- While most other Bugs Bunny cartoons portrayed Bugs as the generally clever and collected character who always wins, Clampett's cartoons sometimes portrayed Bugs as being on the losing end of things (e.g. Falling Hare (1943), Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943)).
- Animator John Kricfalusi notes Bob Clampett as one of his strongest influences.
- He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Porky in Wackyland (1938).
- An avid boater, he once rescued three men from a boating accident.
- Based the original drawings of Tweety on his own baby pictures.
- He started his career at Warners (Leon Schlesinger Studios) at the age of 17.
- Father of Bobby Clampett, Ruth Clampett and Cheri Clampett.
- Was known to play pranks on the other directing units at Termite Terrace.
- Supplied studio space to Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo early in their career.
- Clampett used to spend his summers in the small (2.2 square miles!) Los Angeles County town of Hermosa Beach in the 1970's. He sometimes met science fiction writer Ray Bradbury there, and they and their wives spent time there during the mild summers Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach were famous for since the 1920's.
- His works have said to inspire animation legends like John Kricfalusi, Doug TenNapel, John Dilworth, Ron Clements, John Musker and Ralph Bakshi.
- According to Charles "Chuck" Martin Jones in his "Chuck Reducks, drawing from the Fun Side of Life" book from 1996, Bob Clampett was actually the real creator of Charlie the Dog who was introduced as Rover in a Looney tune cartoon titled "[Porky's Pooch (1941)]" released in 1941, and was also directed by Robert "Bob" Clampett himself. And that Chuck Jones took Clampett's hound and transformed him into a new dog.
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