
Many cartoon historians believe that Egghead evolved into Elmer over a period of a couple of years. Egghead initially was depicted as having a bulbous nose, funny/eccentric clothing and an egg-shaped head (thus the moniker "Egghead").

In 1937, Fred Avery introduced a new character in his cartoon short Egghead Rides Again. He is also a billionaire, who lives in a mansion and owns a yacht. Fudd cartoons include Chuck Jones' masterpiece " What's Opera, Doc?", the Rossini parody " Rabbit of Seville", and the "Hunting Trilogy" of " Rabbit Fire", " Rabbit Seasoning", and " Duck! Rabbit, Duck!. He speaks in an unusual way (rhotacism), replacing his R's and L's with W's, so "Watch the road, Rabbit," becomes "Watch da woad, wabbit!" Elmer's signature catchphrase is, "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits", as well as his trademark gloat, "huh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh." The best known Elmer J. His aim is to hunt Bugs, but he usually ends up seriously injuring himself and/or other antagonizing characters. cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs himself).

He has one of the most disputed origins in the Warner Bros. However, unlike the tyrannical, power-hungry Marvin or the scheming, malevolent Sam, Elmer is dopey and unlikely to do Bugs great harm. He is one of the series' main recurring villains, along with Marvin the Martian and Yosemite Sam.

Fudd is a fictional cartoon character, one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and one of the archenemies of Bugs Bunny. Roy Rogers (singing voice in A Feud There Was) Danny Webb or Cliff Nazarro (sources differ 1937–1939)
