History Creator / RobertMcKimson

* Daffy Doodles: His debut for a mainstream audience.

* DisabilitySuperpower: Kind of? In the early 50s, he was involved in a near fatal car accident from which he made a quick recovery. Upon returning to work, he would find himself animating between 50 and 70 feet (that's over a hundred-thousand frames) a day, more than he was ever capable of before his accident. And nobody knew why.

* Hop, Look and Listen

* The Windblown Hare

* Rebel Rabbit

* Boobs in the Woods

* Design for Leaving
* Bell Hoppy

* Lighthouse Mouse

* Dime to Retire

* Stupor Duck

* Muscle Tussle

After WB closed its animation department for the final time, [=McKimson=] went back to work for Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises, where he directed many WesternAnimation/PinkPanther shorts.

* Easter Yeggs

* WorldOfJerkass: His cartoons tend to have a cynical worldview. Almost all of his characters--even his interpretation of Bugs--are grumpy, middle aged curmudgeons, with the main contrasts in the different characters' personalities being how smart or how stupid the various curmudgeons were.

* Tabasco Road

[=McKimson=] created WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, Hippety Hopper (a recurring adversary of Sylvester whom he mistook for a giant mouse), and the Tasmanian Devil. In all three cases, he directed every outing for those characters. [=McKimson=] also technically created Speedy Gonzales (basing it on a Mexican man he met once who was very friendly and excitable and, despite most outward opinions, was ''not'' meant to be a stereotype of all Mexicans), though it was Friz Freleng's version which everyone knows and remembers today. Even as late as 1968, [=McKimson=] was creating new characters in the hope that they would catch on and become recurring (which, sadly, didn't happen, as the era of theatrical cartoons was waning, thanks to television). His Bunny and Claude (a parody of ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'') and Rapid Rabbit characters are examples of this. He also directed two RoadRunner cartoons (Rushing Roulette and Sugar and Spies), among 14 ''not'' directed by Jones (the rest were directed by Rudy Larriva and [[FanonDiscontinuity are despised and/or forgotten about by amateur and professional theatrical cartoon fans alike]]).

* Gorilla My Dreams

* Wet Hare

* Hillbilly Hare

* Walky Talky Hawky

Robert Porter "Bob" McKimson, Sr. (October 13, 1910 – September 29, 1977) was an animator and director who is most known for his work at Warner Bros. on the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' series. His "WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare" is generally regarded as a classic outing for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.

'''Robert [=McKimson=]''' (1910–1977) was an animator and director who is most known for his work at Warner Bros. on the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' series. His "WesternAnimation/HillbillyHare" is generally regarded as a classic outing for WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.

** "The Honey-Mousers", "Cheese It! The Cat", and "Mice Follies", three cartoons parodying TheHoneymooners.

* [[WesternAnimation/InjunTrouble1969 InjunTrouble]]: The last cartoon ever released by the original Warner Bros. cartoon studio.

* Injun Trouble: The last cartoon ever released by the original Warner Bros. cartoon studio.

** "The Mouse That Jack Built", a parody of TheJackBennyProgram, except the characters are mice.

* A Ham in a Role

!!Robert [=McKimson=]'s cartoons provide examples of:

* {{Workaholic}}: Had a positive reputation in the animation industry as a hard worker; on his first day at Warner Bros., for example, he got right to work at 8 o'clock. He also consistently completed ''twice'' the amount of required footage per day, and doing it professionally to boot!

Despite these merits, as well as directing the third most shorts out of all the directors (141 total), [=McKimson=] isn't recognized as much as the other two "big" directors at WB. Part of this may be the fact that he never had a feature length compilation film that highlighted his work; Creator/ChuckJones had one film and Creator/FrizFreleng had three (it should be noted that two of Friz's movies featured [=McKimson=]'s cartoons, however). Part of this may also be due to his post-1955 shorts, which featured slower timing, simpler animation, and less interesting direction than his pre-1955 output [[note]]Explanation: WB briefly closed in 1953 and temporarily laid everybody off. Unlike Jones and Freleng, [=McKimson=] basically had to restart his unit from scratch when WB reopened its cartoon unit, so that certainly put him at a disadvantage for a while, not least because his new unit was mostly made up of the animators that Jones and Freleng didn't want.[[/note]] He also gave few interviews before his death, which made it difficult to get an insight into his directing methods and philosophies. Luckily, [[http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Interviews/McKimson/McKimson.html a recently-posted vintage interview on Michael Barrier's website, along with a biography written by Robert [=McKimson=] Jr. released in 2012, rectify that]].