He concocted the hilarious “Bully for Bugs” because a Warner Brothers executive stated that there was nothing funny about a bullfight.
He created Pepé [Le Pew] because no one thought of a skunk as the least bit amorous.
And he encouraged Mel Blanc to imitate a mogul’s lisp for the voice of Daffy Duck. Fortunately Leon Schlesinger was deaf to his own speech defect. Watching the rushes for the first time he exclaimed, “Jeethuth Chritht, that’th a funny voithe! Where’d you get that voithe?”
This whimsical attitude influenced Jones’s finest efforts.
What’s Opera, Doc? simultaneously parodies Wagner’s Ring cycle and Disney’s Fantasia.
"After all, when a major figure is being satirized, he demands an outsize lampoon.”
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