I think I like Jones's "bitter malcontent" Daffy more than Clampett's "asshole for no reason" Daffy. I think Looney Tunes: Back in Action did a good job combining the two.
It didn't do that...
At the beginning when he left, he was screwy, but he wasn't like that for the rest of the movie.
Space Jam did that.
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Like creepy stories? Check out my book!Funny thing is that Clampett didn't actually do a lot of those heckler cartoons with Daffy. He is famed for doing the crazier interpretation of him, but he was generally in a tamer or more ambitious role, being Porky's assistant, posing as a detective, avoiding 'the little man from the draft board', etc. He was a prankster, but rarely a directionless one. His Bugs on the other hand...
Ironically most of the times Daffy was in a heckler role in the 40s were done by Jones himself before he got his own grasp of him. I think Jones and Freleng were in that state early on where they felt forced to do these sorts of unprovoked pranksters and didn't really like them, hence drawing Bugs and Daffy as far away from them as possible afterwards, and retiring other ones like Hubie and Bertie. I think Jones admitted to hating the likes of Woody Woodpecker for this reason. He and Freleng seemed dead set against making Bugs into a glorified bully.
Admittedly I kinda prefer the transitional Daffy, the one that was still goofy and could get the upper hand sometimes, but still often got in over his head due to ambition or hubris. He'd gained that lucidity to him to some degree, he was always driven by something like money but was still a happy loon in terms of interactions. Jones' late forties cartoons like Daffy Dilly and You Were Never Duckier were good cases, while Mckimson actually kept up this sort of Lovable Rogue Daffy for a long while even when everyone else had settled for the pompous Butt-Monkey Daffy.
I could argue that was what the two movies were aiming for, just they kept Bugs as his Berserk Button, and being paired with him for most of the movies meant that side of him was dominant.
Edited by Psi001 on May 13th 2020 at 1:08:04 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Cat_(Looney_Tunes)
He looks like a Hanna-Barbera character.
Edited by randomness4 on May 13th 2020 at 9:09:35 AM
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Evidently, Cool Cat was WB's answer to The Pink Panther during the late 60's. Unlike the Pink Panther, Cool Cat was modeled after a tiger wearing a beret and scarf.
Problem is, Cool Cat only ever had six whole cartoons from 1967-1969. He wouldn't appear again for anything substantial aside from assorted cameos in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and in Tweety's High Flying Adventure, where he appeared with his nemesis Colonel Rimfire, who was the Big Bad of the movie.
That wasn't an accident. The guy who designed him, Alex Lovy, worked in Hanna-Barbera Productions before working at WB.
Edited by TargetmasterJoe on May 13th 2020 at 12:15:27 PM
Cool Cat also has the distinction of appearing in the very last Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short of the original run, 1969's Injun Trouble
Spoiler alert, it sucked. The animation is only just decent, the jokes are either weak or completely butchered by the poor delivery, there's no central plot or conflict for the short, and oh yeah, the shit-ton of Native American stereotypes.
It's kind of sad how the original Looney Tunes shorts ended on such a freakin' whimper.
Edited by chasemaddigan on May 13th 2020 at 12:14:48 PM
I always saw "False Hare" (1964) as the last LT/MM, as it was the last one produced by the original studio. There had been a significant drop in quality towards the end, though.
The DePatie-Freleng and Seven Arts cartoons strike me as more of an After Show rather than part of the original series.
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It could actually work?
As for myself... well, I doubt we'd ever see Bosko and Buddy (and no way in a million years would Bosko have his original design) but God knows I can always dream...
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I feel like screwball Daffy could work in the exterminator role if there were a middle man. Sort of like "A Pest in the House" where Daffy's attempts to do a good job are just mindless and only cause misery for his Only Sane Man client.
Somebody (maybe artist Dave Alvarez) once did artwork of Cool Cat, but designed him in the way you'd normally draw Bugs or Daffy. That is to say, not flat.
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Edited by Psi001 on May 14th 2020 at 1:20:40 PM
About Cool Cat, Warner Bros definitely should have sued Derek Savage for copyright infringement.
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I like also Daffy Duck.
But I'd like to hear him speak a bit more.
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