46 Facts About Elmer Fudd

Elmer J Fudd is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros.

Elmer Fudd has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros.

Elmer Fudd speaks in an unusual way, replacing his Rs and Ls with Ws, so he often refers to Bugs Bunny as a "scwewy" or "wascawwy wabbit".

An earlier prototype of character named Elmer Fudd set some of the recognizable Elmer Fudd's aspects before the character's more conspicuous features were set.

In 1937, Tex Avery created a very early version of Elmer Fudd and introduced him in Little Red Walking Hood, as mysterious hero whistling everywhere he goes.

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Elmer Fudd then continued to make more appearances in the Warner cartoons in 1938, such as in The Isle of Pingo Pongo, Cinderella Meets Fella, A Feud There Was, Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas Hamateur Night A Day at the Zoo and Believe It or Else, mostly as a "running gag" character.

Elmer Fudd then appeared on early merchandise and of early Looney Tunes books in 1938 and 1939, and even on the lobby cards for "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" and for "Cinderella Meets Fella" with his name attached on them.

Elmer Fudd has since been the chief antagonistic force in most of the Bugs Bunny cartoons, initiating one of the most famous rivalries in the history of American cinema.

Sometime later on in this year, some new drawings and redesigns of Elmer Fudd were being created by a character designer, Charlie Thorson.

In 1940, the Egghead-like Elmer's appearance was refined, giving him a chin and a less bulbous nose and Arthur Q Bryan's "Dan McFoo" voice in what most people consider Elmer Fudd's first true appearance: a Chuck Jones short entitled Elmer's Candid Camera, in which a rabbit drives Elmer insane; the rabbit was an early appearance of what would become Bugs Bunny, beginning their long-standing rivalry.

Elmer Fudd has a better voice, a trimmer figure and his familiar hunting clothes.

Elmer Fudd is much more recognizable as the Elmer Fudd of later cartoons than Bugs is here.

Elmer Fudd was usually cast as a hapless big-game hunter, armed with a double-barreled shotgun and creeping through the woods "hunting wabbits".

Elmer Fudd is a well-known entertainer who, looking for a new partner for his act, sees Bugs Bunny .

Elmer Fudd has occasionally appeared in other costumes, notably as Cupid, opposite Daffy Duck in The Stupid Cupid .

Bugs–Elmer Fudd partnership was so familiar to audiences that in a late 1950s cartoon, Bugs' Bonnets, a character study is made of what happens to the relationship between the two when they each accidentally don a different selection of hats .

Elmer Fudd became a heavy-set, beer-bellied character, patterned after Arthur Q Bryan's real-life appearance, and still chasing Bugs .

Part of the joke is that Elmer Fudd is presumably incapable of pronouncing his own first name correctly.

Elmer Fudd made appearances in several television specials in the 1970s and 1980s, and some cameo roles in two of the Looney Tunes feature-film compilations.

Elmer Fudd made a brief headshot cameo appearance in the final scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit with other famous characters.

Elmer Fudd would appear frequently on the animated series Tiny Toon Adventures as a teacher at Acme Looniversity, where he was the idol and favorite teacher of Elmyra Duff, the slightly deranged animal lover who resembles Elmer Fudd in basic head design, name and lack of intellect.

Elmer Fudd made cameos on Animaniacs, one in Turkey Jerky, another in the Pinky and the Brain short, Don't Tread on Us.

Elmer Fudd appears as part of the TuneSquad team in Space Jam.

Elmer Fudd took on a more villainous role in Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

Elmer Fudd first appears as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck's co-star in a new movie, where he shoots Daffy repeatedly, and is later seen shooting Bugs per the film's script after Daffy's firing.

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Elmer Fudd later appears in the Louvre museum, where he reveals himself to be a secret agent for the Acme Corporation.

Four-year-old version of Elmer Fudd was featured in the Baby Looney Tunes episode "A Bully for Bugs", where he kept taking all of Bugs' candy, and bullied the rest of his friends.

An even more villainous Elmer appeared in two episodes of Duck Dodgers as The Mother Fudd, an alien who would spread a disease that caused all affected by it to stand around laughing like Elmer .

Elmer Fudd himself makes an appearance in the form of a photo which shows he presumably died at the hands of a giant squirrel.

In December 2009, Elmer Fudd made an appearance in a GEICO commercial where the director tells him to say rabbits instead of "wabbits".

Elmer Fudd appears in The Looney Tunes Show, voiced by Billy West.

Elmer Fudd later had a brief cameo appearance in "Fish and Visitors" as a weather forecaster briefly exclaiming about the rainy weather and doing his famous chuckle at the end.

In "Working Duck, " Elmer Fudd appeared as a newsman where he reports that Daffy Duck was fired from his position as a security guard after falling asleep during a nighttime bank robbery in which $10 million was stolen.

Elmer Fudd later joins the other characters in the Christmas song called "Christmas Rules" at the end of the episode.

Elmer Fudd appears in Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, voiced again by Billy West.

Elmer Fudd appears as a spy working for the Mexican general Foghorn Leghorn.

Elmer Fudd considered putting the shotgun away for good when he fell in love with Silver St Cloud, but she was killed by hitman Bugs "The Bunny".

Elmer Fudd believes Bugs as Bruce was Silver's former lover, and shoots Bruce at a party for vengeance.

Elmer Fudd appears in New Looney Tunes, voiced by Jeff Bergman.

Elmer Fudd was depicted without his trademark double-barreled shotgun in the first season of Looney Tunes Cartoons on the streaming service, HBO Max.

Later, during the musician's union strike of 1958, Dave Barry did the voice for Elmer Fudd's co-starring appearance in Pre-Hysterical Hare, as Bryan was ill during production of the cartoon.

Elmer Fudd was originally going to be voiced in that cartoon by Daws Butler.

In 1959, Bryan died at age 60, and Hal Smith was selected to replace him as Elmer, but after just two cartoons were recorded by the new actor, with Blanc doing Fudd's crying and gurgling in two scenes in the former cartoon, and another was made in which Fudd has no lines and therefore no voice, the character was retired.

Elmer Fudd was never credited onscreen, because Blanc had a clause in his contract that required him to receive a screen credit and, perhaps inadvertently, denied the same to other voice performers.

Elmer Fudd admitted in his autobiography that he found the voice difficult to get "right", never quite making it his own, which is why his Elmer voice sounded deep and gravelly in the 60s and 70s; however, it began sounding closer to Bryan's Elmer voice, beginning with Bugs Bunny's Valentine .

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In Speechless, the famous lithograph issued following Blanc's death, Elmer Fudd is not shown among the characters bowing their heads in tribute to Blanc.