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1952 film

Thumb Fun

Directed by	Robert McKimson
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Rod Scribner Phil DeLara Charles McKimson Bob Wickersham Keith Darling
Layouts by	Peter Alvarado
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	March 1, 1952 (1952-03-01)
Running time	7:23
Language	English

Thumb Fun is a 1952 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on March 1, 1952, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.

Plot

Daffy decides to hitchhike south but struggles to catch a ride. He tricks Porky into giving him a lift by painting a fake hole in the road. Along the way, they encounter a menacing driver, leading Daffy to comically grovel to avoid confrontation.

Daffy's reckless driving gets them into trouble with the law, resulting in a fine. Despite Porky's warnings, Daffy's antics lead to another hefty fine. Fed up, Porky seeks revenge by tricking Daffy into launching himself with his own luggage.

Later, Porky gifts Daffy a hitchhiker's thumb, which Daffy naively uses in vain. The cartoon ends with Daffy nursing his bruised thumb, a victim of his own folly.

References

"Robert McKimson Directors Lead Sheet Porky Pig Daffy 'THUMB FUN' 1952 cartoon | #1941966932". Worthpoint. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 233. 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.

External links

Thumb Fun at IMDb

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)

Porky Pig in animation

Porky Pig filmography

Short films

1930s

1935	I Haven't Got a Hat Country Mouse (cameo) Hollywood Capers (cameo) Gold Diggers of '49
1936	Alpine Antics The Phantom Ship (cameo) Boom Boom The Blow Out Westward Whoa Plane Dippy Fish Tales Shanghaied Shipmates Porky's Pet Porky the Rain-Maker Porky's Poultry Plant Porky's Moving Day Milk and Money Boulevardier from the Bronx (cameo) Little Beau Porky The Village Smithy Porky in the North Woods
1937	Porky the Wrestler Porky's Road Race Picador Porky Porky's Romance Porky's Duck Hunt Porky and Gabby Porky's Building Porky's Super Service Porky's Badtime Story Porky's Railroad Get Rich Quick Porky Porky's Garden Rover's Rival The Case of the Stuttering Pig Porky's Double Trouble Porky's Hero Agency
1938	Porky's Poppa Porky at the Crocadero What Price Porky Porky's Phoney Express Porky's Five & Ten Porky's Hare Hunt Injun Trouble Porky the Fireman Porky's Party Porky's Spring Planting Porky & Daffy Wholly Smoke Porky in Wackyland Porky's Naughty Nephew Porky in Egypt The Daffy Doc Porky the Gob
1939	The Lone Stranger and Porky It's an Ill Wind Porky's Tire Trouble Porky's Movie Mystery Chicken Jitters Porky and Teabiscuit Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. Polar Pals Scalp Trouble Old Glory Porky's Picnic Wise Quacks Porky's Hotel Jeepers Creepers Naughty Neighbors Pied Piper Porky Porky the Giant Killer The Film Fan

1940s

1940	Porky's Last Stand Africa Squeaks Ali-Baba Bound Pilgrim Porky Slap Happy Pappy Porky's Poor Fish You Ought to Be in Pictures The Chewin' Bruin Porky's Baseball Broadcast Patient Porky Calling Dr. Porky Prehistoric Porky The Sour Puss Porky's Hired Hand The Timid Toreador
1941	Porky's Snooze Reel Porky's Bear Facts Toy Trouble Porky's Preview Porky's Ant A Coy Decoy Porky's Prize Pony Meet John Doughboy We, the Animals The Henpecked Duck Notes to You Robinson Crusoe, Jr. Porky's Midnight Matinee Porky's Pooch
1942	Porky's Pastry Pirates Who's Who in the Zoo Porky's Cafe Any Bonds Today? My Favorite Duck
1943	Confusions of a Nutzy Spy Yankee Doodle Daffy Porky Pig's Feat A Corny Concerto
1944	Tom Turk and Daffy Tick Tock Tuckered Swooner Crooner Duck Soup to Nuts Slightly Daffy Brother Brat
1945	Trap Happy Porky Wagon Heels
1946	Baby Bottleneck Daffy Doodles Kitty Kornered The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (cameo) Mouse Menace
1947	One Meat Brawl Little Orphan Airedale
1948	Daffy Duck Slept Here Nothing But the Tooth The Pest That Came to Dinner Riff Raffy Daffy Scaredy Cat
1949	Awful Orphan Porky Chops Paying the Piper Daffy Duck Hunt Curtain Razor Often an Orphan Dough for the Do-Do Bye, Bye Bluebeard

1950s

Boobs in the Woods (1950)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
An Egg Scramble (1950)
Golden Yeggs (1950)
The Ducksters (1950)
Dog Collared (1950)
The Wearing of the Grin (1951)
Drip-Along Daffy (1951)
The Prize Pest (1951)
Thumb Fun (1952)
Cracked Quack (1952)
Fool Coverage (1952)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
Claws for Alarm (1954)
My Little Duckaroo (1954)
Jumpin' Jupiter (1955)
Dime to Retire (1955)
Rocket Squad (1956)
Deduce, You Say! (1956)
Boston Quackie (1957)
Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
China Jones (1959)

1960s

Daffy's Inn Trouble (1961)
Dumb Patrol (1964)
Corn on the Cop (1965)
Mucho Locos (1966)

1980s

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)

1980s

Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980)

1990s

Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1992)
Carrotblanca (1995; cameo)
Superior Duck (1996)

2000s

My Generation G...G...Gap (2004)

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; cameo)
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2025)

Direct-to-video

Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006)
Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015)

TV series

The Porky Pig Show (1964–1967)
Tiny Toon Adventures (1990–1992)
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)
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (1977)
Bugs Bunny in Space (1977)
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)
King Arthur's Court (1978)
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1979)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980)
Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988)
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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