Joseph Barbera and Hanna worked alongside animator Tex Avery, who had created Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros. and directed "Droopy" cartoons at MGM. In 1940, Hanna and Barbera jointly directed "Puss Gets the Boot", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best (Cartoon) Short Subject. The studio wanted a diversified cartoon portfolio, so despite the success of "Puss Gets the Boot", Barbera and Hanna's supervisor, Fred Quimby, did not want to produce more cat and mouse cartoons believing that there were already enough cartoons of those in existence. Surprised by the success of "Puss Gets the Boot", Barbera
Daffy Duck Hunt duck and empties the shot from their shells, then walks off with a silly laugh and the phrase "Duck hunters is the "cwaziest" peoples!" (a reference to Lew Lehr's Fox Movietone News catchphrase, "Monkeys is the cwaziest people."). Daffy taunts Porky into shooting at him. Porky shoots at Daffy but turns out to have missed him (Daffy flies by with a banner that says "That's What You Think!"). Daffy again taunts Porky by breaking out into a can-can dance and singing "Latin Quarter" from Gold Diggers in Paris. Porky shoots at Daffy again as Daffy finishes his routine by bending