Jones or Clampett?

[frogboxer]

As a follow-up to gilligan fanatic's poll, I would like to know who you prefer between just Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones. This is not a poll to find out your favorite director necessarily, just the one you consider to be the better of these two.

I'm gonna have to go with Jones because I like more of his cartoons. Bob Clampett certainly had his share of good cartoons (some of my favorites are "Book Revue," "Falling Hare," and "Porky in Egypt"), but my favorites list of Jones' cartoons is much longer than that of Clampett's.

[UncleJunior]

I'll go with the Too Close to Call option.

Both directors had their share of classic cartoons. And techniques that revolutionized animation.

I'd probably lean more toward Clampett, since most of Jones' 1960's cartoons were forgettable, save the Roadrunner cartoons.

[pudealee]

In order to rank the directors, I find that I must rank the toons first. When I look at my favorite shorts, there are more of CJ than BC. So - I vote for CJ.

[Marty26]

Jones has made more cartoons than Clampett, so that's definite points right there. But I have to admit, Clampett certainly isn't without his share of classics (Falling Hare, The Big Snooze, and Hare Ribbon being among my favorites).

Also, what exactly is everybody's problem with Robert McKimson? He actually directed some of my favorite Bugs Bunny shorts, such as What's Up Doc? and Unswept Hare.

[J. B. Warner]

Comparing Jones and Clampett is like comparing apples and oranges - both are extremely good, but for different reasons. It's too close to call.

[Cdawg]

I picked "Both/too close to call", but just a few years ago I'd have said Clampett because I saw tons of Jones' shorts in the 60's through the 80's, but there were many Clampett shorts I'd never seen. Now that Clampett shorts are well known to me I can evaluate both directors work more objectively, and both men made some really great cartoons.

[MF TOON]

Also, what exactly is everybody's problem with Robert McKimson? He actually directed some of my favorite Bugs Bunny shorts, such as What's Up Doc? and Unswept Hare.

Same here! (not in regards to Bugs Bunny though)

His Porky/Daffy pairings have been some of my all-time favorites; shorts like "Fool Coverage", "Daffy Duck Slept Here", "The Up-Standing Sitter", "Design For Leaving", "The Prize Pest" and of course others like "Hillbilly Hare" and "Daffy Doodles" are classics.


His shorts are really hit or miss with me though. I tend to really enjoy some and than find others almost unwatchable.


As for Clampett and Jones, they are both brilliant artists and innovators in their own right. Their directing styles are totally different, and even so, individual and varied in progress. Personally, I tend to prefer Clampet's offbeat zany shorts over Jones' more cultivated stylized works. That said, there are certainly many cartoons from either director that I prefer over the other. Overall, I'd have to go with Clampett, but that doesn't detract from the genius work that Chuck Jones conceived either. Perhaps if it wasn't so overplayed and spotlighted in the past decade, his shorts would feel more exhilarant.

[HannaBarberaFan]

CHUCK JONES....Second to NONE!!!!:D :bugs2:

[Yosemite682]

I would be inclined to vote for Chuck Jones because of his long tenure, consistancy, and his almost countless classics. But when he is up against one Robert Clampett who, in his short time with WB, (with the help of Tex Avery) almost completely revolutionized the WB animation outlook and made so many funny, funny films, I am then inclined to vote for Robert Clampett. So, I picked both of them. But with a gun to my head and I was told to pick one or the other I would say Robert Clampett.

[Yosemite682]

P.S. I am glad to see that nobody has voted for the "I like neither one" option. If it was just for their safety, at least. Jokingly, I think of the tar and feathering they would get in this forum.

[laugh4me]

Too close to call. They both were great.

:sowhite: :marvin:

[RetroMan]

I couldn't decide so I flipped a coin and voted Clampett. I really like his wild and surrealist style, as well as his outrageous gags. Now, I also like Jones' sophisticated and subtle approach along with his stylized graphics, although his later, more artistic cartoons like Nelly's Folly tend get in my nerves.

[mmtper]

And if I had a gun to my head (after finding out that the old plug-a-carrot-in-the-gun-barrel ploy doesn't really work), I'd have to give the nod to Jones because of the variety and range of his work. His toons have moments of cutesiness, tenderness, artsy eccentricity, pathos, suspense, terror, cynicism and bitterness, and still be awfully funny.

But Clampett was great too, and his best stuff practically leaps off the screen and gives you a big wet kiss. Both men were geniuses, and it really saddens me that they became bitter enemies. They were friends when they were young and starting out, and it's too bad that, in old age, they couldn't bury the hatchet like John Adams & Jefferson or Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis. Alas, that did not pass

[Frank]

And if I had a gun to my head (after finding out that the old plug-a-carrot-in-the-gun-barrel ploy doesn't really work), I'd have to give the nod to Jones because of the variety and range of his work. His toons have moments of cutesiness, tenderness, artsy eccentricity, pathos, suspense, terror, cynicism and bitterness, and still be awfully funny.

But Clampett was great too, and his best stuff practically leaps off the screen and gives you a big wet kiss. Both men were geniuses, and it really saddens me that they became bitter enemies. They were friends when they were young and starting out, and it's too bad that, in old age, they couldn't bury the hatchet like John Adams & Jefferson or Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis. Alas, that did not passWhy were the both of them enemies?

[LooneyTuneLover]

I prefer Chuck Jones just because i havent seen much of Bob Clampets shorts (it might change after I watch The Bob Clampet Show)