#Bugs bunny no meme series#
#Bugs bunny no meme tv#

This version of the rabbit was cool, graceful, and controlled. The rabbit harasses them but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs. Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master's house.

The rabbit comes back in Prest-O Change-O (1939), directed by Chuck Jones, where he is the pet rabbit of unseen character Sham-Fu the Magician. The rabbit character was popular enough with audiences that the Termite Terrace staff decided to use it again. He was loud, zany with a goofy, guttural laugh. Mel Blanc gave the character a voice and laugh much like those he later used for Woody Woodpecker. In characterization, he was 'a rural buffoon'.

The white rabbit had an oval head and a shapeless body. According to Friz Freleng, Hardaway and Dalton had decided to 'dress the duck in a rabbit suit'. Hare Hunt replaces the little black duck with a small white rabbit. Porky Pig is again cast as a hunter tracking a silly prey who is more interested in driving his pursuer insane and less interested in escaping. This cartoon has an almost identical plot to Avery's Porky's Duck Hunt (1937), which had introduced Daffy Duck. It was co-directed by Ben 'Bugs' Hardaway and an uncredited director Cal Dalton (who was responsible for the initial design of the rabbit).

In those days, the stories were often the work of a group who suggested various gags, bounced them around and finalized them in a joint story conference.' A prototype Bugs rabbit with some of the personality of a finalized Bugs, though looking very different, was originally featured in the film Porky's Hare Hunt, released on April 30, 1938. īugs' preliminary debut (as an unnamed little white rabbit) in Porky's Hare Hunt (1938).Īccording to Chase Craig, who wrote and drew the first Bugs Bunny comic Sunday pages and the first Bugs comic book, 'Bugs was not the creation of any one man however, he rather represented the creative talents of perhaps five or six directors and many cartoon writers including Charlie Thorson. He has also appeared in more films than any other cartoon character, is the 9th most-portrayed film personality in the world, and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

#Bugs bunny no meme tv#

He has since appeared in feature films, compilation films, TV series, music records, comics, video games, award shows, amusement park rides, and commercials. īugs starred in more than 160 cartoon shorts produced between 19. He can thus be seen in the older Warner Bros. Entertainment, but also one of the most recognizable characters in the world. Due to Bugs' popularity during the golden age of American animation, he became not only an American cultural icon and the official mascot of Warner Bros. He is also characterized by a Brooklyn accent, his portrayal as a trickster, and his catch phrase 'Eh.What's up, doc?'. īugs is an anthropomorphic gray and white rabbit or hare who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality. Bob Givens is credited for Bugs' initial character design, though Robert McKimson is credited for what became Bugs' definitive design just a few years later. Though an early prototype of the character first appeared in the WB cartoon Porky's Hare Hunt (1938) and a few subsequent shorts, the definitive characterization of Bugs Bunny is widely credited to have debuted in Tex Avery's Oscar-nominated film A Wild Hare (1940).

#Bugs bunny no meme series#

Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Sam Vincent ( Baby Looney Tunes 2001–2006)īugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros.