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1948 film

The Up-Standing Sitter

Directed by	Robert McKimson
Story by	Warren Foster
Produced by	Eddie Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Phil De Lara Manny Gould John Carey Charles McKimson
Layouts by	Cornett Wood
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Color process	Cinecolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	July 3, 1948 (1948-07-03) (USA)
Running time	6:49
Language	English

The Up-Standing Sitter is a 1948 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on July 3, 1948, and stars Daffy Duck. All voices are by Mel Blanc.

Plot

Daffy Duck, employed by a baby-sitting agency, is tasked with watching over a hen's egg on a farm. When the egg hatches into a mischievous chick resembling Henery Hawk, chaos ensues as the chick relentlessly torments Daffy with pranks and gags. Daffy's various attempts to control the chick backfire, leading to mishaps, including encounters with a bulldog. Eventually, Daffy concedes defeat and humorously informs his agency that his next job will have to be done "standing up."

Production notes

The title is a play on the expression "up-standing citizen" and on standing being opposite of sitting (a fact which figures into the film's closing gag.) The cartoon was made in Cinecolor when a 1948 strike briefly halted production at Technicolor.

Home media

DVD: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5

References

Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 178. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
"Cinecolor".

External links

The Up-Standing Sitter at IMDb

Preceded byDaffy Duck Slept Here

Daffy Duck Cartoons
1948

Succeeded byYou Were Never Duckier

Daffy Duck in animation

List of Daffy Duck cartoons

Looney Tunes
short films

1930s	Porky's Duck Hunt (1937) What Price Porky (1938) Porky & Daffy (1938) The Daffy Doc (1938) Scalp Trouble (1939) Wise Quacks (1939) Naughty Neighbors (1939)
1940s	Porky's Last Stand (1940) You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) A Coy Decoy (1941) The Henpecked Duck (1941) Daffy's Southern Exposure (1942) The Impatient Patient (1942) The Daffy Duckaroo (1942) My Favorite Duck (1942) To Duck or Not to Duck (1943) The Wise Quacking Duck (1943) Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) Porky Pig's Feat (1943) Scrap Happy Daffy (1943) Daffy – The Commando (1943) Tom Turk and Daffy (1944) Tick Tock Tuckered (1944) Duck Soup to Nuts (1944) Plane Daffy (1944) The Stupid Cupid (1944) Draftee Daffy (1945) Ain't That Ducky (1945) Book Revue (1946) Baby Bottleneck (1946) Daffy Doodles (1946) The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) Birth of a Notion (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) Mexican Joyride (1947) What Makes Daffy Duck (1948) The Up-Standing Sitter (1948) The Stupor Salesman (1948) Riff Raffy Daffy (1948) Wise Quackers (1949) Daffy Duck Hunt (1949)
1950s	Boobs in the Woods (1950) The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) The Ducksters (1950) Rabbit Fire (1951) The Prize Pest (1951) Thumb Fun (1952) The Super Snooper (1952) Fool Coverage (1952) Design for Leaving (1954) Sahara Hare (1955; cameo) Dime to Retire (1955) Stupor Duck (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Deduce, You Say! (1956) Boston Quackie (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) China Jones (1959)
1960s	The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961) Daffy's Inn Trouble (1961) Good Noose (1962) The Million Hare (1963) The Iceman Ducketh (1964) It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965) Moby Duck (1965) Well Worn Daffy (1965) Suppressed Duck (1965) Tease for Two (1965) Chili Corn Corny (1965) The Astroduck (1966) Daffy Rents (1966) A-Haunting we will Go (1966) A Squeak in the Deep (1966) Swing Ding Amigo (1966) Quacker Tracker (1967) The Spy Swatter (1967) Rodent to Stardom (1967) Fiesta Fiasco (1967) Skyscraper Caper (1968) See Ya Later Gladiator (1968)
1980s	The Duxorcist (1987)
1990s	Box-Office Bunny (1991) Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1992) Carrotblanca (1995) Superior Duck (1996) Marvin the Martian in the Third Dimension (1996)
2000s	Attack of the Drones (2004)
2010s	Daffy's Rhapsody (2012)

Merrie Melodies
short films

1930s	Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938) Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938) Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939)
1940s	Conrad the Sailor (1942) A Corny Concerto (1943) Slightly Daffy (1944) Nasty Quacks (1945) Hollywood Daffy (1946) A Pest in the House (1947) Daffy Duck Slept Here (1948) You Were Never Duckier (1948) Daffy Dilly (1948) Holiday for Drumsticks (1949)
1950s	His Bitter Half (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) Drip-Along Daffy (1951) Cracked Quack (1952) Rabbit Seasoning (1952) Duck Amuck (1953) Muscle Tussle (1953) Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953) Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953) Quack Shot (1954) My Little Duckaroo (1954) Beanstalk Bunny (1955) Stork Naked (1955) This Is a Life? (1955) The High and the Flighty (1956) Rocket Squad (1956) Ali Baba Bunny (1957) Ducking the Devil (1957) Don't Axe Me (1958) Robin Hood Daffy (1958) Apes of Wrath (1959; cameo) People Are Bunny (1958)
1960s	Person to Bunny (1960) Quackodile Tears (1962) Fast Buck Duck (1963) Aqua Duck (1963) Assault and Peppered (1965) Corn on the Cop (1965) Go Go Amigo (1965) Mucho Locos (1966) Mexican Mousepiece (1966) Snow Excuse (1966) Feather Finger (1966) A Taste of Catnip (1966) Daffy's Diner (1967) The Music Mice-Tro (1967) Speedy Ghost to Town (1967) Go Away Stowaway (1967)
1980s	The Night of the Living Duck (1988)
1990s	(Blooper) Bunny (1991)

Other short films

The Yolk's on You (1980)
The Chocolate Chase (1980)
Daffy Flies North (1980)
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980)

Feature films

Theatrical

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988; cameo)
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
Space Jam (1996)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2025)

Direct-to-video

Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000; cameo)
Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003)
Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015)

TV series

Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1995)
Baby Looney Tunes (2002–2005)
Duck Dodgers (2003–2005)
The Looney Tunes Show (2011–2013)
New Looney Tunes (2015–2020)
Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020–2024)
Bugs Bunny Builders (2022–present)
Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023-present)

TV specials

Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972)
Carnival of the Animals (1976)
Easter Special (1977)
Bugs Bunny in Space (1977)
Howl-oween Special (1977)
King Arthur's Court (1978)
Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988)
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1990)
Overtures to Disaster (1991)

Films directed by Robert McKimson

Short subjects

1940s	The Return of Mr. Hook (1945) Tale of Two Mice (1945) Hare Remover (1946) Daffy Doodles (1946) Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946) Acrobatty Bunny (1946) Walky Talky Hawky (1946) The Mouse-Merized Cat (1946) One Meat Brawl (1947) Birth of a Notion (1947) Hobo Bobo (1947) Easter Yeggs (1947) Crowing Pains (1947) A Horse Fly Fleas (1947) Gorilla My Dreams (1948) Daffy Duck Slept Here (1948) Hop, Look and Listen (1948) The Up-Standing Sitter (1948) The Shell Shocked Egg (1948) Hot Cross Bunny (1948) The Foghorn Leghorn (1948) A-Lad-In His Lamp (1948) Paying the Piper (1949) Daffy Duck Hunt (1949) Rebel Rabbit (1949) Henhouse Henery (1949) The Grey Hounded Hare (1949) The Windblown Hare (1949) Swallow the Leader (1949) Hippety Hopper (1949) A Ham in a Role (1949)
1950s	Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950) Boobs in the Woods (1950) Strife with Father (1950) The Leghorn Blows at Midnight (1950) An Egg Scramble (1950) What's Up, Doc? (1950) It's Hummer Time (1950) Hillbilly Hare (1950) A Fractured Leghorn (1950) Pop 'im Pop! (1950) Bushy Hare (1950) Dog Collared (1950) Hare We Go (1951) A Fox in a Fix (1951) Corn Plastered (1951) Early to Bet (1951) French Rarebit (1951) Leghorn Swoggled (1951) Lovelorn Leghorn (1951) Sleepy Time Possum (1951) Big Top Bunny (1951) The Prize Pest (1951) Who's Kitten Who? (1952) Thumb Fun (1952) Kiddin' The Kitten (1952) Sock a Doodle Do (1952) The Turn-Tale Wolf (1952) Oily Hare (1952) Hoppy Go Lucky (1952) The EGGcited Rooster (1952) The Super Snooper (1952) Rabbit's Kin (1952) Fool Coverage (1952) Upswept Hare (1953) A Peck o' Trouble (1953) Muscle Tussle (1953) There Auto Be a Law (1953) Plop Goes the Weasel (1953) Cat-Tails for Two (1953) Easy Peckin's (1953) Of Rice and Hen (1953) Cat's A-weigh (1953) Wild Wife (1954) Design for Leaving (1954) Bell Hoppy (1954) No Parking Hare (1954) Little Boy Boo (1954) Devil May Hare (1954) The Oily American (1954) Gone Batty (1954) Quack Shot (1954) Feather Dusted (1955) All Fowled Up (1955) Lighthouse Mouse (1955) The Hole Idea (1955) Dime to Retire (1955) Too Hop To Handle (1956) Weasel Stop (1956) The High and the Flighty (1956) Mixed Master (1956) The Unexpected Pest (1956) Stupor Duck (1956) Half-Fare Hare (1956) Raw! Raw! Rooster! (1956) The Slap-Hoppy Mouse (1956) Wideo Wabbit (1956) The Honey-Mousers (1956) Bedevilled Rabbit (1957) Cheese It, the Cat! (1957) Fox-Terror (1957) Boston Quackie (1957) Tabasco Road (1957) Ducking the Devil (1957) Mouse-Taken Identity (1957) Rabbit Romeo (1957) Don't Axe Me (1958) Tortilla Flaps (1958) Feather Bluster (1958) Now Hare This (1958) Dog Tales (1958) Weasel While You Work (1958) Pre-Hysterical Hare (1958) Gopher Broke (1958) Mouse-Placed Kitten (1959) China Jones (1959) The Mouse That Jack Built (1959) A Mutt in a Rut (1959) Backwoods Bunny (1959) Cat's Paw (1959) Bonanza Bunny (1959) A Broken Leghorn (1959) People Are Bunny (1959)
1960s	West of the Pesos (1960) Wild Wild World (1960) Crockett-Doodle-Do (1960) Mice Follies (1960) The Dixie Fryer (1960) Dog Gone People (1960) Cannery Woe (1961) Hoppy Daze (1961) Strangled Eggs (1961) Birds of a Father (1961) Daffy's Inn Trouble (1961) What's My Lion? (1961) Wet Hare (1962) Fish and Slips (1962) Bill of Hare (1962) The Slick Chick (1962) Mother Was a Rooster (1962) Good Noose (1962) Fast Buck Duck (1963) The Million Hare (1963) Banty Raids (1963) Aqua Duck (1963) Claws in the Lease (1963) A Message to Gracias (1964) Bartholomew Versus the Wheel (1964) Freudy Cat (1964) Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (1964) False Hare (1964) Moby Duck (1965) Assault and Peppered (1965) Well Worn Daffy (1965) Suppressed Duck (1965) Rushing Roulette (1965) Tease for Two (1965) Chili Corn Corny (1965) Go Go Amigo (1965) The Astroduck (1966) Mucho Locos (1966) Mexican Mousepiece (1966) Daffy Rents (1966) A-Haunting We Will Go (1966) Snow Excuse (1966) Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux (1966) A Squeak in the Deep (1966) Feather Finger (1966) Swing Ding Amigo (1966) Sugar and Spies (1966) A Taste of Catnip (1966) Toulouse La Trick (1966) Daffy's Diner (1967) Le Quiet Squad (1967) Bomb Voyage (1967) Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches) (1968) The Great Carrot Train Robbery (1969) Fistic Mystic (1969) Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! (1969) Shamrock and Roll (1969) Bugged by a Bee (1969) Injun Trouble (1969)
1970s	Pink DaVinci (1975) It's Pink, But Is It Mink? (1975) Mystic Pink (1976) The Pink Pro (1976) Sherlock Pink (1976)

TV shows

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