History Creator / BobClampett

If it was Creator/TexAvery who realized that animation can do anything and Creator/ChuckJones who took subtle humor and stylization to new heights in animation, then it was '''''Robert "Bob" Clampett''''' who injected animation with the good, old-fashioned rubber-hose style it had in the 1930s and gave it a wackier makeover. One of the most popular directors of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] series of cartoon shorts made by WarnerBros. during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation (second only to Chuck Jones in popularity), Bob Clampett was nothing short of a mischief maker, being both a real life version of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, in addition to being a real life WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. (pre-Chuck Jones {{Flanderization}} [[ScrewySquirrel Daffy Duck]], mind you.)

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

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

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

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]], [[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 The100GreatestLooneyTunes list, but also five of them making it as winners (with five more as runner-ups) on The50GreatestCartoons list.

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

* Wabbit Twouble 12-20: Clampett's first BugsBunny cartoon. Originally planned by Tex Avery, but finished by Clampett. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

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

* Eatin' on the Cuff 8-22: Features usage of the RogerRabbitEffect. Clampett's final black and white cartoon. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* The Hep Cat 10-03: First Looney Tunes short in color. A oneshot cartoon. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* A Tale of Two Kitties 11-21: Debut of [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety Bird]]. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes. Runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* CoalBlackAndDeSebbenDwarfs 1-16: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of The100GreatestLooneyTunes--and one of the 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 The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/ACornyConcerto 9-25: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of The100GreatestLooneyTunes. A parody of Disney's Disney/{{Fantasia}}.
* Falling Hare 10-30: A WartimeCartoon, featuring a famous encounter BugsBunny has with a gremlin. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes,
* An Itch in Time 12-04: An Elmer Fudd short, featuring a mischievous flea irritating his dog. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

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

* The Old Grey Hare 10-28: One of the strangest Bugs shorts ever made. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* Draftee Daffy 1-27: A Daffy Duck WartimeCartoon. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* A Gruesome Twosome 6-09: Third appearance of Tweety Bird. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* BookRevue: 1-05: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of 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 DeaderThanDisco genre of cartoon.
* Baby Bottleneck 3-16: A Porky and Daffy cartoon. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* Kitty Kornered 6-08: A Porky Pig cartoon, featuring a prototype of Sylvester. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.
* TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery 7-20: A Daffy Duck short, and No. 16 of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* The Big Snooze 10-05: Last released Clampett cartoon. A Bugs Bunny short. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* WesternAnimation/TortoiseWinsByAHare 2-20: A follow up to the TexAvery short "Tortoise Beats Hare". One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* TortoiseWinsByAHare 2-20: A follow up to the TexAvery short "Tortoise Beats Hare". One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

!!Tropes Associated with Bob Clampett:

* BlatantLies: Clampett got into a lot of trouble in his waning years for trying to take credit for the ideas and creations of the other staff at the studio.
** SmallNameBigEgo: In his autobiography, Creator/MelBlanc called him an egotist who took credit for everything.

* DerangedAnimation: Clampett was quite possibly the undisputed KING of this trope, even when compared to the works of MaxAndDaveFleischer. It's very easy to see why Creator/JohnKricfalusi (and a lot of other animation show runners and directors who brought DerangedAnimation back to kids' cartoons in the 1990s, particularly those who worked on ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' and ''The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat'') loves the man.
* TheRival: To fellow animator Creator/ChuckJones; unlike Jones, Clampett saw it as a friendly rivalry however.

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* TheRival: To fellow animator Creator/ChuckJones.

* It's a Grand Old Nag: Last theatrical cartoon Clampett produced, for Republic Pictures. For years it was lost until it resurfaced, along with storyboards and a pencil test, on Vol. 2 of the ''Beany and Cecil'' DVD sets. See it [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/grandoldnag-8686.html here,]] with commentary by historians [[CartoonBrew Jerry Beck]] and Mark Kausler.

!!Tropes Associated With Bob Clampett:

* Fighting Tools: One of two PrivateSnafu shorts that he directed.

* Booby Traps: Second of two PrivateSnafu shorts that he directed.

* Draftee Daffy 1-27: A DaffyDuck WartimeCartoon. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* Porky's Badtime Story 7-24: A Porky Pig and Gabby Goat cartoon. Third of the four WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes outsourced to the UbIwerks studio. Clampett's official directorial debut.

* The Daffy Doc 11-26: A Daffy and Porky teamup, although Porky is a victim to him. Clampett and ChuckJones grew to hate this short due to it using an Iron Lung as a gag prop.

* The Timid Toreador 12-21: Directorial debut of Norm Mccabe, who co-directed this short with Bob.

* Porky's Snooze Reel 1-11: Co-directed by Norm Mccabe.

* The Bug Parade 10-11: Initially directed by TexAvery, but Clampett finished it.

* Wabbit Twouble 12-20: Clampett's first BugsBunny cartoon. Originally planned by TexAvery, but finished by Clampett. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* The Wacky Wabbit 5-02: Second Clampett BugsBunny short.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyGetsTheBoid 7-11: Third BugsBunny short he directed. Debut of Killer / Beaky the Buzzard. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.
* Wacky Blackout 7-11: A oneshot WartimeCartoon, parodying wartime instrutional films.

* Tin Pan Alley Cats 7-17: One of the CensoredEleven. Features StockFootage of PorkyInWackyland, but in color.

* An Itch in Time 12-04: An Elmer Fudd short, featuring a mischevious flea irritating his dog. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* Tick Tock Tuckered 4-08: [[ShotForShotRemake Shot For Shot Color remake]] of "Porky's Badtime Story", but with DaffyDuck replacing Gabby Goat.

* Wagon Heels 7-28: Color remake of Injun Trouble.

* Bacall To Arms: 8-03: A oneshot short started by Clampett, but finished by Art Davis (both uncredited).

** SmallNameBigEgo: In his autobiography, MelBlanc called him an egotist who took credit for everything.

* DerangedAnimation: Clampett was quite possibly the undisputed KING of this trope, even when compared to the works of MaxAndDaveFleischer. It's very easy to see why JohnKricfalusi (and a lot of other animation show runners and directors who brought DerangedAnimation back to kids' cartoons in the 1990s, particularly those who worked on ''TheAdventuresOfSonictheHedgehog'' and ''The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat'') loves the man.
* TheRival: To fellow animator ChuckJones.
* SeenItAllSuicide: A frequent gag in many Looney Tunes cartoons, but especially Clampett's. Notable examples include "Horton Hatches the Egg", "An Itch in Time", and "The Sour Puss". A variant also occurs in "Tortoise Wins By a Hare" (the gangsters shoot themselves after Bugs reveals he's the rabbit).

* Porky & Gabby: Allegedly directed by UbIwerks, but ChuckJones claimed he and Bob actually co-directed it, with Ub merely doing the layouts--Clampett denied this claim, however. First Looney Tunes short outsourced to the Iwerks studio.

* Porky In Egypt 11-05

* We, The Animals Squeak 8-09: A Porky Pig short.

* Eatin' On the Cuff 8-22: Features usage of the RogerRabbitEffect. Clampett's final black and white cartoon. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* ACornyConcerto 9-25: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of The100GreatestLooneyTunes. A parody of Disney's Disney/{{Fantasia}}.

* An Itch In Time 12-04: An Elmer Fudd short, featuring a mischevious flea irritating his dog. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* TheGreatPiggyBankRobbery 7-20: A DaffyDuck short, and No. 16 of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* The Big Snooze 10-05: Last released Clampett cartoon. A BugsBunny short. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes, and runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* It's A Grand Old Nag: Last theatrical cartoon Clampett produced, for Republic Pictures. For years it was lost until it resurfaced, along with storyboards and a pencil test, on Vol. 2 of the Beany and Cecil DVD sets. See it [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/brewtv/grandoldnag-8686.html here,]] with commentary by historians [[CartoonBrew Jerry Beck]] and Mark Kausler.

-->--JohnKricfalusi, gushing about his mentor.

If it was TexAvery who realized that animation can do anything and ChuckJones who took subtle humor and stylization to new heights in animation, then it was '''''Robert "Bob" Clampett''''' who injected animation with the good, old-fashioned rubber-hose style it had in the 1930s and gave it a wackier makeover. One of the most popular directors of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] series of cartoon shorts made by WarnerBros. during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation (second only to Chuck Jones in popularity), Bob Clampett was nothing short of a mischief maker, being both a real life version of WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, in addition to being a real life WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck. (pre-ChuckJones {{Flanderization}} [[ScrewySquirrel Daffy Duck]], mind you.)

Being inspired by the [[UncannyValley strange]] works [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs of]] artist Creator/SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like MiltGross, 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.

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

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 [[TheSimpsons Milt Gray]], [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Eric Goldberg]] and 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 The100GreatestLooneyTunes list, but also five of them making it as winners (with five more as runner-ups) on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* Whens Your Birthday?: 1937 live action Warner Bros. film. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KGSxF8nnLQk#! Has a brief animated segment]] that is attributed to be Bob Clampett's directorial debut.

* ACornyConcerto 9-25: One of The50GreatestCartoons and one of The100GreatestLooneyTunes. A parody of Disney's {{Fantasia}}.

Being inspired by the [[UncannyValley strange]] [[NightmareFuel works]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs of]] artist Creator/SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like MiltGross, 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.

If it was TexAvery who realized that animation can do anything and ChuckJones who took subtle humor and stylization to new heights in animation, then it was '''''Robert "Bob" Clampett''''' who injected animation with the good, old-fashioned rubber-hose style it had in the 1930s and gave it a wackier makeover. One of the most popular directors of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] series of cartoon shorts made by WarnerBros. during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation (second only to Chuck Jones in popularity), Bob Clampett was nothing short of a mischief maker, being both a real life version of BugsBunny, in addition to being a real life DaffyDuck. (pre-ChuckJones {{Flanderization}} [[ScrewySquirrel Daffy Duck]], mind you.)

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

If it was TexAvery who modernized the cartoon gag and ChuckJones who brought subtlety and stylization to new levels in animation, then it was certainly '''''Robert "Bob" Clampett''''' who brought back the old fashioned, distorted rubberhose of the [[TheSilentAgeOfAnimation previous era]] and early 1930's to modern times. One of the most popular directors of the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] series of cartoon shorts made by WarnerBros. during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation (second only to Chuck Jones in popularity), Bob Clampett was nothing short of a mischief maker, being both a real life version of BugsBunny, in addition to being a real life DaffyDuck. (pre-ChuckJones {{Flanderization}} [[ScrewySquirrel Daffy Duck]], mind you.)

* AnimationBump: Shorts directed by Clampett had some of the most fluid, well drawn animation to ever come out of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio.

* DerangedAnimation: Clampett was quite possibly the undisputed KING of this trope, even when compared to the works of MaxAndDaveFleischer! It's easy to see why JohnKricfalusi (and a lot of other animation show runners and directors who brought back DerangedAnimation in the 1990s, particularly those who worked on ''TheAdventuresOfSonictheHedgehog'') loves the man.

* SmallNameBigEgo: In his autobiography, MelBlanc called him an egotist who took credit for everything.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Much of the humor in Bob's cartoons is rooted in 40's Pop Culture, so like with TexAvery's cartoons, one might need a good understanding of the time period to get some of the jokes.

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 phrase from professionals like [[TheSimpsons Milt Gray]], [[NoteworthyDisneyStaff Eric Goldberg]] and JohnKricfalusi (the latter being his prostege and 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 The100GreatestLooneyTunes list, but also five of them making it as winners (with five more as runner-ups) on The50GreatestCartoons list.

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Being inspired by the [[UncannyValley strange]] [[NightmareFuel works]] [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs of]] artist SalvadorDali, as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[MaxAndDaveFleischer Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like MiltGross, 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.

* SmallNameBigEgo: MelBlanc called him an egotist who took credit for everything.

* EverythingsBetterWithBob

* A Tale of Two Kitties 11-21: Debut of [[SylvesterCatAndTweetyBird Tweety Bird]]. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes. Runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* Horton Hatches the Egg 4-11: An adaptation of the classic DrSeuss story, with Clampett's humor injected into it.

Oh, and he's also the father of TweetyBird and reinvented PorkyPig as a character into an adventurer who got into all sorts of fantastic tales like PorkyInWackyland for many, many black & white shorts.