Baby Bottleneck

Baby Bottleneck
Looney Tunes (Daffy Duck/Porky Pig) series
Directed by	Bob Clampett
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Warren Foster
Voices by	Mel Blanc (Various Other Characters-uncredited) Sara Berner ("Mama" Gorilla-uncredited)
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Rod Scribner Manny Gould Bill Melendez I. Ellis
Layouts by	Thomas McKimson
Backgrounds by	Dorcy Howard
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	March 16, 1946 (Original USA release) June 14, 1952 (Blue Ribbon Reissue)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Baby Bottleneck is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes (reissued as a Blue Ribbon) theatrical cartoon short released in 1946 and directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster. It stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.

There is a baby boom of the post-war United States; an overworked stork (a clear Jimmy Durante reference) gets drunk in the Stork Club. There is an emergency delivery in which inexperienced animals, mostly older animals but including four crows attempting to deliver an elephant, take the babies to their parents. As a result, babies are getting sent to the wrong parents (such as a baby skunk to a goose, a baby kitten to a duck, a baby gorilla to a kangaroo, a baby hippopotamus to a Scottish Terrier, a baby alligator to a pig and a baby cat to a mouse). 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, Eddie Cantor and the Dionne Quintuplets.