Word: daffyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Talk about your comebacks. This character was a star from the moment he was hatched in 1937. Through every comic humiliation that befell him -- whether getting vamped by a transvestite rabbit or fricasseed by an irate hunter -- he displayed the bravura resilience of a born loser. This master thespian could...
Daffy was not real, of course -- just a sheaf of drawings flipped past the eye at 24 frames per second. But the comic artistry of such directors as Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett made Daffy and the other denizens of the Warner Bros. cartoon barnyard seem as vivid as Sly...
GHOULS R US reads the legend on Daffy's office window. He's just the spook sleuth to help a comely se-duck-tress who needs some exorcise. There are homages aplenty to the old cartoons -- lascivious bulging eyes, deft wordplay (in pig Latin) and that bizarre sound effect that...
Burt Reynolds and Molly Ringwald try for comebacks, but only Daffy Duck is back in style. -- Moviegoers chafe at the $7 ticket.
MIGHTY MOUSE: THE NEW ADVENTURES (CBS). What's this? A kiddie cartoon show that is clever and hip and well animated? Producer Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) clearly wants to recapture the great days of Daffy Duck and Bullwinkle Moose, and he gets pretty close.