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If it was [[Tex Avery]] who modernized the cartoon gag and [[Chuck Jones]] who brought subtlety and stylization to new levels in animation, then it was certainly '''''Robert "Bob" Clampett''''' who brought back the old fashioned, distorted rubberhose of the [[The Silent Age of Animation|previous era]] and early 1930's to modern times. One of the most popular directors of the [[Looney Tunes]] and [[Merrie Melodies]] series of cartoon shorts made by [[Warner Bros]]. during [[The Golden Age of Animation]] (second only to Chuck Jones in popularity), Bob Clampett was nothing short of a mischief maker, being both a real life version of [[Bugs Bunny]], in addition to being a real life [[Daffy Duck]]. (pre-[[Chuck Jones]] [[Flanderization]] [[Screwy Squirrel|Daffy Duck]], mind you.)
 
Being inspired by the [[Uncanny Valley|strange]] [[Nightmare Fuel|works]] [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?|of]] artist [[Salvador Dali]], as well as the other animation studios like Disney and [[Max and Dave Fleischer|Fleischer]] and even newspaper comic artists like [[Milt Gross]], Clampett eventually began working at the Warner Bros. distributed animation unit of Leon Schlesinger, after failing to get a job at the Disney studios. (Disney ''had'' wanted to hire him, due to Clampett's excellent drawing skills, but they had all the animators they needed.) There, Clampett and his soon to be mentor, Fred "Tex" Avery, went to work in a crumbling wooden shack assigned to them, not far from the main Schlesinger lot. There, they discovered they were not alone -- specifically, said shack appeared to have an infestation of termites. Still, being comfy there, the duo blessed upon the place the affectionate nickname ''Termite Terrace'', which would soon become the unofficial name for the entire [[Looney Tunes]] animation studio as a whole.
 
In 1941, Avery left the studio...but Clampett, having learned quite a thing or two from him, began experimenting with his own style of animation -- a very wacky, surreal one which combined the early principles of rubberhose animation from [[The Silent Age of Animation]], with the more modern, higher quality principles and art productions of a Disney short. The results were some of the finest cartoons ever made in general, let alone by the Warner Bros. animation unit.
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* [[Animation Bump]]: Shorts directed by Clampett had some of the most fluid, well drawn animation to ever come out of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio.
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Clampett got into a lot of trouble in his waning years for trying to take credit for the ideas and creations of the other staff at the studio.
* [[Depending Onon the Artist]]: Clampett gave his animators far more leeway in [[Off-Model|deviating from the model sheets]] and animating in their individual styles than his contemporaries. As a result, his cartoons are some of the easiest to pick out individual artist styles from.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: Clampett was quite possibly the undisputed KING of this trope, even when compared to the works of [[Max and Dave Fleischer]]! It's easy to see why [[John Kricfalusi]] (and a lot of other animation show runners and directors who brought back [[Deranged Animation]] in the 1990s, particularly those who worked on ''[[The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'') loves the man.
* [[Everything's Better Withwith Bob]]
* [[The Rival]]: To fellow animator [[Chuck Jones]].
* [["Seen It All" Suicide]]: A frequent gag in many Looney Tunes cartoons, but especially Clampett's. Notable examples include "Horton Hatches the Egg", "An Itch in Time", and "The Sour Puss". A variant also occurs in "Tortoise Wins By a Hare" (the gangsters shoot themselves after Bugs reveals he's the rabbit).
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