1941

1941 would bring about the controversial end of Tex Avery's run as a Warner Bros. director due to a disagreement with Leon Schlesinger as Bob Clampett emerged to start leading the studio to newer, stranger directions.
== History ==
* Tex Avery and Chuck Jones start directing black-and-white Looney Tunes, and Bob Clampett directs his first color Merrie Melodies due to management changes.
* Tex Avery directs the first one-shot Looney Tunes, "The Haunted Mouse"
* A fat redesign of Elmer Fudd modeled after his voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan, is used starting in "Wabbit Twouble".
* Tex Avery is suspended for four weeks without pay by Leon Schlesinger and leaves the studio. He then meets Jerry Fairbanks at Paramount and directs the first three Speaking of Animals shorts. He later joins MGM in September and works there for fourteen years.
* Bob Clampett replaces Avery as the director of his unit and leaves behind his old unit with Norman McCabe becoming the director.
* Mel Blanc is signed to an exclusive contract with Leon Schlesinger and prohibits him from doing voice work for cartoon studios outside of Warner Bros.
* This year debuts the Bugs Bunny on the WB shield with WARNER BROS. and Present already on the screen at the open-fade starting with "The Heckling Hare". However, this cartoon was the only one to have Bugs pull the MERRIE MELODIES card down in the Schlesinger era. The rest would fade to the MERRIE MELODIES card.
* Cartoons start using purple-blue colored rings starting from "Snowtime for Comedy".
* Chuck Jones stops being credited as "Charles Jones", he is now credited as "Charles M. Jones".
== Theatrical Shorts ==
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==Character Debuts==
*Cecil Turtle
==People==
===Births===
* 24 January - Neil Diamond
* 8 August - Earl Boen
== References ==
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Category:Timeline