"Assault and Peppered" is a 1965 Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales. It was written by John W. Dunn and directed by Robert McKimson
Daffy runs a ranch and will not let the starving mice in. One of those mice calls on his cousin Speedy Gonzalez, who arrives and knocks Daffy's beak off, to which Daffy demands a duel. Daffy fires a cannon at Speedy, who outruns the cannonball and somehow gets it to turn back on Daffy. Daffy even tries firing one at Speedy even though he has no cannonballs, only to turn his own cannon on himself. Speedy comes by to borrow a cannonball; he climbs into the cannon and rolls it home. Daffy plants land mines between their two forts and then loses the map to Speedy, but he finds them, one by one, as he walks home. Speedy gets tired of fighting and goes home, so Daffy celebrates with a 21-gun salute: 21 cannons pointed at Speedy's door, which of course turn back on Daffy just as he pulls the trigger.
"Assault and Peppered" provides examples of:
- 21-Gun Salute: Daffy does this at the end, with his own cannons firing at him and Speedy observantly keeping count.
- Chekhov's Gag: A Checkhov's Cannon, in a way. Daffy when trying to fire a cannon, pulls it round so it faces him as he fires. At the end when he does a 21-gun salute, he pulls all of them towards him as he fires.
- Counting Bullets: In this case, Counting Cannonballs. Speedy observantly keeps count of how many cannonballs hit Daffy when his 21-Gun Salute backfires.
- Duel to the Death: When Daffy learns the hard way that Speedy is in fact real, the duck retaliates by challenging the mouse to a duel with cannons.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Daffy falls victim to a number of his own weapons and traps throughout the short:
- Having his own cannonball fired on him, three times. The first time with Speedy racing through his fortress and redirecting it back, the second time when Daffy mistakenly points the cannon at himself, and the third time when Speedy fires it at him with his own cannon, having stolen said cannonball from his fortress.
- Setting up land mines across the battlefield, but cannot find them after Speedy steals the map marking off where he hid them, making it hard for him to return to his fortress. Speedy then tells Daffy where they were each time he steps on one, setting them off one-by-one.
- When Speedy finally "surrenders", Daffy declares victory with a 21-gun salute with the cannons pointing at Speedy's fortress, only for said cannon to be redirected at him and firing at him one-by-one with Speedy observantly keeping count.
- Jump Scare: Speedy makes his presence known to Daffy and his horse with this. Daffy falls first, followed by his horse, flattening the duck (and knocking his beak off) in the process.
- Kill the Poor: A child-friendly example - Daffy decides to declare war on the poor people just because they were standing on his property.
- Overly Long Name: The name Daffy goes by in this short is Don Daffy de la Scrooge del Meanie del Tora de la Quack, Jr.
- Squashed Flat: The result of Daffy's horse landing on top of Daffy after Speedy gives them both a scare.
- Tempting Fate: When Daffy refuses any food for the starving mice, they warn Daffy that Speedy will stop him, but Daffy foolishly dismisses Speedy as just a myth — right at the moment Speedy, very much real, runs up behind Daffy and his horse and gives them both a scare, resulting in the horse landing right on top of Daffy, which in turn only incites the duck's wrath further.
