Is Daffy starting to act more like the original version ?

[Dafffy Duck]

What I mean is, in newer reprisentations of Daffy, do you see him acting more like his original version, for example think of Daffy duck in "Rabbit Fire" which is the new Daffy duck, now compare Daffy in that to the Daffy duck in LTBAI, in scenes such as, when he was getting chased through the WB studio or through the casino, even in the scene were the machine changed their bodies, while Bugs bunny was in Daffys body, he was jumping up and down screamin Woo- hoo, in fact it seemed in LTBAI, (exept for his scenes with Bugs Bunny) he acted very much like the original crazy character, the same can be said for Space Jam, or his scenes in Who Framed Rodger Rabbit, so perhaps a better way to put it is, do you see elements of the original crazy Daffy returning in the new one ?

[JPox]

Until I see Bah, Humduck!, I'm not so sure.
His last animated short was the Larry Doyle thing, and he wasn't that "Daffy".

[Marty26]

Most of the Larry Doyle cartoons show Daffy's greed being almost as extreme as it was in the Daffy/Speedy cartoons - save for the fact that may be he's not quite as nasty.

[Dr. Killpatient]

The BIA thing was weird. Perhaps all these years of trying to one up Bugs, has left him with multiple personality disorder. :p

[J. B. Warner]

Daffy's personality it LT:BIA was an attempted throwback to the zany-yet-intelligent Bob Clampett Daffy of the 1940s, but they still mixed in a lot of his self-preservational/greedy Chuck Jones-inspired personality from the 1950s whenever the Blue Monkey Diamond was mentioned or whenever he had to work with Bugs. "Space Jam" didn't do a very good job of capturing any of the Looney Tunes' personalities, and the characters all felt like overblown parodies of themselves; Daffy did a lot of screwy stuff, but he wasn't really Daffy in the movie. And "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" was set in 1947, before Jones rethought Daffy's character, so he obviously cleaved unto the Clampett-esque craziness that he embodied at the time, evidenced by his hectic piano duel with Donald Duck. As for other utilizations of the duck in the 1980s and 1990s, most of the Ford/Lennon projects feature the Jones-esque Daffy, save for "The Duxorcist" and "Night of the Living Duck", which play out more like the Daffy solo cartoons of the 1940s (albeit with a very modern sensibility to their plots).

Of course, the most recent and frequently showcased incarnation of Daffy is probably the version seen on "Duck Dodgers", but there he seemed to primarily be influenced by the Jones persona with a mix of buffoonery and overconfidence that hadn't really been present before. Really, the direction that Daffy's personality has gone in recent years has been pretty scatterbrained - it's almost as if nobody knows just what to do with him.

[Daffyfan2004]

Hmmmm. Other than in "Back in Action," I haven't really seen the old screwy Daffy in anything new. But then again, maybe I haven't seen enough of the new cartoons to make a definite decision.

[Matthew Hunter]

I watched a good portion of a Boomerang marathon of "Duck Dodgers" recently. Some of the episodes were as bad as I remember them, but on the whole, I was pleasantly surprised when I gave the show as a whole a deeper look. They did a 2-part episode that played like a 1-hour movie, and I was glad to see that Daffy was not only handled nicely, he actually saved the day and wasn't portrayed as a total loser. They even managed to make the new characters interesting and give Space Cadet Porky some real depth. As the show wore on, it seems they dropped the "Inspector Gadget" persona and brought Daffy back into reality a little bit.

It also helped that most of the episodes I saw had Tony Cervone, Spike Brandt, Paul Dini, Tom Ruegger, and Tom Minton involved, rather than the hack Johnny Bravo idiot Kirk Tingblad in the director chair. That guy's episodes were the reason I stopped watching it before! :daffy:

[Timber Wolf]

It also helped that most of the episodes I saw had Tony Cervone, Spike Brandt, Paul Dini, Tom Ruegger, and Tom Minton involved, rather than the hack Johnny Bravo idiot Kirk Tingblad in the director chair. That guy's episodes were the reason I stopped watching it before! :daffy:

Which episodes had Tingblad as the director? I have never seen the third season (only a part of the Bonafide Hero episode). All episodes that I have seen list Tingblad as an animation timer/animation timing director, nothing more.

[Saranczuk]

I think Chuck Jones has made such a huge impact that the original Daffy will never return. We may only see attempts to squeeze some of his old wacky self. I never watch any new Looney Tunes animations cause it is hard for me to watch without Mel Blanc.

[Dr. Killpatient]

The 40s/50s Daffy had a much more rounded personality then the 30s crazy Daffy. That's also a good reason why they never went back to the first Daffy.


Daffy's personality it LT:BIA was an attempted throwback to the zany-yet-intelligent Bob Clampett Daffy of the 1940s, but they still mixed in a lot of his self-preservational/greedy Chuck Jones-inspired personality from the 1950s whenever the Blue Monkey Diamond was mentioned or whenever he had to work with Bugs.

I think it'd have worked out a lot better if they chose one personality and stuck with it.
When Daffy first went into his Crazy tirade in BIA, it was glaringly obvious that he'd switched personas entirely. In most cases, that'd be considered sloppy writing.