Editing Duck Amuck (section)

== History ==
[[File:Duck Amuck.jpg|thumb|200px|A scene from ''Duck Amuck''.]]
''Duck Amuck'' is included in the compilation film ''[[The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie]],'' along with other Chuck Jones cartoons including ''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]''

[[Mel Blanc]] performed the voices. It was directed by Chuck Jones with a story by [[Michael Maltese]]. The film contains many examples of [[self-referential humor]], breaking the [[fourth wall]]. The cartoon's plot was essentially replicated in one of Jones' later cartoons, ''[[Rabbit Rampage]]'' (1955), in which Bugs Bunny turns out to be the victim of the sadistic animator ([[Elmer Fudd]]).

The 1980 television special ''Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement'' (notably directed & co-produced by [[Friz Freleng]] rather than Jones) features similar interactions between Daffy and an unseen animator in the opening credits and bridging sequences. A similar plot was also included in the episode "Duck's Reflucks" of ''[[Baby Looney Tunes]],'' in which Bugs was the victim, Daffy was the animator, and it was made on a computer instead of a pencil and paper. It is done once again with Daffy tormenting Bugs in the ''[[New Looney Tunes]]'' episode "One Carroter in Search of an Artist" (for this reason, this version has garnered the alternative name "Rabbit Rampage II" among series fans) with the technology updated and the pencil and paintbrush replaced by a digital pen, the victim is Bugs Bunny and the animator is Daffy Duck. The ending of the ''[[Looney Tunes Cartoons]]'' short "Rage Rover", is a reference to the ending of ''Duck Amuck''.

In issue #94 of the ''Looney Tunes'' comic, Bugs Bunny gets back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie roles, from [[Duck Twacy]] in ''Who Killed Daffy Duck''," a video game character, and a talk show host, and they always wind up with Daffy starring in ''[[Moby Dick]]'' (the story's running gag). After this, Bugs comments, "Eh, dis guy needs a new agent."

A [[Nintendo DS]] [[Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck|game]] was published based upon the short, where the player takes the role of the animator and is tasked with finding ways to anger Daffy. The game's ending, triggered once the player sufficiently enrages Daffy enough, reveals that the animator is another Daffy.

A 2021 segment of the ''[[Animaniacs (2020 TV series)|Animaniacs]]'' revival series titled "Yakko Amakko" parodies the plot of ''Duck Amuck'', with Yakko Warner explicitly referencing the original 1953 cartoon.