I don't consider Thumb Fun the best Daffy Duck cartoon, but it is an entertaining one. It is perhaps a little too short and the pacing is a tad uneven. But I loved the story, and it was put to good use. The animation is also great, this is for me one of McKimson's more colourful cartoons, and Porky looks better than I have seen him in a while. The music is quirky and tongue-in-cheek, just how I like it. The dialogue is witty, and really does sparkle between Daffy and Porky, and the sight gags are very clever and funny, especially the end sequence with the thumb. Both Porky and Daffy are great together, but it is really Daffy's cartoon, he is still the manic and lovable duck I have come to love him by. Oh, and Mel Blanc does a stellar job yet again with the voices. Overall, funny and clever elevated by Daffy, but not the best there is. 8/10 Bethany Cox
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TheLittleSongbird30 June 2010
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utgard1425 December 2014Ducks are flying south for the winter but Daffy's too clever for that. So he decides to hitchhike. Poor Porky is the unfortunate soul who gives him a ride. Obnoxious Daffy causes one problem after another, as you might expect. The animation is nice with lovely color throughout. Mel Blanc does all the voices, including one guy who stops just to let Daffy know he never picks up hitchhikers. Mel uses a variation of Foghorn Leghorn's voice for this character. Daffy/Porky shorts aren't my favorites but this one's pretty good. Robert McKimson delivers several solid gags. The trunk bit was used once too often but was still amusing.
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tadpole-596-9182566 November 2020. . . from his voluminous prevarications, falsehoods and outright lies to his final downfall. Like that infamous demented Delaware dude that thinks he's entitled to the White House after serving as the paid mouthpiece of the insurance industry for half a century, Daffy Duck believes the world owes him a free ride south (along with at least eight suitcases of ill-gotten gains no duck should have!). Too lazy to fly to nefarious Mexico like all the other waterfowl, Daffy constructs a bit of fake news to block the Public Highway with a bogus road construction pit, just as the deluded old codger's supporters divide their time between election fraud, pathetically honking their car horns beep-beep during sorry campaign "rallies" and blocking America's city streets with their continual "protests," looting and arson sprees. The USA would be in for a world of hurt if that infamous collegiate plagiarist flimflam artist was elevated into America's Executive Mansion, when his ACTUAL contemporary--Daffy Duck--is seen as his Role Model (which, given their respective growth charts, he probably was in Real Life!). Fortunately, just as we citizens of our 2020 U.S. Homeland will never allow some senile pretender to weasel his way into our sacred White House, Porky Pig proves too smart for the delusional Daffy, who winds up out in the cold, facing the harsh winter all by his lonesome.
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oscaralbert13 December 2015. . . Daffy Duck wears white boxers under his black tail feathers. At the outset of THUMB FUN, Daffy decides to stay on the ground--hitching a ride--with winter coming on, rather than taking the trouble to fly South with the rest of his flock. As the blur of the first passing vehicle roars by, ALL of Mr. Duck's feathers are sucked off into a neat pile, leaving a shame-faced Daffy cowering in nothing but his button-down boxers. Two blurs later, the driver of Daffy's lucky "ride"--Porky Pig--is wearing a light blue shirt and a color-coordinated blue and yellow hat. Daffy doesn't seem to notice that something's missing from Porky's ensemble: PANTS! Though Mr. Duck had seemed totally humiliated a minute earlier to possibly be caught out in the Wilderness wearing just ONE bottom covering, he says NOTHING to Mr. Pig about the latter's partial get-up. Daffy proves to be a backseat driver about everything except the missing backseat (as well as the side and front panels) of Porky's pants!
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Mightyzebra20 June 2011For some reason I really like this particular Daffy Duck and Porky Pig episode. I guess it is because the idea of the episode is an interesting one, the cartoon has a good mixture of slapstick and witty jokes, it has only a few predictable ones and mainly unpredictable ones. Both Porky's and Daffy's characters are very well-developed and the ideas of the plot are well-devised. Daffy Duck is not exactly greedy in this episode, but he is very horrible to Porky. Luckily he is pretty crazy here and my favourite type of Daffy is a crazy Daffy. Porky Pig is very likable here and until Daffy Duck butts in is a very safe respectable driver.
Anyhow, basically here Daffy Duck wants to go south for the winter but cannot be bothered to fly like the other birds. He reckons a good way to travel south is by hitch-hiking, so he begins to attempt hitch-hiking at the start. After a few cars pass him and do not let him ride, he manages to make his way into the car of none other than Porky Pig... Will he manage to travel down south by hitch-hiking...?
I recommend this episode to Daffy Duck fans, or fans of the crazy Daffy Duck, to Porky Pig fans and to those who like Looney Tunes in general. This episode has an interesting plot idea, which is the subject of hitch-hiking, something that I have not watched since in a Looney Tunes episode before or since I first saw this cartoon. Enjoy "Thumb Fun"! :-) -
lee_eisenberg16 August 2019This runaround has Daffy getting ready to travel south but not wanting to fly like the rest of the birds, so he hitches a ride with Porky, only to make Porky's trip a living hell! Robert McKimson's "Thumb Fun" might not be the best entry in the Looney Tunes series, but any pairing of the lisping anatid and stuttering suid* is a good one, particularly with some of the gags that Daffy pulls here. I enjoyed it every step of the way.
*Taxonomy geeks will know what I mean by Anatidae and Suidae.