Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters is a Ghostbusters type of story centered around Daffy but using classic Looney Tunes from The Golden Age of animation. There are new sequences made that knit the entire story together, which runs about 80 minutes.

The story is an expansion on the 1948 short called Daffy Dilly, so that is but one short that is featured in this compilation since it’s the whole take-off point. In that toon Chuck Jones perfected an ill-tempered screwball greedy Daffy who hears that a rich guy named J.B. Cubish hasn’t laughed in ages, so he’s offered a million bux to anyone that can get him to laugh before he kicks the bucket. Daffy is greedy, so why not?

The entire premise of the story takes the toon fan on ride that weaves Daffy The Paranormalist on an adventure that is compiled of both newer sequences along with the Golden Age toons. There were a handful of these feature-length compilation movies done, and this is one of the better ones. Night Of The Living Duck kicks the whole thing off, which is notable since these two projects are the very last Looney Tunes that legendary voice artist Mel Blanc lent his considerable talents to before his death in 1989.

The other classic shorts used in this feature length toon are: 1951 The Prize Pest, 1952 Water, Water Every Hare, 1960 Hyde and Go Tweet, the hilarious classic from 1954 Claws for Alarm, 1963 Transylvania 6-5000, 1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit, 1953 Punch Trunk, and 1955 Jumpin’ Jupiter. The Duxorcist from 1987 is also used. Since these classic toons are used to tell a newer story, they’re not just merely edited in, but the lines are redone to fit the narrative of this story. The writers are Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce & John Dunn.

Besides Mel, the actors from the classic toons are Ben Frommer as The Count & Julie Bennett as the double-headed buzzard. Actress B.J. Ward is Melissa Duck. Roy Firestone is The Announcer, and Mark Kausler does Egghead.

Since no competent musical directors could be found to do something as complex as providing sound synced music score for a cartoon, they just took the classic work of Carl Stalling & Milt Franklyn to get the job done. Shame shame shame that art died with them.