A Pest in the House
A Pest in the House
NR | 02 August 1947 (USA)
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A very tired businessman needs some sleep and checks into a hotel run by Elmer Fudd, where Daffy Duck is the bellhop.

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Btexxamar

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

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Spoonatects

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Janae Milner

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Tyreece Hulme

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

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Robert Reynolds

This is a particularly good Daffy and Elmer cartoon. There will be spoilers ahead: This is a very funny short with a simple but effective premise. It sets up a basic situation where there is potential conflict and then introduces an irritant to exploit that potential for conflict in order to get laughs.Much to Elmer's sorrow, there's one constant running gag, a punch line of sorts, all through this short and Daffy is the trigger with Elmer the unfortunate "beneficiary" of Daffy's misplaced enthusiasms. If I were the tired businessman, duck would be on the menu. But Daffy is like a kid brother. No matter what he does here, he always seems to get away with it, while you get grounded for a month because of what he did. Life isn't fair.Would someone please send an ice bag, some aspirin and bandages to the front desk? This short is relatively easy to find, is on one of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection sets (Blu-Ray/DVD) and is well worth watching. Most recommended.

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tavm

With this cartoon the second consecutive Daffy Duck one I've seen in which he's in his prime, I've now completely recovered from the mediocre one he made with Speedy in the '60s I watched before them. He's a bellhop who unwittingly (or maybe not) disturbs a man who just wants quiet while he sleeps but keeps hitting Elmer the manager as a result of the duck's shenanigans! And this guy's room number is 666! LOL! Hilarious from beginning to end, this Chuck Jones entry just kept me guffawing in due time. I especially loved hearing Mel Blanc's singing as both Daffy and a drunk in the next room when they're both warbling! A Pest in the House is well worth the time for anyone who loves classic Looney Tunes. P.S. How surreal was it to hear Arthur Q. Bryan as both Elmer and that man who threatens to "bust you right in the nose!"?

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slymusic

"A Pest in the House", directed by Chuck Jones, is one of the funniest Daffy Duck cartoons ever made. Elmer Fudd is the manager of a hotel where Daffy is employed as a bellhop. A tired old heavyset businessman checks in and requests nothing but a peaceful, quiet sleep. Well, pal, you've got Daffy Duck on the premises, and you think you're going to get a good night's sleep?! Two highlights: First, Daffy hears a joke that is so funny he has to wake the poor guy up and tell it to him! And second, Daffy attempts to silence an inebriated tenant next door singing "Nobody Knows How Dry I Am", but instead, Daffy is heard taking a big swig and then joining in the song.With "A Pest in the House" like Daffy Duck, how could we not feel sorry for this poor old guy who just wants to GET SOME SLEEP?! It makes me wonder how many people can relate to this kind of situation. The frustrated look in that man's bloodshot eyes is all that is needed to convey his disappointment, and Elmer Fudd is the unfortunate recipient of punches to the face for Daffy's unintentional iniquities.

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Lee Eisenberg

At face value, "A Pest in the House" looks like the average wacky Looney Tunes cartoon, as bellboy Daffy Duck keeps awaking a sleepy guest who proceeds to punch clerk Elmer Fudd in the nose. But I notice something else. At the beginning, the narrator says that there was a labor shortage, so places would hire anyone...or anything (at which point we meet that famously loony member of the genus Anas*). This cartoon was released in 1947, the year of the Taft-Hartley Act. The Taft-Hartley Act cut off unions' power. Therefore, not only would a labor shortage have made sense, but one could say that they were hiring non-union labor in the form of Daffy Duck.OK, I've gone irrevocably overboard in trying to analyze this cartoon. I'm sure that in reality, it was just intended as zany entertainment to get shown right before a feature film (and it is really funny). So check it out. And the next time that the phone rings, don't answer; it might be a fist (although in this age of text-messaging cell phones, we're probably safe).*Anas is the genus to which ducks belong.PS: the guest looks a little bit like Arthur Q. Bryan, who provided Elmer Fudd's voice. I don't know whether or not that was just a coincidence.

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