This is Bird Note. I'm Michael Stein.

Some duck calls are so similar to those of other ducks, the species are hard to identify by voice alone.

Others are instantly recognizable, like this one.

I'm just a crazy darn fool duck.

It's the voice of that famous cartoon waterfowl, the manic-lisping Daffy Duck.

You're despicable.

From his debut in the 1937 cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt,

the gangly black feather Daffy was often paired with shy, stammering Porky Pig

and bumbling Elmer Fudd.

From the start, Daffy Duck was a cartoon original, wildly outspoken, volatile, and confrontational,

truly daft.

He paved the way for other screwball cartoon personalities to come.

Who is responsible for this? I demand that you show yourself!

By 1950, another Warner Brothers screwball.

Eh, what's up, Doc?

The wisecracking Bugs Bunny had risen to epic stardom.

Daffy's insatiable ego cried out for revenge.

I'm not jealous, mind you, but it's just the injustice of it all.

The desperate duck soon chased after bugs in one comic misadventure after

another, and the frustrated

Daffy has endured as one of the most

memorable characters from the

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