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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Being a massive Daffy Duck fan and someone who likes Elmer very much, their chemistry while not as legendary as the one between Elmer and Bugs Bunny is always entertaining as well, 'A Pest in the House' is a real treat and one of their best and funniest.The animation is beautifully done, Chuck Jones' style being unmistakable. It's very vibrantly and brightly coloured, there is plenty of rich detail in the background art and all three characters are well drawn especially Daffy.While there may be some bias, seeing as he has as has been said many times always been my personal favourite of the regular Looney Tunes composers (an opinion that is shared by many), Carl Stalling's music is lively, lush, filled with high-voltage energy and character and once again he shows an unmatched ability to not just fit with but enhance the action.'A Pest in the House' is never less than very funny, an absolute riot at its best. The dialogue has plenty of the looney wildness and razor sharp wit, while the gags are visually inventive and beautifully timed. The repeated gag has enough variety to stop it from being repetitive or tired too.Daffy is hilarious here and demonstrates that he works much better when manic than when he is greedy. Sure, he is a jerk but in an enjoyable sense rather than an irritating one. One does feel sorry for poor Elmer, as he suffers as a result of being blamed for Daffy's antics, as well as the businessman in a situation that anybody staying in a hotel with noisy guests can relate to. The voice work from Arthur Q. Bryan and especially Mel Blanc is superb.Overall, one of Daffy and Elmer's best and funniest. 10/10 Bethany Cox

. . . is the susceptibility to be easily bamboozled. Non-Americans are particularly adept at hoodwinking the soft majority of U.S. citizens, who fancy themselves to be bleeding hearts, eager to turn the other ventricle. Aliens aggressively abuse the feckless fellowship of this ilk, who are eager to give them their last cookie, as well as their tot's final bottle of milk, and the key to the family safety deposit box WITHOUT even being asked! Elmer Fudd is the title character of A PEST IN THE HOUSE. As this Warner Bros. animated short opens, the narrator implicitly designates Daffy Duck as an unqualified Alien Hotel Hiree, signed on to save Upper Management a few bucks by not paying a living wage to a Genuine American Citizen. It's clear that Daffy actually is a Professional Disrupter--an Agitator out to sabotage the "Gland Hotel." This loud-mouth saboteur wages a Reign of Terror against one of the Gland's last few paying customers. Tortured to the end of his rope through sleep deprivation, this patron rightly punches out Daffy's mealy-mouthed enabler--Elmer Fudd--six times. Totally inept in his supervisor's role, Fudd deserves worse. Just before I played A PEST IN THE HOUSE, I heard Ted Cruz explain during CNN's Wisconsin "Town Hall Meeting" exactly WHY America cannot coddle such pests any longer. Warner just recognized the problem 69 years before Ted did.

This is a particularly good Daffy and Elmer cartoon. There will be spoilers ahead: This is a very funny short with a simple but effective premise. It sets up a basic situation where there is potential conflict and then introduces an irritant to exploit that potential for conflict in order to get laughs.Much to Elmer's sorrow, there's one constant running gag, a punch line of sorts, all through this short and Daffy is the trigger with Elmer the unfortunate "beneficiary" of Daffy's misplaced enthusiasms. If I were the tired businessman, duck would be on the menu. But Daffy is like a kid brother. No matter what he does here, he always seems to get away with it, while you get grounded for a month because of what he did. Life isn't fair.Would someone please send an ice bag, some aspirin and bandages to the front desk? This short is relatively easy to find, is on one of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection sets (Blu-Ray/DVD) and is well worth watching. Most recommended.

With this cartoon the second consecutive Daffy Duck one I've seen in which he's in his prime, I've now completely recovered from the mediocre one he made with Speedy in the '60s I watched before them. He's a bellhop who unwittingly (or maybe not) disturbs a man who just wants quiet while he sleeps but keeps hitting Elmer the manager as a result of the duck's shenanigans! And this guy's room number is 666! LOL! Hilarious from beginning to end, this Chuck Jones entry just kept me guffawing in due time. I especially loved hearing Mel Blanc's singing as both Daffy and a drunk in the next room when they're both warbling! A Pest in the House is well worth the time for anyone who loves classic Looney Tunes. P.S. How surreal was it to hear Arthur Q. Bryan as both Elmer and that man who threatens to "bust you right in the nose!"?