History Creator / BobClampett

* Tex and Judy

->''"In thirty seconds of a Bob Clampett cartoon, there are more ideas, original drawings, sound ideas, than in 20 of anybody else's cartoons. They are amazing."''
-->--Creator/JohnKricfalusi, gushing about his mentor.

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

* StockFootage: Several of Clampett's cartoons occasionally reuse bits of animation from previous Looney Tunes shorts. Most of the examples only consist of brief and minor scenes, but ''Whats Cookin Doc?'' is especially liberal with this--the cartoon only has around two minutes of new animation, with the rest either being still photos, footage reused from ''A Star Is Born'' (1937) and ''Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt'' (1941).

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 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.

* HarpoDoesSomethingFunny: Bob was [[EnforcedTrope forced to rely on this out of necessity in his early films]], mainly because he was saddled with a mandate that Porky Pig had to appear in all of his cartoons. He worked around the limits of Porky's StraightMan personality by either relying on Daffy Duck as comic relief or introducing more shaded or wild oneshot characters to usurp the focus from Porky in many of his shorts--after all, [[LoopholeAbuse it was never specified how]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse much]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse Porky had to be in a cartoon or that he even had to be the focus of the story.]] Once he inherited Tex Avery's unit in 1941, his cartoons moved on from this and paid much more attention to characterization, and became much more tightly paced and structured.
* InternalConsistency: Clampett's cartoons have surreal elements, but they're always consistent with ''how'' they go about being crazy by having their own internal logic that prioritizes engaging the audience with the weird world and surprising them (while still making some kind of sense in the context of the cartoon) instead of trying to rationalize the weirdness. His films often use their weird elements as a way to surprise the audience with a foreshadowed punchline later in the cartoon--for example, in ''The Bashful Buzzard'', it's established that Killer's brothers have [[SuperStrength ludicrous strength]] that allows them to carry things like a parade of elephants to their nest. Later in the cartoon, we see Killer get in a fight with a dragon, and his fate is uncertain at first. Later that night, it's revealed that not only did he survive the fight, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome he somehow]] ''[[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome won]]'' and carried the massive dragon all the way back to his familys nest.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: A lot of his cartoons (like a lot of cartoons of the era from Warner Bros.) won't be very funny unless you know about 1940s history and pop culture.

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 Emerson "Bob" Clampett ((May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984)) 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 Creator/WarnerBros during UsefulNotes/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 (of the [[ScrewySquirrel early, screwy variety]]).

* [[WesternAnimation/PorkyAndGabby Porky & Gabby]]: Allegedly directed by Creator/UbIwerks, but actually co-directed by Clampett and Creator/ChuckJones. First Looney Tunes short outsourced to the Iwerks studio.

* [[WesternAnimation/PorkyAndDaffy Porky & Daffy]] 8-06: First teamup of WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck.

* InternalConsistency: Clampett's cartoons have surreal elements, but they always consistent with ''how'' they go about being crazy by having their own internal logic that prioritizes engaging the audience with the weird world and surprising them instead of trying to rationalize the weirdness. His films often use their weird elements as a way to surprise the audience with a foreshadowed punchline later in the cartoon--for example, in ''The Bashful Buzzard'', it's established that Killer's brothers have [[SuperStrength ludicrous strength]] that allows them to carry things like a parade of elephants to their nest. Later in the cartoon, we see Killer get in a fight with a dragon, and his fate is uncertain at first. Later that night, it's revealed that not only did he survive the fight, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome he somehow]] ''[[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome won]]'' and carried the massive dragon all the way back to his familys nest.

* AnimationBump: Shorts directed by Clampett had some of the most fluid, well-drawn animation to ever come out of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. Even his B&W cartoons had surprisingly good animation, considering he was saddled with shoestring budgets of $3,000 per cartoon, had the least skilled animators in the studio working under him and only had 4 weeks to slam together each one.

** While the prints of his cartoons on the ''Porky Pig 101'' DVD set have no interlacing or DVNR problems, four of the cartoons accidentally use the wrong opening music cues[[note]]''Get Rich Quick Porky'' has its opening cue from ''Confusions of a Nutsy Spy'', several cartoons (''The Lone Stranger and Porky'', ''Chicken Jitters'' and ''Naughty Neighbors'') use the opening theme from ''Porky's Tire Trouble''. This is especially egregious in ''Naughty Neighbors'', because not only is the music looped twice in a row, the misplaced cue completely ruins the opening gag, which was dependent on its [[MoodWhiplash music abruptly changing]] [[FakeOutOpening after the peaceful opening.]]

* StockFootage: Several of Clampett's cartoons occasionally reuse bits of animation from previous Looney Tunes shorts. ''Whats Cookin Doc?'' is especially liberal with this--the cartoon only has around two minutes of new animation, with the rest either being still photos or footage reused from ''A Star Is Born'' and ''Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt''.

** Clampett would also insert caricatures of his staff into some his cartoons. The picket line of statues in ''Porky's Hero Agency'' and the tourists in ''Porky in Egypt'' are made up of many of these. Animators John Carey and Ernest Gee also make a freeze frame cameo in ''Porky and Daffy''. Business manager Ray Katz also makes a cameo on a wanted poster in ''The Lone Stranger and Porky''. Many of the gremlins in ''Russian Rhapsody'' are based on the Looney Tunes staff.

** Clampett would also insert caricatures of his staff into his cartoons. The picket line of statues in ''Porky's Hero Agency'' and the tourists in ''Porky in Egypt'' are made up of many of these. Animator John Carey also makes a freeze frame cameo in ''Porky and Daffy''. Many of the gremlins in ''Russian Rhapsody'' are based on the Looney Tunes staff.

* CreatorCameo: Clampett occasionally inserted caricatures of himself into his cartoons, such as a statue in ''WesternAnimation/PorkysHeroAgency'', his head being part of a MotionBlur gag in ''Porky and Daffy'' ([[FreezeFrameBonus you need to still frame it to see it clearly]]) on a wanted poster in ''The Lone Stranger and Porky'', and as a gremlin in ''WesternAnimation/RussianRhapsody''.

* CreatorCameo: Clampett occasionally inserted caricatures of himself into his cartoons, such as a statue in ''WesternAnimation/PorkysHeroAgency'', on a wanted poster in ''The Lone Stranger and Porky'', and as a gremlin in ''WesternAnimation/RussianRhapsody''.

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 (1913–1984) 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 Creator/WarnerBros during UsefulNotes/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 (of the [[ScrewySquirrel early, screwy variety]]).

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* CreatorCameo: Clampett occasionally inserted caricatures of himself into his cartoons, such as a statue in ''WesternAnimation/PorkysHeroAgency'', on a wanted poster in ''The Lone Stranger and Porky'', a restaurant patron in ''Nutty News'', and as a gremlin in ''WesternAnimation/RussianRhapsody''.