Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a 1/2 century: A political statement at the finale ?

[P.C. Unfunny]

I think at the end of thise short there a politicial statement about the cold war. Daffy and Marvin blow up Planet X after trying to conquer it,the result is DD conquering a completely destroyed planet. I think it could be just be irony or it could be message of what whould have happened if the US and USSR went to war, a huge nuclear holocaust would happen and nothing will be left. I am over analyzing this ? Then again, if the government did think this, Jones probably whould have been black listed. Hell, if you even said the word red in the US in 1952, you would be looked at funny.

[starlac]

I think you can read it as a power struggle of any kind, but it's dateline certainly puts it up with that of the Cold War (mind you the Cold War started pretty much right after WWII ended). Mind you, total destruction is something that could also have occurred in WWII, if nuclear technology had been finalized by the Third Reich first.

Course complete destruction of the Earth (or some other world) has always been a popular theme in science Fiction of all kinds dated back to and before the works of H.G. Wells.

As a kid watching this, I always saw and took this as a send up of Buck Rogers, being familiar with the 1970's movie/pilot, tv series. Of course it (the cartoon) was based on the original 30's version, which was enjoying a popular return on US televisions at the time (along with things like Flash Gordon).

Looking it these days, I still see it as more of a send up rather than anything political. If Marvin’s ship was painted red rather than yellow, I might have seen more. Of cause Porky says "Big Deal" at the end. This is a simple comment on the fact that Daffy/Dodgers has scored nothing more than a Pyrrhic victory over his nemesis. Something which would certainly be true in the aftermath of a nuclear war, whoever started or finished it.