Daffy Duck & Egghead Daffy Duck & Egghead Daffy Duck & Egghead is a 1938 "Merrie Melodies" cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The short subject features Daffy Duck and Egghead, hence the title of the short. The story begins with Egghead (in a voice imitating radio comic Joe Penner) who is annoyed by a silhouetted man in the theater audience who refuses to sit down. After he sits down 2 times (and finally gets shot at by Egghead when he won't "stay" down), out comes Daffy Duck biting his nose (just like he did to Porky Pig in "Porky's Duck Hunt".) While fighting, a
Daffy Duck Jones', with even late shorts, such as "Don't Axe Me" (1958), featuring traits of the "screwball" Daffy. While Daffy's looney days were over, McKimson continued to make him as bad or good as his various roles required him to be. McKimson would use this Daffy from 1946 to 1961. Friz Freleng's version took a hint from Chuck Jones to make the duck more sympathetic, as in the 1957 "Show Biz Bugs". Here, Daffy is over-emotional and jealous of Bugs, yet he has real talent that is ignored by the theater manager and the crowd. This cartoon finishes with a sequence