Editing Daffy Duck (section)

====Pairing of Bugs and Daffy, 1951–1964====
Bugs's ascension to stardom also prompted the Warner Bros. animators to recast Daffy as the rabbit's rival, intensely jealous, insecure and determined to steal back the spotlight, while Bugs either remained cool headed but mildly amused and/or indifferent to the duck's jealousy, sometimes using it to his advantage. Daffy's desire to achieve stardom at almost any cost was explored as early as 1940 in Freleng's ''[[You Ought to Be in Pictures]]'', but the idea was most successfully used by [[Chuck Jones]], who redesigned the duck once again, making him scrawnier and scruffier. In Jones' "Hunting Trilogy" (or "Duck Season/Rabbit Season Trilogy") of ''[[Rabbit Fire]]'', ''[[Rabbit Seasoning]]'' and ''[[Duck! Rabbit, Duck!]]'' (each respectively launched in 1951, 1952, and 1953), Daffy's attention-grabbing ways and excitability provide Bugs Bunny the perfect opportunity to fool the hapless [[Elmer Fudd]] into repeatedly shooting the duck's bill off. Also, these cartoons reveal Daffy's catchphrase, "Youuu're deththpicable!". Jones' Daffy sees himself as self-preservationist, not selfish. However, this Daffy can do nothing that does not backfire on him, more likely to singe his tail feathers as well as his ego and pride than anything.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schneider|pages=159–60|title=That's All Folks!: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation}}</ref> It is thought that Chuck Jones based Daffy Duck's new personality on his fellow animator [[Bob Clampett]], who, like Daffy, was known as a loud self-promoter. In ''[[Beanstalk Bunny]]'' Daffy, Bugs and Elmer are once again teamed up in a parody of ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]'' (with Elmer as the giant); in ''[[A Star Is Bored]]'' Daffy tries to upstage Bugs Bunny. In the spoofs of the TV shows ''[[The Millionaire (TV series)|The Millionaire]]'' and ''[[This Is Your Life (American franchise)|This Is Your Life]]'', Daffy tries to defeat his arch-rival Bugs Bunny for a $1,000,000.00 prize given out by his favorite TV show in ''[[The Million Hare]]'' and in ''[[This Is a Life?]]'', Daffy tries to upstage Bugs Bunny in order to be the guest of honor on the show; in all four of these cartoons Daffy ends up a loser because of his own overemotional personality (which impairs Daffy's common sense and reasoning ability) and his craving for attention.