One often repeated official story is that it was modeled after producer Leon Schlesingers tendency to lisp. However, in Mel Blancs autobiography, Thats Not All Folks, he contradicts that conventional belief, writing, It seemed to me that such an extended mandible would hinder his speech, particularly on words containing an s sound. Thus despicable became desthpicable. Daffys slobbery, exaggerated lisp was developed over time, and it is barely noticeable in the early cartoons. In Daffy Duck Egghead, Daffy does not lisp at all except in the separately drawn set piece of Daffy singing The Merry Go Round Broke Down in which just a slight lisp can be heard. In The Scarlet Pumpernickel 1. Daffy has a middle name, Dumas as the writer of a swashbuckling script, a nod to Alexandre Dumas. Also, in the Baby Looney Tunes episode The Tattletale, Granny addresses Daffy as Daffy Horatio Tiberius Duck. In The Looney Tunes Show 2. Armando and Sheldon are used. Different interpretationseditVirtually every Warner Bros. Daffy Duck character he may be a lunatic vigilante in one short but a greedy gloryhound in another. Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones both made extensive use of these two very different versions of the character. Daffys early years, 1. Tex Avery and Bob Clampett created the original version of Daffy in 1. Daffy established his status by jumping into the water, hopping around, and yelling, Woo hoo Woo hoo Woo hoo Woo hoo Woo hoo Animator Bob Clampett immediately seized upon the Daffy Duck character and cast him in a series of cartoons in the 1. The early Daffy is a wild and zany screwball, perpetually bouncing around the screen with cries of Hoo hoo Hoo hoo In his autobiography, Mel Blanc stated that the zany demeanor was inspired by Hugh Herberts catchphrase, which was taken to a wild extreme for Daffy. Clampett physically redesigned the character, making him taller and lankier and rounding out his feet and bill. He was often paired with Porky Pig. World War II Daffy, 1. Bomb Squadron emblem Daffy Duck. Daffy would also feature in several war themed shorts during World War II. Daffy always stays true to his unbridled nature, however for example, he attempts to dodge conscription in Draftee Daffy 1. Nazi goat intent on eating Daffys scrap metal in Scrap Happy Daffy 1. Adolf Hitlers head with a giant mallet in Daffy the Commando 1. Hitler, Goebbels and Goering in Plane Daffy 1. Daffy was drafted as a mascot for the 6. Bombardment Squadron. Daffy 1. For Daffy Doodles his first Looney Tunes cartoon as a director, Robert Mc. Kimson tamed Daffy a bit, redesigning him yet again to be rounder and less elastic. The studio also instilled some of Bugs Bunnys savvy into the duck, making him as brilliant with his mouth as he was with his battiness. Daffy was teamed up with Porky Pig the ducks one time rival became his straight man. Arthur Davis, who directed Warner Bros. Mc. Kimson, Friz Freleng, and Jones, presented a Daffy similar to Mc. Kimsons. Mc. Kimson is noted as the last of the three units to make his Daffy uniform with Jones, with even late shorts, such as Dont Axe Me 1. Daffy. Daffy 1. 95. While Daffys looney days were over, Mc. Kimson continued to make him as bad or good as his various roles required him to be. Mc. Kimson would use this Daffy from 1. Friz Frelengs version took a hint from Chuck Jones to make the duck more sympathetic, as in the 1. Show Biz Bugs. Here, Daffy is over emotional and jealous of Bugs, yet he has real talent that is ignored by the theater manager and the crowd. This cartoon finishes with a sequence in which Daffy attempts to wow the Bugs besotted audience with an act in which he drinks gasoline and swallows nitroglycerine, gunpowder, and uranium 2. Some TV stations, and in the 1. TNT, edited out the dangerous act, afraid of imitation by young children. Pairing of Daffy and Porky in parodies of popular movies, 1. While Bugs Bunny became Warner Bros. Daffy. Several cartoons place him in parodies of popular movies and radio serials Porky Pig was usually a comic relief sidekick. For example, Daffy in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery 1. Duck Twacy Dick Tracy by Bob Clampett The Scarlet Pumpernickel 1. Daffy was the hero and Porky Pig was the villain. In Drip Along Daffy released in 1. Hopalong Cassidy character throws Daffy into a Western. In Duck Dodgers in the 2. Watch New Ratatouille Online. Century 1. 95. 3, a parody of Buck Rogers, Daffy trades barbs and bullets with Marvin the Martian, with Porky Pig retaining the role of Daffys sidekick. In Rocket Squad, a 1. Dragnet and Racket Squad Daffy and Porky Pig pair up once again. Daffy also played Stupor Duck Superman now a WB Property himself by Robert Mc. Kimson. In Robin Hood Daffy 1. Robin Hood with Porky Pig as Friar Tuck. Besides being playing parodies, Daffy also played a salesman who continually annoys a potential customer to buying something in Fool Coverage Daffy actually succeeds into selling Porky Pig a 1,0. Daffy all the conditions occur Pairing of Bugs and Daffy, 1. Bugs ascension to stardom also prompted the Warner Bros. Daffy as the rabbits rival, intensely jealous, insecure and determined to steal back the spotlight, while Bugs either remained mildly amused or indifferent to the ducks jealousy or used it to his advantage. Daffys desire to achieve stardom at almost any cost was explored as early as 1. Frelengs You Ought to Be in Pictures, but the idea was most successfully used by Chuck Jones, who redesigned the duck once again, making him scrawnier and scruffier. In Jones famous Hunting Trilogy or Duck SeasonRabbit Season Trilogy of Rabbit Fire with Rabbit Seasoning and Duck Rabbit, Duck each respectively launched in 1. Daffys attention grabbing ways and excitability provide Bugs Bunny the perfect opportunity to fool the hapless Elmer Fudd into repeatedly shooting the ducks bill off. Also, these cartoons reveal Daffys catchphrase, Youuure deththpicable Jones Daffy sees himself as self preservationist, not selfish.