History WesternAnimation / DaffyDucksQuackbusters

* TemptingFate: When Daffy inherits Cubish's fortune and thinks about spennding it on himself, he remarks, "What's he gonna do? He can't take it with him." He's dead wrong.

"Night of the Living Duck" and "The Duxorcist" (the film's two new full cartoon segments) were later re-used in the 1992 TV special ''Bugs Bunny's Creature Features'', while "The Duxorcist" would later join the Saturday morning rotation on ABC's ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyShow Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show]]''.

* StockAudioClip: Some vocal lines in the new linking footage and ''The Duxorcist'' are recycled from classic shorts, likely due to Blanc's health. For example, Daffy's dialogue when he goes door-to-door is taken from ''The Stupor Salesman'', and at the end of ''The Duxorcist'', Daffy's screams are taken from ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck''. Daffy's laugh when he sees he's inherited Cubish's fortune is also reused.

* TheVoiceless: Sylvester in the new linking animation.

Here, Daffy Duck is a salesman who accepts a job to fulfill millionaire J.B. Cubish's wish to make him laugh one more time before he passes on. Daffy succeeds and when Cubish kicks the bucket, Daffy earns all his money from his will as long as he uses it for goodwill. But Daffy, well... being Daffy, plots to spend the money for himself, and so he's haunted by Cubish's ghost, who will gradually make his money disappear if Daffy doesn't provide a service to the community, or for that matter, does or says anything dishonest. As a result, Daffy decides to open a ghost exterminating business to get rid of ghosts like Cubish and hires WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/PorkyPig to help him.

* AnimationBump: Frans Vischer, Rebecca Rees, Darrel Van Citters, Dan Haskett and Nancy Beiman have bits of animation that are more smooth and lifelike than a few of the other animators in the new wraparound segments.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Daffy seeks to fulfil Cupish's final request of making him laugh. It seems to work a bit too well as, even beyond the grave, Cupish obsesses over Daffy as his one bringer of joy (or more accurately, [[{{Schadenfreude}} Daffy's misery]]).

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Some television showings (specifically, Creator/CartoonNetwork, back when their animated movie block was called "Cartoon Network's Cartoon Theater," not "Flicks") cut out the scene near the beginning where Daffy offers a six-pack of Billy Beer with the cars he's selling, as well as the noose scenes from "Claws for Alarm."
** When "The Duxorcist" became its own short and aired on ABC, the part where Daffy calls the possessed female duck a schizophrenic, refers to her as "Sybil," and asks if there's "any more like [her] in the family" before adding "Could you send back that older sister of yours?" was replaced with a previous cut part (that came after he kisses her) where he says, "I don't know my own strength," as ABC felt the offending part was making fun of the mentally ill.
* ButtMonkey: Daffy.

* CoversAlwaysLie: The UK’s VHS cover for the film shows Daffy in a trench coat, flipping a coin, while the ghosts from The Duxorcist are on a wanted poster, making an image that looks a lot more fit for a detective film.

* DownerEnding: Though through RuleOfFunny and not that Daffy didn't have it coming. See Humilation Conga.

* HumiliationConga: After Daffy gets humiliated on the air about the tiny elephant story, he plans to blame Porky for everything. This, along with an absent-minded remark about "nothing being wrong with dishonesty in business affairs", proves to be the final straw for Cubish, who takes Daffy's remaining money (and leaves behind a sign ribbing it in). He then gets his possessions repossessed and the entire apartment building is demolished (with him still in it!). And apparently, Cubish's curse is still on him, as a dollar he earns instantly vanishes once he gets it.

* KarmaHoudini: J.B. Cubish. Despite being dead, he's able to take away the money he left to Daffy (though to be fair, it was whenever Daffy did or considered doing something that goes against the terms of the will). [[spoiler: And after taking the last of the money, it's implied that he's responsible for Daffy being reposessed and the building torn down with him in it, and afterwards, he takes away a dollar Daffy earned as a street corner salesman, which has nothing to do with the terms of the will.]]
* KickTheDog: At one point, Daffy struggles to take care of his tax exams and breaks down crying. As he does, though, Cubish's ghost is heard laughing sadistically, KNOWINGLY that Daffy is struggling and deep, utter pain.

* OrphanedReference: In ''The Prize Pest'', Daffy arrives at Porky's house in a gift box, as he had been the prize Porky won in a contest. There is no indication he arrived that way in the film, but Daffy still runs out of the house in said gift box after Porky's disguise scares him.

** In ''The Duxorcist'', Daffy exorcises some ghosts off a pretty woman by making jokes. This is the one that works like gangbusters:

* SouthernBelle: Most likely the female duck's natural voice, as she talks like this after the ghosts are exorcised.

* StorefrontTelevisionDisplay: While Daffy is trying to sell his wares on the sidewalk, he looks in a window and sees a TV news report about J. P. Cubish offering his fortune to the one who can make him laugh one more time before he dies. This was a modification of a scene from the short ''Daffy Dilly'', in which Daffy listens to the news on a radio, [[SettingUpdate but this wasn't 1948 anymore]].

* VocalEvolution: Being one of his final performances before his death (aged 81 no less), Mel Blanc's performances as the Looney Tunes regulars in the new footage sounds very noticeably more worn and gravelly than that in the reused shorts. Especially noticeable for Daffy and Porky, whose new dialogue isn't pitch shifted like it normally is. According to director Greg Ford, Mel was very worn out when recording, and his work required a lot of editing to get up to par (the aforementioned lack of pitch shifting was to try and maintain the nuance Mel could still accomplish).

** Two of the shorts, "The Duxorcist" and "Night of the Living Duck," were made within a year of the film (and the latter was made ''for'' the film).

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: "Spooks spooked, goblins gobbled, [=UFOs=] K.O.ed, aliens alienated, vampires evaporated, and monsters remonstrated."

* NeverMyFault: When the tiny elephant shows up just as Daffy claims it’s hokum, he’s discredited and his business is ruined. In a last ditch effort to save face, he decides to throw Porky under the bus. His reason being that Porky got the information wrong. It’s this selfishness that ultimately loses him the last of his fortune.

* EveryoneHasStandards: As sadistic as Cubish gets throughout the movie, he will not tolerate Daffy mistreating Porky or Sylvester. He also thinks that phrases that aren't done literally, like "juggling the books", are dishonest too.

* OffModel: Despite their best efforts, switches between the classic cartoons and the new bridging segments are ''really'' noticeable.

* LarynxDissonance: PlayedForLaughs. Daffy takes some ''Eau De Torme'' mouth spray and proceeds to sing with the docile tones of [[NonSingingVoice crooner Mel Torme]].

* ArtShift: The animators actually changed the characters' designs accordingly to fit the classic cartoon that featured those very designs. For example, Daffy transition to his Creator/RobertMcKimson designs in the scenes leading up to "The Prize Pest."

* CompilationMovie: This movie combines classic Warner Bros. cartoons to create an original story. It is kind of jarring to hear the by then aged voice of Creator/MelBlanc suddenly transition to his more expressive performances in the classics.

* CompositeCharacter: The result of film meshing a selection of cartoons from different eras and directors into a coherent package has this effect on Daffy, establishing him as a greedy and desperate UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist as later shorts did, but maintaining his mischievous opportunistic side from early on.

* KickTheDog: At one point, Daffy struggles to take care of his tax exams and breaks down crying. As he does, though, Cubish's ghost is heard laughing sadistically, KNOWINGLY that Daffy is struggling and suffering.

* PaleFemalesDarkMales: The lady duck has lighter colored feathers than Daffy's when looking at them together.

PaleFemalesDarkMales: The lady duck has lighter colored feathers than Daffy's when looking at them together.

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the original "Daffy Dilly", Cupish was just a dying man that got a juice of life again from Daffy's buffoonery. The film expands on this, revealing that even in death, Cupish revels in Daffy's misery, giving him a SpitefulWill after a long tenure as his personal ButtMonkey, and cursing him with bankrupsy and misfortune whenever he doesn't uphold the terms (or sometimes even when he does).