I’m a Daffy fan … well, he’s number two on my list.
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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.
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I have to agree with TheLoadedDog’s comments, and add that Bugs is unusual in that he’s both an underdog and a heavy, depending on the situation. He’s got one up on Daffy, as we’ve already established. But in many Chuck Jones cartoons, he plays the underdog. He’s just minding his own business (or he’s made one of his typical wrong turns at Albuquerque) when somebody gets in his way. Of course, you realize, this means war! (Much like a bear, Bugs Bunny will only attack if provoked.)
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
Something the Government got right. It is a national treasure.
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Warner Bros. cartoons inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress: What’s Opera, Doc? (1957, inducted 1992) Duck Amuck (1953, inducted 1999) Porky in Wackyland (1938, inducted 2000- only non-Chuck Jones Warner cartoon to be inducted) One Froggy Evening (1953, inducted 2003)
Tex Avery indeed do a series of “tomorrow” cartoons, but at MGM. Can’t recall an “Ed” character, though- Avery’s stock characters at MGM included Screwy Squirrel, Droopy, an unnamed wolf, and two clueless animals of indeterminate specie named George and Junior.
While normally a Bugs fan, one of my top five WB cartoons is “Robin Hood Daffy.” It has such great lines, and also a quarterstaff (actually, it’s a buck-and-quarter quarterstaff, but I’m not telling him that!)
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While normally a Bugs fan, one of my top five WB cartoons is “Robin Hood Daffy.” It has such great lines, and also a quarterstaff (actually, it’s a buck-and-quarter quarterstaff, but I’m not telling him that!)
Regardless of what season we think it should be, in the cartoon, it clearly has to be Wabbit Season. There is copious amounts of snow on the ground. The ducks would have all flown south a month or two ago, so it must be wabbit season.
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Regardless of what season we think it should be, in the cartoon, it clearly has to be Wabbit Season. There is copious amounts of snow on the ground. The ducks would have all flown south a month or two ago, so it must be wabbit season.
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Although Duck! Rabbit! Duck! takes place in the snow, the first two in the so-called “Hunter’s Trilogy”- Rabbit Fire and Rabbit Seasoning- take place in fair weather.
Tex Avery did, indeed, do the “House of the Future” etc. at MGM. “Ed” was a character in Avery’s Field and Scream, also done at MGM. For a character sheet of “Ed”, and the entire Avery film list, see Joe adamson’s classic book “Tex Avery: King of Cartoons”
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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?
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Come to think of it, Costanza was quite a bit like Daffy toward the end of “Seinfeld’s” run. However, I think an even closer match was Edmund Blackadder in the first “Black Adder” series. Both the first Edmund and the Chuck Jones Daffy were sputtering schemers whose deviousness was exceeded only by their incompetence.