{"id":53603,"date":"2026-06-24T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=53603"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:36:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:36:04","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-iceman-ducketh-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/24\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-the-iceman-ducketh-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Iceman Ducketh (1964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Iceman Ducketh <\/strong>(1964)<br \/>\nDirected by Phil Monroe and Maurice Noble<br \/>\nStory by John Dunn<br \/>\nAnimation by Bob Bransford, Tom Ray, Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Matz, Alex Ignatiev, Harry Love<br \/>\nMusic by Bill Lava<\/p>\n<p>Daffy Duck is a would-be hunter in the Klondike who is eager to cash in on the trade for animal furs. However, he begins his quest just as the snowy winter sets in. He hopes to snag Bugs Bunny\u2019s soft furry coat for profit, but the rascally rabbit constantly outwits the neurotic and increasingly agitated duck.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iceman Ducketh\u201d was the final Bugs-Daffy frenemy pairing of the Golden Age and the final short created by Chuck Jones\u2019 unit. Jones had barely begun work on this title when he was fired by Warner Bros., and the production was completed as a joint effort between Jones\u2019 co-directing partner Maurice Noble and longtime animator Phil Monroe. Jones\u2019 absence is sorely missed, as the cartoon\u2019s visual style looks cheap and shoddy.<\/p>\n<p>John Dunn\u2019s script has a few amusing moments, such as Bugs claiming he has the same tailor as the Duke of Windsor and a sight gag with Bugs throwing water from a bucket that creates an ice barrier which Daffy crashes into \u2013 the rabbit looks to viewer and cheerfully says he was inspired by the \u201cinvisible shield\u201d of a toothpaste commercial. <\/p>\n<p>But on the whole, \u201cThe Iceman Ducketh\u201d is a weak offering that marks a behavioral shift for Daffy to a misanthropic villainy, a persona that he would maintain for the rest of the 1960s in his godawful pairings with Speedy Gonzales. <\/p>\n<p>The cartoon\u2019s denouement is more than a little sadistic, with Bugs settling in for a long hibernating rest while an angry and blue-skinned Daffy is trapped up a tree, his feathers torn off from an offscreen fight with several bears that sleep at the foot of the tree, preventing his escape and dooming him to freeze through a long winter. Sorry, that is not funny.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:500px\" data-embed-height=\"546\"><p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/looneytunes\/comments\/1hlgiy0\/the_iceman_ducketh_1964\/\">The Iceman Ducketh (1964)<\/a><br \/> by<br \/>\n<a href=\"\"><\/a> in<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/looneytunes\/\">looneytunes<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iceman Ducketh (1964) Directed by Phil Monroe and Maurice Noble Story by John Dunn Animation by Bob Bransford, Tom Ray, Ken Harris, Richard Thompson, Bob Matz, Alex Ignatiev, Harry Love Music by Bill Lava Daffy Duck is a would-be hunter in the Klondike who is eager to cash in on the trade for animal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":53604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[167,2078,2523,610],"class_list":["post-53603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-daffy-duck","tag-looney-tunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53605,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53603\/revisions\/53605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}