The Looney Tunes cartoons suffered a significant decline in quality in the mid-late-60s especially. There were some poor ones before then, but too many of the cartoons from this particular period are so heavily problematic.
'Supressed Duck', as far as the cartoons from this period go, is not as bad as the worst of the Daffy/Speedy series or the worst of the Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons. That still doesn't mean it's any good.
While not brilliant as such, for 1965, the animation was surprisingly not that awful. Was expecting much worse, considering this is the mid-60s we're talking about. It's certainly not perfect, there is a lack of fluidity, the bear's character design does look weird and the background art in the cliff gag sticks out like a sore thumb and just doesn't belong, actually looking like it was recycled out of a scrappily drawn Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon. However, there are some nice vibrant colours rather than flat ones, some good detail in the backgrounds (not as limited, sparse or as hasty-looking as feared) and Daffy looks reasonable, especially when compared to how he looked in his outings with Speedy.
Of the three characters, faring best was the bear, again surprisingly good for a late-output one-off character. He is pretty amusing and is pretty likable, there are a couple of mild smile-worthy moments, all of which coming from him. Mel Blanc as always provides stellar vocals.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the music of Bill Lava. Lava's scores very rarely fitted with the cartoons he scored for, and often sounded discordant and cheap, distracting from the rest of the cartoon than being dynamic or enhancing. That's the case in 'Supressed Duck'. Apart from the bear, 'Supressed Duck' just isn't that great in terms of humour, the dialogue lacks its usual sharpness and wit and replaced with increasing dumbness and pace-killing interjections, even though brief the pacing grinds to a halt in these parts, from the ranger. The gags are tired in timing and while faring alright visuals-wise suffer from having ridiculousness and stupidity taken to extremes. And just how predictable and out of place was that cliff gag?
Daffy is one of the best, funniest and most interesting in personality characters in animation, and, while not ruined as much as when with Speedy, the more emphasis on the greed rather than the manic and the weird mix of Elmer and Coyote makes him out of character and very difficult to root for let alone by entertained by. The ranger just slows the cartoon down whenever he appears (always partially seen), is hugely unfunny and serves no real point to the cartoon. Daffy and the bear's chemistry really doesn't gel, not helped by that it doesn't ever make sense and is never explained, almost as wrong as with Daffy and Speedy.
On the whole, for mid-late-60s Looney Tunes there's worse, but this is a long way from Golden Age Looney Tunes (doesn't qualify for anywhere near Bronze Age, know that doesn't exist but hope you get the drift of what is trying to be said here). 4/10 Bethany Cox