Clampett would again use the Three Stooges parody when a later creation of his, Beany and Cecil, faced the " Dreaded Three-Headed Threep ".

Bob Clampett created the character that would become Tweety in the 1942 short A Tale of Two Kitties, pitting him against two hungry cats named Babbit and Catstello ( based on the famous comedians Abbott and Costello ).

Clampett began work on a short that would pit Tweety against a then-unnamed, lisping black and white cat created by Friz Freleng in 1945.

After Daffy Duck was created, he would add even more success to Warner Bros cartoons and replaced Porky Pig as the studio's most popular animated character, and Bob Clampett took over Termite Terrice, while Tex Avery took over the Merry Melodies department.

Clampett recalled his short time working for Disney: " Walt Disney himself sometimes came over in an old car to pick up the dolls ; he would give them out to visitors to the studio and at sales meetings.

Clampett planned to leave Leon Schlesinger Productions, but Schlesinger offered him a promotion to director and more money if he would stay.

During production of Porky's Duck Hunt in 1937, Avery created a character that would become Daffy Duck and Clampett animated the character for the first time.

The show, featuring the talents of voice artists Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, would earn Clampett three Emmys.

He writes that Jones began making additional accusations against Clampett, such as that Clampett would " go around the studio at night, looking at other directors ' storyboards for ideas he could steal for his own cartoons.

ABC had been negotiating for the production of the show with the Clampett family, who insisted that Kricfalusi would be part of the production.

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 ).

On occasions when Mr. Clampett was considering withdrawing all his funds and returning to the country ( his home near Bugtussle ), the miserly Mr. Drysdale would often panic and work to try to convince him ( and his unusual family ) to remain in Beverly Hills ( to great comedic effect ).

* Cartoon Network had this cartoon edited the same way as syndication, TBS, and TNT used to air it, until the cartoon short aired on The Bob Clampett Show ( which became known for airing cartoons by Bob Clampett that either would be shown edited or not shown at all ), where the sleeping pill scene was left intact.

Allegedly, when Tweety's creator, director Bob Clampett, left the Warner Bros. studio in 1946, he was working on a fourth film starring Tweety, whom he would pair with Friz Freleng ’ s Sylvester, who previously appeared with Porky Pig in his cartoon Kitty Kornered ( released in 1946 ).

* Bugs's nonchalant carrot-chewing stance, as explained many years later by Chuck Jones, and again by Friz Freleng and Bob Clampett, comes from the movie It Happened One Night, from a scene where the Clark Gable character is leaning against a fence eating carrots more quickly than he is swallowing ( as Bugs would later often do ), giving instructions with his mouth full to the Claudette Colbert character, during the hitch-hiking sequence.

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.

" Milton Gray believes that Schlesinger put Clampett in charge of the black and white cartoon division in order to save it, and many historians have singled out a scene in Porky's Duck Hunt in which Daffy exits as a defining Clampett moment.

In fact, the idea to produce Coal Black came to Clampett after he saw Duke Ellington's 1941 musical revue Jump for Joy, and Ellington and the cast suggested Clampett make a black musical cartoon.

The Clampett unit made a couple of field trips to Club Alabam, a Los Angeles area black club, to get a feel for the music and the dancing, and Clampett cast popular radio actors as the voices of his main three characters.

However, Schlesinger refused, and the black band Clampett had hired, Eddie Beals and His Orchestra, only recorded the music for the final kiss sequence.

Clampett liked to bring hip cultural movements into his cartoons, especially jazz ; film, magazines, comics, novels, and popular music are referenced in Clampett shorts, most visible in Book Revue ( 1946 ), where performers are drawn onto various famous books.

Clampett intended Coal Black as both a parody of Snow White and a dedication to the all-black jazz musical films popular in the early 1940s ( i. e. Cabin in the Sky, Stormy Weather, etc .).

Bryson Alden, writing for No Depression, wrote " Their music combines the familiar sounds of bluegrass with whatever else comes along, be it jazz, classical, rap or “ The Ballad of Jed Clampett ”.

The term emerged in popular culture during the 1930s and found usage in 1938-39 Warner Brothers cartoons, most notably by director Bob Clampett, including Porky in Wackyland.

He pitted them against Clampett and Arthur's dog once again in the 1949 film " A Ham in a Role " wherein the dog's efforts to become a Shakespearean actor are foiled by the rambunctious rodents.

Clampett also recalled watching his father play handball at the Los Angeles Athletic Club with another of the great silent comedians, Harold Lloyd.

After Schlesinger realized he needed another unit, he made a deal with Tex Avery, naming Clampett his collaborator.

Lisa was another example of the television cliché that a beautiful woman was almost invariably an incompetent cook, a characteristic which she shared with Elly May Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies, another show featuring absurd rural characters which was also being produced at the same time and by the same production company.

** Bob Clampett — another one of the Termite Terrace employees rushing frantically off to lunch

Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in 1942 in the Avery / Clampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1943 cartoon Porky Pig's Feat which marked Bugs ' only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short.

Much of the Wackyland sequence was adapted and reused by Clampett for inclusion in his 1943 short Tin Pan Alley Cats.

A Corny Concerto ( 1943 ), a Warner Bros cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett with animation by Robert McKimson, features music that was composed by Johann Strauss, and is a parody of Walt Disney's 1940 Fantasia.

Clampett in particular brought the six-minute animated cartoon to a level of wild surrealism, directing noted cartoons such as Porky in Wackyland in 1938, Tortoise Wins By a Hare in 1943 and Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs in 1943.

' Fighting Tools ', directed by Bob Clampett in 1943

* In 1943, Bob Clampett directed Falling Hare, a Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny.

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs ( working title: So White and de Sebben Dwarfs ) is a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres on January 16, 1943 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation.

Falling Hare is a 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert Clampett, starring Bugs Bunny.

Tortoise Wins by a Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 20, 1943 and directed by Bob Clampett.

Tin Pan Alley Cats, a 1943 cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, was inspired in part by Clean Pastures and has a similar theme of redemption.

Tin Pan Alley Cats is a 1943 animated short subject, directed by Bob Clampett for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of Warner Bros .' Merrie Melodies series.

After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Warner Bros. had recently bought the rights to the entire Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies studio from Schlesinger, and while his cartoons of 1946 are today considered on the cutting edge of the art for that period, at the time, Clampett was ready to seek new challenges.

Davis directed a number of hilarious Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, with a tone somewhere between those of Clampett and McKimson.

Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Bob Clampett, produced by Leon Schlesinger, and released to theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures.