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{{Infobox Hollywood cartoon
| cartoon_name = Happy Go Ducky
| series = ]
| image = Happy_Go_Ducky_Title_Card.jpg
| caption = The title card of ''Happy Go Ducky''.
| director = ]<br>]
| story_artist = William Hanna<br>Joseph Barbera
| animator = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]
| layout_artist = ]
| background_artist = ]
| voice_actor = ] (as Quacker)
| musician = ]
| producer = ] <br /> ]
| distributor = ]
| release_date = January 3, 1958
| color_process = ]<br> ]<br>]
| runtime = 6' 24"
| preceded_by = '']''
| followed_by = '']''
| movie_language = ]
| imdb_id = 0051698
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'''''Happy Go Ducky''''' is the 110th one ] ] '']'' ], created in ], directed and produced by ] and ] with music by Scott Bradley. The cartoon's working title was ''One Quack Mind'' before the directors finally chose ''Happy Go Ducky'', a pun on the phrase ''Happy go lucky''. The cartoon was animated by Kenneth Muse, Bill Schipek, Ken Southworth, Herman Cohen, Lewis Marshall and James Escalante, with backgrounds by Roberta Greutert and layouts by Richard Bickenbach. Despite having an Easter theme, the cartoon was not originally released at Easter, and there is speculation that the cartoon had been planned for release in Easter 1957, but these plans were shelved. It was released on January 3, 1958 by ].


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On Easter morning, the Easter Bunny leaves an Easter egg for Tom and Jerry. However, the egg is not a chocolate egg; instead, out hatches a duckling named ], who insists on swimming in everything in the house: Tom's milk dish, the fish tank (even riding a seahorse!), the watercooler, the bathtub, and the kitchen sink. Tom and Jerry put Quacker back in his egg and tape the egg shut, but Quacker escapes. The last straw occurs when Quacker is swimming in the shower cubicle and floods the house. Tom and Jerry conspire to drop Quacker off at a nearby public park, but their plan backfires when Quacker returns, this time along with more ducklings, flooding the entire house with water. Quacker tells them that he and the other ducks have a surprise for them and says, "All together, fellas!" and the ducks all shout at once in unison to Tom and Jerry, "'''HAPPY EASTER!'''" and swim around them in the end.
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Like a number of early widescreen animated films (several other MGM cartoons and Disney's '']'', for example), ''Happy Go Ducky'' was produced in both the Academy and CinemaScope aspect ratios. The same animation ]s were used, but the camera shots were reframed and different backgrounds were used. For some television broadcasts, however, a ] copy was prepared from the CinemaScope version (which is reframed from the Academy version, and missing information present at the top and bottom of the frame in many shots from the Academy version). Contrary to the CinemaScope version, the Academy version is missing information present at left and right side of the frame in many shots from the CinemaScope version.
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==Notes==
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*Aside from a minor fight over an egg at the beginning, Tom and Jerry are friends in ''Happy Go Ducky''.
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*In the bathroom, one towel is monogrammed with a T and another with a J, implying that Tom and Jerry are actually the owners of the house rather than its owners' pets. However, one of their owners, Joan, could own the "J" towel instead, as the letter matches the first of her name, while it is unknown who owns the "T" towel, as Joan's husband's name is '''''G'''eorge''.
* Like episodes ] and ], the production/direction credits read "Joseph Barbera and William Hanna" rather than the usual "William Hanna and Joseph Barbera".
*When Tom is looking for the Little Quacker at the sink, he accidentally pokes him with a knife.
*When Quacker pokes Tom on the rear with another knife, he says "Touché, Pussy Cat!". This was a line mainly used by ] in most of ''The Two Mousketeer'' cartoons.
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