Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
A Looney Tunes take on A Christmas Carol.
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In 2006, the Looney Tunes gang starred in a direct-to-DVD Christmas comedy, Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas.
Directed by Charles Visser for Warner Bros. Animation, it adapts Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The film hit DVD on November 14, 2006, later airing on Cartoon Network.
Plot
Bugs Bunny steps out of his burrow to shovel snow and barely avoids being hit by a gas-guzzling SUV. The driver is Daffy Duck, playing Ebenezer Scrooge as the owner of the Lucky Duck Superstore, a massive warehouse club. Bugs trails Daffy and calls him out for ignoring Playboy Penguin’s need for help, but Daffy brushes him off. Over the day, Daffy abuses his staff, tries to swipe charity money collected by Egghead Jr., Henery Hawk, and Barnyard Dawg, has trouble with his hover scooter, and gets roughed up by workers and shoppers after insulting them.
Daffy admits he despises the holidays. Bugs warns him about consequences, referencing A Christmas Carol, and says “Bah, Humduck!” Daffy makes that his catchphrase. After pushing his employees hard on Christmas Eve, Daffy demands they return at 5:00 AM on Christmas Day.
Assistant Manager Porky Pig, in a Bob Cratchit role, begs to go home to his daughter Priscilla, but Daffy says no. Later, Daffy’s late business hero Sylvester the Investor appears, bound in chains as punishment for greed after a disgruntled employee ran him over nine times with a forklift.
Sylvester warns Daffy that three ghosts will come, but Daffy thinks it’s a trick by Bugs. He then turns down Elmer Fudd’s vacation request, Marvin the Martian’s trip home, and Porky’s plea to see Priscilla and her doll. That night, everyone leaves, and a snowdrift traps Daffy in the store with Bugs.
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- Wikipedia: Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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