| Ding Dog Daddy | |
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Real Name |
Unknown |
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First Appearance |
Ding Dog Daddy (December 5, 1942) |
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Original Publisher |
Warner Bros. |
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Created by |
Tedd Pierce and Friz Freleng |
Origin[]
A goofy, bumpkin dog sees a bird couple. Wanting to find love, he sees a female dog, and he asks her if she would like to be his girl, but she quickly rejects him. Devastated, the dog eventually finds a metal statue of a female dog, with the name "Daisy" on her collar inside a homeowner's garden. He falls in love with it, not knowing that it is not a real dog. He kisses the statue, and lightning strikes and sends a shock through his system, and he thinks she loves him.
He also has to constantly contend with a vicious bulldog, who is guarding the gate to the garden. After getting kicked out, he tries to get himself back inside. His first attempt in siphoning the key from the gate results in the bulldog being pulled out instead of the key. He then tries to hide inside a bush, which quickly backfires once he takes it off in an attempt to kiss the statue. He eventually gets rid of the bulldog by locking him outside.
Afterward, he kisses the statue again, and again, lightning strikes and sends a shock through his system, and he thinks she still loves him. While resting in the flower garden, the statue is carted away in a truck marked "Scrap Metal for Victory" for fighting World War II.
He frantically runs behind the truck to the ammunitions depot, calling out "Daisy!" numerous times. He cries, thinking that he has lost her, and will never see her again. A bomb labeled "Daisy" rolls off the other bombs and into the dog's arms. Overjoyed, he takes her back with him to the garden. Devastated over "Daisy's" transformation, he kisses the bomb, and it explodes in his face. He happily yells out, "Wow! She hasn't changed a bit!"
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
Notes[]
- The title is a play on the 1928 song "I'm a Ding Dong Daddy from Dumas".
- This short entered the public domain in 1971 due to United Artists failing to renew the copyright in time.
- The character shares a voice actor with Dinsey character Goofy, this is because Pinto Colvig (Goofy's Voice actor) left Disney after going on strike with many other workers.