Editing Daffy Duck (section)

===Origin===
Daffy first appeared in ''[[Porky's Duck Hunt]]'', released on April 17, 1937.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=55}}</ref> The cartoon was directed by [[Tex Avery]] and animated by [[Bob Clampett]]. ''Porky's Duck Hunt'' is a standard hunter/prey pairing, but Daffy (barely more than an unnamed bit player in this short) was something new to moviegoers: an assertive, completely unrestrained, combative protagonist. Clampett later recalled:
: "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."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schneider|page=150|title=That's All Folks!: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation}}</ref>

This early Daffy is less [[anthropomorphic]] and resembles a normal [[American black duck|black duck]]. In fact, the only aspects of the character that have remained consistent through the years are his voice characterization by [[Mel Blanc]]; and his black feathers with a white neck ring. Blanc's characterization of Daffy once held the world record for the longest characterization of one animated character by their original actor: 52 years.

The origin of Daffy's voice, with its [[lisp|lateral lisp]], is a matter of some debate. One often-repeated "official" story is that it was modeled after producer Leon Schlesinger's tendency to lisp.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Seven Minutes: The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon |last=Klein |first=Norman |publisher= Verso|year=1993 |isbn=9781859841501 |pages=87 |chapter=8: What Makes Betty Boop?}}</ref> However, in Mel Blanc's autobiography, ''That's Not All Folks!'', he contradicts that conventional belief, writing, "It seemed to me that such an extended mandible would hinder his speech, particularly on words containing an ''s'' sound. Thus 'despicable' became 'des''th-''picable.'"

Daffy's slobbery, exaggerated lisp was developed over time, and it is barely noticeable in the early cartoons. In ''[[Daffy Duck & Egghead]]'', Daffy does not lisp at all except in the separately drawn set-piece of Daffy singing "[[The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down]]" in which just a slight lisp can be heard.

In ''[[The Scarlet Pumpernickel]]'' (1950), Daffy has a middle name, Dumas as the writer of a swashbuckling script, a nod to [[Alexandre Dumas, père|Alexandre Dumas]]. Also, in the ''Baby Looney Tunes'' episode "The Tattletale", Granny addresses Daffy as "Daffy Horatio Tiberius Duck". In ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (2011), the joke middle names "Armando" and "Sheldon" are used.