DAFFY DUCK vs. BUGS BUNNY

Wartime Daffy, when he was fucking insane and much funnier

― kingfish, Monday, 15 June 2009 07:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

DAFFY

― Roz, Monday, 15 June 2009 07:23 (3 years ago) Permalink

DAFFY (but in my sleep deprived state I think I might have voted Bugs.)

― b!tchass, birdchested bastard sees a dude bigger than he (a hoy hoy), Monday, 15 June 2009 07:43 (3 years ago) Permalink

Toons with Daffy as solo protagonist are much more interesting

― kingfish, Monday, 15 June 2009 07:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

rabbit season

― I wish I was the royal trux (sunny successor), Monday, 15 June 2009 07:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

duck season

― kingfish, Monday, 15 June 2009 07:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

No! Duck Season! FIRE!

― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Monday, 15 June 2009 08:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy didn't have gender issues, did he? That could be considered a plus amongst conservative voters.

― "too worldly to compete on /b/" (King Boy Pato), Monday, 15 June 2009 08:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

I voted for Bugs, but Daffy should collect points for being able to pull his beak around his head like that whenever a shotgun goes off in his face.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 15 June 2009 14:04 (3 years ago) Permalink

daffy in a walk.

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

Went with Bugs cos I thought he was cooler when I was 10.

― Posters that beg the Question: What the Hell were You THINKING? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

You know, Daffy got into trouble because he kept fucking with people. The only reason Bugs got into it was because people fucked with him.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 15 June 2009 14:37 (3 years ago) Permalink

daffy- angry neighbour
bugs- neighbour that makes you angry

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

i'm not voting, they work too well as a unit.

― dog latin, Monday, 15 June 2009 14:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bugs by a hare.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:48 (3 years ago) Permalink

daffy- angry neighbour
bugs- neighbour that makes you angry

this. as exemplified by this:

― man saves ducklings from (ledge), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink

Thought about this long and hard over many a year, Daffy is more reliably hilarious - possibly - but Bugs is, I don't know, more admirable in the long run

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy is a pretty obvious boring pick, sorry ... I think if you go back and actually watch some of these cartoons you'll find that Bugs is the correct choice.

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 15 June 2009 14:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bugs is a smartarse. Daffy speaks for the common man.

― chap, Monday, 15 June 2009 15:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bugs = FDR
Daffy = Huey Long

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 June 2009 15:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bugs = Mephistopheles
Daffy = A daft duck

― Aimless, Monday, 15 June 2009 16:39 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm kind of shocked that ppl are riding so hard for Daffy! I mean, the entire point of the character is that he's an insufferable asshole.

Okay maybe I'm not surprised.

― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy's not really an insufferable asshole, but he's kind of like the kid who idolizes the really cool kid in school (Bugs) and, since he can't be like him, he makes everyone around him miserable by being the ANTI-him.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

bugs is a little smug about all of his success, isn't he though?

― pj, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

the point of Daffy was that he was wacky and crazy, then later on they completely changed him into an insufferable asshole...or something, i assumed that was what happened but i don't know what order the cartoons were made in.

― Won't High (some dude), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

Shouldn't he be? He's the big fish in a tiny pond. Elmer Fudd? Not really a brainiac. Daffy? A noble opponent whose only downfall is his lack of forethought. Yosemite Sam? A spoiled brat.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:11 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy's only an ass when he's paired with Bugs. When he's sharing celluloid with Porky, he's a genuine treat.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:12 (3 years ago) Permalink

daffy's more of a stiff that just wants to be left alone than an asshole. bugs is a free, cool and happy spirit that just won't fuck off.

― U2 raped goat (darraghmac), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:13 (3 years ago) Permalink

bugs bunny is a smug prick.

― suggestzybandias (jim), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy's tap dance and other antics in "Show Biz Bugs" never fail to bring me to hysterical laughter. So Daffy.

― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 15 June 2009 17:19 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy's tap dance and other antics in "Show Biz Bugs" never fail to bring me to hysterical laughter.

^^^this! (but I'm still voting Bugs)

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:21 (3 years ago) Permalink

smugness aside, bugs is a juggernaut of entertainment

"Do you happen to know what the penalty is for shooting a fricaseeing rabbit without a fricaseeing rabbit license?"

― pj, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

"What's the hassle, schmassle?"

― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 June 2009 18:15 (3 years ago) Permalink

I admit I totally forgot about early period psycho-insane Daffy

― sorry i poisoned u with nachos :( (HI DERE), Monday, 15 June 2009 18:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bugs wasn't nearly as smoove in the beginning as he ended up being later on. I credit Chuck Jones with the perfection of these characters.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 June 2009 18:22 (3 years ago) Permalink

Isn't this pretty much Groucho Marx vs. WC Fields? There are no wrong choices.

― Subtlest Fart Joke (Oilyrags), Monday, 15 June 2009 18:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Chubby Checker Psycho (Pancakes Hackman), Monday, 15 June 2009 18:44 (3 years ago) Permalink

can't recommend the multi-volume "Looney Toons Golden Collection" enough btw. It is the single most uplifting DVD set I own. (I only have first two volumes, I think there are more by now.)

― ian, Monday, 15 June 2009 18:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

This gets quoted all the time, but all the same ...

"Of his versions of Bugs and Daffy, Chuck Jones has said, 'Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.'"

Also: did John Ashbery ever write a poem from the p.o.v. of that glib dilletante rootless cosmopolitan of a rabbit? I think not.

Daffy to win (for once)

― Neil Willett, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

― kingfish, Monday, 15 June 2009 19:38 (3 years ago) Permalink

Early manic loony Daffy > mid-period paranoid inferiority-complex Daffy > Bugs > late humourless villainous Daffy. (Kinda sad, really, to witness Daffy's deterioating mental state over a quarter-century.

Bugs & Daffy TOGETHER >>> anything else with just one of 'em

― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 08:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

Bugs isn't smug, he's just self-confident

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 09:16 (3 years ago) Permalink

omg I've never seen early Daffy, had no idea.

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 10:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

I guess I'm voting Buggs, but I was more of an apple core who's your friend kid.

― what u arrestin me for, innit (╓abies), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 10:53 (3 years ago) Permalink

I've always been suspicious of the "Bugs only acts when someone's messed with him" line of reasoning, because the reaction he gives to, say, having his sleep disturbed because there's an opera happening nearby (the nerve!) always seeems waaaay harder than the actual infraction. He's the guy who'll drop a nuclear bomb over your house if you poke him with a stick. I think secretly he's just waiting for those little disturbances to occur.

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

That opera one is a killer, sheer genius!

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

haha isn't there a bit where buggs keeps his glove hanging high in the air, while he nips out for a haircut or something

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 12:28 (3 years ago) Permalink

Leopold!

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:26 (3 years ago) Permalink

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Bugs looking a trifle smug there, it must be admitted

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:30 (3 years ago) Permalink

― Then in walked Barbara Castle with the Lady Eleanor (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:31 (3 years ago) Permalink

oh no that's it, he sends off to order the ear muffs.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 13:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

Voted Bugs in the spirit of mortal perfectibility.

― For other uses, see Cornhole (disambiguation). (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 16 June 2009 23:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 29 June 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy's tap dance and other antics in "Show Biz Bugs" never fail to bring me to hysterical laughter.

^^^this! (but I'm still voting Bugs)

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 15 June 2009 17:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

smugness aside, bugs is a juggernaut of entertainment

good run.

― is juiceless??? (tremendoid), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

woah close one

― Great Scott! It's Molecular Man. (Ste), Tuesday, 30 June 2009 23:56 (3 years ago) Permalink

ridikulouse

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 1 July 2009 00:07 (3 years ago) Permalink

Daffy 38
Bugs 35

i loves ya, ilx, but sometimes y'all really test the limits of my love.

― Boris Kutyurkokhov (Eisbaer), Monday, 21 May 2012 10:17 (1 year ago) Permalink

just trolls voting for their mirror character

― Ludo, Monday, 21 May 2012 11:08 (1 year ago) Permalink

Chuck Jones has had too much influence on this poll.

― bamcquern, Monday, 21 May 2012 14:59 (1 year ago) Permalink

"Of his versions of Bugs and Daffy, Chuck Jones has said, 'Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are.'"

So Bugs is JFK and Daffy's Nixon. Whole new ballgame.

― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:01 (1 year ago) Permalink

More like, "the 30s version of Daffy is how we want to feel, the Chuck Jones version of Daffy is how we really do feel."

― Count-Dracula-Down (Eric H.), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

not rly a fair question because bugs has more or less always been the same character, whereas daffy has been at least three: the 'woo hoo!' nutjob of the early years (espec. the bob clampett cartoons), the tormented antihero of the chuck jones cartoons, and the out-and-out asshole of the later years (c.f. those AWFUL AWFUL cartoons where he and speedy gonzales are teamed up). i think chuck jones era daffy is prob the best cartoon character ever, so for me it's gotta be him -- but bugs probably has more good cartoons overall.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink