Dixieland Droopy Dixieland Droopy Dixieland Droopy is a 1954 animated short subject in the "Droopy" series, directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. "Dixieland Droopy" was produced simultaneously in Academy ratio and CinemaScope versions. An unseen narrator (John Brown) tells the story of a Dixieland-music-loving dog named John Irving Pettybone (Droopy, voice of Bill Thompson). Pettybone's one love is listening to a record of Dixieland jazz, specifically "Tiger Rag", and pretending to conduct the music. Unfortunately, the manager of the dump where Pettybone lives is not a fan of Dixieland, and he evicts the hapless dog from the
Daffy Duck prize given out by his favorite TV show and "This Is a Life?" Daffy tries to upstage Bugs Bunny in order to be the guest of honor on the show; in all four of these cartoons Daffy ends up a loser because of his own over-emotional personality (which impairs Daffy's common sense and reasoning ability) and his craving for attention. Film critic Steve Schneider calls Jones' version of Daffy "a kind of unleashed id." Jones said that his version of the character "expresses all of the things we're afraid to express." This is evident in Jones' "Duck Amuck" (1953), "one