Daffy Rents

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| director = Robert McKimson

| story = Michael O'Connor

| editing = Al Wahrman

| animator = Bob Matz
Manny Perez
George Grandpré
Norm McCabe

| layout_artist = Dick Ung

| background_artist = Tom O'Loughlin

| starring = Mel Blanc
Gonzales Gonzales

| music = Irving Gertz

| producer = David H. DePatie
Friz Freleng

| studio = DePatie–Freleng Enterprises

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1966|03|26|USA}}

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime = 6 minutes

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| language = English

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Daffy Rents is a 1966 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=357}} The short was released on March 26, 1966, and stars Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |accessdate=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/60/mode/2up |pages=60–62}}

In this film, Daffy is hired to protect a nursing home from Speedy. He uses a robot against Speedy.

Synopsis

Daffy gets called by the aptly named Dr. Ben Crazy (a parody of the then popular Ben Casey) to remove Speedy from his cats-only nursing home. To do his dirty work for him, Daffy uses his robot Herman to catch Speedy. Unfortunately, Herman proves to be no match for the mouse, (and Speedy's overgrown rat cousin, Ramon) and both he and Daffy eventually give up.

When Daffy tries to get his money after getting rid of Speedy, the temperamental Dr. Crazy throws Daffy through the window and out of the office! The cartoon then closes with Daffy remarking: "Hmmph! It's a sad state of affairs, when a mouse can make a machine turn a duck into a chicken on account of a rat. Ooh, what a revolting development!"

Voice cast

Mel Blanc voices Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, Herman, First Nurse
Gonzales Gonzales voices Dr. Ben Crazy

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=0cEAOsLJad8C&pg=PA58&vq=%22daffy+rents%22&dq=%22Daffy+Rents%22+%2BDaffy&lr=&source=gbs_search_s&sig=ACfU3U0z4F2qUuZTRZLXZvk5tDWT0uvJ7g Lawson, Tim and Alisa Persons. The Magic Behind the Voices: A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors page 58. University Press of Mississippi. 2004. Google Books. Online. July 1, 2008.]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110520053112/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/138852/Daffy-Rents/overview New York Times]. Online. July 1, 2008.
[http://www.showbizdata.com/movie/18004/Daffy-Rents Showbiz Data] Online. July 1, 2008.