Hello everyone,
In reference to that classic cartoon, which side do you empathize with more? I’m always more of a Daffy fan myself. He’s intelligent, hard-working, cunning, and never receives the ubiquitous deus-ex-machinas that Bugs gets.
So, I say, Wabbit Season!
Maybe this is more suited to Cafe Society? Not sure…
That’s all folks,
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Isn’t it obvious?
Elmer season!
Funny, I thought it was baseball season!
The “Hunter trilogy” is considered some of Chuck Jones’s finest work. I’d love to watch all three cartoons in a row.
And Michael Maltese’s. He wrote all three. “Hmmm — Pronoun Trouble!”
I think these three, plus Duck Amuck and One Froggy Evening (All Chuck Jones. And, i think, Maltese, too) are the Greatest Cartoons Ever Made.
I think you’re supposed to go for the underdog in those 'toons. In any event, they always had more complex characters - why would you want the smug, over-confident Bugs Bunny when you can have the neurotic, hard-done-by, never-gets-the-breaks Daffy? Same with the empathy-inducing and admirably clever yet unlucky Wile E. Coyote versus the two-dimensional and overly-perfect Roadrunner, or the guy-you’d-meet-in-an-early-opening-bar streetwise Sylvester versus that syrupy-cute Tweety.
The creators did well, and got the response they wanted.
“You’re dethpicable!”
“Dems fightin’ woids!”
TheLoadedDog: I disagree and for a few reasons.
a) Daffy always started the mischief
b) Bugs was the clever Brooklyn Bunny, my sympathies lie with the New Yorker
c) under most conditions in took three actions against Bugs Bunny to provoke him, thus the commonly heard “of course you realize this means War?”
CalMeacham: All great, but I am partial to “What’s Opera Doc” and the Baseball Game one with the Statue of liberty at the end.
I do agree however, “Elmer Season!”
Jim
I prefer the pre-Jones Daffy of Daffy Doodles and Porky’s Duck Hunt (his first incarnation) when he was utterly psychotic (Whoo Hoo! Hoo! HooHoo!). Jones has his moments like What’s Opera Doc? but I like Tex Avery style madness better latter day Daffy was too rational.
IIRC in Who Framed Roger Rabbit they cast the nutty Daffy not the Jones version.
Fricasse Rabbit glazed in carrot sauce, drool, drool.
Look!! I’m a Fiddler Crab!!! Why don’t you shoot me?! It’s Fiddler Crab Season!!!
Duck season.
Wabbit Season for me, too. I’m a Duck fan through and through.
And I prefer the Jones incarnation of Daffy Duck, the bitter, greedy, self-seeking one. Gee, I wonder if the character of George Costanza was based on him?
Before youtube.com was clamped down on, all the cartoons mentioned upthread were carried there. I once spent a hilarious afternoon watching Rabbit Seasoning, Duck Amuck, and Rabbit Rampage. Alas, they’re all down now.
I’m probably sounding like a broken record, but I’ve got to once again put in a pitch for the Loony Tunes Golden Collection DVDs. Beautiful looking, great commentaries, and all the glorious violence without a smidge of censorship, other than a politically correct introduction on the last couple of collections. Simply glorious.
Oh, and I’ve always been a Bugs Bunny guy, and I prefer the Jones Daffy.
Moving thread from IMHO to Cafe Society.
I must admit the cited cartoon conjured up strange thoughts similar to those in this You Damn Kid comic strip when I was a kid.
I find that the Bugs cartoons I like the most (with the exception of the brilliant Bully for Bugs) are because of his adversaries, notably Daffy & Sam. Plus, my 2 favorite WB shorts of all time (Duck Amuck & The Great Piggy Bank Robbery) have one major thing in common.
Wabbit Season.
Psst. Not all of them.
Sure Daffy is hard done by, but the whole point of his character is to be dumped on.
So let it rip: Duck Season.
Chuck Jones once said, “I dream I’m Bugs Bunny, but when I wake up I’m Daffy.” Bugs Bunny is who we all want to be- the guy who can get away with anything, who can solve his problems with a wild abandon and a bit of humor. I like both Daffies- the wacky Avery/Clampett Daffy and the greedy, easily annoyed Jones Daffy. The Avery/Clampett Daffy is jus Bugs in a duck suit with the insanity turned up a few notches, but he would make a bad foil for Jones’s Bugs. The Jones Daffy, like the Avery/Clampett Daffy, wants to be the center of attention. He’s greedy, he’s selfihs, and he’s not above insulting other people if it gains something for him- but for some reason, that rabbit always outsmarts him. I like 'em both. Elmer Season!