Baby Bottleneck (1946)

Baby Bottleneck is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster. The cartoon was released on March 16, 1946, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Tweety makes a cameo appearance in the film.

Plot

As the baby boom of 1946 escalates, a disgruntled stork (patterned after its Jimmy Durante figure) laments his workload at the Stork's Club. Inexperienced animals have attempted, unsuccessfully, to mitigate the increased workload, resulting in numerous baby animals being delivered to parents of the wrong species.

Porky Pig takes charge of Storks Inc. and appoints Daffy Duck to answer the phones. An assembly line powders, diapers, feeds and burps each baby before it is sent to its parents. Trouble arises when Porky discovers an egg without an address; Porky decides that hatching it will reveal its species and assigns Daffy to the task. Daffy refuses, leading to a chase around the factory and an eventual mishap where both go through the assembly line together and are sent to Africa, where a mother gorilla awaits her child.

Daffy cries upon realizing where he is due to his own actions, and the gorilla begins nursing him until Porky emerges from the diaper. The gorilla, terrified, calls Mr. Anthony (a popular radio advice commentator of the era).

Reception

Michael Barrier writes, "Baby Bottleneck, like Book Revue (1946), reveals just how great Bob Clampett's impact was on the Warner Bros. cartoons in the early 1940s... As so often in Clampett's best cartoons, there is a prevailing air of hysteria and madness: The stork is drunk, inexperienced help is delivering babies to the wrong mothers, everything is a mess — and all is bliss."

Home media

DVD: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2

Blu-ray and DVD: Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1

See also

List of Daffy Duck cartoons

References

External links

Baby Bottleneck at IMDb