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The Stupor Salesman
The Stupor Salesman
	Title card to The Stupor Salesman
Directed by	Arthur Davis
Story by	Lloyd Turner; Bill Scott
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Basil Davidovich; Emery Hawkins; Bill Melendez; Don Williams; Herman Cohen
Layouts by	Don Smith
Backgrounds by	Philip DeGuard
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	November 20, 1948;
Running time	7:03
Language	English

The Stupor Salesman is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Arthur Davis, and written by Lloyd Turner and Bill Scott.^[2] The cartoon was released on November 20, 1948, and stars Daffy Duck.^[3]

Plot

Slug McSlug, a cunning canine criminal, pulls off a successful bank robbery using a bump key to gain entry. As he eludes the police, he retreats to his rural hideout. However, his peace is disrupted by the persistent Daffy Duck, a relentless salesman peddling various wares.

Despite McSlug's attempts to rid himself of Daffy, the determined duck continues to intrude, employing unconventional methods to gain entry. With each attempt, Daffy's antics frustrate McSlug, leading to a series of comical confrontations.

As tensions escalate, Daffy's cleverness prevails, ultimately causing McSlug's downfall in a fiery explosion. With McSlug defeated, Daffy revels in his victory, taunting his defeated foe with a triumphant cry.

Reception

Animation historian Mike Mallory writes, "There is not a wasted cel in The Stupor Salesman. At first glance, the story of a bank robber who cannot escape the diabolical persistence of door-to-door salesman Daffy Duck (at his stream-of-consciousness best) sounds like a conventional pest-vs.-threat cartoon, but it is not. The short zooms by with the insistent pacing of the early Warner Bros. gangster films it aggressively parodies. Rarely, if ever, has one seven-minute cartoon burst its seams so thoroughly with inventive sight gags, throwaway jokes, and visual details."^[4]

Home media

VHS:

Superior Duck

Laserdisc:

Guffaw and Order

DVD:

Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 5
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3

References

^ "Warner Cartoon Breakdowns #3: That Darnfool Duck!". Retrieved 19 December 2020.
^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 191. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70-72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
^ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. p. 178. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.