History Creator / ChuckJones

During UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, Chuck began working as a cel washer for Creator/UbIwerks before working his way up the corporate ladder so to speak, being mentored by the likes of Creator/TexAvery and Creator/FrizFreleng and animating for Creator/BobClampett. In 1938, he finally received a shot at directing a cartoon, inheriting the crew of the recently departed Creator/FrankTashlin. His early work mirrored Creator/WaltDisney's ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' in content and tone, heavy on childlike fantasy and completely lacking in comedy; many featured the ever-so-cute Sniffles the Mouse as the main character. After a few years at Warner Bros., Jones would eventually [[GrowingTheBeard grow the beard]] and adopt the more humorous and zany style of his studio contemporaries. Sniffles would become a bit of a cute prankster with an uncontrollable MotorMouth before Chuck ended his series and began writing for other characters, eventually inheriting Bugs, Daffy and the rest of the more famous ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' characters.

During UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, Chuck began working as a cel washer for Creator/UbIwerks before working his way up the corporate ladder so to speak, being mentored by the likes of Creator/TexAvery and Creator/FrizFreleng and animating for Creator/BobClampett. In 1938, he finally received a shot at directing a cartoon, inheriting the crew of the recently departed Creator/FrankTashlin. His early work mirrored Creator/WaltDisney's ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' in content and tone, heavy on childlike fantasy and completely lacking in comedy; many featured the ever-so-cute Sniffles the Mouse as the main character. After a few years at Warner Bros., he would eventually [[GrowingTheBeard grow the beard]] and adopt the more humorous and zany style of his contemporaries at Warner. Sniffles would become a bit of a cute prankster with an uncontrollable MotorMouth before Chuck ended his series and began writing for other characters, eventually inheriting Bugs, Daffy and the rest of the more famous ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' characters.

Chuck's work as an animation director for WB in the 1950s took the elements Tex laid out and stretched them to their most logical (illogical?) extremes. On one hand, his most prolific original characters, the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote]], used next to no dialogue, instead relying on expertly timed facial expressions and {{slapstick}} that even Film/TheThreeStooges might have envied. On the other end of the spectrum, Jones' work with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, while not discarding the slapstick, brought comedic wordplay to a level not seen in animation up to that point. In addition, he deepened their personalities such as making Bugs generally bedevil people ''only'' after they've threatened or mistreated him: a classic KarmicTrickster. Daffy is made an insecure pretender to Bugs' trickster throne.

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones™[[note]] Yes, his name is trademarked.[[/note]] (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was one of the most revered animators, directors, and writers in the HistoryOfAnimation.

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones™[[note]] Yes, his name is trademarked.[[/note]] (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) is one of the most revered animators, directors, and writers in the HistoryOfAnimation.

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones™[[note]] Yes, his name is trademarked.[[/note]] (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) is one of the most revered animators, directors, and writers in the HistoryOfAnimation. If Creator/TexAvery, hypothetically speaking as the original cartoon gag man, was the {{Trope Maker|s}}, then Chuck Jones could well have been the TropeCodifier of much of what we consider cartoon comedy on the WesternAnimation side of the fence. During his tenure with Creator/WarnerBros, he directed an impressive 207 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' shorts (220 if you count his WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu work), four ''Looney Tunes'' TV specials, the feature-length compilation ''The Bugs Bunny[=/=]Road Runner Movie'', and seven modern ''Looney Tunes'' shorts.

* WesternAnimation/OldGlory: Probably the most ''un''-Warner Bros.-like cartoon ever made. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/TheDoverBoys: #49 of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes. Jones considered this the point where he found his voice, so to speak.

* The Aristo Cat: Debut of Hubie and Bertie and Claude Cat. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears: Runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons list.

* WesternAnimation/APestInTheHouse: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* WesternAnimation/LongHairedHare: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/FastAndFurryOus: Debut of WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes, runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* WesternAnimation/RabbitHood: Runner-up on The50GreatestCartoons.

* WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel: #31 of The50GreatestCartoons, one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* The Hypo-chondri-cat: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* Eight Ball Bunny: one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* Dog Gone South: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville: #12 of The50GreatestCartoons, one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/BunnyHugged: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/RabbitFire: One of the most iconic WesternAnimation/BugsBunny shorts. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/ChowHound: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/ABearForPunishment: one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/DripAlongDaffy: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/OperationRabbit: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/FeedTheKitty: No. 36 on The50GreatestCartoons list, one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/RabbitSeasoning: Second of the Duck Season, Rabbit Season trilogy. #30 of The50GreatestCartoons, one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck: #2 of The50GreatestCartoons, one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/MuchAdoAboutNutting: Ranked #59 in Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/DuckDodgersInTheTwentyFourthAndAHalfCentury: One of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/DuckRabbitDuck!: Third of the Duck Season, Rabbit Season trilogy. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/FromAToZZZZ: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/GuidedMuscle: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening: #5 of The50GreatestCartoons, one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/RocketByeBaby: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/DeduceYouSay: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/AliBabaBunny: One of The50GreatestCartoons, and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* [[WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog Steal Wool]]: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.
* WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc: #1 on The50GreatestCartoons list, and one of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/RobinHoodDaffy: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* WesternAnimation/HighNote: One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* The50GreatestCartoons: He ''dominates'' the list, having directed ten of them overall, four of the top five, five of the runners-up, and numero uno itself, ''WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc''.

* NotSoDifferent: Jones did not think highly of Bob Clampett's egotism and accused him of stealing credit from him and other members of Termite Terrace. However Jones shown similar silent inspiration, his character Charlie Dog was heavily based on Clampett's one-shot in "Porky's Pooch", even borrowing several gags and scenarios for his first few cartoons. While Friz Freleng was not impressed by Bob's glory seeking either, he believed his and Chuck's rivalry was childish, claiming they were both as hubris driven as the other.

* Hare-Breadth Hurry

* Compressed Hare

* To Hare is Human

* Rabbit's Feat

** The rivalry with Clampett became decidedly less friendly when the two had [[WeUsedToBeFriends a personal falling-out]] in the late '70s, after Clampett gave an interview claiming to be the sole creator of Bugs Bunny ''and'' Sniffles The Mouse, the latter of which was famously Jones' creation (Sniffles may have been an OldShame to Jones, but the character was ''his'' to disown). There's even a rumor that his dissatisfaction with the dueling pianos scene in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' was largely because the filmmakers used Clampet's "zany" version of Daffy Duck rather than his own "selfish jerk" version.

* Frigid Hare

* TastesLikeDiabetes: His early shorts are very saccharine, most notably those staring Sniffles the Mouse and the Curious Puppies. It's telling he immediately retired the Puppies once he switched to his new style of direction; he gave Sniffles a few more attempts with a {{Retool}}ed personality that made him a MotorMouth character, but even he was quickly retired after Jones realized there was no potential of the character.

* Rocket Squad

* The Cat's Me-Ouch

* Snowbody Loves Me

* The Cat Above, the Mouse Below

* Zip 'N' Snort

* Water, Water Every Hare

* Wild About Hurry

* The Cricket in Times Square

* Daffy Duck's Thanks-For-Giving Special

* Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out all Over

Jones' time at Warner Bros. ended rather abruptly when it was discovered he had violated his exclusive contract – a violation that was discovered by him leaving his name on an offending independent project that was ultimately shopped to the studio, that being the [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] feature ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree''. Earlier, during Warner's temporary shutdown of its cartoon studio in 1953 as it hopped on the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie fad, Jones had spent four months at Creator/{{Disney}}, where he chafed under the studio's rigidly hierarchical structure and made no real contributions save for some minor uncredited work on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.

On top of all that, with shorts ranging from "WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening" to "WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck," as well as recurring characters like Charlie Dog, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, and WesternAnimation/PepeLePew, Jones created some of the best-loved shorts in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' series.

* Zoom at the Top

* Zipping Along

* Gee Whiz-z-z-z

* Scrambled Aches

* Zoom and Bored

* Hip Hip--Hurry

* Hot Rod and Reel

* Hopalong Casualty

* War and Pieces: Last short for the original Warner Bros. animation studio.

* Hare Way to the Stars

Post-Warner, Jones still had a few tricks up his sleeve. He went to Creator/{{MGM}} and took over the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' franchise for a time (although, due to a lower budget and Chuck's self-admitted lack of understanding of the characters, his ''T&J'' shorts are often criticized for not being up to either his own standards or those of [[Creator/HannaBarbera Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera]], who had originated the series – never mind that the Creator/GeneDeitch cartoons that came in between were ''{{deranged|Animation}}'' and far worse on a technical level than what Jones put out), while also creating a few memorable one-shot cartoons based on children's books, most notably the Oscar-winning "The Dot and the Line". Jones also found himself reuniting with Ted Geisel, a.k.a Creator/DrSeuss, and with the help of the voice of Creator/BorisKarloff, created the much-beloved television adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', which is still rebroadcast every holiday season on Time Warner-owned networks. He is also famous for his well-animated version of ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'', making him and Frank Tashlin the only ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' directors to direct a feature film that wasn't a compilation of old shorts.

* Hook, Line and Stinker