Synopsis

One after another of a company of carrier pigeon

Carrier pigeon

A carrier pigeon is a homing pigeon that is used to carry messages. Using pigeons to carry messages is generally called "pigeon post". Most homing or racing type varieties are used to carry messages. There is no specific breed actually called "carrier pigeon"...

s fall prey to the seductive wiles of "Queen of the Spies" Hatta Mari. The alarm is raised at pigeon headquarters when Pigeon 13 (a Mortimer Snerdesque yokel similar to Beaky Buzzard) goes AWOL with the female Nazi spy bird, to whom he reveals all his secrets (after she slipped him a mickey). In shame, Pigeon 13 departs to commit suicide, although after an offscreen gunshot is heard, he briefly returns to note "Duh, I missed."

Later, self-described woman-hater Daffy volunteers for the next mission. Hatta tries to seduce him by hiking up her skirt to reveal her shapely leg and kissing him full on the lips twice. The first kiss electrocutes Daffy and melts him like butter, but the second kiss electrocutes Hatta Mari having the same effect on her. Daffy ultimately resists her charms but swallows his secret message when the temptress corners him. After a frenetic battle, she x-ray

X-ray

X-radiation is a form of electromagnetic radiation. X-rays have a wavelength in the range of 0.01 to 10 nanometers, corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 petahertz to 30 exahertz and energies in the range 120 eV to 120 keV. They are shorter in wavelength than UV rays and longer than gamma...

s Daffy and broadcasts the supposed secret ("Hitler is a stinker") to Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 himself. Outraged, Hitler declares "Dot iss no military zecret!" Goebbels and Goering concur -- "Ja. Efferybody knows dot!" -- then shoot themselves in the heads after receiving Hitler's angry glare.

Cultural references

• Hatta Mari is a parody of Mata Hari
  Mata Hari
  Mata Hari was the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida "M'greet" Zelle , a Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan, and accused spy who was executed by firing squad in France under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I.-Early life:Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland,...
  
  
• According to DVD commentary on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4
  Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4
  Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4 is a Looney Tunes collection on DVD. Following the pattern of one release each year of the previous volumes, it was released on November 14, 2006...
  
  , Hatta Mari's blond hair and cartoonishly top-heavy body figure would later become a reality in the 1950s with actress and sex symbol Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield
  Jayne Mansfield was an American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre...
  
   (who, in turn, was one of many inspirations for Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy-noir film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Touchstone Pictures. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters...
  
  s femme fatale, Jessica Rabbit).
• The quote "Something new has been added" was a catchphrase by Jerry Colonna and a slogan for Old Gold (cigarette)s.

Censorship

The ending when Hitler's henchmen agree with the "military secret" that Hitler is a stinker cuts to Daffy saying "They lose more Nutzis that way!" to remove the part where the henchmen shoot themselves in the head when shown on Cartoon Network and TNT. However, the cut scene was shown during the ToonHeads

ToonHeads

The TV series ToonHeads is an animation anthology series consisting of uncut Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Warner Bros. cartoon shorts, with interesting background information and trivia, prominently by animators and voice actors like: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Hugh Harman, Rudy Ising, David H. DePatie, Friz...

Wartime Cartoons special in a montage near the end, with a voiceover explaining that many of the outdated references and offensive stereotypes have prevented a lot of World War II cartoons from being seen on television since the war.