Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros.. He has appeared on series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, where 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 in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier in the decade[citation needed], such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye. Daffy starred in 133 shorts in the Golden Age, making him the third most frequent character in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons behind Bugs Bunny's 166 appearances and Porky Pig's 159 appearances.
Daffy was #14 on TV Guide's list of top 50 best cartoon characters and was featured on one of the issue's four covers as Duck Dodgers with Porky Pig and the Powerpuff Girls (all of which are Time Warner-owned characters).
Daffy first appeared on April 17, 1937, in Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery and animated by Bob Clampett. The cartoon is a standard hunter/prey pairing for which Leon Schlesinger's studio was famous, 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."
I'm just wild about Harry
And Harry's wild about me
The heavenly caresses of his kisses
Fills me with ecstasy
He's as sweet as chocolate candy
And just like honey from a bee
Oh I'm just wild about Harry
And he's just wild about
Cannot do without
He is from the south
Can't you hear me shout
Talking with my mouth
Could you ever doubt
What I need
Is good advice
Cooked on plates of ground meat
Rubber hands and silly friends
Pasted on my wall.
Someone salt
A sweet sea soup
That I could swim in proudly
We might swim like laughing ducks
In your pink light glow
There we go changing kin
There we go again
My hands can make yours
Warm again
If not absorbed in blankets
Are you in need of teen angst
And nibble on your neck?
And if I had volcano boots
For swimming in volcanoes
Do you know the origins of laughing ducks?
Oh what's a matter with those birds
There we go changing kin
There we go again
What you need's a
Happy farm
With happy goats and sheep
What I need's a
Happy arm