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Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny in Falling Hare (1943)
First appearance	A Wild Hare (debut July 27, 1940)
Created by	Tex Avery
Voiced by	Mel Blanc (1940–1989) Jeff Bergman (1990–1992) Greg Burson (1993–1996) Billy West (1996's Space Jam) Joe Alaskey (2003–present, Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Daffy Duck for President) Samuel Vincent Baby Looney Tunes

Bugs Bunny is an

animated

rabbit/hare
who appears in the

Looney Tunes and

Merrie Melodies series of

animated

films produced by

Warner Bros. Cartoons. Today, he is the corporate

mascot for

Warner Brothers, especially its

animated productions.

According to his

biography, he was "born" in 1938 in

Brooklyn,

New York City,

New York and the product of many creators:

Ben "Bugs" Hardaway (who created a prototypical
version of Bugs Bunny known around Termite Terrace as
Bugs' Bunny)

Bob Clampett,

Tex Avery (who directed

A Wild Hare, considered Bugs' formal film
debut),

Robert McKimson (who created the definitive Bugs
Bunny character design),

Chuck Jones, and

Friz Freleng.

According to

Mel Blanc, the character's original

voice actor, Bugs Bunny's accent is an equal blend
of

the Bronx and

Brooklyn dialects. However, Tex Avery claims that he
asked Blanc to give the character not a New York accent
per se, but a voice like that of actor

Frank McHugh, who frequently appeared in supporting
roles in the 1930s and whose voice might be described as
New York Irish.^[1]
Bugs Bunny is one of the most popular and recognizable
cartoon characters in the world. In 2002, he was named
by

TV Guide as the greatest cartoon character of
all time.^[2]^[3]

[hide]

1
History

2
Personality and
catchphrases
- 2.1
  Rabbit or hare?

3
Voice actors

4
Cameos

5
Current popularity

6
Awards
- 6.1
  Academy Awards
- 6.2
  Academy Award
  nominations

7
See also

8
References

9
Bibliography

10
External links

[edit]
History

[edit]
Early influences

A number of animation historians believe Bugs Bunny
to have been influenced by an earlier Disney character
called Max Hare. Max, designed by

Charlie Thorson, first appeared in the

Silly Symphony

The Tortoise and the Hare, directed by Wilfred
Jackson.

Tex Avery, one of Bugs' creators, did admit to have
copied Bugs' design from Max, although Avery's design of
Bugs was less cute and innocent looking than Thorson's
design of Max, so that Bugs' appearance would fit better
with his sarcastic demeanor.^[4]
Avery has been quoted as saying: "I practically stole
it. It’s a wonder I wasn’t sued. The construction was
almost identical."^[1]
In fact, it was the drawing by Bugs Hardaway in 1938
that was chosen from among others as the direction for
the character's personality.^[5]
This drawing came to be known around the "Termite
Terrace" as Bugs' Bunny, when the possessive apostrophe
was eventually dropped, the name stuck.^[6]
Bugs himself would eventually appear in

three variations on The Tortoise and the Hare.

Bugs eventually evolved a personality of detachment,
often quipping no matter how immediate the danger he was
in was. The way Bugs used his carrot is also similar to
the way

Groucho Marx used his cigar. One of Bugs' most
popular catch-phrases, "Of course you realize (or
'know'), this means war!" was originally said by Groucho
(and other cast members) in films such as

Duck Soup and

A Night at the Opera.^[7]

[edit]
Development

Prototype Bugs Bunny made his debut in

Porky's Hare Hunt (1938)

The prototype Bugs Bunny first appeared in the
cartoon short

Porky's Hare Hunt, released on

April 30,

1938. Co-directed by

Cal Dalton and

Ben Hardaway, this short had an almost identical
theme to the 1937 cartoon,

Porky's Duck Hunt (directed by

Tex Avery), which had introduced

Daffy Duck. Following the general plot of its
earlier prototype, this short again cast

Porky Pig the hunter athwart another nutty prey less
interested in escape than in driving his hunter insane.
Replacing the black duck was a tiny white rabbit. This
character introduces himself with the odd expression
"Jiggers, fellers," and

Mel Blanc gave the rabbit nearly the voice and laugh
that he would later use for

Woody Woodpecker. This cartoon also features the
famous Groucho Marx line that Bugs would use many times:
"Of course, you know this means war!"

Bugs' second appearance came in 1939's

Prest-O Change-O, directed by

Chuck Jones, where he is the pet rabbit of

unseen character Sham-Fu the Magician. Two dogs,
fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master's
house. The rabbit harasses them, but is ultimately
bested by the bigger of the two dogs.

His third appearance was in another 1939 cartoon,

Hare-um Scare-um, directed by Dalton and
Hardaway. This short, the first where he was depicted as
a gray bunny instead of a white one, is also notable
both for the rabbit's first singing role, and his first
time dressed in

drag to seduce his antagonist.

Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the short, was the
first to give a name to the character. He had written
"Bugs' Bunny" on the model sheet that he drew for
Hardaway, implying that he considered the rabbit model
sheet to be Hardaway's property.^[1]^[6]
In promotional material for the short (such as a
surviving 1939 presskit), the name on the model sheet
was altered to become the rabbit's own name: "Bugs"
Bunny (quotation marks only used at the very beginning),
evidently named in honor of "Bugs" Hardaway.^[8]

In

Jones'

Elmer's Candid Camera the rabbit first
encounters

Elmer Fudd. In

Robert Clampett's 1940

Patient Porky, a similar rabbit appears to trick
the audience into thinking that 750 rabbits have been
born (however the design is from the cartoon A Wild
Hare).

In his later years Mel Blanc stated that a proposed
name was "Happy Rabbit," but there is no evidence that
this name was ever used by anybody else.
^[9]

[edit]
Bugs emerges

Bugs Bunny in

All This and Rabbit Stew (1941)

Bugs Bunny's first official appearance was in

A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released
on July 27,1940. It was in this cartoon that he first
emerged from his

rabbit hole to ask Elmer Fudd, now a hunter, "What's
up, Doc?" It was also the first meeting of the two
characters in their fully developed forms. It is
considered the first fully developed appearance of the
character. Animation historian Joe Adamson counts A
Wild Hare as the first "official" Bugs Bunny short.^[10]
It is also the first cartoon where

Mel Blanc uses the version of Bugs' voice that would
become the standard. Bugs' second appearance in Chuck
Jones'

Elmer's Pet Rabbit finally introduced the
audience to the name Bugs Bunny, which up till then was
only used among the Termite Terrace employees. However,
the rabbit here is absolutely identical to the one in
Jones' earlier Elmer's Candid Camera, both
visually and vocally. It was also the first short where
he received billing under his now-famous name, but the
card, "with Bugs Bunny," was just slapped on the end of
the completed short's opening titles when A Wild Hare
proved an unexpected success. He would soon become the
most prominent of the Looney Tunes characters as his
calm, flippant

insouciance endeared him to American audiences
during and after

World War II.

Bugs would appear in five more shorts during 1941:

Tortoise Beats Hare, directed by

Tex Avery and featuring the first appearance of

Cecil Turtle;

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, the first Bugs Bunny
short to be directed by

Friz Freleng;

All This and Rabbit Stew, directed by

Avery and featuring a young African-American hunter
as Bugs' antagonist;

The Heckling Hare, the final Bugs short Avery
worked on before being fired and leaving for

MGM; and

Wabbit Twouble, the first Bugs short directed by

Robert Clampett. Wabbit Twouble was also the
first of five Bugs shorts to feature a chubbier remodel
of

Elmer Fudd, a short-lived attempt to have Fudd more
closely resemble his voice actor, comedian

Arthur Q. Bryan.

[edit]
World War II

Bugs Bunny in the censored scene from

Fresh Hare (1942)

By 1942, Bugs had become the number one star of the
Merrie Melodies series, which had originally been
intended only for one-shot characters in shorts. Bugs'
1942 shorts included Friz Freleng's

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, Robert Clampett's

The Wacky Wabbit, and Clampett's

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (which introduced

Beaky Buzzard). Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid also
marks a slight redesign of Bugs, making his front teeth
less prominent and his head rounder. The man responsible
for this redesign was

Robert McKimson, at the time working as an animator
under Robert Clampett. The redesign at first was only
used in the shorts created by Clampett's production team
but in time it would be adopted by the other directors:
It was mainly used in the Friz Freleng unit and,
starting in 1949, Robert McKimson's as well; Jones would
come up with his own slight modification, and the voice
as well would vary mildly between the units.^[1]

Other 1942 Bugs shorts included Chuck Jones'

Hold the Lion, Please, Freleng's

Fresh Hare and

The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (which restored Elmer
Fudd to his previous size), and Jones'

Case of the Missing Hare. He also made cameo
appearances in Tex Avery's final Warner Bros. short
Crazy Cruise, and starred in the two-minute

United States

war

bonds commercial film

Any Bonds Today.

Bugs Bunny and a

gremlin in

Falling Hare (1943)

Bugs Bunny was popular during the

World War II years because of his bombastic
attitude, and began receiving special star billing in
his cartoons by 1943. Like Disney and

Famous Studios had been doing, Warners put Bugs in
opposition to the period's biggest enemies:

Adolf Hitler,

Hermann Goering, and the

Japanese. The 1944 short

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips, features Bugs at odds
with a group of Japanese soldiers. This cartoon has
since been pulled from distribution due to its extreme
racial stereotypes.

Since Bugs' debut in A Wild Hare, he had
appeared only in color Merrie Melodie cartoons.
While he did make a cameo appearance in the 1943

Porky and

Daffy cartoon

Porky Pig's Feat marking his only appearance in
a black-and-white Looney Tune cartoon, he did not
star in a cartoon in the Looney Tunes series
until that series made its complete conversion to
producing only color cartoons beginning with 1944
releases.

Buckaroo Bugs was Bugs' first cartoon in the
Looney Tunes series.

Among his most notable civilian shorts during this
period are Bob Clampett's

Tortoise Wins by a Hare (the sequel to
Tortoise Beats Hare from 1941),

A Corny Concerto (a spoof of Disney's

Fantasia),

Falling Hare, and

What's Cookin' Doc?; and Chuck Jones'

Superman parody

Super-Rabbit, and Friz Freleng's

Little Red Riding Rabbit. The 1944 short

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears introduced Chuck
Jones'

The Three Bears characters.

In the cartoon

Super-Rabbit, Bugs was seen in the end wearing a

USMC dress uniform. As a result, the

United States Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary
Marine

Master Sergeant.^[11]

In

1944, Bugs Bunny actually made a

cameo appearance in Jasper Goes Hunting, a
short produced by rival studio

Paramount. In this cameo (animated by

Robert McKimson with

Mel Blanc providing voice), Bugs pops out of a
rabbit hole, saying his usual catchphrase; Bugs then
says, "I must be in the wrong picture" and then goes
back in the hole.^[12]
He also appeared fleetingly in the

1947

Arthur Davis cartoon

The Goofy Gophers.

[edit]
The post-war era

Since then, Bugs has appeared in numerous cartoon
shorts in the

Looney Tunes and

Merrie Melodies series, making his last
appearance in the theatrical cartoons in 1964 with

False Hare. Considered an ideal actor, he was
directed by

Friz Freleng,

Robert McKimson,

Art Davis and

Chuck Jones and appeared in feature films, including

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which featured the
first-ever meeting between Bugs and his box-office rival

Mickey Mouse),

Space Jam (which co-starred

Michael Jordan), and the 2003 movie

Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

The Bugs Bunny short

Knighty Knight Bugs (1958), in which a medieval
Bugs Bunny traded blows with

Yosemite Sam and his fire-breathing dragon, won the

Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons of
1958. Three of Chuck Jones' Bugs Bunny shorts--Rabbit
Fire,

Rabbit Seasoning, and

Duck, Rabbit, Duck!--- comprise what is often
referred to as the "Duck Season/Rabbit Season" trilogy,
and are considered among the director's best works.
Jones' 1957 classic,

What's Opera, Doc?, features Bugs and Elmer
parodying

Wagner's

Der Ring des Nibelungen, and has been deemed
"culturally significant" by the United States

Library of Congress and selected for preservation in
the

National Film Registry. It was the first cartoon
short to have achieved this honor. It is also remembered
for Elmer's unique take on "Ride
of the Valkyries:" "Kill the wabbit, kill the
wabbit, kill the wabbit...!"

Bugs appeared in the 1957 short

Show Biz Bugs with Daffy Duck, and it features a
controversial finish in which Daffy Duck, in an attempt
to wow the (partisan) audience, did a dangerous magical
act in which he swallowed

TNT,

uranium-238,

gunpowder, drank gasoline, and swallowed a match.
That incident caused some TV stations, and in the 1990s
the cable network

TNT, to edit out that dangerous act, fearing that
young kids may try to imitate it.

In the fall of 1960,

The Bugs Bunny Show, a

television program which packaged many of the
post-1948 Warners shorts with newly animated
wraparounds, debuted on

ABC. The show was originally aired in prime-time,
and after two seasons it was moved to reruns on Saturday
mornings. The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and
exact title frequently (the packaging was completely
different, with each short simply presented on its own,
title and all, though some clips from the new bridging
material was used as filler), but it remained on network
television for 40 full years.

[edit]
After the classic cartoon era

When Mel Blanc died in 1989,

Jeff Bergman,

Joe Alaskey and

Billy West became the new voices to Bugs Bunny and
the rest of the Looney Tunes, taking turns doing
the voices at various times.

Bugs has also made appearances in animated specials
for network television mostly composed of classic
cartoons with bridging material added, including How
Bugs Bunny Won the West, and The Bugs Bunny
Mystery Special. 1980's Bugs Bunny's Busting Out
All Over, however, contained no vintage clips and
featured the first new Bugs Bunny cartoons in 16 years.
It opened with "Portrait Of The Artist As a Young
Bunny", which features a flashback of Bugs as a child
thwarting a young Elmer Fudd, while its third and
closing short was "Spaced Out Bunny", with Bugs being
kidnapped by

Marvin the Martian to be a playmate for Hugo, an

Abominable Snowman-like character (a new

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner short filled out the
half hour). Also, there have been various compilation
films made , including the independently produced

Bugs Bunny: Superstar (utilizing the vintage
shorts then owned by

United Artists), while Warner Bros. assembled

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie,

The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie,

Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island,

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales and

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters. He also made guest
appearances in episodes of the 1990s television program

Tiny Toon Adventures as the principal of

Acme Looniversity and the mentor of

Babs and Buster Bunny, and would later make
occasional guest cameos on spin-offs

Taz-Mania,

Animaniacs and

Histeria!

He appears in the beginning of

Gremlins 2: The New Batch, where he tries to
ride the opening Warner Bros logo, but is interrupted by
Daffy Duck.

Bugs has had several

comic book series over the years.

Western Publishing had the license for all the
Warner Brothers cartoons, and produced Bugs Bunny comics
first for

Dell Comics, then later for their own

Gold Key Comics. Dell published 58 issues, and
several specials from 1952 to 1962. Gold Key continued
for another 133 issues.

DC Comics, the sister/subsidiary company of

Warner Bros., has been publishing several comics
titles since 1994 that Bugs has appeared in. Notable
among these was the 2000 four issue mini-series
Superman & Bugs Bunny written by

Mark Evanier and drawn by

Joe Staton. This depicted a

crossover between DC's superheroes and the Warner
cartoon characters.

Bugs Bunny's star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Like Mickey Mouse for

The Walt Disney Company, Bugs has served as the

mascot for

Warner Bros. Studios and its various divisions. He
and Mickey are the first cartoon characters to have a
star on the

Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In the 1988 animated/live action movie

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Bugs is shown as one of
the inhabitants of

Toon Town. However, since the movie was being made
by Disney, Warner Brothers would only allow the use of
their biggest toon star if he got an equal amount of
screen time as Disney's biggest star, Mickey Mouse.
Because of this, both characters are always together in
frame when on the screen. They appear in a scene where
they are skydiving while Eddie has no parachute, so Bugs
offers him a "spare" which turns out to be a spare tire.
They appear in the end as well, along with all the other
toons.

Bugs Bunny came back to the silver screen in

Box Office Bunny in 1990. This was the first
Bugs Bunny cartoon short since 1964 to be released to
theaters, and it was created for the Bugs Bunny 50th
Anniversary celebration. It was followed in 1991 by

(Blooper) Bunny, a short that has gained a cult
following among some animation fans for its edgy humor.

Bugs made an appearance in the 1990 drug prevention
video

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

In 1997, Bugs appeared on a

U.S. postage stamp, the first toon to be so honored,
beating even the iconic Mickey Mouse. The stamp is
number seven on the list of the ten most popular U.S.
stamps, as calculated by the number of stamps purchased
but not used. A younger version of Bugs is the main
character of

Baby Looney Tunes, which debuted on

Cartoon Network in 2002.

Also, Bugs has appeared in numerous

video games, including the Bugs Bunny's Crazy
Castle series, Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blow Out,

Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage and the similar
Bugs Bunny In Double Trouble,

Looney Tunes B-Ball,

Space Jam,

Looney Tunes Racing,

Looney Tunes: Space Race,

Bugs Bunny Lost in Time, and its sequel,

Bugs Bunny and Taz Time Busters, and

Looney Tunes: Back in Action and the new video
game

Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal.

[edit]
Personality and catchphrases

Bugs has feuded with

Elmer Fudd,

Yosemite Sam,

Marvin the Martian,

Beaky Buzzard,

Daffy Duck,

Witch Hazel,

Rocky and Mugsy,

Wile E. Coyote and a host of others. Bugs usually
wins these conflicts, a plot pattern which recurs in
Looney Toons films directed by

Chuck Jones. Concerned that viewers would lose
sympathy for an invariably triumphant

protagonist, Jones had the

antagonist characters repeatedly attempt to bully,
cheat or threaten Bugs. When offended by the antagonism,
Bugs' catchline was "Of course you realize, dis means
war!" (this line was taken from

Groucho Marx)^[7]
Other directors, such as

Friz Freleng, characterized Bugs as altruistic. When
Bugs meets other successful characters, (such as Cecil
Turtle in

Tortoise Beats Hare, or, in

World War II, the Gremlin of

Falling Hare) his overconfidence becomes a
disadvantage.

Bugs Bunny's nonchalant carrot-chewing standing
position, as explained by

Chuck Jones,

Friz Freleng, and

Bob Clampett, originated from a scene in the film

It Happened One Night, in which

Clark Gable's character leans against a fence,
eating carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full
to

Claudette Colbert's character. This scene was
well-known while the film was popular, and viewers at
the time likely recognized Bugs Bunny's behavior as

satire.^[13]

The carrot-chewing scenes are generally followed by
Bugs Bunny's most well-known catchphrase, "What's up,
Doc?". The phrase was written by director Tex Avery for
his first Bugs Bunny short, 1940's

A Wild Hare. Avery explained later that it was a
common expression in Texas, where he was from, and that
he did not think much of the phrase. When the short was
first screened in theaters, the "What's up, Doc?" scene
received a tremendously positive audience reaction.^[14]
As a result, the scene became a recurring element in
subsequent films and cartoons. However, the phrase is
not beyond editing, the most notable of which being
whenever Bugs greets Daffy: "What's up, Duck?"

Bugs says "And That's The End", from the
closing title of the 1945

Looney Tunes short

Hare Tonic and the 1946 short

Baseball Bugs.

Several Chuck Jones shorts in the late 1940s and
1950s depict Bugs travelling via cross-country (and, in
some cases, intercontinental) tunnel-digging, ending up
in places as varied as

Mexico (Bully
For Bugs, 1953), the

Himalayas (The
Abominable Snow Rabbit, 1960) and

Antarctica (Frigid
Hare, 1949) all because he "should'a taken that
left toin at

Albukoikee." He first utters that phrase in

Herr Meets Hare (1945), when he emerges in the

Black Forest, a cartoon seldom seen today due to its
blatantly topical subject matter. When Goering says to
Bugs, "There is no Las Vegas in 'Chermany'" and takes a
potshot at Bugs, Bugs dives into his hole and says,
"Joimany! Yipe!", as Bugs realizes he's behind enemy
lines. The confused response to his "left toin" comment
also followed a pattern. For example, when he tunnels
into Scotland in 1948's

My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, while thinking he's
heading for the

La Brea Tar Pits in

Los Angeles, California, it provides another chance
for an ethnic stereotype: "Therrre's no La Brrrea Tarrr
Pits in Scotland!" (to which Bugs responds, "Uh...what's
up, Mac-doc?"). A couple of late-1950s shorts of this
ilk also featured

Daffy Duck travelling with Bugs.

Bugs Bunny has some similarities to figures from

mythology and

folklore, such as

Br'er Rabbit,

Nanabozho, or

Anansi, and might be seen as a modern

trickster (for example, he repeatedly uses

cross-dressing mischievously). Unlike most cartoon
characters, however, Bugs Bunny is rarely defeated in
his own games of trickery. One exception to this is the
short

Hare Brush, in which Elmer Fudd ultimately
carries the day at the end; however, critics note that
in this short Elmer and Bugs had assumed each other's
personalities—through mental illness and hypnosis,
respectively—and it is only by becoming Bugs that Elmer
can win.

Although it was usually

Porky Pig who brought the WB cartoons to a close
with his stuttering, "That's all, folks!", Bugs would
occasionally appear, bursting through a drum just as
Porky did, but munching a carrot and saying in his
Bronx-Brooklyn accent, "And dat's de end!"

The name "Bugs" or "Bugsy" as a nickname means
"crazy" (or "loopy").^{[citation

needed]}

A common gag in some of the shorts is the rabbit's
ability to "multiply". (In this case, the mathematical
term, "multiplication")

[edit]
Rabbit or hare?

The animators throughout Bugs' history have treated
the terms rabbit and hare as synonymous. Taxonomically
they are not synonymous, being somewhat similar but
observably different types of

lagomorphs. Hares have much longer ears than do
rabbits, so Bugs might seem to be of the hare family,
and many more of the cartoon titles include the word
"hare" rather than "rabbit". It is probably easier to
make a pun from "hare" than from "rabbit". Within the
cartoons, although the term "hare" comes up sometimes
(for example, Bugs drinking "hare tonic" to "stop
falling hare"), Bugs as well as his antagonists most
often refer to the bunny as a "rabbit". The word "bunny"
is of no help in answering this question, as it is also
a synonym for either hares or rabbits.

[edit]
Voice actors

Following

Mel Blanc, who voiced the character for almost fifty
years, other voice actors have portrayed Bugs Bunny:

Jeff Bergman (1990 - 1992)

Greg Burson (1993 - 1995)

Joe Alaskey (Looney
Tunes: Back in Action, Daffy Duck for
President,

Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal)

Billy West (1996 - present [alternate to
Alaskey])

Samuel Vincent (Baby
Looney Tunes)

[edit]
Cameos

Bugs Bunny has had cameo appearances in several
cartoons, including one

Private SNAFU short. For his appearance in
The Goofy Gophers his voice was sped up.

Crazy Cruise (1942)

Porky Pig's Feat (1943) This marks Bugs'
only appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tune.

Jasper Goes Hunting (1944, for

Paramount)^[12]

The Goofy Gophers (1947)

The Lion's Busy (1950)

Duck Amuck (1953)

Justice League: The New Frontier (2008, as
one of the forms of

The Martian Manhunter )

[edit]
Current popularity

In 2002,

TV Guide compiled a list of the 50 greatest
cartoon characters of all time as part of the
magazine's 50th anniversary. Bugs Bunny was given
the honor of number 1.^[15]^[16]

In a

CNN broadcast on

July 31,

2002, a TV Guide editor talked about the
group that created the list. The editor also
explained why Bugs pulled top billing: "His
stock...has never gone down...Bugs is the best
example...of the smart-aleck American comic. He not
only is a great cartoon character, he's a great
comedian. He was written well. He was drawn
beautifully. He has thrilled and made many
generations laugh. He is tops."^[17]

In

Animal Planet's 50 Greatest Movie Animals
(2004), Bugs was named #3, behind

Mickey Mouse and

Toto.

According to

Time Warner, Bugs Bunny became the current
official

mascot for

Six Flags

theme parks since their 45th anniversary.

[edit]
Awards

[edit]
Academy Awards

Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)

[edit]
Academy Award nominations

The Wild Hare (1940)

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)

Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)

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Contents

[edit] History

[edit] Early influences

[edit] Development

[edit] Bugs emerges

[edit] World War II

[edit] The post-war era

[edit] After the classic cartoon era

[edit] Personality and catchphrases

[edit] Rabbit or hare?

[edit] Voice actors

[edit] Cameos

[edit] Current popularity

[edit] Awards

[edit] Academy Awards

[edit] Academy Award nominations

[edit]
History

[edit]
Early influences

[edit]
Development

[edit]
Bugs emerges

[edit]
World War II

[edit]
The post-war era

[edit]
After the classic cartoon era

[edit]
Personality and catchphrases

[edit]
Rabbit or hare?

[edit]
Voice actors

[edit]
Cameos

[edit]
Current popularity

[edit]
Awards

[edit]
Academy Awards

[edit]
Academy Award nominations