Explaining Cartoons on Instagram: "Follow me👉@explainingcartoons The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) is Daffy Duck’s chance to break free from the goofy parts he’s always assigned. In the framing story, he storms into a Warner Bros. executive’s office, desperate to prove he can handle a dramatic, swashbuckling epic. What follows is Daffy narrating his own heroic masterpiece, playing a masked vigilante inspired by Robin Hood, Zorro, and The Scarlet Pimpernel. The joke, of course, is that his “seriou