Baby Bottleneck is a 1945 Looney Tunes (reissued as a Blue Ribbon) short released in 1946 and directed by Robert Clampett and written by Warren Foster.
Baby Bottleneck is a 1945 Looney Tunes (reissued as a Blue Ribbon) short released in 1946 and directed by Robert Clampett and written by Warren Foster.
The cartoon opens with an overworked stork (a clear Jimmy Durante reference) getting drunk in the Stork Klub {"I do all the woik...and the fadders get all the credit!"). There is an emergency delivery in which inexperienced animals take the babies to their parents. As a result, babies are getting sent to the wrong parents (such as a baby Hippopotamus to a Scottish Terrier, a baby alligator to a pig and a baby skunk (sort of like Pepe Le Pew) to a goose. To clear up the confusion, Porky Pig is brought in to manage the factory, with Daffy Duck as his assistant. The babies are seen going through a conveyor belt (to the tune of Raymond Scott's famous "Powerhouse") and getting sent by various animals, while Daffy mans the phones (making quick references to Bing Crosby (who had four sons), Eddie