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 Hunt Porky and the dog start singing along with Daffy, until Porky sees that the current month is April on the calendar. As the dog looks in horror and runs behind the freezer, Porky angrily knocks Daffy down onto the floor and is ready to use the axe to finish Daffy off once and for all until he sees a stamp on his belly: "Do not open 'till Xmas." Daffy smiles at the camera and says to the audience, "Christmas—by that time, I'll figure a way "out" of this mess!". The cartoon ends with an iris out around his left eye