Dr Jerkyll mixes up his formula with such ingredients as moth balls and fountain pen ink, and transforms into Chloe – a man mountain with a weakness for swing music. Jerkyl, and doubts he can cure the hiccups – but Jerkyll’s neon sign reassures him “Oh, yes, I can.” The home features a reference to the radio show “Inner Sanctum”, with a front door that squeaks loudly upon opening – only to be followed by a mysterious hand with an oil can to solve the problem.
Daffy also suffers from a chronic case of hiccups. The Impatient Patient (9/5/42) – Daffy is a telegraph boy assigned to deliver a telegram to a certain “Chloe” in the swamp (reference to a 1927 song, subtited “Song of the Swamp”). The series would continue to feature faces of its principal characters for many a season to follow – while the Merrie Melodies would only give “face time” to one character – Bugs. During this season, we get the first title sequences that feature a sharing of the spotlight between the series’ two biggest stars – Porky and Daffy. There were only a dozen cartoons produced under the banner for the season, and they had to resort to producing some of these in Technicolor, which had previously been the exclusive property of the Merrie Melodies.
By 1942-43, the Looney Tunes brand seemed to be in trouble.
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