Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Elmer Fudd Starting Off "Bugs Bunny"

Elmer is a fictional and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters.  He comes from the origin of Warner Bros. Studios. In his show, Bugs Bunny, he is the hunter always trying to shoot Bugs.  Like most cartoons though, for example, in Ben and Jerry the mouse is always the one being attacked by the cat and anything the cat tries he ends up hurting himself.  Likewise in Bugs Bunny to Elmer Fudd and Wile coyote and the road runner to the coyote.  In 1937, Tex Avery introduced a new character named Egghead.  Many cartoon historians believe that egghead evolved into Elmer Fudd in a couple of years.  Egghead made his entrance riding a motorscooter with the words "Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker" displayed on the side, the first onscreen use of that name in "A Feud There Was", a cartoon short.  And for a short time through 1941-1942, they changed Elmer's appearance again.  He was a big ol' fat man.  He was pictured as his real life speaker Arthur Q. Bryan, who is also fat.  The audiences however, did not accept the Fatty Elmer Fudd so the slimmer Fudd was set for good.  So that was how Elmer was designed, changed and viewed by fans.

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