Maybe there is some unintended bias, seeing as Bob Clampett has a very interesting and wonderfully wacky style that is always a joy to watch.Daffy is also one of Looney Tunes' most iconic, most interesting and funniest characters and while Porky is sometimes bland on his own and can be overshadowed by supporting characters he is amusing and likable and his partnership with Daffy is always hugely enjoyable. The premise is also a pretty unique one for the time.Anybody who is a fan of Clampett, Daffy and Porky are more than likely to love 'Baby Bottleneck'. For me, it's one of the best and one of the funniest for all three. The premise is interesting and different, and is executed in a way that constantly entertains and intrigues. The beginning may not work for some people, personally was never alienated by it and thought it was visually clever and fun.The animation is not only beautifully drawn, very detailed and colourful but there are some really imaginative moments, especially towards the end with the unhatched egg. Carl Stalling always made a great cartoon even better with his music scores, and with its lush and lively orchestration, high energy and character and action-enhancing synchronisation his music for 'Baby Bottleneck' is hardly an exception.'Baby Bottleneck' throughout is incredibly funny and often hilarious. The mix ups are funny enough, but the highlight is the war over the unhatched egg with a hysterical exchange of dialogue and imaginative visuals. The dialogue is deliciously wild and looney and the razor sharp wit is more than evident too. There are many references here and they are fun to spot and recognise, though they are of the time and may go over the heads of some. The gags are just as fun and inventive, with the distinctive Clampett wackiness.Daffy is wonderfully manic and bitter, and Porky is a very likable foil and no less amusing. Mel Blanc's voice work is characteristically fantastic, very rarely did this supremely talented man disappoint in his career apart from when even he couldn't salvage some bad material seen in too much of the mid-late-60s output.Overall, a classic. 10/10 Bethany Cox

. . . of waking up helpless, strapped down on a conveyor belt, as automation runs amok, taking all kinds of perverse liberties with their body, according to the most recent poll. We probably have Warner Bros. largely to thank for this sorry state of affairs, primarily because of our exposure to Daffy Duck becoming a pig in Porky's blanket at the climax of BABY BOTTLENECK. The diaper welding Daffy's top to Porky's butt obviously is the archetypal meme that served as a possibly Satanic springboard to BABY BOTTLENECK. Though Charlie Chaplin had hinted at what could happen when an Assembly Line Goes Wrong in his live-action feature film, MODERN TIMES, even America's original Chuckie Doll would not risk going as far into the coming Horrors of Genetic Modification, Inter-Species Transplants, and Bad Science in general as Warner allowed its animators to forge ahead with BABY BOTTLENECK. Clearly this animated short had an immediate effect on America's Film Censors, as they were shaking too hard in their jackboots to write out the redo that BABY BOTTLENECK surely merits.

The year 1946 marks the first full year, I believe, of "The Baby Boomers."Anyway, corny humor and a cop-out beginning (using past footage of other cartoons) has us looking at a newspaper headline reading " Unprecedented Demand For Babies Leads to Overworked Stork." We then go to the famous nightclub, "The Stork Club" (where else) where the drunk Jimmy Durante-stork is crying the blues that he does all the work and gets no credit. Then they show some stock footage in demonstrating how the stork has been making mistakes with wrong deliveries.That weak segment gives away to better things when Porky Pig is appointed to handle the stork's problems and Daffy Duck assigned as his assistant....but not that much better. The assembly line babies included some good material but Daffy doesn't look like Daffy and isn't anywhere as funny as he was in later cartoons. This has the appearance of a 1930s 'toon. It looked primitive and lacked the smart humor of the 1950s stuff.

With a baby boom occurring among affluent parents, the storks are unable to cope with the extra work and begin to get behind on orders and make mistakes. Porky Pig is enlisted as the transportation/logistics manager to ensure all delivers are made and Daffy Duck is given the job as his assistant. However the department is so stretched that errors and problems are inevitable.Opening with an imaginative idea (although it has been done a lot as I write this) the film makes itself better by adding the great characters of Porky and Daffy together, albeit in separate scenes within the same film. The plot allows for plenty of imagination – the production line `making babies' prior to shipping out via stork (or whatever) right down to the scene showing the wrong babies delivered to all the animals!Daffy is manic but is allowed the edge of bitterness that always made him appear at his best when done just right. Porky is good as well, as are the majority of the support characters no matter how big their role.Overall this is amusing as it is all quite imaginative and funny. The inclusion of two popular and strong characters just serves to make it funnier and more polished a product.