(For appwopwiate weading, pwease wead this page in the diawouge of the wate, great wadio star Arthah Q. Bwian. There's quite a few othah choices
out there, and even Mel Bwank himsewf gave me a voice sometimes, but some of Mistah Bwian's most wecognizable successows are Haw Smith, Jeff Bergman, Gweg Burson, Biwwy West and Ewic Bauza. Jeff or Ewic cuwwently portway me the most in wecent media.)
Oh! Why, hewwo there! You must be one of those twopers I've been heawing about. I'd say it's vewy nice to meet you. Oh… you wanna hear abowt me? Dis is my sewf-demonstwating page? Wewl, I'd be qwite honored to obwige!
My name is Elmuh J. Fudd. I'm a miwwionaiwe, and I own a mansion and a yacht! At weast, I used to. Moah impohtantwy, I'm a bewoved stawh in the Warnah Bwothahs' Wooney Tunes and Mewwy Mewodies animated pwoductions. And most impohtantwy, I'm a pwoud, accompwished game huntah whose wife goawl is to catch a cewtain wascawwy wabbit once and for awl!
The pwobwem's dat he's just so dawn cwafty! No mattah my twicks, no mattah my twaps, he aw-ways, aw-ways finds a way awound it! But no worwies. For now, wet's get down to the auto-biogwaphical part of the page.
My cawreah on the big siwvah scween started awwwwl the way back in 1937— and ahead of dat wabbit by a hop and a skip, if I might add— in a short cawwed "Egghead Wides Again", back when I was cawwed Egghead. I bewieve. Appawentwy, Mistah Mike-awl Bear-wiah said some of the people wuh-king on the cawtoons or pubwicizing them either couldn't tell the two of us apart or didn't even bothah. Oh wewl.
After thwee yeaws of the Egghead pwototype, my appeawance was wefined in 1940 for a cawtoon cawwed "Elmuh's Candid Camewa". In it, I met a wabbit who I wanted to take a picture of, but didn't seem to want it. It's not quite my best fiwst step, but a wittle while waitah came "A Wild Hare", which cemented my wole as a big game huntah… and pwoperly intwoduced dat smart-awec wodent, Bugs Bunny, to made a mockewy out of me!
Of course, the folks at Warnah Bwothahs weren't so mean and cwuel as to make dat my onwy puwpose. I've been in other showts where I've been stuff fwom a hunter to Sewlvestah's financial advisor to an office workah, and I could go on, but we've onwy got so much time.
But as I've said, I'm mainwy a huntah out to catch a wabbit, and, at times, a cewtain cwazy duck as well. I might not have been awl that successful since I've been twying for upwards to a centurwy by now, but as wong as there's bweath in my body, I won't give up yet!
Here's some twopes that appwy to me:
- Adaptational Badass: Now, I typicawwy am not one to bwag, but dere awe some stowies where dis appwies to me.
- In that space show that stawed the duck, I was weimagined as an awien hivemind viwus called "The Fudd". Anyone who got infected with it had their head turn into mine, and then they would endwesswy waugh wike I do.
- When I tangled with the Batman at DC, I came cwoser to bwowing him away on my first twy than I did with the wabbit in decades! How's dat for cosmic iwony?
- Any cartoon where I deal with dat smart-aweck duck instead of the wabbit, I usuawwy win. Duck season ends up being more fun for me dan wabbit season...
- On a Famiwy Guy cutaway, I simpwy pumped the wabbit full of wead and then bwoke his neck to finish him off.
- Anti-Villain: Hey! I'm onwy a viwwan fwom the point of view of that wascawwy wabbit! Otherwise, I'm a pewfectwy nice and chawitable citizen. I just wike hunting is awl.
- Arch-Enemy: To that wascawwy wabbit. Though I wiwl hunt the duck too if given the opportunity. He's usuawwy an easier target.
- Art Evolution: I went thwough a couple of design changes befowe the Warnah Bwothahs settled on my curwent wook.
- Butt-Monkey: Sure, dat wabbit's made a monkey out of me for yeaws now, but you stiwl could've gave me a nicer name. I have feelwings, aftah awl.
- Character Catchphrase: Wight at the top: "Shhhh, be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. Huhuhuhuhuhuh!"
- Charlie Brown Baldness: Wike young Charwie Bwown himsewf, I haven't gotten a hair on my head. And to that I say… good gwief.
- Darker and Edgier:
- In that science fiction show stawwing the scwewy duck, I was made into a kind of awien disease that infected anyone cwose to my hosts. Anyone infected has their face wook wike mine, and they start waughing wike me, onwy endwesswy.
- When I went to Gotham City, the witers at DC weimagined me as a contwact kiwler who actuawwy gave Batman a wun for his money (though not as much as that vewy mean and scawy cwown man who I weally hope doesn't wearn about all dat). But if onwy I got to stay that way. Maybe I could've finawwy got that scwewy wabbit!
- Determinator: I WILL catch that wabbit, no mattah how wong and stwenuous the journey!
- Elmer Fudd Syndrome: Ooh, dis one's named aftah me! Geez, is the way I talk weally that pwevalent?
- The Everyman: I became this in a couple of shorts, wike when I had to wook aftah Cwabtwee's dog Wupert, or when that scwewy duck twied to sell me on push-button homes.
- Evil Vegetarian: Wait, "evil"? That's kinda hawsh. Dat said, I mentioned in one picture that I'm a vegetawian, and I onwy hunt for the spowt of it. Though in other cawtoons I don't weally seem to mind a bit of meat in my diet. But what can you expect of a guy who worked in the Wooney Tunes and Mewwy Mewodies?
- Got Me Doing It: In one comic stwip, the fowman of a scwewdwivuh factowy stawts tawking wike me.
- Hidden Depths: Ah, how I adore the cwassical piano of Johann Stwauss. And I awso know awot about the awea of economics. This centuwy could use some of it, if I might add.
- Iconic Outfit: In the cartoons, I wear whatevuh is needed for the pwot. In othah media such as pwomotional matewials or what have you, I usuawwy wear my hunting cwothes.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Wewl, I haven't actuawwy managed to catch that wabbit, but I'm touched that people actuawwy feel sowwy for me about it. In fact, Mistah Fweling bewieved I was so soft that the wabbit was stawting to wook wike a buwwy picking on me, so he cweated that Yosemite Sam as a more aggwessive viwwan. I stiwl don't know how to feel about that, especiawwy since the Martian, Tazmanian Devil and witch came fwom that same pwocess of ewimination.
- Literal-Minded: Now, now, I don't take evewything I hear witterawy. I just gotta make sure I'm hunting whatevah's in season. If I'm told it's wabbit season, I hunt wabbits. If it's duck season, I hunt ducks. If it's goat, mongoose, pigeon, dirty skunk, or basebaww season… wewl, you get the point.
- New Job as the Plot Demands: Usuawwy I'm a huntah, but I've also been evewything from a financial advisah to an office workah. In da cartoon "Rotor Rabbit", I was a farmuh whose cawwots kept getten stolen by da wabbit, so I bought a wobot from Acme Pest Contwol to deal with him. Given how dat piece of junk scwewed up, I should've asked for a wefund...
- Rascally Rabbit: Now, now, I'm not a wabbit mysewf, but I did name the twope aftah hunting that you-know-who for so wong. I'wl get him someday. Though I guess did dwess up as him once and cause him to take my pwace and get awwested faw tax evasion, huhuhuhuhuhuhuh! So I guess I am one in a way.
- Signature Laugh: It's vewy distinct, isn't it? Huhuhuhuhuhuh.
- Team Rocket Wins: Who's this "Team Wocket"? Ah, I see. I guess I can welate given how they also twy hawd to catch a swipperwy cwittah.
- But yes, I have actuawwy got one ovah on that scwewy wabbit a few times. Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh!
- Awso, when I'm not facing off against dat scwewy wabbit, I do tend to win a wot more. It's just dat he's so twicky, see? When I'm fighting dat dawn duck, I tend to win at weast hawf da time. And in a showt cawwed "Cwows Feat", I easily handwed a pair of scwewy cwows. Oh! And in "What's My Wion?", I got to beat up a wion and a bunch of othah animaws who were awl pwetending to be stuffed — I pwetended I didn't know dat they were, but I knew awl awong, and I set a new wecord in giving them da boot, too!
- Trademark Favorite Food: In The Wooney Tunes Show, I do wove me a nice gwiwwed cheese sandwich. Why, I couwd sing about how much I wove gwilled cheese sandwiches. …Why are you stawing at me wike dat?
