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Encyclopedia > Robin Hood Daffy

Robin Hood Daffy is a 1958 Warner Brothers cartoon featuring Daffy Duck as legendary outlaw Robin Hood. Porky Pig plays a friar who wants to join Robin Hood's band of outlaws. Daffy repeatedly blunders in his attempts to impress Porky Pig that he is Robin Hood. In frustration Daffy becomes a friar himself: "Never mind joining me, I'll join you. Shake hands with Friar Duck." 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Warner Bros. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of art, with varied meanings that evolved from one to another. ... Daffy Duck in Duck Amuck. ... Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero, an outlaw who, in modern versions of the legend, stole from the rich to give to the poor. ... Porky Pig, as seen in a Looney Tunes cartoon Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ... A friar is a member of a religious order of men. ... Butch Cassidy, a famous Western American outlaw An outlaw, a person living the lifestyle of outlawry, meaning literally outside of the law. ...


Other notable lines:

  • "With my trusty quarterstaff! (In an aside to the audience) Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff, but I'm not telling him that."
  • Daffy, fighting with his $1.25 quarter staff 'Ho! HaHa! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!' (quarter staff bounces off log, bending his beak)
  • "Yoicks . . . and away!" (Daffy swings from a treetop and hits another tree)
  • "Yoicks . . . and away!" (Daffy swings . . . and hits another tree, slurring his speech a little more each time)
  • "Yoicks . . . and away!" (Daffy swings over all the trees he's chopped down and hits a rock)
  • "Ho ho, very funny; Ha ha, it is to laugh."
  • "Oh, knock it off. How jolly can you get?"

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Robin Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3613 words)
Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero, an outlaw who, in modern versions of the legend, stole from the rich to give to the poor.
Robin Hood himself is reputed to be buried in the grounds of Kirklees Priory near Brighouse in West Yorkshire.
In 2003, Defender of the Crown was re-mastered and re-released as Robin Hood: Defender of the Crown.
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