The Super Snooper

The Super Snooper
Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck) series
Title card featuring Daffy Duck as "Duch Drake"
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc Marian Richman Benjamin Frommer Arthur Q. Bryan
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Herman Cohen Phil DeLara Charles McKimson Rod Scribner
Layouts by	Robert Givens
Backgrounds by	Robert H. Thomas
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	November 1, 1952 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Super Snooper is an animated short film in the Looney Tunes series directed by Robert McKimson and released on November 11, 1952, in the United States. Produced by Edward Selzer, the cartoon stars Daffy Duck- voiced by Mel Blanc- in a detective role.

Daffy Duck is Duck Drake, a "Private Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat". He receives a call that summons him to the J. Cleaver Axe-Handle Estate, where somebody supposedly has been murdered. He arrives at the house and suspects a shapely female duck with red hair and a curve hugging red dress of committing the crime. The woman, referred to as 'The Body' shows him affection; saying "Rowr! Rowr! Oh baby! gorgeous hunk of duck," and showers him with kisses. However, Drake, is only interested in inquiring about the murder.

Drake immediately accuses her of hating the deceased and drawing her "little pistol" out of her bag (the gun is a revolver with a very long barrel but somehow fits inside a change purse), pointing it at him and slowly squeezing the trigger, tighter and tighter and tighter...until six rounds plug Drake right in the face. At first the bullets appear to have decapitated him until his head sticks out from his jacket with his beak full of holes and proclaims loudly "Not so TIGHT!" He then elaborates (after she hikes up her skirt to reveal her long curvacious legs, turns the lights out and plants numerous kisses on him) how 'The Body' grabbed the deer rifle off the wall, prompting the man (having apparently survived the pistol shots) to run screaming from the room then letting him have it when he tries to sneak out. Drake is shot multiple times while mimicking a game dummy so that the scoreboard goes from 5 to 200 before eventually saying "Pretty good shooting, sister".

The woman insists that he searches her and kisses him on the lips two more times. Amazingly, the target is still alive and kicking so the next scene involves her crushing him with a grand piano suspended from the ceiling. Drake predictably ends up on the receiving end of this reenactment after startling the woman into releasing the rope holding up the piano, which falls and crushes him through the floor, leaving him with piano keys for teeth. Even though the victim has been shot twice and squished by a piano, he is still defiantly clinging on to life, with the love struck duck getting another chance to kiss him on the cheek. This results in a last desperate attempt to kill him by moving nearby train tracks to the front door because the victim always watched the 5:15 express go past every day. At that precise time Drake opens the door and is flattened by the oncoming train, leaving him with a lantern on his head. After insulting the driver, he makes the shocking discovery that he is in the wrong house. "Silly boy! The ax handle estate is a couple of blocks up the street," The Body tells him.