" However, a viewing of the early Bugs cartoons of the late 1930s and early 1940s clearly demonstrates that the character was not " created " as a whole at one time, but rather evolved in terms of personality, voice, and design over several years through the efforts of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Cal Dalton and Ben " Bugs " Hardaway, Robert McKimson, Sr., and Mel Blanc, in addition to Clampett's contributions.

Sparks was also caricatured in cartoons including the Jack-in-the-Box character in the Disney short Broken Toys ( 1935 ), and the jester in Mother Goose Goes Hollywood ( 1938 ), a hermit crab in both Tex Avery's Fresh Fish ( 1939 ) Bob Clampett's Goofy Groceries ( 1941 ), a chicken in Bob Clampett's Slap Happy Pappy ( 1940 ) and a brief appearance in Friz Freleng's Warner Brothers cartoon Malibu Beach Party ( 1940 ).

Clampett's story won first prize was made into My Green Fedora, also directed by Freleng.

Clampett's style was becoming increasingly divergent from those of Freleng and Jones, the other unit directors, and this is thought by some to be the primary reason for his departure.

This is probably not true as Clampett's unit was taken over by Art Davis, rather than Freleng.

This short was the very first film directed by a then-credited Charles Jones after he was promoted from an animator ( where he was under Fred Avery and Robert Clampett's units ).

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

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

Clampett's first cartoon with a directorial credit was Porky's Badtime Story.

Some of this animosity appears to have come from Clampett's perceived " golden boy " status at the studio ( Clampett's mother was said to be a close friend of cartoon producer Leon Schlesinger ), which allowed him to ignore studio rules that everyone else were expected to follow.

* Bob Clampett's Porky Pig cartoon Africa Squeaks ( 1940 ) portrays a bandleader named Cake Icer.

In producing the cartoon, Clampett's unit did not use a storyboard, as was the customary practice.

Instead, they sketched and wrote additional ideas for the cartoon in Clampett's copy of Seuss ' book ( there is no story credit for this cartoon's original credits ).

Considered among Clampett's best and wackiest films, Kitty Kornered was Clampett's final cartoon starring his longtime star Porky Pig ( although he made a cameo in Clampett's next cartoon The Great Piggy Bank Robbery as a train driver ), and marks the only appearance of the ( then unnamed ) Sylvester the cat in a Clampett-directed cartoon and only one of two times Sylvester spoke in a Porky Pig cartoon.

A satirical version of the novel appears in Bob Clampett's 1946 cartoon Book Revue.

Among Clampett's most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland ( 1938 ), Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs ( 1943 ) and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ( 1946 ).

The same basic stereotypical elements present in the earlier Censored Eleven films are also present in Coal Black, depicted with more detail and made to conform to Clampett's " wacky " directorial style.

Scholarly animation texts including Michael Barrier's Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, name Coal Black as Clampett's undisputed masterpiece.

A follow-up to Clampett's successful Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs, released earlier in 1943, Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses upon contemporary themes of African-American culture, jazz music, and World War II, and features a caricature of jazz musician Fats Waller as an anthropomorphic cat.

The Beverly Hillbillies series starts with the OK Oil Company learning of oil in Jed Clampett's swamp land and paying him a fortune to acquire the rights to drill on his land.

Often, Mr. Drysdale would be required to talk with Clampett about how strange " city life " and " city folk " are ( when compared to Mr. Clampett's view of " normal " country folk ).

His animal stars included Orangey, a cat who was in the films Rhubarb ( 1952 ), The Incredible Shrinking Man ( 1957 ), The Diary of Anne Frank ( 1959 ), and Breakfast at Tiffany's ( 1961 ), and appeared in the television series Our Miss Brooks with Eve Arden ; Cleo, a basset hound who was in the film Bell, Book and Candle ( 1957 ) and in Jackie Cooper's 1950s television show, The People's Choice ; Arnold Ziffel, the pig from Green Acres ; the chimps from Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, the dog and two cats from The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, Tramp the dog of My Three Sons and many of Elly May Clampett's exotic " critters " on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Gags from the " out-of-this-world " sequence feature color-redrawn versions of characters and visuals ( along with re-recorded audio segments ) from Clampett's Porky in Wackyland.

Though Clampett's contribution to the Warner Brothers animation legacy was considerable and inarguable, he has been criticized by his peers as " a shameless self-promoter who provoked the wrath of his former Warner's colleagues in later years, for allegedly claiming credit for ideas which were not his.

Chuck Jones ' character styles were more controlled and calmed down, while Bob Clampett's were crazy, wacky and insane.

His characterization here seems to incorporate some elements of Clampett's and Jones ' designs while giving him an overall cheery if dimwitted personality.

" Historian Charles Solomon noted a rubbery, flexible animation quality visible in all Clampett's shorts, and Maltin noted an " energetic, comic anarchy.

However, it is often named as one of the best cartoons ever made, in part for its African-American-inspired jazz and swing music, and is considered one of Clampett's masterpieces.

Milton Gray notes that from The Hep Cat ( 1942 ) on, the cartoons become even more wild as Clampett's experimentation reaches a peak.

The short's centerpiece is a fantasy sequence derived from Clampett's black and white Looney Tunes short Porky in Wackyland ( 1938 ).

Bob Clampett's Looney Tunes Porky Pig intro in 1938 – 1939 Produced by Leon Schlesinger

Bob Clampett's Porky Pig intro in 1938 – 1939

Petunia's largest role came in Clampett's 1939 short Naughty Neighbors.

In 1950, Daws Butler ( foreground ) and Stan Freberg are backstage doing both voices and puppeteering on Bob Clampett's Time for Beany ( 1949 – 1954 ) at KTLA in Los Angeles.

Clampett's Porky was an innocent traveler, taking in the wonders of the world — and in Clampett's universe, the world is a very weird place indeed.

One of the cartoons, Bob Clampett's " A Tale of Two Kitties ", introduced Tweety.

On occasion, King Features would print one of Clampett's cartoons for encouragement.

Schlesinger viewed one of Clampett's 16mm films and was impressed, offering him an assistant position at the studio.

Clampett submitted a drawing of a pig ( Porky ) and a black cat ( Beans ), and, in an imitation of the lettering on a can of Campbell's Pork and Beans, wrote " Clampett's Porky and Beans.

When Tex Avery departed in 1941, Avery's unit was taken over by Clampett, while Norman McCabe took over Clampett's old unit.

It was largely Clampett's influence that would impel the Warners directors to shed the final vestiges of all Disney influence and enter the territory they are famous for today.

Clampett's Tin Pan Alley Cats ( 1943 ) was chosen by the Library of Congress as a " prime example of the music and mores of our times " and a print was buried in a time capsule in Washington, D. C. so future generations might see it.

" Animation historian Leonard Maltin has called Clampett's cartoons " unmistakable.