History Creator / BobClampett

Being inspired by the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs strange works]] of artist Creator/SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like Milt Gross, Clampett eventually began working at the Warner Bros. distributed animation unit of Leon Schlesinger, after failing to get a job at the Disney studios. (Disney ''had'' wanted to hire him, due to Clampett's excellent drawing skills, but they had all the animators they needed.) There, Clampett and his soon to be mentor, Fred "Tex" Avery, went to work in a crumbling wooden shack assigned to them, not far from the main Schlesinger lot. There, they discovered they were not alone -- specifically, said shack appeared to be infested with termites. Still, being comfy there, the duo blessed upon the place the affectionate nickname ''Termite Terrace'', which would soon become the unofficial name for the entire WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes animation studio as a whole.

* OffModel: Clampett was very stylistically liberal and allowed his animators to draw the characters how they saw fit, arguably creating the whole "Less 'on model,' more 'in character'" style of cartoon animation.

Mainly because of restlessness, Clampett left Warner Bros. in 1945, bouncing between other studios' animation units for a few years, then scoring an early television success by creating the puppet show ''Time For Beany''. He later started his own animation studio, and adapted the earlier show into ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil''. By TheSeventies he more publicly embraced his ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' legacy, giving numerous talks and interviews and appearing prominently on camera in the 1975 documentary ''Bugs Bunny Superstar'' (featuring a bunch of archival material from the Termite Terrace years that Clampett had saved). He died in 1984 in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} after suffering a heart attack while on a tour promoting a ''Beany and Cecil'' video release.

* WesternAnimation/AnyBondsToday

After leaving Warner Bros. in 1945, Clampett started his own animation studio and created ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'', which was sprung from his earlier TV puppet show ''Time For Beany.'' By TheSeventies he more publicly embraced his ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' legacy, giving numerous talks and interviews and appearing prominently on camera in the 1975 documentary ''Bugs Bunny Superstar'' (featuring a bunch of archival material from the Termite Terrace years that Clampett had saved). He died in 1984 in UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}} after suffering a heart attack while on a tour promoting a ''Beany and Cecil'' video release.

After leaving Warner Bros. in 1945, Clampett started his own animation studio and created ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'', which was sprung from his earlier TV puppet show ''Time For Beany.''

While for many years he was an esoteric director (his influenced downplayed in favor of the other directors, and his smaller output compared to them) but his cartoons have gained a surprisingly large fanbase in recent years, receiving praise and admiration from professionals like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Milt Gray]], [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyDisneyStaff Eric Goldberg]] and Creator/JohnKricfalusi (the latter being his protege and biggest fan, is heavily influenced by him, and is also partly responsible for getting Bob's shorts back into the limelight).

* Literature/HortonHatchesTheEgg 4-11: An adaptation of the classic Creator/DrSeuss story, with Clampett's humor injected into it.

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After leaving Warner Bros. in 1945, Clampett started his own animation studio and created ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil''.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His black and white cartoons have a fairly different drawing and animation style from the cartoons he made once he inherited Tex Avery's unit in 1941, and due to a studio mandate, Porky Pig was the star (but not always the focus) of almost all of his b&w cartoons.

* WesternAnimation/WabbitTwouble 12-20: Clampett's first WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon. Originally planned by Tex Avery, but finished by Clampett. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid 7-11: Third Bugs Bunny short he directed. Debut of Killer / Beaky the Buzzard. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* [[WesternAnimation/EatinOnTheCuff Eatin' on the Cuff (or The Moth Who Came To Supper)]] 8-22: Features usage of the RogerRabbitEffect. Clampett's final black and white cartoon. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/TheHepCat 10-03: First Looney Tunes short in color. A oneshot cartoon. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/ATaleOfTwoKitties 11-21: Debut of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety Bird]]. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes. Runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* WesternAnimation/CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs 1-16: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes--and one of the WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven. A jazzy, deranged parody of Disney's Snow White.
* WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare 2-20: A follow up to the Creator/TexAvery short "Tortoise Beats Hare". One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/TinPanAlleyCats 7-17: One of the WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes. Features StockFootage of ''WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland'', but in color.
* WesternAnimation/ACornyConcerto 9-25: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes. A parody of Disney's WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}.
* WesternAnimation/FallingHare 10-30: A WartimeCartoon, featuring a famous encounter WesternAnimation/BugsBunny has with a gremlin. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes,
* WesternAnimation/AnItchInTime 12-04: An Elmer Fudd short, featuring a mischievous flea irritating his dog. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/RussianRhapsody 5-20: A WartimeCartoon, with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler having an airplane encounter with a colony of singing gremlins. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/TheOldGreyHare 10-28: One of the strangest Bugs shorts ever made. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* WesternAnimation/DrafteeDaffy 1-27: A Daffy Duck WartimeCartoon. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/AGruesomeTwosome 6-09: Third appearance of Tweety Bird. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/BookRevue: 1-05: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes. A ruthless parody of the "Things come to life in a store" genre of cartoons, and is cited as the short that put the [[GenreKiller final nail of the coffin]] of the already passe genre of cartoon.
* WesternAnimation/BabyBottleneck 3-16: A Porky and Daffy cartoon. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/KittyKornered 6-08: A Porky Pig cartoon, featuring a prototype of Sylvester. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.
* WesternAnimation/TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery 7-20: A Daffy Duck short, and No. 16 of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze 10-05: Last released Clampett cartoon. A Bugs Bunny short. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland 9-24: One of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

While for many years he was an esoteric director (his influenced downplayed in favor of the other directors, and his smaller output compared to them) but his cartoons have gained a surprisingly large fanbase in recent years, receiving praise and admiration from professionals like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Milt Gray]], [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyDisneyStaff Eric Goldberg]] and Creator/JohnKricfalusi (the latter being his protege and biggest fan, is heavily influenced by him, and is also partly responsible for getting Bob's shorts back into the limelight). As such, a large number of his cartoons have gained acclaim, with 21 shorts getting not only onto Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes list, but also five of them making it as winners (with five more as runner-ups) on The50GreatestCartoons list.

Being inspired by the [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs strange works]] of artist Creator/SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like Milt Gross, Clampett eventually began working at the Warner Bros. distributed animation unit of Leon Schlesinger, after failing to get a job at the Disney studios. (Disney ''had'' wanted to hire him, due to Clampett's excellent drawing skills, but they had all the animators they needed.) There, Clampett and his soon to be mentor, Fred "Tex" Avery, went to work in a crumbling wooden shack assigned to them, not far from the main Schlesinger lot. There, they discovered they were not alone -- specifically, said shack appeared to have an infestation of termites. Still, being comfy there, the duo blessed upon the place the affectionate nickname ''Termite Terrace'', which would soon become the unofficial name for the entire WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes animation studio as a whole.

In 1941, Avery left the studio...but Clampett, having learned quite a thing or two from him, began experimenting with his own style of animation -- a very wacky, surreal one which combined the early principles of rubber hose animation from UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation, with the more modern, higher quality principles and art productions of a Disney short. The results were some of the finest cartoons ever made in general, let alone by the Warner Bros. animation unit.

* JumpCut: Bob's cartoons at their peak had very sophisticated film cutting and timing. Some of his fastest scenes, like the scene in ''A Tale of Two Kitties'' where Catsello is falling towards a pinchfork and the camera cutting back and forth between his reactions and the fork, barely last a few frames on screen.

Being inspired by the [[UncannyValley strange]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs works]] of artist Creator/SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like Milt Gross, Clampett eventually began working at the Warner Bros. distributed animation unit of Leon Schlesinger, after failing to get a job at the Disney studios. (Disney ''had'' wanted to hire him, due to Clampett's excellent drawing skills, but they had all the animators they needed.) There, Clampett and his soon to be mentor, Fred "Tex" Avery, went to work in a crumbling wooden shack assigned to them, not far from the main Schlesinger lot. There, they discovered they were not alone -- specifically, said shack appeared to have an infestation of termites. Still, being comfy there, the duo blessed upon the place the affectionate nickname ''Termite Terrace'', which would soon become the unofficial name for the entire WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes animation studio as a whole.

Being inspired by the [[UncannyValley strange]] works [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs of]] artist Creator/SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like Milt Gross, Clampett eventually began working at the Warner Bros. distributed animation unit of Leon Schlesinger, after failing to get a job at the Disney studios. (Disney ''had'' wanted to hire him, due to Clampett's excellent drawing skills, but they had all the animators they needed.) There, Clampett and his soon to be mentor, Fred "Tex" Avery, went to work in a crumbling wooden shack assigned to them, not far from the main Schlesinger lot. There, they discovered they were not alone -- specifically, said shack appeared to have an infestation of termites. Still, being comfy there, the duo blessed upon the place the affectionate nickname ''Termite Terrace'', which would soon become the unofficial name for the entire WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes animation studio as a whole.

In 1941, Avery left the studio...but Clampett, having learned quite a thing or two from him, began experimenting with his own style of animation -- a very wacky, surreal one which combined the early principles of rubberhose animation from UsefulNotes/TheSilentAgeOfAnimation, with the more modern, higher quality principles and art productions of a Disney short. The results were some of the finest cartoons ever made in general, let alone by the Warner Bros. animation unit.

While for many years he was an esoteric director (his influenced downplayed in favor of the other directors, and his smaller output compared to them) but his cartoons have gained a surprisingly large fanbase in recent years, receiving praise and admiration from professionals like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Milt Gray]], [[UsefulNotes/NoteworthyDisneyStaff Eric Goldberg]] and Creator/JohnKricfalusi (the latter being his protege and biggest fan, is heavily influenced by him, and is also partly responsible for getting Clampett's shorts back into the limelight). As such, a large number of his cartoons have gained acclaim, with 21 shorts getting not only onto Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes list, but also five of them making it as winners (with five more as runner-ups) on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* WesternAnimation/TinPanAlleyCats 7-17: One of the WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes. Features StockFootage of "WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland," but in color.

* [[WesternAnimation/WhatsCookinDoc What's Cookin' Doc?]] 1-08: A Bugs Bunny short, featuring StockFootage from "WesternAnimation/HiawathasRabbitHunt."

* [[WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1938 Injun Trouble]] 5-21: This short would later be remade in color as "Wagon Heels". Curiously, the cartoon was aired on Cartoon Network in a digitally colorized form despite the Native American stereotyping and the fact that the precense of a color remake made it superflous to air it, but the airings always trimmed out a small gag from it. This short should also not be confused with the 1969 Robert McKimson cartoon of the same name, which was the last Looney Tunes ever made.

* StealingTheCredit: While many Termite Terrace members "glamorised" their contributions to some level, Clampett was infamous for doing it to an inane degree. Some of his statements in interviews and his documentary, ''Bugs Bunny Superstar'' drew ire from colleagues such as Chuck Jones, Tex Avery and Friz Freleng, including claiming to be the true creator of Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.