"Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Woo-hoo!"  Daffy Duck is here to have fun with you!!

What Makes Daffy Duck?
One of the most popular cartoon characters ever is Daffy Duck. Daffy began appearing two years after Porky Pig. Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros. He is usually depicted as the best friend and occasional arch-rival of Bugs Bunny. Daffy was one of the first of the new "screwball" characters that emerged from Warner Bros.

Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937. The cartoon is a standard hunter/prey, but Daffy (barely more than an unnamed bit player in this short) was something new to moviegoers: an assertive, completely unrestrained, combative protagonist. At that time, audiences weren't accustomed to seeing a cartoon character do these things. And so, when it hit the theaters it was an explosion. People would leave the theaters talking about this daffy duck.

The elements were in place: the hunt, the gags, and the crazy, off-the-wall character, Daffy Duck. If Mickey Mouse was the character that brought animation to the public, it was the team of Porky and Daffy that made it truly funny.
       
Daffy, a little black duck with a white ring around his neck and a twisted twinkle in his eye, turned a black and white cartoon world upside down, woo-hooing and laughing wildly, bouncing on top of his lake like a jumping bean, and fearlessly standing up to the hunter Porky Pig.   
 Daffy's slobbery, exaggerated lisp was developed over time--it's barely noticeable in the early cartoons.
The crazy black duck starred in over 40 films with such costars as Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and even Chuck Jones' short-lived character Conrad Cat. His personality changed slightly, from uncontrollable maniac to maniac with brains, who was insane but in control of the situations he found himself in.

Daffy has no official middle name, but he has sometimes been given a "joke" middle name specific to the plot of a cartoon. He sometimes calls himself "Daffy Dumas Duck" or "Daffy Horacio Tiberius Duck." Occasionally , the joke middle names "Armando" and "Sheldon" are used.
Daffy Duck has been involved in almost every era of Warner Brothers animation, the character has adapted to whatever style a time period called for, and has remained one of the greatest and best-loved cartoon stars of all time. Now, the age-old question...who's better, Bugs, or Daffy?!
Daffy established his status by jumping into the water, hopping around, and yelling, "Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Woo-hoo!"