Quick Draw and Quack Drawn

The Hanna-Barbera rule book states on the third half of page 13: “All duck hunting in the aforementioned studio’s cartoons will fail.” Nobody should know better than your felicitous friend Yowp after an unsuccessful bid at bagging Biddy Buddy. (Apparently, this line was written by Charlie Shows).

This unbreakable law does not just apply to Biddy Buddy and his later incarnation of Yakky Doodle. Witness this mini-cartoon between the cartoons from the Quick Draw McGraw Show, brought to you in Eastmancolor film that has degraded to a magnificent magenta.

Quick Draw asks Augie what Doggie Daddy is up to. Daddy explains he’ll attract ducks if puts on a duck suit. Off he goes quacking. All he attracts is hunters. You know what happens.



Doggie Daddy then points out to us that the suit also attracts duck hunters. Quick Draw then informs the next attraction is an Augie Doggie cartoon.



There isn’t a lot of animation in this. Judging by the shapes of the mouths and the fact they’re sliding around the face, I would say this little cartoon was animated by Mike Lah. I don’t know when he left the Hanna-Barbera studio; he isn’t credited after the first season of the Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-59). It could he was working on commercials for the studio or he could have animated this on a freelance basis (Lah for many years was at Quartet Films, eventually running the company).

Too bad for Doggie Daddy that this bumper wasn’t made about ten years later. Networks don’t seem to have let any cartoon character fire a gun then. Bad for the kiddies, you know.