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As the fox attacks with a carving knife, Huey establishes another part of the standard plot formula, as he finally realizes, “I think you’re trying to kill me.” The two disappear in a fight cloud as the knife fight ensues – but out of it pops fox, skinned and reduced to a pair of BVD’s, and races for the hills.

An anvil dropped on Huey’s head from the barn merely cracks in two. Huey’s grip is so powerful, the bullets can’t exit, and the gun blows up in fox’s face. But he grabs hold of the barrel and lifts fox out of the tree just as fox pulls the trigger. Next, fox posts a sign over a knothole in a tree: “Look in here, stupid!” Huey does, and comes eye-to-metal with the business end of a double-barreled shotgun. When fox pops out, he has ingested all of the steaming water, and has assumed the shape of a boiling teakettle as the steam escapes from him with a whistle. Huey misses the pot and hits one of the burning logs, which flips the pot into the air and upside down on the fox. Huey falls into a canyon, where fox waits in chef’s hat and with a stewpot of water boiling on a fire. When Huey reaches end of the board, we see from below that its far end has been sawed through, and is held in place only by a supporting pin of wood which fox pills out with a string.

Engaging Huey in a game of hide and seek, fox lays fake paw prints leading out onto a board extended over a cliff.

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Fox (voiced for the only time in the series by Jack Mercer) sets the scene for the formula that would become the standard recipe for Huey scripts to come, playing along with Huey’s idea of games, while actually setting various traps for his demise. The fox strikes a blow straight on Huey’s cranium – but what’s to break when there’s already nothing inside? Huey thinks it’s a game of tag, and grabs the fox back, clutching him so tight around the throat that his face turs deep blue. Huey switches places with her and skips along carelessly with Mama in the basket. Mama tries to push Huey to safety in his carriage – but Huey’s weight soon exhausts her to the point she can no longer run. But bigger problems take center stage, as a ravenous fox swoops down on the flock, wielding an iron mallet. Mama and son are given their walking papers to leave the community. Now the other ducks declare Huey a menace to society. No matter, as the water proves no hazard – Hury’s impact empties the pond entirely, and adds a crater to its muddy bottom in Huey’s image. Huey next tries to join the local ducklings in a swim in a small pond, until Mama advises him in the middle of a dive that he hasn’t learned to swim. “He’s a pig, not a duck” mutter the other mothers. Huey outraces the rest of the population, dragging Mama through the air behind him, and promptly swallows the day’s entire food supply.

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The duck community chef sounds a dinner bell at that moment, setting out a full trough of corn. A blue bonnet completes his ensemble, as he continues to claim that he’s starving. For a diaper, he is outfitted in a burlap flour sack (the only film in which this would be a part of his wardrobe). “Duh, sorry I’m late, ma”, says the obviously dimwitted youth, shortly followed by the question, “When do we eat?” Attempts to weigh him break the baby scale and send the needle bouncing off its spring. She quacks the news to all the girls of the farmyard, as the giant shell hatches – producing a masive yellow pot-bellied duckling, already six feet tall. With sudden fitful twitches resembling the earlier “Cilly Goose”, and sound effects resembling a car backfiring, a mammoth egg explodes into view below her. Today, she decides to throw caution to the wind by swallowing a week’s supply, then sternly settles into her nest as if she means business. Mama tries to keep up her strength by taking a dose of her daily vitamins, instructions clearly reading “Take ONE daily”. In fact, the baby supplies have developed cobwebs between them from waiting so long. for the arrival of her first egg, but as usual with so many cartoon poultry, is getting nothing to show for it. Mama Duck waits in her cozy little house with an ample supply of diapers, formula bottles, etc. He was initially hatched in his debut performance, Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (Paramount/Famous, Noveltoon, 3/3/50 – I. As Rod Serling might say, for your consideration, case in point:īaby Huey may be one of the only stars in cartoon history born twice. Having multiple such tales for a barnyard fowl is a bit rarer. Origin stories are a dime a dozen for superheroes.

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