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This is a wonderful Daffy Duck cartoon and my favorite starring Marvin the Martian. Daffy is the title character, though unlike the original Buck Rogers, Duck Dodgers is a bit of a jerk and incompetent. Porky plays his very capable sidekick.

They land on a new planet and claim it for the Earth. Unfortunately, at the same time, Marvin also lands and claims the planet. Instead of trying to peacefully resolve this dispute, they fight it out with increasingly powerful space-age weapons. Ultimately, the planet is blown to bits and all three are left handing on to each other and a tiny corner of what's left of the planet.

The bottom line is that this is a very funny cartoon.

I guess science-fiction lovers will enjoy this 7-minute cartoon from over 90 years especially. Daffy is in space and fights Marvin the Martian for control over Planet X. I like that Martian character and I was surprised to see he appeared actually in quite a few films. I do not have much memory of him I must admit. However, the fact that he appears in one of Warner Bros' most famous cartoons of all time certainly makes him fairly popular I guess. Still, I have to stay, in terms of the story and of the jokes I am a bit surprised that this cartoon is so popular and famous. I am not saying it's bad by any means. It's definitely a solid watch, but I just cannot really see what the hype is about. Jones, Maltese and Blanc did a fine job here, but so they did on an uncountable number of other cartoons. Nonetheless, I recommend it and it shows that Warner Bros was still making pretty good movies in the 1950s as well and does not have to hide behind Disney. Thumbs up.

This isn't a cartoon you will find in a fairy tale book. This is Duck Dodgers, also known as Daffy Duck, when he is not a hero. Cut the crap, Duck Dodgers, everyone knows your secret identity! Duck Dodgers and Porky the Pig are on the search of a shaving cream atom known as Illudium Phosdex. Unfortunately, while searching on Planet X, an alien wants to get it first! Will Duck Dodgers get the Illudium Phosdex before the alien? The answer is, well. The whole planet destroys leaving only a little floating ball in space while everyone stands on it holding each other on the shoulders, trying not to fall off. Wonder why's that when before the planet seemed to have gravity because they could simply walk on the Planet and run away.

I think this is a parody of the Planet X Jason Martell discussed about. Planet X is a planet claimed by some people to be a planet in our solar system we haven't found yet. X, I think, being a variable. It symbolizes a missing planet name, I think.

I recommend this cartoon for Human children.

In the distant future, The Secretary of the Stratosphere must assign intergalactic hero Duck Dodgers to find Planet X, the only remaining source of illudium phozdex, the shaving cream atom. Thus are sci-fi and animation fans treated to another of Chuck Jones' all-time classics, featuring the supremely confident Daffy Duck and his eager young space cadet sidekick, Porky Pig.

Among the funniest scenes personifies Jones' expertise at drawing laughs from facial expressions. Duck Dodgers plots out an impossibly convoluted course, and Space Cadet Porky understands how to reach Planet X - the laughs come when Duck Dodgers does a hilarious take at the idea that anyone could possibly understand his impossibly convoluted space course. Of course the solution is simple - follow the solar system's Planets A, B, C, etc.

But upon reaching Planet X - so identified because literally everything, from its primary landmass through its cloud formations, mountains, and trees is X-shaped - Duck Dodgers crosses paths with Marvin The Martian, who claims the planet in the name of Mars (Isn't that lovely? Hmm?). But their just isn't enough room on Planet X for the two of them.

It is here that the cartoon not only becomes funnier, but more subversive than even its creators probably intended, for what transpires is a hilarious satire of the Cold War arms race, culminating in Marvin The Martian delivering the last straw, and setting up the use of Duck Dodgers' secret weapon, and Marvin's use of the Martian Matomic Masher. When the triggers are pulled - BOOM!

Duck Dodgers has his triumph, but Space Cadet Porky summarizes the whole experience - "B-b-b-b-big deal."

. . . two or three times EACH (such as Ethel Rosenberg's three Savage Jolts; you can read about her shocking demise in Wikipedia), DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24 1/2TH CENTURY marks Warner Bros.' effort to stop this nonsense. Many movie goers would later realize that the release of John Wayne's JET PILOT was tantamount to a confession that the self-styled "Il Duce" had given the Russians the A-Bomb blueprints himself in order to expand his Crusade against ALL Hollywood Reds (Dalton Trumbo), Democrats (Paul Revere's Oscar-winning several times great-granddaughter Anne), and Jews (John Garfield) to the East Coast, so his Congressional henchmen inquisitors could grill half of all New Yorkers, asking in their best Gestapo accents, "Are you now, or have you ever been of the Jewish persuasion?" Marvin Matian lands on Planet X two seconds after Daffy Duck's "Duck Rodgers" has "claimed" this outpost (not unlike someone--possibly Wayne--giving the Russians The Bomb a few instants, geologically speaking, after America found it). The Principle of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) comes into play as Daffy and Marvin take mere moments to engage their version of A-Bombs, completely destroying Planet X. After Acme Corp. runs their "All for Nukes, and Nukes for All" sale, Space Cadet Porky Pig responds to Daffy's claim of Nuclear Victory with a cynical sigh of, "Big deal." Warner Bros. seems to be saying here, "Please, Uncle Sam, don't fry any more Moms!"

. . . in-law (which I think is the proper term for one's sister-in-law's husband). Marvin and Twist-Top (not his real name) both talk the same, with the sort of snide, low-affect delivery one would expect from a Wooden Indian. (Speaking of Chief Wahoo's cohorts, they just announced a name change to the Cleveland "Guardians," and a deal with Disney to always call their on-deck hitter "Groot.") My sister-in-law's first husband played the horn, but what the Guardian Wahoos need most is a drummer. Neither Daffy nor Marvin look like winning candidates for this percussionist position, given their constant bickering during DUCK DODGERS.

Here is another great example of the sometimes annoying yet lovable Daffy Duck trying to play a well known character, like he did in Robin Hood Daffy, and making it hysterical fun. Based on the popular science fiction character Buck Rogers of the space stories, this is a great cartoon spoof in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies collection. Set in the future, with huge colourful cities in space, space hero Duck Dodgers, Daffy, arrives to hear a mission to go to Planet X in search for what is believed to be the last place to find Illudium Phosdex, the re-shaving cream atom. So after making himself light up and proclaiming "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century", he and his eager young space cadet, Porky Pig, are in a rocket ready to go. Dodgers explains the plan to get to Planet X, it seems very complicated, and they could easily follow planets A-W, so they do. They reach the planet, and Dodgers claims it for the Earth, but then another rocket rushes overhead, with Marvin the Martian walking out to claim it for Mars, and so begins an argument to have the planet. Marvin and Dodgers both fire disintegration guns (Daffy's literally disintegrating itself), Marvin gets a stick of dynamite, he and Dodgers send each other ultimatum messages (Marvin's being an explosive shot), and Marvin sends a final explosive shot. Dodgers loses it and decides to use his secret weapon on Marvin's rocket, and Marvin does the same to Dodgers', and they both end up blowing Planet X to a piece of rock which they stand on, and after pushing Marvin off, finally claiming the planet and saying his catchphrase, Porky says "big deal". Daffy Duck was number 30, and Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies number 20 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Very good!

This old Looney Tunes short "Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 century" is fantastic and stars three great characters Daffy Duck,Porky Pig and Marvin The Martian.

Its about Daffy Duck living in a sci-fi like universe were he is known as Duck Dodgers ,he is ordered to go to a place called Planet X to find a rear shaving cream.

Once he gets their alongside Porky Pig he declares the planet in the name of Earth,but Marvin The Martian comes along and wants to declare it in the name of Mars ,and since they both agree that the planet isn't big enough for the two of them they both get into a small war for who gets it.