Happy Go Ducky

Happy Go Ducky
Premiere dates
U.S. Air Date	January 4, 1958
Producers
Story by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Directed by	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Animation by	Kenneth Muse Lewis Marshall Bill Schipek James Escalante Ken Southworth Herman Cohen
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Color process	Technicolor CinemaScope Perspecta
Music by	Scott Bradley
Preceded by	Tom's Photo Finish
Followed by	Royal Cat Nap

Happy Go Ducky is the 110th one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, created on January 3, 1958, directed and produced by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with music by Scott Bradley, backgrounds by Roberta Greutert and layouts by Dick Bickenbach.

Plot

On Easter morning, the Easter Bunny leaves an Easter egg for Tom and Jerry. However, the egg is not a chocolate egg; instead, it is the second time the duckling named Quacker hatches out, who insists on swimming in everything in the house: Tom's milk dish, the fish tank, the water cooler, the bathtub, and the kitchen sink. Tom and Jerry put Quacker back in his egg and tape the egg shut, but Quacker escapes. The last straw occurs when Quacker is swimming in the shower cubicle and floods the house. Tom and Jerry conspire to drop Quacker off at a nearby public park, but their plan backfires when Quacker returns, this time along with more ducklings, flooding the entire house with water. Quacker tells them that he and the other ducks have a surprise for them and says, "All together, fellas!" and the ducks all shout together at once to the cat and the mouse, "HAPPY EASTER!" and swim around them in the end, while Tom and Jerry smile and watch.

Characters

• Tom Cat
• Jerry Mouse
• Quacker
• Quacker's siblings
• Rabbit
• Seahorse

Notes

• This cartoon marks the penultimate appearance of Quacker the duckling.
• The cartoon's title is a play on the phrase Happy go lucky.
• The music was reused from Jerry and the Goldfish.
• In this short, neither Tom nor Jerry are friends with Quacker, who ends up annoying them both.
• The print that airs on Cartoon Network and Boomerang has noticeably washed out colors compared to the other CinemaScope shorts. It is possible that it is the original print of the cartoon.
• This is one of the shorts where Quacker has clones, the others being Just Ducky and Downhearted Duckling.
• When Tom is looking for Quacker at the sink, he accidentally pokes him with a knife. Quacker then pokes Tom on the rear with another knife and says, "Touché, Pussycat!" This was a line that was mainly used by Nibbles in most of the Mouseketeers cartoons.
• The Easter Bunny makes a brief cameo at the beginning of the short. This is technically the only time a rabbit appears on a Golden Age Tom and Jerry cartoon.

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