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 as well as his ego and pride than anything. It is thought that Chuck Jones based Daffy Duck’s new personality on his fellow animator Bob Clampett, who, like Daffy, was known as a loud self-promoter. In "Beanstalk Bunny" Daffy, Bugs and Elmer are once again teamed up in a parody of "Jack and the Beanstalk" (with Elmer as the giant); in "A Star Is Bored" Daffy tries to upstage Bugs Bunny; while in the spoofs of the TV shows "The Millionaire" and "This Is Your Life", "The Million Hare" Daffy tries to defeat his arch-rival Bugs Bunny for a $1,000,000.00