The Great Piggy Bank Robbery - Allusions and Influence

Allusions and Influence

  • Daffy's early line about Dick Tracy, "I love that man!" and the pig's closing line, "I love that duck!" are references to a popular catch-phrase of the time, "Love dat man!", said by the character Beulah on Fibber McGee and Molly. Clampett would use the gag again in his next and final cartoon at Warner Bros. Cartoons, The Big Snooze.
  • In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Inside Plucky Duck," there was a segment called "Bat's All Folks" where a spoof of the criminal encounters has Plucky Duck as Bat-Duck encountering Jackster (a donkey parody of Joker), Puffin (a puffin parody of Penguin), Question Mark (a parody of Riddler), and Polecat Woman (a parody of Catwoman). In "New Character Day", there was a segment called "The Return of Pluck Tracy" where Plucky Duck is in the same role that Daffy had here. Here, Pluck Tracy had to rescue Shirley the Loon's aura (who is really Hatta Mari) from gangsters like Ticklepuss (based on Sloppy Moe from Wagon Heels), Soupy Man (an anthropomorphic soup can), Jack the Zipper (an anthropomorphic zipper), Boston Dangler (an upside down Bostonian on a trapeze), Flatbottom (a naval criminal with a miniature battleship for a butt), Boxcars (a train conductor based on the Peter Lorre Scientist), the Generic Thugs, Wolvertoon (a deformed version of Bugs Bunny), Millipede Pete (an anthropomorphic millipede), the Chorus Line Men, Tankenstein (a Transformers spoof who is a name pun on Frankenstein),and the other unnamed grotesque criminals.
  • Daffy says "sufferin' succotash" while waiting for his Dick Tracy comic. This line would eventually become the catchphrase of Sylvester, who also has a lisp in his voice.
  • In the scene in which Daffy is seen through a door in silhouette as Duck Twacy, his shadow briefly morphs into Dick Tracy's trademark profile.
  • An episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold titled "Legends of the Dark-Mite" contains a sequence which heavily parodies the cartoon. Unlike when Daffy faces criminals which are parodies, here Bat-Mite faces actual Batman villains (namely Joker, Penguin, Riddler, Catwoman, Two-Face, Mr. Freeze, Mad Hatter, Catman, Polka-Dot Man, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Killer Moth, Kite Man, Zebra-Man, and Tiger Shark). As an example, miniature Kite Man figures launch off the top hat of the Mad Hatter.

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