Golden Yeggs

Golden Yeggs
Merrie Melodies (Daffy Duck, Porky Pig) series
The title card of Golden Yeggs.
Directed by	I. Freleng
Produced by	Edward Selzer (uncredited)
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc Stan Freberg (uncredited)
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Arthur Davis Gerry Chiniquy Ken Champin Virgil Ross Emery Hawkins
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by	Paul Julian
Distributed by	Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	August 5, 1950 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6' 51"
Language	English

Golden Yeggs is a 1950 Merrie Melodies short animated film, released on August 5, 1950 by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. and directed by Friz Freleng. It features Daffy Duck and Porky Pig in a forerunner of the Rocky and Mugsy cartoons, with Rocky already in his present-day form.

The story was written by Tedd Pierce and animated by Arthur Davis, Gerry Chiniquy, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross and Emery Hawkins. Paul Julian painted the backgrounds and Hawley Pratt designed the layouts. Mel Blanc provided the voices (except for a goose, voiced by Stan Freberg) and Carl Stalling the music.

"Yegg" is a slang term for a burglar or safecracker. The same play-on-words was used in the title of the 1947 Bugs Bunny cartoon, Easter Yeggs. This cartoon also appeared in the magazine Time Inc. (owned by Time Warner), which would later spun off on June 6, 2014.

When Porky finds a golden egg in his henhouse, it was revealed that one of the geese laid it. But, knowing full well about what happened to the goose that laid the golden egg (a reference to Aesop's Fables), the goose tells Porky that Daffy laid it. After finding out about the fame Daffy got for laying the egg, Rocky and his gang hustle him back to their den and demand more output. Daffy tries to stall for time, at one point asking for surroundings that would make him more comfortable. Rocky and his henchmen oblige, but then demand the egg.