn't have to play stooge… to that long-eared, carrot-chomping, overbite-challenged—

Eh, what's up, doc? [to the boardroom members] Hi, Bobby. How's your wife? Great nose job, Chuck. Thanks, goils. Good rug, Mel. Never wouldv'e guessed it. [to Daffy] Eh, pardon me.

Daffy Duck

The pleasure is mine.

[to the Warner Bros.]

Warner Brothers, I think Daff's right. Maybe I'll take a vacation. [shows the boardroom members his wallet full of photos of his many relatives] Go visit my five hundred and foity-two nieces and nephews.

[to Daffy]

Mr. Duck, excuse me, I'm sorry. I don't see how we can have a Bugs Bunny movie without Bugs Bunny.

Daffy Duck

Oh, my. Heavens, no. You can't have a Bugs Bunny movie without Bugs Bunny. And if you don't mind me asking, who's glorified personal assistant are you?

Kate Houghton, Vice President Comedy.

Daffy Duck

Oh. Right. [Looks down to see his hands on ice]

[to his brother about Kate]

Kate did Lethal Weapon Babies.
Mr. Warner's Brother: Finally. A Lethal Weapon that I can take my grandchildren to see.

[to the boardroom members]

Gentlemen, check your phones. [shows Daffy a green bar graph chart accompanied by Bugs' picture next to it on each boardroom member's phone] Our current research shows that Bugs Bunny is a core asset that appeals to male and female audiences both young and old alike throughout the universe, [the graph chart switches to a red bar graph chart accompanied by a 2D sprite of Daffy on it, which crashes in the ground as the graph goes down] while your fanbase is limited down to angry fat guys in basements.

Daffy Duck

Yeah, but... but... [to the boardroom members] Aw, come on, fellas! I'm thrice the entertainer the rabbit is!

Daffy Duck

So, it has come to this. I'm afraid that Brothers Warner must choose between a handsome matinee idol, or this miscreant perpetrator of LOW burlesque. [points at Bugs, who is wearing Groucho glasses and a spinning bowtie; everyone laughs]
Mr. Warner's Brother: Whichever one's not the duck.

Daffy Duck
[Daffy gasps, then, a boardroom member places a box labeled "Property of Mr. Duck", which has all of Daffy’s belongings, including a Bugs plush with needles on it, a big Daffy plush, a book called "Learn to draw Bugs Bunny and Friends", with Daffy replacing Bugs’ name with his own, and a picture of Daffy with the Warner Bros.]

Say, that's the stuff from my office.

You don't have an office.
Mr. Warner's Brother: Not any more.

Daffy Duck

Symbolically, this is bad. [begs at the Warner Bros.] Please, Brother! Uh, other Brother? [jumps on Kate] Icy she-wolf? Help me, please! I'm too young and tender to retire. Hoo-Hoo?

Let me escort you out.

Daffy Duck

WAIT! [Kate drags Daffy out of the boardroom] I haven't tried toadying, kowtowing and butt-kissing yet! I'm still begging here!

Daffy Duck
[to Kate]

Some grip, lady.

[to D.J.]

I need you to eject this duck immediately.

Lady, this is Daffy Duck.

Exactly. Not anymore. We already owned the name.

Daffy Duck
[to Kate]

Oh, yeah?! Well, you can't stop me from calling myself D... [gasps] D... [gasps again] Well, what do you know?

[to Kate]

You fired Daffy Duck?

No, I didn't. I did... I mean... They did.

[indicating Daffy in hand]

Miss Houghton!

Camera crew
[as a result of the Batmobile crashing into the Warner Bros. studio water tower, it starts to overturn in front of D.J., Kate, Bugs, and Daffy]

Get out of the way! Watch out!

[the water tower overturns, dousing Kate and Bugs and their car in water]

Well, what do you know? I've found Nemo.

Daffy
[to DJ, about Kate]

I think she likes you.

[turns around, and looks at D.J. and Daffy with an angry look on her face]

Oops!

Security Guard
[cut to a close-up view of D.J.'s right arm, as a security guard's hand rips the Warner Bros. Studios badge off of D.J.'s right sleeve] [to D.J.]

Your father would be so ashamed of you.

But I was... it was...
[the main gate shuts tight behind D.J. as he walks away]

Hello?

Son?

Dad? What are you doing in the painting?

I wanted you to keep out of this, but there's nobody I can trust. Can you hold on a second?

[in the background, Damian Drake is fighting a group of thugs]

Are you shooting a movie or something?

Daffy Duck
[hops in sofa with popcorn and soda in hand]

A new Damian Drake movie? Cool!

Come to Las Vegas. [more fighting in background] Ask Dusty Tails for the Blue Monkey.

The Blue Monkey? What's a blue monkey?

A diamond. A very special diamond. Find Dusty Tails.

[as the fighting continues yet still]

Hey! Dad, do you need me to call the police or something?

[uses his mouth to pull the pin out of a hand grenade, lobbing it behind him; the grenade explodes on a thug]

No. No police.

Dad, are you all right?

I'm sorry I never told you this before, but I— [thugs finally manage to catch him in a hold, Damian struggles visibly. The video call cuts off]

Daffy Duck
[en-route to Las Vegas, after repeated attempts of throwing Daffy out of DJ's car, DJ eventually gives up] [stretches]

It's good to stretch.

You know, I'm getting really tired of throwing you out of the car.

Daffy Duck

That's my plan in a nutshell. Now listen. If we run into anything that requires super-spy skills, like cracking wise, smooching dames, you better leave that to me. However, if we have any security guarding needs...

Very funny, duck! I'm not a security guard! For your information, it's just a job. It's what I do for money.

Daffy Duck

Mm-hmm.

What I really do is...I'm...I'm a... I'm a stuntman.

Daffy Duck

Hah! You, a stuntman? Please!

I am! Did you see those Mummy movies? I'm in them more than Brendan Fraser is. [Daffy rolls his eyes, complete with cartoon sound effect] Oh, no, he couldn't stand that! One day, he decides to say, "No-no-no! The Bren-Master does all his own stunts"!

Daffy Duck

Listen, muscles. If this heap ever makes it to Vegas, I'll do all the stunts. Capische?

So what about this Blue Monkey?

Dusty Tails

Your father's assignment was to track it down before the chairman could. The diamond has supernatural powers. It would be a disaster if it fell into the wrong hands. I was supposed to give him this. [shows DJ a Queen of Diamonds playing card with the Mona Lisa's face superimposed on it; Daffy takes the card briefly]

Daffy Duck

This is not a king-sized diamond. This is a Queen of Diamonds! What kind of sick joke is this?!

[Dusty chops Daffy in the gullet]

Can I have that?

Dusty Tails

That is so sweet! You, trying to take over for your father. These evil forces, they're bad people!

Daffy Duck

Relax, sister! I don't know the meaning of the word "fear"! [opens the door and finds himself facing a lit cannon with Yosemite Sam and his henchmen]

Say your prayers, Duck!

Daffy Duck

"Fear: Noun. A state of terror".
[everyone scatters as the cannon prepares to fire]

Daffy Duck
[Daffy and D.J. finally escape the Wooden Nickel]

I say we do Cirque de Soleil and call it a night. [D.J. makes a mad dash for his car] How 'bout the Liberace Museum? All right. Let's see what this baby can really do. [suddenly the car sputters and turns to pieces from all the long driving] Now that's an interesting feature.

I'm telling ya, Daffy, I heard the Warner brothers say you were their best duck.

Daffy Duck

Flattered though I may be, flattened I will not, in order for you to get all the laughs. It's all, "hoo-hoo, yuk-yuk," and then, "bam, wham, BLAM!"

And your tail is on fire.

Daffy Duck

Exactly my point. The—

No, really. Your tail's on fire.

[Daffy finally realizes that his tail is indeed on fire, running around trying to extinguish it]

Daff, you're accident-prone.

Daffy Duck
[sadly, as he extinguishes his tail]

What am I talking to you for? All you have to do is munch on a carrot, and people love you.

Daffy Duck
[Marvin the Martian releases aliens from various classic films and TV shows in Area 52]

Yikes! Illegal aliens!

Dalek

Exterminate them!

Mother

Darn! I knew this day would come...
[she goes to an alarm labelled "PUSH ONLY IN CASE THIS DAY COMES" and triggers it]

[Bugs and Daffy walk out from ACME headquarters] [to Daffy]

Well Daffy, you achieved your goal of being a hero.

Daffy Duck
[to Bugs]

Yup. But you didn’t achieve your goal of getting me back in your stupid movie! Ah-HA!

Director
[offscreen, revealing all along that the entire events of the movie were staged]

Cut. Print. That's a wrap.

Daffy Duck
[the voice makes Daffy pause in surprise as stagehands begin to dismantle the set]

Remind me to get a new agent, will you?

[last lines before the End Credits] [Bugs walks to the car]

Bugs's Butler: Bugs is here. Gotta go.

[to Daffy]

Daffy, you're right.

Ryan
[to Bugs]

The usual place, Mr. Bunny?

Very good, Ryan.

[to Daffy, as Gruesome Gorilla, Egghead, the Squirrel (from Much Ado About Nutting), and the other Looney Tunes characters and Merrie Melodies characters give him some carrots]

From now on, you and I are going to be equal partners in this thing. No more second banana for you.

Daffy Duck

Well, thanks, pal. I really appreciate this. [the car drives away from him] At last, my star is rising. All my hopes and aspirations... [a giant light appears falling into the floor] Well, what do you know? My luck is changing already.

Director
[a giant metal circle landed on Daffy; finally, Porky pops out]

Goodnight, Porky. See you tomorrow.

Porky Pig
[to the audience]

Th-Th-Th-Th-Th-Th... Go home, folks.
[the lights went out]

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