"Along Came Daffy" is a 1947 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam. A color remake of "Daffy's Southern Exposure", it's one of only two shorts in which Sam is paired with someone besides Bugs Bunny (the other being "Honey's Money").
Sam and his black-haired twin are trapped in a snowbound cabin with no food in the house (the last remaining pea having been snatched by a mouse), and starving to the point that they see each other as something to eat. When door-to-door salesman Daffy shows up at their doorstep to peddle cookbooks, the hungry pair immediately set their eyes on having duck dinner, and Daffy is forced to run for his life throughout the cabin.
"Along Came Daffy" provides examples of:
- Added Alliterative Appeal: Daffy works for the Classy Cut Knish Catering Company, and one of the cookbook recipes is for "bassinet of baby borscht (with sour cream)".
- Borrowed Catch Phrase: At one point, Daffy imitates his rival Bugs Bunny by saying to Sam, "Eh, what's cookin', Doc?"
- Brick Joke: At the beginning of the cartoon, when the Sams discover there's one last morsel in the house, it's stolen by a mouse. Toward the end when Daffy gives them a turkey dinner with all the trimmings, a whole bunch of mice swarm in and eat it before they can take a bite.
- Cobweb of Disuse: The Sam brothers' dinnerware is covered in these, including one suspended between a pair of salt and pepper shakers which an ant is briefly shown using as a hammock.
- Fur Is Clothing: Daffy gets his feathers blasted off, revealing he's wearing a Black Bra and Panties underneath. (Either that or the remaining feathers just happen to resemble lingerie.) The feathers fall back in place, leaving him fully clothed again.
- Here We Go Again!: Said word-for-word by Daffy at the end of the cartoon when Sam and his twin start chasing him again.
- Late to the Realization:
- Sam has just slammed the door shut on Daffy and is walking back when his brain (shaped like a peanut) sends the signal that he's just missed out on a duck dinner.
- As Daffy reads a recipe from one of his cookbooks, Sam's twin asks if there are recipes for roast duck. Daffy is just starting to read the recipe when he realizes why they asked for roast duck.
- Meat-O-Vision: Due to extreme starvation, Sam and his twin begin seeing each other as food at the beginning of the cartoon.
- Needle in a Stack of Needles: Daffy finds a box full of wind-up duck decoys. The Sams enter to find a dozen identical ducks hopping around going "Hoo-hoo!" They fire their guns at them, obliterating them one by one, until only one remains, sweating as he winds down.
- Oh, Crap!: Daffy as he reads a recipe for roast duck.Daffy: Here, we are! Roast Duck ala Oscar. First you take a duck. After lopping off his head and feet, you place it in a... Hmm. [Looks up from the book with a look of sheer terror] "Lopping off his head and feet"! [Loud Gulp]
- Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Sam is pitted against Daffy here rather than Bugs as usual.
- Snowed-In: The plot is kicked off because Sam and his brother are trapped in their snowbound cabin, with nothing to eat in the house.
- Tempting Fate: Daffy tries to steer the Sams away from roast duck, so he turns the cookbook to soups, only to fall on one made with diced duck. He then tries ice-cream, telling the audience "I'd like to see them sneak a duck into this one." He then reads a recipe for Sundae Delight Supreme, "sprinkled profusely with crushed... duck."
- Traveling Salesman: In this short, Daffy is a door-to-door salesman for a cookbook company.
- The Voiceless: Both Sam and his brother remain almost completely mute during the entire short, in stark contrast to all of Sam's following appearances (where he typically unleashes a string of Angrish at his various failures). May be a case of Early-Installment Weirdness since this is only Sam's 2nd short.
- Wingding Pupils: Sam and his brother both get roast ducks in their pupils.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: Just before the twins can get a single bite of the turkey dinner Daffy gave them, a hoard of hungry mice come out and devour the entire meal, putting them back where they started.
