The "People's Professor"

vigeant:

proflyons.tumblr.com correctly identified my problem with Daffy Duck being called Pato Lucas in Latin America from my post here

proflyons stated:

Luke, it seems that Spanish speaking people are as perplexed as you about this issue. My favourite explanation - Lucas is a spoof on ‘loco’, which means, roughly translated Daffy.

Thanks Pato Prof Lyons!

My kids, who were recently introduced to “RetroToon” have been spending most of their free time catching up on 60 years worth of Looney Tunes. They think “El Pato Lucas” is much better than “Daffy Duck” and have begun calling each other, and many other people by that name. It’s kinda funny.