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Moby Duck is a Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson and released on March 27, 1965.

Plot
A huge ship crashes into an island, causing Daffy Duck to be stranded. At there, he meets Speedy Gonzales (for the second time), and stumbles across a box, filled with canned goods. While Speedy wants have it, Daffy unfortunately greedily tells the mouse that he's not to going to share any of the food with him.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) This cartoon marked a change in Daffy's personality when he is paired alongside Speedy, where Daffy appears to be an extremely grouchy, nasty and bitter character with his mean spirit taken to extremes, and in these cartoons he heavily disregards others in favor of only getting what he wants, hence literally turning him into a duck version of Yosemite Sam, but with none of Yosemite Sam's humor, likability and charm. Though these traits were previously seen in "The Iceman Ducketh" the previous year, but by this cartoon these traits have been exaggerated and made permanent throughout the rest of his appearances until the last one (except for a few exceptions like "Skyscraper Caper") before they have been dropped for good in the more recent Looney Tunes works since 1972.
 * 2) It is an unnecessary rehash of "Canned Feud", directed by Friz Freleng fourteen years earlier. However unlike the well fed mouse who was starving Sylvester purely out of sadism, here Speedy Gonzales is starving and repeatedly offers to give Daffy the can opener, if he can have at least one of Daffy's hundreds of cans, which the greedy Daffy refuses to do. Additionally the cartoon ends differently with Speedy giving Daffy the can opener for free because he had found another source of food.
 * 3) Daffy never lets Speedy share.
 * 4) Lackluster animation,
 * 5) Unfunny gags.
 * 6) William Lava's music is bland and doesn't sound like it'd belong in Looney Tunes.
 * 7) The next Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales cartoons after this one, such as "Assault and Peppered" are even worse.
 * 8) Misleading title: The title is a pun on the book Moby Dick, but it's plot has nothing to do about the book, nor does it attempt to parody/spoof/satire the book.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * At the end, Daffy gets comeuppance for not sharing.

Trivia

 * "Friday's Restaurant", the place where Speedy went with Robinson Crusoe is a spoof of "TGI Fridays" which opened 12 days ago at that time.