#because this sort of kinship is entrenched in their dynamic even if said dynamic has evolved and taken different routes (as it should)

[ducktracy]

that clampett post really opened my eyes, to the point I'm a touch teary at the moment. i love earnestness and love and sincerity and and the pig and duck.

(this post in question!)

I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THIS!!! WAHH THAT'S GREAT 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 extremely happy it could be informative and touching!! FOR REAL THOUGHHH... i love many different shades of the pig and duck, and My pig and duck (the ones that live in my head and pull the levers that make me do and say things) borrow so many different things from so many different directors--who my favorite director is irt them is honestly really fruitless, because my view of them has just. amalgamated into its own. but i really do love the Clampett dynamic for how formative it is. i love when Porky is threatening horrible violence and i love when Daffy is being a petty dumbass.. but i love it because i can default back to the standard Clampett set when really enacting their characters, i can point back to that warm and friendly (if not a little Odd) dynamic of the early years and be like "but it balances out"

i also love seeing all the old production art/publicity art from that era too, where they're the face of the studio... i got locked in a live bidding war over this and almost bid an obscene amount of money over this with one other person 3,000 miles away, but let them have it because it was getting into 4 digits and i love the pig and duck. but not yet enough to drop that much money on them. i set a threshold for myself and immediately surpassed it and i’m actually glad i lost because my wallet would be screaming at me. BUT IT’S SO CUTE LOOK AT THEM

there’s just something so charming about seeing their dumb smiling mugs together… in a world where these characters are known for hating and killing each other, or if they are paired together smiling, it’s the most fake and corporately sanitized Thing possible.. there’s just such an earnest here. it really gets to me.

this one does not really have the same heartwarming earnest, because every time i see it my brain immediately registers it as "Stephen King's Carrie touched Daffy deeply" and i imagine an elaborate scenario that led up to this and then Porky killing him (metaphorically, but who knows) after and it makes me laugh a lot. still, blood paint aside, i like that they're bundled together in advertising

i don't know where the original photo is, but there's a photo of the 1941 WB animator's strike (that lasted for, what, 6 days? but it was effective, yay!) and i like that you can see them in the background

BUT YEAH!! I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR THIS, i love when they're mean and stupid together (in the right way), but i really do have such a fondness for when they're buds early on.. it's what their entire dynamic was built on! and there's something sweet about seeing these characters and cartoons sort of grow up together. and, again, it's made so much more special given that this dynamic is exclusive only to Porky and Daffy. out of the entire franchise! Daffy literally wouldn't exist without Porky, in multiple senses! so it makes me so happy that they were made a Thing so early on, and with such great success.

i mean it just doesn't get better than this, folks