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* [["Seen It All" Suicide]]: Though it is actually ''J.L.'' who has seen it all, and ''Daffy'' who commits the suicide.
* [["Seen It All" Suicide]]: Though it is actually ''J.L.'' who has seen it all, and ''Daffy'' who commits the suicide.
{{quote|It's getting so you have to ''kill'' yourself to sell a story nowadays.}}
{{quote|It's getting so you have to ''kill'' yourself to sell a story nowadays.}}
** And, as with all [["Seen It All" Suicide|seen-it-all suicides]] (or any kind of suicide) on Looney Tunes, don't expect to see this on American TV uncut and uncensored. You're better off getting it uncut on video, DVD, or Internet.
:* And, as with all [["Seen It All" Suicide|seen-it-all suicides]] (or any kind of suicide) on Looney Tunes, don't expect to see this on American TV uncut and uncensored. You're better off getting it uncut on video, DVD, or Internet.
** Actually subverted, since the bullet hole is in his hat afterwards.
:* Actually subverted, since the bullet hole is in his hat afterwards.
* [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare]]: Twice misquoted by Daffy -- "Vanity, thy name is woman!"<ref>Instead of "Frailty, thy name is woman," ''[[Hamlet]]'', I.ii.146</ref> and "Parting is such sweet stuff."<ref>Instead of "Parting is such sweet sorrow," ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', II.ii.184.</ref>
* [[Shout-Out/To Shakespeare]]: Twice misquoted by Daffy -- "Vanity, thy name is woman!"<ref>Instead of "Frailty, thy name is woman," ''[[Hamlet]]'', I.ii.146</ref> and "Parting is such sweet stuff."<ref>Instead of "Parting is such sweet sorrow," ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'', II.ii.184.</ref>
* [[Standard Snippet]]: Several, as is typical of a Carl Stalling score, including "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcskYeT0LOE Hooray for Hollywood]" to set the scene at the studio; the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE15tLBdso Boccherini minuet] to show that we are in [[The Cavalier Years]]; Ben Jonson's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze0 Song: To Celia] for the love scene; Suppé's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFylMmmT5L8 Banditenstreiche]'' during the chase scenes; and, of course, [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[Lohengrin and Mendelssohn|bridal chorus]] during the wedding.
* [[Standard Snippet]]: Several, as is typical of a Carl Stalling score, including "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcskYeT0LOE Hooray for Hollywood]" to set the scene at the studio; the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSE15tLBdso Boccherini minuet] to show that we are in [[The Cavalier Years]]; Ben Jonson's "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze0 Song: To Celia] for the love scene; Suppé's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFylMmmT5L8 Banditenstreiche]'' during the chase scenes; and, of course, [[Richard Wagner]]'s [[Lohengrin and Mendelssohn|bridal chorus]] during the wedding.

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"And who might you be, t-t-thirrah?
"Mayhap perchance, foppish that I am, I might be The Scarlet Pumpernickel?"
—Daffy Duck, "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"

"The Scarlet Pumpernickel" is a 1950 Merrie Melodies short, directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, and "Melissa" (a female duck), with cameos by Elmer Fudd and the Mama Bear from Jones's Three Bears Trilogy. Purporting to be Daffy's own film concept (which he is attempting to pitch to "J.L."[1]), the short is a parody of a typical Swashbuckler -- including, of course, The Scarlet Pimpernel -- complete with Shout-Outs to Warners' own swashbuckling hero Errol Flynn and much Lampshading and Subversion of the conventions of the genre.

This short has been chosen number 31 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons ever made. It also made it onto The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes list.

Tropes used in The Scarlet Pumpernickel include:

Lord High Chamberlain (Porky Pig): I'm simply furious!
Narrator: But Milady Melissa was simply delighted.
Melissa: I'm simply delighted!

It's getting so you have to kill yourself to sell a story nowadays.

  • And, as with all seen-it-all suicides (or any kind of suicide) on Looney Tunes, don't expect to see this on American TV uncut and uncensored. You're better off getting it uncut on video, DVD, or Internet.
  • Actually subverted, since the bullet hole is in his hat afterwards.
  1. ↑ Jack L. Warner
  2. ↑ "En garde! Riposté! Café au lait! Champs-elysées!"
  3. ↑ Instead of "Frailty, thy name is woman," Hamlet, I.ii.146
  4. ↑ Instead of "Parting is such sweet sorrow," Romeo and Juliet, II.ii.184.
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