Bob Clampett's 1943 cartoon Book Revue features Daffy Duck dressed as Danny Kaye singing in a Russian accent.

He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters.

Jones resumed working with Warner Bros. in 1976 with the animated TV adaptation of The Carnival of the Animals with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 film Gremlins and directed the Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch ( 1990 ).

After his death, the Looney Tunes cartoon Daffy Duck for President, based on the book that Jones had written and using Jones ' style for the characters, originally scheduled to be released in 2000, was released in 2004 as part of disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set.

* Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ( 1939 )

* The 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon Book Revue had a lengthy sequence with Daffy Duck impersonating Kaye singing " Carolina in the Morning " with the Russian accent that Kaye would affect from time to time.

The etymology of foo is explored in the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) RFC 3092, which notes usage of foo in 1930s cartoons including The Daffy Doc ( with Daffy Duck ) and comic strips, especially Smokey Stover and Pogo.

Meanwhile Robert Zemeckis helmed Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in which featured several famous cartoon characters from the " Golden Age of animation " including Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Droopy, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, Sylvester the cat, Tweety Pie and Jiminy Cricket among others.

" Shearer said in an interview that one person who " took him under his wing " and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble.

Nonetheless it appeared in the 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon Tom Turk and Daffy, uttered by a Thanksgiving turkey whose presence is betrayed to Porky Pig by Daffy Duck.

Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig are three of the animated cartoon characters that have become central to the corporate image of Warner Bros.

In addition to Porky Pig, Warner Bros. cartoon characters Daffy Duck ( who debuted in the 1937 short Porky's Duck Hunt ) and Bugs Bunny ( who debuted in the 1940 short A Wild Hare ) also achieved star power.

Regardless of this treatment, its characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, and Porky Pig became central to the company's image in subsequent decades.

* April 17 – The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery for the Looney Tunes series, featuring the debut of Daffy Duck, is released.

* July 10 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor best known for voicing Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

Of the many ducks in fiction, many are cartoon characters, such as Walt Disney's Donald Duck, and Warner Bros .' Daffy Duck.

* Looney Tunes included the cartoon character Marvin the Martian ( 1948 ), a comic foil to Warner Bros. mainstays Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in several animated shorts.

The series features some of the most well-known and popular cartoon characters in history, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Tweety Bird.

In Daffy Duck and Egghead, Daffy does not lisp at all, except in the separately-drawn set-piece of Daffy singing " The Merry Go Round Broke Down ", in which just a slight lisp can be heard.

To Woody's surprise, Andy's attempts prevail ( comically, the mound of salt placed on Woody's tail is so heavy that he cannot run away ), and in an ending very similar to 1938's Daffy Duck & Egghead, Woody is taken away to the funny farm — where his captors prove to be crazier than he is.

Only a year later, this cartoon was reworked by Avery as Daffy Duck and Egghead, which was in color.

In that cartoon, Porky's role was filled by another Avery-created character, Egghead ( who evolved into Elmer Fudd in the episode Elmer's Candid Camera 1940 ), and Daffy is given his name.

# Daffy Duck and Egghead ( Avery / Jan 1 / 3: 4 / EDD )-1938

Egghead appears as a singing telegram, announcing to Daffy that, due to an unpaid rent, he is being dispossessed.

For the so called " dubbed version " created by Turner, recreated Blue Ribbon title cards were made for this cartoon and Daffy Duck and Egghead ( see this page for more details ).

This scene might have been removed because, as Gerstein theorizes, the ending scene was similar to the ending of Tex Avery's Daffy Duck and Egghead, which was released a year earlier prior to Hare-um Scare-ums release.

Firestone also provided the voice of the classic cartoon character Egghead in the 1988 Warner Bros. compilation film Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, and appeared in the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire.

* Porky & Daffy ( 1938 )

* The Daffy Doc ( 1938 )

This was followed by the debuts of other memorable Looney Tunes stars such as Daffy Duck ( in 1937 ) and the most famous of the Looney Tunes cast, Bugs Bunny ( in 1940 ).

Woody was created in 1940 by Lantz and storyboard artist Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, who had previously laid the groundwork for two other screwball characters, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio in the late 1930s.

You Ought to Be in Pictures is a 1940 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short film featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.

The Looney Tunes characters have had more success in the area of television, with appearances in several originally produced series, including Taz-Mania ( 1991, starring The Tasmanian Devil ), The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries ( 1995, starring Sylvester the cat, Tweety Bird and Granny ), Baby Looney Tunes ( 2002, which had a similar premise to Muppet Babies ), and Duck Dodgers ( 2003, starring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Marvin the Martian ).

For example, in " Well Worn Daffy " ( 1965 ), Daffy is determined to keep the mice away from a desperately needed well seemingly for no other motive than pure maliciousness.

Dell Comics published several Daffy Duck comic books, beginning in Four Color Comics # 457, # 536, and # 615 and then continuing as Daffy # 4-17 ( 1956 – 59 ), then as Daffy Duck # 18-30 ( 1959 – 62 ).

Porky had a descendent in Loonatics Unleashed named Pinkster Pig ( who was also voiced by Bob Bergen ), an old friend of Danger Duck ( who was Daffy Duck's Descendant ).

The three went under the pseudonyms of Sylvester ( modified as " SALvester " and hence, Sal ), Bugs ( Bugs Bunny ) and Daffy ( Daffy Duck ).

His first script was for Gold Key Comics (" Flatfood Duck " Daffy Duck # 112 1977 ), done just after graduating from college ( it would be a decade before he wrote any other comics ).

In the film's climax, he reappears to bring the Blue Monkey diamond to the ACME satellite, but is thwarted by Bugs ( who he duels in a parody of Obi Wan Kenobi and Jango Fett in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones ) and Daffy ( who arrives as Duck Dodgers to save Bugs after he is exhausted from the battle ), resulting in Marvin trapped in a bubble floating through space.

* The Scarlet Pumpernickel ( 1950 ), a Chuck Jones cartoon in which Sylvester plays the Basil Rathbone-like villain to Daffy Duck's Errol Flynn-esque hero.

Mel Blanc gave voice to many of Warner Bros. most popular characters, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig ( starting in 1937 ), and Daffy Duck.

The Freleng-produced compilation features were The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie ( 1981 ), Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales ( 1982 ), and Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island ( 1983 ).

McKimson's first directorial work, Daffy Doodles ( at least his first released directorial work, though it was for the most part a Frank Tashlin cartoon ; he cut his actual directorial teeth on a Seaman Hook wartime cartoon for military audiences in 1944 ), wherein Daffy draws moustaches on all the pre-drawn ( and even some natural ) faces in his sight, was released in early April 1946.

In a Daffy Duck cartoon called Along Came Daffy ( 1947 ), Daffy has to contend with two Yosemite Sams, one with Sam's red hair and one with black hair.

In 1944, the studio went to an all-color schedule ; though for the first year of this, Bugs still appeared mainly in the Merrie Melodies series ( not appearing in a Looney Tunes cartoon until the end of August ), whereas Daffy Duck and Porky Pig ( who each appeared in a few Merrie Melodies prior to mid-1942 ) appeared mainly in Looney Tunes that year.