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Elmer Fudd (Picture 1). Elmer Fudd cartoon images gallery 1. Elmer Fudd cartoon pictures collection 1. Elmer Fudd was not so much created, as assembled from parts. His basic design came from a major revamping of an earlier Warner Bros. character, Egghead, who appeared in several late 1930s cartoons. His voice — including that unique laugh — was created by voice actor Arthur Q. Bryan (Major Hoople on radio) for Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939), a oneshot cartoon directed by Tex Avery. And his name was written on a vehicle ridden by someone who, if not Egghead, could easily have been mistaken for him, in Avery's 1938 cartoon, A Feud There Was, and in 1938-39 promotional material about that guy. It all came together in Elmer's Candid Camera (1940), directed by Chuck Jones. The character still had a little evolving to do, but you'd know him anywhere. It was in that cartoon that Elmer first met the Bunny that was to become Bugs. Elmer Fudd (Picture 1). Elmer Fudd cartoon images gallery 1. Elmer Fudd cartoon pictures collection 1. Appearance-wise, the "Wabbit" was still in his formative stage. But his character was almost fully formed, and Elmer's Candid Camera set the tone for a partnership that was to last decades. To this day, phrases first heard there, such as "Wabbit twacks!" and "Be vewy, vewy quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!" will evoke a smile from cartoon lovers throughout the English-speaking world. Bugs was not Elmer's only intended prey. He often locked horns with Daffy Duck, starting with Jones's To Duck or Not to Duck (1943). Occasionally, he didn't hunt anybody at all, as when he parodied Leopold Stowkowski's Fantasia role in Corny Concerto (1943), directed by Robert Clampett. But it was Bugs with whom he shared the majority of his cartoon appearances. Elmer's dimwitted wimpiness contrasted beautifully with Bugs's casual confidence in his ability to control any situation. Elmer's only Oscar nomination was for Avery's A Wild Hare (1940), which introduced the fully-formed Bugs. But perhaps his finest moment occurred in Jones's What's Opera, Doc? (1957), in which he hunted Bugs to the strains of Wagner's Ring Cycle. By that time, audiences were so familiar with the relationship between the two, that it could be parodied and stylized almost to the point of abstraction, and still get tremendous laughs. Elmer Fudd (Picture 1). Elmer Fudd cartoon images gallery 1. Elmer Fudd cartoon pictures collection 1.