This scene from "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (Bob Clampett, 1942) was inspired by gags from live-action silent comedies, particularly a "broken leg" bit by Buster Keaton. The cartoon was also the first appearance of Beaky Buzzard, a vulture inspired by puppeteer Edgar Bergen's character "Mortimer Snerd". Clampett later became a renowned puppeteer in his own right, creating the TV show "Time For Beany", which went full-circle back to animation as "Beany and Cecil". | GoldenAgeCartoons.com

The final Bob Clampett short released where he was credited as director (and his final Daffy Duck). From The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) #daffyduck #bobclampett #looneytunes #animation #warnerbros #classiccartoons #animationreview #retro #cartoonnetwork #classicanimation #historynerd #vintagecartoons | Anthony's Animation Talk

We've posted this one before, but it's worth revisiting. By 1941, after directing a lot of Porky Pig cartoons in a row, director Bob Clampett started getting bored with the character. He began devising various ways to shove Porky out of the way and focus on new characters and ideas. In this case, he cast Porky as a radio show host, allowing a cat named Kansas City Kitty (voiced in an Irish brogue by Sara Berner) to tell her story. What a story it is, too! Not only is it funny, but there's some r

Most "Looney Tunes" fans are familiar with "The Henpecked Duck" (Bob Clampett, 1941). It's the cartoon in which Porky Pig is a divorce court judge, hearing the case of Daffy Duck's wife (neither his first, nor his last!) who demands to divorce Daffy over the disappearance of their unhatched egg. It's a charming, funny film, but there's some irony: Daffy makes the mistake of playing a "disappearing" magic trick with his unborn child. Warner Bros. made more mistakes: letting the film's copyright l

Occasionally, the Warner Bros. cartoon directors would "borrow" characters created and associated with others just for the sake of a quick gag. For "Dog Tales" (1958), Robert McKimson gave Chuck Jones' Charlie Dog a cameo in what is otherwise a series of spot-gags about a dog show. Interestingly, it's a rehash of a gag from a decade earlier in Jones' "Often an Orphan" (1949), reusing much of the same animation. In McKimson's cartoon, Charlie does his "routine" for narrator Robert C. Bruce instea