History WesternAnimation / TheScarletPumpernickel

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: To Creator/ChuckJones' pop-culture hero series for Daffy Duck. There are bookends with Daffy telling the main story, Porky is the villain rather than a HyperCompetentSidekick and Daffy is semi-competent in his hero getup, stopped only due to [[LemonyNarrator writing difficulties during the finale]].

** The edited version that aired on Creator/CartoonNetwork during the "50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time" marathon (and a recent airing in 2012) is more along the lines of NoEnding, thanks to the gun-to-the-head suicide part getting cut.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Porky play the role of The Chamberlain.

** Creator/ErrolFlynn gets TWO mentions by name.

** Creator/ErrolFlynn gets TWO mentions by name.

* [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare Shout-Out: To Shakespeare]]: Twice misquoted by Daffy -- "Vanity, thy name is woman!"
[[note]]Instead of "Frailty, thy name is woman," ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', I.ii.146[[/note]] and "Parting is such sweet stuff."[[note]]Instead of "Parting is such sweet sorrow," ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', II.ii.184.[[/note]]

* [[ShoutOut/ToShakespeare Shout-Out: To Shakespeare]]: Twice misquoted by Daffy -- "Vanity, thy name is woman!"[[note]]Instead of "Frailty, thy name is woman," ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', I.ii.146[[/note]] and "Parting is such sweet stuff."[[note]]Instead of "Parting is such sweet sorrow," ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', II.ii.184.[[/note]]

** The second time, he uses a parachute: "Here's a wrinkle Errol never thought of!"

* AndNowYouMustMarryMe: The Lord High Chamberlain (Porky Pig)'s grand plan to capture the Scarlet Pumpernickel (Daffy Duck) is to marry Melissa (Melissa Duck) to the Grand Duke (Sylvester the Cat)

"The Scarlet Pumpernickel" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1950]] ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]]'' short, directed by Creator/ChuckJones and featuring WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Sylvester the Cat]], and "Melissa" (a female duck), with cameos by WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd and Mama Bear from Jones's Three Bears series. Purporting to be Daffy's own film concept (which he is attempting to pitch to [[ShoutOut "J.L."]][[note]]Jack L. Creator/{{Warner|Bros}}[[/note]]), the short is a parody of a typical {{Swashbuckler}} -- including, of course, ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel''[[note]]Pumpernickel is a kind of bread.[[/note]]--including [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to [[Film/CaptainBlood Warners' own]] [[Film/TheAdventuresOfRobinHood swashbuckling]] [[Film/TheSeaHawk hero]] Creator/ErrolFlynn and much {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing and {{subver|tedTrope}}sion of the conventions of the genre.

* AsideGlance: From Daffy, as Milord High Chamberlain and the Grand Duke laugh at the idea of a [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/daffish Daffish]] Fop being The Scarlet Pumpernickel.

*** On a July 13, 2012 installment of Cartoon Network's ''Looney Tunes Show'' (not the sitcom; the collection of actual Looney Tunes shorts from the 1930s to the 1960s), the cartoon was re-edited. The suicide part was still cut, but it was cut the same way it was on the channel's "50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time" marathon (read: it ends after Daffy says, "Is ''that'' all?!"), only instead of an iris-out, it's a fade-out. As of 2014, this is the version that airs whenever Cartoon Network airs its Looney Tunes block. This is also the version that airs on Boomerang.