Daffy Duck

This article is about the character. For other uses, see Daffy Duck (disambiguation).

Daffy Duck
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Species	Duck (American Black Duck)
Gender	Male
Member of	Tune Squad Looney Builders
Affiliation	Bugs Bunny Porky Pig Elmer Fudd Marvin the Martian Tina Russo
Occupation	None
Father	Unnamed father in The Looney Tunes Show
Mother	Unnamed mother in The Looney Tunes Show
Other relative(s)	One descendent, Danger Duck, in Loonatics Unleashed
Marital status	Single
First appearance	LT: Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
Played by	Mel Blanc (1937-1989) Jeff Bergman (1990-1993, 2011-2018) Joe Alaskey (1990-2014) Maurice LaMarche (1991) Greg Burson (1992-1997) Frank Gorshin (1996) Dee Bradley Baker (1996, 2016-2020) Billy West (1999) Jeff Bennett (2003-2004, 2006) Eric Bauza (since 2018)
Screwball Daffy in Porky's Duck Hunt
Daffy as Duck Dodgers.
File:TTA Daffy.png Tiny Toon Adventures
Space Jam
Baby Looney Tunes (season 1)
File:BLT S2 Daffy.png Baby Looney Tunes (season 2)
Duck Dodgers
File:TLTS Daffy.png The Looney Tunes Show
New Looney Tunes
File:ANL Daffy.png Space Jam: A New Legacy
File:CGI Daffy.png CGI Daffy in Space Jam: A New Legacy
File:LTC Daffy.png Looney Tunes Cartoons
Bugs Bunny Builders
Tiny Toons Looniversity

Daffy Duck is an anthropomorphic duck and a main character of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts, in which he is usually depicted as a foil for either Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig or Speedy Gonzales. Created by animators Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, he was the first of the new "screwball" type characters that emerged in the later part of the 30s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade. His voice was originated by Mel Blanc.

Daffy starred in 130 shorts in the golden age of American animation, making him the third-most frequent character in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons, behind Bugs' 167 appearances and Porky's 153 appearances. Daffy's personality and roles varied with virtually every Warner Bros. cartoon director; Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones notably made extensive use of two versions of the character, depicting him as either a wild, lunatic vigilante or a greedy, fame-seeking foil, respectively.

Daffy has a space hero persona called Duck Dodgers, and his protégé in Tiny Toon Adventures is Plucky Duck.

Appearances

TV series

• The Bugs Bunny Show
• Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Bugs 'N' Daffy
• Duck Dodgers
• Baby Looney Tunes
• The Looney Tunes Show
• New Looney Tunes
• Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Bugs Bunny Builders
• Tiny Toons Looniversity

Movies

• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
• The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
• Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
• Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
• Space Jam
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
• Space Jam: A New Legacy
• Bye Bye Bunny (announced)

Specials

• Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
• Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
• Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court
• Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement
• Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
• How Bugs Bunny Won the West
• The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
• Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
• Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
• Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars
• Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports
• Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster
• Bugs Bunny's Creature Features
• Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

Shorts

Main article: List of Daffy Duck shorts

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies

Theme parks

• Six Flags
• Warner Bros World Abu Dhabi
• Warner Bros Movie World

Podcasts

• Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Road Trip

Biography

Daffy Gets Modern

In The Looney Tunes Show, he is Bugs Bunny's freeloading roommate and best friend.

Development

Daffy first appeared in Porky's Duck Hunt, released on April 17, 1937, and directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett. Duck Hunt contained a standard hunter/prey pairing, but Daffy (who had barely been more than an unnamed bit player in this short) was something of a new concept to moviegoers: an assertive, completely unrestrained, combative protagonist. Clampett later recalled:

"At that time, audiences weren't accustomed to seeing a cartoon character do these things. And so, when it hit the theaters it was an explosion. People would leave the theaters talking about this daffy duck."

The early Daffy in this short was less anthropomorphic and more or less resembles a normal black duck. In fact, the only aspects of the character that have remained consistent through the years are his voice characterization by Mel Blanc; and his black feathers with a white neck ring.

The origin of Daffy's voice, specifically his lateral lisp, is a matter of some debate. One oft-repeated story was that it was modeled on producer Leon Schlesinger's tendency to lisp. In Mel Blanc's autobiography That's 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 'desth-picable.'"

Gallery

Main article: Daffy Duck/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• In Baby Looney Tunes, Daffy is credited as "Baby Daffy."
• Since Teen Titans Go! To the Movies in 2018, the Warner Bros. Animation logo has Daffy coming out of the logo, going crazy, messing with the logo and running around while laughing before hitting the screen and being pulled away by Porky.
  • For Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge instead of Porky pulling him away, it's Scorpion. The original idea was to have Daffy be stabbed in the head by Scorpion's Kunai, although it was rejected by Warner Bros.

In popular culture

• Daffy famously appeared alongside Donald Duck in the 1988 Disney film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? where he is seen challenging Donald to piano duel at the bar.
• In the 1989 film UHF, starring Weird Al Yankovic, there is a poster of Bugs and Daffy in his character's apartment.
• In the July 7th, 1994 episode of Top of the Pops, a teenage girl wears a Daffy t-shirt while dancing to Aswad's "Shine."
• In the Family Guy episode "The Story on Page One", After Meg is blown up by a bomb, she suddenly has a beak, which is turned upside down just like Daffy's in "Rabbit Fire".
• Daffy, as Duck Dodgers, appears on the NASA Mars Rover Exploration patch.
• In the 2023 film The Flash, the alternate 2013 version of Barry Allen has a Looney Tunes background screen on his computer, which includes Daffy, Sylvester, Bugs, Road Runner, Wile E., and Tweety.
• In the Velma episode "Private Velmjamin," Fred wants to return a nativity miniature model with the Looney Tunes to Father O'Rourke, after Fred briefly became Catholic. Elmer Fudd is baby Jesus, Sylvester as Joseph, Granny as Mary, and Daffy, Porky, and Bugs as the three wise men.

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Robot Chicken

Main article: Robot Chicken

• "Rodiggiti:" During "8 Carrot", Daffy is the host of Bugs and Elmer's Rap Battle.
• "Immortal:" In the skit "Porky's", Bugs and Daffy mistake a strip club called Porky's for a place that Porky Pig owns, only to be proven wrong. Although they were appalled by what they saw in the strip club, they immediately go back in.