April 17, 1937 - Porky Pig's Duck Hunt is released, it marks the debut of Daffy Duck. This is Mel Blanc's first voice work for Looney Tunes, supplying the voices of both Porky and Daffy. Bugs Bunny didn't come along until 1940. For 52 years Mel Blanc was the voice of Daffy Duck the longest of any character in his career. | theTV.website/

One of the biggest "landmark" moments in the history of Warner Bros. cartoons, and arguably all of animation, was Tex Avery's introduction of Daffy Duck. It happened in "Porky's Duck Hunt" (Tex Avery, 1937), and one gag in particular really caught the attention of moviegoers. Audiences had seen corny hunting gags before. They'd seen a character "break the 4th wall". But they'd never seen a character become so frustrated by his foil's antics that he turned directly to the audience and complained