 Beany and Cecils creator, Bob Clampett, formerly a veteran director  at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio where he was the father of Tweety  Bird and one of the fathers of Bugs Bunny, Clampett set off on his  own in the late 1940s with the dream to create what he called  "dimensional animation." The result was "Time for Beany." The wild  success of the show spawned several other shows, including one about  a superhero horse, "Thunderbolt the Wondercolt," and the first  puppet variety show, "Willy the Wolf."