The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie [SEP] production company
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Chuck Jones


The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (1979) which was a compilation of Jones' best theatrical shorts; Jones produced new Road Runner shorts for "The Electric Company" series and "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales" (1979). New shorts were made for "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over" (1980). From 1977 to 1978, Jones wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip "Crawford" (also known as "Crawford & Morgan") for the Chicago Tribune-NY News
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Bugs Bunny


network television, such as "Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet", "Bugs Bunny's Easter Special", "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales", and "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over". Bugs also starred in several theatrical compilation features during this time, including the United Artists distributed documentary "" (1975) and Warner Bros.' own releases: "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (1979), "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" (1981), ""
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The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie


The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (original working title: The Great American Chase) is a 1979 "Looney Tunes" film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and newly animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The bridging sequences, which had been produced in 1978, show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania). Early on, Bugs discusses the wild villains he had co
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battles, and chases from the Looney Tunes shorts, which serves as introductions to footage from the classic short subjects. The final segment of the film consists of an extended chase sequence between Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Warner Home Video released "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" on VHS and Betamax cassettes, and on CED in the 1980s. After its second home video release in 1986, the film returns on VHS and LaserDisc on February 3, 1998. From that point on, it was part of
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The Bugs Bunny Show


own "Sylvester and Tweety Show" for one year, necessitating the removal of most of the Tweety and/or Sylvester cartoons on "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" that season. Also that year, a weekly half-hour prime-time edition of "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" briefly aired on CBS' Tuesday night schedule from April through June. "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" became "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" in November 1977 after CBS added another half-hour to the
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Bugs Bunny: Superstar


The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" when Bugs discusses his "fathers" (i.e. Jones and other Warner's directors). Although Chuck Jones opted to not contribute to "Bugs Bunny: Superstar", Larry Jackson claimed he remained friends with Chuck Jones for many years. The release of "Bugs Bunny: Superstar", in fact, brought to a head resentments that had grown between Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett for years. In June 1969, animation historian Michael Barrier interviewed Clampett for an article that appeared in issue
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Mel Blanc


these shorts (later, newly introduced characters such as Cool Cat and Merlin the Magic Mouse were voiced by Larry Storch). Blanc also continued to voice the "Looney Tunes" for the bridging sequences of "The Bugs Bunny Show", as well as in numerous animated advertisements and several compilation features, such as "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (1979). He also voiced Granny in "4 More Adventures of Bugs Bunny" (1974) and "Bugs Bunny’s High-Fructose Christmas Record"
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


as the stars of their own TV series, "The Road Runner Show", from September 1966 to September 1968, on CBS. At this time it was merged with "The Bugs Bunny Show" to become "The Bugs Bunny and Road Runner Show", running from 1968 to 1985. The show was later seen on ABC until 2000, and on Global until 2001. In the 1970s, Chuck Jones directed some "Road Runner" short films for the educational children's TV series "The Electric Company."
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Dean Elliott


for the cult animated "New Fantastic Four" series in 1978 before moving to Warner Brothers with "Chuck Jones" where he provided all the music for Jones' "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" in 1979, and later for "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century" and "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over" in 1980, the latter of which was nominated for an Emmy. He also was musical director for Ruby-Spears Productions from 1978–1987, where he was contracted to contribute
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Bugs Bunny: Superstar


did not reveal much, and while Avery talked at length and was entertaining, relatively little of what he said could be used for the film. Approximately 30 minutes of the film's 90-minute duration is made up of documentary footage. "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was the first of a series of Warner cartoon compilation movies released in the 1970s and 1980s. However, as a documentary, it does not fit the mold of the totally animated Warner Brothers compilation movies that began with 1979's "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
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The Bugs Bunny Show


" opening and the announcer's introduction of Bugs Bunny ("that Oscar-winning rabbit!") were directly followed by the rabbit's saying, "...and also starring my fast feathered friend, the Road Runner", after which "The Road Runner Show's" theme was played. "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" combined re-edited bridging sequences from both shows to link the seven cartoons featured in each episode. The bridging sequences would be edited further in later versions of the "Bugs Bunny
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The Bugs Bunny Show


/Road Runner Hour". In 1971, "The Road Runner Show" moved to ABC, and a reconstituted half-hour "Bugs Bunny Show" aired on CBS, featuring re-edited versions of the bridging sequences and a different grouping of cartoons. In 1973, "The Bugs Bunny Show" returned to ABC for two seasons, only for CBS to re-acquire both shows and bring back "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" in 1975. In 1976, Sylvester and Tweety were featured in their
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Warner Bros. Animation


a series of "Looney Tunes" specials at his Chuck Jones Productions animation studio, the first of which was "Carnival of the Animals". These specials, and a 1975 "Looney Tunes" retrospective feature film titled "" (distributed by United Artists, the previous owner of the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library), led Jones to produce "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" for Warner Bros. in 1979. This film blended classic "Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" shorts with newly produced wraparounds of Bugs Bunny introducing each cartoon
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The Road Runner Show


Each show would feature one Road Runner/Coyote cartoon, with a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon in the middle segment, and other WB animated character(s) in the third segment (usually Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Pepe Le Pew and Hippety Hopper). In 1968, CBS combined "The Road Runner Show" with "The Bugs Bunny Show" to produce "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour". The Road Runner and the Coyote more often shared at least an hour with Bugs Bunny on CBS during
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Daffy Duck's Quackbusters


films of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts not composed by Robert J. Walsh (the other being 1979's "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie", which was composed by Dean Elliott). The film was released to theaters by Warner Bros. on September 24, 1988. Similar to "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie", which was preceded with the Oscar-winning "Knighty Knight Bugs" (1958), "Quackbusters" is preceded with the exclusive short "The Night of the Living Duck" (1988
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The Bugs Bunny Show


a combination of footage from both what's left of the color negatives (some of which were used in later incarnations, thus helping to preserve them) and the black-and-white ABC broadcast prints prepared in the early 1960s. On the "", the opening to the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" (with the announcer calling it the "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour") and two openings to the "Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show" (the 1988 opening and the 1992 opening) were
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of cartoon shorts, probably the first to examine the history of Warner cartoons, which under-played Bugs' other 'several fathers' and is part of the mentioned conflict. All of the shorts featured were directed by Chuck Jones. The combination of classic animated footage along with new animation would become the template for the theatrically released Looney Tunes movies for this film up until "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" released in 1988. Bugs Bunny, while giving a tour of his home, talks about some of the famous rivalries,
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The Bugs Bunny Show


re-running "The Bugs Bunny Show" on Saturday mornings in mid-August 1962 until September 1967 when it was moved to Sunday mornings for the remainder of its run. The series was rerun in color beginning in 1965, and remained on ABC until September 1968. At this point, the series switched to CBS, where it was combined with "The Road Runner Show" (which had aired on CBS since 1966) to create "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour". The standard "Bugs Bunny Show
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


Go-Go," by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. Jones' 1979 movie "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" features many of Chuck's characters, including Wile E. and Road Runner. However, whereas most of the featured cartoons are single shorts or sometimes isolated clips, the footage of Wile E. and Road Runner is taken from several different cartoons and compiled to run as one extended sequence. Wile E. and the Road Runner have two cameo roles in Robert Zemeckis' "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" first silhouetted when
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


These short cartoons used the Coyote and the Road Runner to display words for children to read, but the cartoons themselves are a refreshing return to Jones' glory days. In 1979, "Freeze Frame", in which Jones moved the chase from the desert to snow-covered mountains, was seen as part of "Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales". At the end of Bugs Bunny's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny" (the initial sequence of Chuck Jones' TV special, "Bugs Bunny
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection


, 10 directed by Abe Levitow, 13 and 14 by Robert Clampett Shorts 1-9 Directed by Friz Freleng, 10-14 by Robert McKimson Volume 2 is a two-disc set with 30 shorts. In place of volume 3 was the Looney Tunes Movie Collection, consisting of "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" and "" on separate discs. Volume 4 is a two-disc set of 28 shorts. All cartoons on this disc feature Bugs Bunny. Volume 5 is a two-disc set with
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Bob Clampett


Clampett's contributions. In the 1979 compilation feature film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie", Clampett is not mentioned when Bugs Bunny refers to his "several fathers." As the feature was compiled by Jones (along with Friz Freleng) the omission of Clampett is not surprising. (The other two directorial fathers Bugs claims to have had are Avery, who directed "A Wild Hare", his first official short, and McKimson, who is the least known of the three best-known "Looney Tunes
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The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie


-starred with in his cartoons, which is followed by a tongue-in-cheek sequence depicting the history of comedy and a scene in which Bugs discusses his "several fathers". The latter scene was written by Chuck Jones as a way to debunk fellow animation director Robert Clampett's claims throughout the 1970s that he alone created Bugs, and Clampett's name is notably missing from Bugs's list, as a result of the conflict between Jones and Clampett. The movie "" featured Bob Clampett, and is another compilation
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Looney Tunes history (1997–present)


Due to the success of "Space Jam" in 1996, Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes" were revamped as a series with the release of multiple new expansions of the canon including movies, theatrical shorts, and television series. After 10 years of absence from the silver screen, the Looney Tunes returned in the compilation film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie", (Chuck Jones, 1979), later other compilation movies followed suit, in 1987 new shorts were made (continuing production intermittently through 2010) and
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What's Opera, Doc?


" card appears while the music finishes. When presented in the 1979 compilation "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie", Bugs Bunny claims that the short was the whole of Wagner's 17-hour Opera Cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung, which he mispronounced as "The Rings of Nibble-lung" in his Brooklynese accent), condensed into only 7 minutes. He also pronounced Richard Wagner as it would be pronounced in English ("wag-ner"), instead of its usual
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Bugs Bunny: Superstar


Movie". "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was not considered a "canon" compilation movie because it was produced by Larry Jackson's Hare-Raising Films, rather than by Warner Bros. (1982's "" is actually the "fourth" Bugs film, if "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" were to be included.) The nine full-length cartoons featured in "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" were originally released between July 1940 and April 1948. In 1956, Associated Artists Productions ("a.a.p.") acquired
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Warner Bros.


(which Time Warner once owned). The success of the compilation film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" in 1980, featuring the archived film of these characters, prompted Warner Bros. to organize Warner Bros. Animation as a new production division to restart production of original material. According to Warner's autobiography, prior to US entry in World War II, Philip Kauffman, Warner Bros. German sales head, was murdered by the Nazis in Berlin in 1936. Harry produced the successful anti-German film "The Life of
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny


Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny is a Warner Bros. cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, with cameo appearances by Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The cartoon was part of the television special "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over", which aired May 21, 1980. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny" is one of four Bugs Bunny cartoons produced during 1979-1980, the first new shorts since 1964's "False Hare". On the last day of school,
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Hare-Breadth Hurry


The cartoon opens as a typical Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoon. After the credits are shown, a high-speed object zooms through the desert until it stops. It is revealed to be Bugs Bunny, who explains why he is in the cartoon instead of the Road Runner - the Road Runner had sprained a giblet. As the coyote approaches, Bugs stops and, with the help of "Acme Super Speed Pills", is able to run as fast as the Road Runner. When the pills wear off
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Robin Hood Daffy


Bunny short "Rabbit Hood". An edited version of "Robin Hood Daffy" was included in the theatrical film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (1979). The film features Daffy Duck in the role of legendary outlaw Robin Hood, and opens to the strains of his playing a song on a long-necked lute similar to a tambouras. As he prances along singing, he trips and tumbles down a hill (still singing), off a bank and into a river. Watching is Porky Pig
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Ali Baba Bunny


a happy miser!"—have become popular catchphrases amongst fans and students of Chuck Jones' style of animation and fans of Daffy Duck as well; the line "Hassan chop!" has also become a favorite quote. The film was edited into two of the Looney Tunes greatest hits features: "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (1979), and "" (1982). In the middle of the Arabian Desert (India in later versions), a rich Sultan has stored all his treasure in a cave and is
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Hare-Breadth Hurry


Hare-Breadth Hurry is a 1963 "Looney Tunes" cartoon starring Bugs Bunny in his fifth and final pairing with Wile E. Coyote. Unlike the previous four pairings, this cartoon follows the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner formula (substituting Bugs for the Road Runner). As such, Wile E. Coyote is silent, although Bugs does speak in the short, often to the audience. "Hare-Breadth Hurry" is also one of the few cartoons where Bugs does not eat a carrot. "Introduction:"
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Looney Tunes River Ride


(including Sally Corporation) about designing the animatronics for the ride. Each company was asked to produce a "test Bugs", and then Village Roadshow Theme Parks would decide on the company to go with the Bugs Bunny animatronic that they produced. One of the Bugs Bunny animatronics that was designed won the multimillion-dollar animatronics contract for Warner Bros. Movie World. Village Roadshow Theme Parks then did something sneaky: they decided to use all the prototype Bugs Bunny animatronics in the ride, which was why they all looked slightly different
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


does not speak, and to use the Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoon formula. As usual, Wile E. Coyote ends up falling down a canyon and fails to catch Bugs Bunny, much as the coyote always fails to catch and eat the Road Runner. In a later, made-for-TV short, which had a young Elmer Fudd chasing a young Bugs, Elmer also falls down a canyon. On the way down he is overtaken by Wile E. Coyote who shows a sign telling Elmer to get out of
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


animated cartoons or cartoon animation in Cartoon Network's new TV series "The Looney Tunes Show". The CGI shorts were only included in season one, but Wile E. and Road Runner still appeared throughout the series in 2D animation. Wile E. Coyote also appears in the TV series "Wabbit", voiced by JP Karliak, in a similar vein to his previous pairings with Bugs Bunny. He appears as Bugs' annoying, know-it-all neighbor who would always use his inventions to compete with Bugs. The Road
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


short-sighted arrogance, and is thus often easily outsmarted, a somewhat physical symbolism of "street smarts" besting "book smarts". In one short ("Hare-Breadth Hurry", 1963), Bugs —with the help of "speed pills"—even stands in for Road Runner, who has "sprained a giblet" while "cornering a sharp curve the other day", and carries out the duties of outsmarting the hungry predator. This is the only Bugs Bunny/Wile E. Coyote short in which the coyote
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The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie


The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (credited onscreen as Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie) is a 1981 American animated package film with a compilation of classic "Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences produced by Friz Freleng, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The new footage was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and the first "Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" film with a compilation of classic shorts produced by Warner Bros. Animation. The film starts with a showing of the 1958 award winning cartoon "Knighty
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Duck Amuck


he didn't live in the woods? Didn't live anywhere? What if he had no voice? No face? What if he wasn't even a duck anymore?" In all cases, Daffy is still Daffy; not all cartoon characters can claim such distinctive personality. "Duck Amuck" is included in the compilation film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie," along with other Chuck Jones cartoons including "What's Opera, Doc?" Mel Blanc performed the voices. It was directed by Chuck Jones
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection


"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" and "". In November 2009, it was reported that two new single disc DVD releases, with 15 cartoons each, would be released in April 2010. It was also reported that these 30 cartoons would not contain any duplicates that had already been released as part of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection" releases. This series of DVDs is called "Looney Tunes Super Stars" and the first two titles are "" and "". These new DVDs still have the
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Bugs Bunny on Broadway


Bugs Bunny on Broadway (also titled Bugs Bunny at the Symphony and Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II) is a concert musical featuring "Looney Tunes" characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. The production was conceived by George Daugherty, incorporating scores by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn. The musical, and its 2010 sequel "Bugs Bunny at the Symphony", combines classic Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" projected on a large screen accompanied by a live orchestra performing the original score. This production has
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The Bugs Bunny Show


runtime. In 1982, a companion "Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy, and Speedy Show" was added to the CBS schedule, which included a number of later cartoons produced by a reestablished Warner Bros. Cartoons studio from 1967 to 1969. The following year, this new companion series was canceled, and its cartoons were incorporated into "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show", which was broadcast as two separate hour-long programs on Saturday mornings. In 1983, CBS returned the show to 90 minutes, the bridging sequences
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Compressed Hare


Compressed Hare is a "Merrie Melodies" cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote (in their fourth pairing), released on July 29, 1961. This is the final first-run Golden Age short in which Wile E. Coyote speaks, although he speaks again in the "Adventures of the Road Runner" featurette from a year later. Wile E. Coyote leaves a telephone at the hole of his neighbor, Bugs Bunny. He calls from his cave, asking to borrow a cup of diced
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Golden age of American animation


The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie", which consisted predominantly of footage from the classic shorts by Jones, a new in-house studio to produce original animation opened its doors in 1980 named Warner Bros. Animation, which exists to this day. At first, Mickey Mouse was drawn by Walt Disney's long-time partner and friend Ub Iwerks, who was also a technical innovator in cartoons, and drew an average of 600 drawings for Disney on a daily basis; Disney was responsible for the ideas in the cartoons,
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Bob Clampett


no mention of his association with him in his 1979 compilation film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" (in which Jones lists himself and other Warners directors) although he did briefly mention working with Clampett in his 1989 autobiography "Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of An Animated Cartoonist" and his 1998 interview for the American Television Archive. Some of this animosity appears to have come from Clampett's perceived "golden boy" status at the studio (Clampett's mother was said to be a close friend of cartoon
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales


Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales is a 1982 "Merrie Melodies" film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts (many of which have been abridged) and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have to sell books for Rambling House. They go their separate ways and experience many wacky things. For instance, while flying through a winter storm, Daffy ran into a house owned by Porky Pig and briefly stayed there while taking place of a stuffed duck which he
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


was in "Bugs Bunny Vacation Funnies" #8 (August 1958) published by Dell Comics. The feature is titled "Beep Beep the Road Runner" and the story "Desert Dessert". It presents itself as the first meeting between Beep Beep and Wile E. (whose mailbox reads "Wile E. Coyote, Inventor and Genius"), and introduces the Road Runner's wife, Matilda, and their three newly hatched sons (though Matilda would soon disappear from the comics). This story established the convention that the
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Desert Demolition


E. will ambush the Road Runner using the same contraptions if the crate's vicinity is approached. Completing the game results in two different endings for each character, both of which feature cameo appearances by Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Porky Pig, and Elmer Fudd (all of whom are working as employees of ACME Corporation). If playing as the Road Runner, a banner will come down from the ceiling that states: "CONGRATULATIONS! ACME PRESIDENT," indicating the Road Runner has been
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Marvin the Martian


referred to as the Commander of Flying Saucer X-2 in "The Hasty Hare" in 1952. However, in 1979, once the character apparently attracted merchandising interest, the name "Marvin" was seen in "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie"—more than 30 years after his birth! Marvin the Martian’s birth in 1948 may owe itself to the brief appearance of Woody Woodpecker in 1950’s hit feature film Destination Moon (film). The makers of "Destination Moon" understood that rocketry and space travel were new concepts to most
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Box-Office Bunny


Box-Office Bunny, released in 1991, is a 5-minute "Looney Tunes" short film starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. It was shown in theaters alongside "", as well as on the subsequent home media releases for the film. This was Warner Bros.'s first Bugs Bunny theatrical release since 1964's "False Hare". It was issued to commemorate Bugs' 50th anniversary and is included as a special feature on the DVD for "The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie".
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Show Biz Bugs


Show Biz Bugs is a 1957 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" animated short directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Mel Blanc as the voices of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. The basic setting and conflicts of this film were reprised for the linking footage for the television series "The Bugs Bunny Show". "Show Biz Bugs" was also re-worked as the climax of "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" (1981). Arriving at the theater where he and Bugs are appearing, Daffy is furious to discover
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Road Runner Express (Six Flags Magic Mountain)


Road Runner Express is a steel junior roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. On November 4, 2010, Six Flags corporate had an Investor Meeting webcast where they released the new name for the kid's coaster and that it would have a new location in "Bugs Bunny World". By April 2011, the entire coaster has finished construction on site. The ride opened on May 28, 2011, for Memorial Day Weekend. Road Runner Express originally opened at Jazzland in New Orleans on May 20,
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Road Runner Express (Six Flags Magic Mountain)


" name and theme, but will operate from early May 2011 as "Little Flash" which is, themed to the DC Comics superhero sidekicks in "Bugs Bunny World". On January 18, 2011, the LA Times reported after considering a new theme based on DC Comics superhero sidekicks, the park opted for simplicity and would name the coaster "Road Runner Express". Two days later, Six Flags Magic Mountain confirmed that the kid's coaster would be called Road Runner Express and that it would open on March 19
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Buccaneer Bunny


big mouth!"" For the next part, Bugs poses as the now-unconscious parrot to lead Sam into a cannon. Bugs lights the fuse, and then, KABOOM! The cannon explodes and Sam falls out of the barrel. In a series of gags that mildly anticipate the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner series, Bugs is in the crow's nest and Sam tries various unsuccessful attempts to get to him; for example, setting up a see-saw, standing on one end and tossing a cannonball
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Saturday-morning cartoon


Bugs Bunny" and "Road Runner" cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for that studio prior to establishing their own company; the "Mighty Mouse" and "Heckle and Jeckle" cartoons produced by Paul Terry's "Terrytoons", and Walter Lantz's "Woody Woodpecker" cartoons. During the 1960s and 1970s, it was not uncommon to have animated shorts produced with both film and television in mind
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Any Bonds Today?


90-second cartoon, commissioned by the Treasury and now in the public domain, was designed to encourage movie theater audiences to buy defense bonds and stamps. Its title card identifies it as "Leon Schlesinger Presents Bugs Bunny", but it is more widely known as "Any Bonds Today?" It was neither considered a "Looney Tunes" nor "Merrie Melodies" cartoon and was not part of the Bugs Bunny series (but a spin-off). Bob Clampett wrote and directed the film, which started production in late
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History of animation


Popeye" and "Superman" series, Famous Studios created new popular adaptations of Little Lulu (1943-1948), Casper the friendly ghost (1945) and developed several other series. Warner Brothers Cartoons, founded in 1933, launched their Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series starring characters like Porky Pig (1935), Daffy Duck (1937), Elmer Fudd (1937), Bugs Bunny (1938), Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner (1949). Walter Lantz Productions's created the Andy Panda series (
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Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner


occasional made-for-television cartoons. It was originally meant to parody chase cartoons like Tom and Jerry, but became popular in its own right. The Coyote appears separately as an occasional antagonist of Bugs Bunny in five shorts from 1952 to 1963: "", "To Hare Is Human", "Rabbit's Feat", "Compressed Hare", and "Hare-Breadth Hurry". While he is generally silent in the Coyote-Road Runner shorts, he speaks with a refined accent in these solo outings
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Soup or Sonic


Soup or Sonic is an animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. It was first aired on May 21, 1980 as a part of the television special "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over" and was one of four new cartoons released. This is the only canonical cartoon in which Wile E. Coyote catches the Road Runner without him escaping afterward. "Soup or Sonic" was directed by Chuck Jones and Phil Monroe. The title is an oronym, a play on
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny


leave falling to people who know how to do it. In the end, Elmer obtains a machine gun (which actually fires corks) and shoots Bugs repeatedly after he crashes into a tree. The dream ends, and the adult Bugs - conscious and apparently never having felt the effects of his own injury - remarks about how he and Elmer probably were "the youngest people to ever start chasing each other." Of course, Bugs could be wrong - a young Wile E. Coyote runs by, chasing an unhatched Road Runner
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit


of Ichabod and Mr. Toad; Dumbo; Bambi; Br’er Bear from Song of the South; Magic Singing Harp from Fun and Fancy Free and more; Warner Bros. - Bugs Bunny; Daffy Duck; Porky Pig; Tweety Bird; Sylvester; Yosemite Sam; Foghorn Leghorn; Elmer Fudd; Marvin the Martian; Speedy Gonzales; Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote and more; along with other cartoon stars like: Betty Boop; Droopy, and Woody Woodpecker. Walt Disney Productions purchased the film rights to Gary K. Wolf's novel
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Porky Pig


. He also made appearances in the games "", "", "", "", "Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage" and "The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout". Porky appears in the movie "Space Jam" (1996) and collaborates with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Sylvester in challenging the Nerdlucks to a basketball game. He tries to get Michael Jordan's autograph when the basketball star is first recruited to join the team and later plays for the Toon Squad in the game itself,
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Cartoon physics


(such as in the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons) or even acknowledged they ignore real world physics. In "High Diving Hare" (1948), when Yosemite Sam cuts through a high diving board Bugs Bunny is standing on, the ladder and platform that Sam is on falls, leaving the cut plank suspended in mid-air. Bugs turns to the camera and cracks: "I know this defies the law of gravity, but, you see, I never studied law!" More recently,
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Crossover (fiction)


Donald Duck made a simultaneous appearance in one scene, in which the two of them exchanged blows during a piano duet. Later in the movie, Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny were shown parachuting together (to keep things from getting too iffy legally, Mickey and Bugs' lines were written so that each of them said exactly the same number of words in the movie). The film also includes cameos of characters from MGM. The end of the movie features all the cartoons from all of the animation companies joining together in song
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Thomas McKimson


also worked for Dell Comics, providing illustrations for the Bugs Bunny and Road Runner comic books. McKimson also illustrated the Roy Rogers daily comic strip from 1949 to 1953 in collaboration with his brother Charles and artist Pete Alvarado, using the collective pseudonym "Al McKimson." He left Warners in 1947 when Don Smith replaced him as layout artist for Davis' unit. He would become an art director for Dell's parent company Western Publishing, where he remained until his retirement in 1972. McKimson was active in the Masonic fraternity.
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Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers


Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers is a Bugs Bunny short subject directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon and released in 1992. The cartoon was intended for theatrical release but eventually aired as part of the television special "Bugs Bunny's Creature Features". Its premise is modeled after "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", and it is considered subversive, critical of the greed of its production studio Warner Bros., and a lampoon of cheaply-drawn animation. As a flock of unusual-looking carrots fly through space, Bugs Bunny
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Tom Ray


Chuck Jones unit, where he co-directed "Adventures of the Road-Runner" and several "Bugs Bunny Show" episodes. He followed Jones to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1963; there, he directed two Tom and Jerry compilation shorts, "Matinee Mouse" in 1966 and "Shutter Bugged Cat" in 1967. His later credits include animation on "Pink Panther" shorts, Ralph Bakshi’s "Heavy Traffic" and "Coonskin", Chuck Jones TV specials, numerous Filmation and Hanna-Barbera series
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Bugs Bunny


by Dell Comics. Bugs was a recurring star in that book all through its 153-issue run, which lasted until July 1954. Western Publishing (and its Dell imprint) published 245 issues of a Bugs Bunny comic book from Dec. 1952/Jan. 1953 to 1983. The company also published 81 issues of the joint title "Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny" from December 1970 to 1983. During the 1950s Dell also published a number of Bugs Bunny spinoff titles. Creators on those series included Chase Craig, Helen Houghton, Eleanor
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Elmer Fudd


", 1950) has Bugs Bunny relating his life story to a biographer, and recalling a time which was a downturn for the movie business. Elmer Fudd is a well-known entertainer who, looking for a new partner for his act, sees Bugs Bunny (after passing caricatures of many other famous 1940s actors (Al Jolson, Jack Benny, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby) who, like Bugs, are also out of work). Elmer and Bugs do a one-joke act cross-country, with Bugs
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High Diving Hare


High Diving Hare is a 1948-produced Warner Brothers "Looney Tunes" (reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodie in the beginning, with the original Looney Tunes ending title sequence) theatrical cartoon short starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. Released to theaters on April 30, 1949, the short is an expansion of a gag from "Stage Door Cartoon", which was also directed by Friz Freleng. "High Diving Hare" can be seen in the third act of "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie". Bugs Bunny
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Virgil Ross


have to be a good artist. I just had a little natural talent, and it's mostly just timing anyway." Of the very many characters Ross animated, he is most closely associated with Bugs Bunny, but also did a great deal of work involving Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, and many others, including the Rudy Larriva-directed Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote shorts. When handling long-eared characters such as Bugs or Wile E., Ross occasionally tilted or waved an ear in otherwise-static
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The Girl I Left Behind


cliché is at the end of the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "A Wild Hare", in which the bunny marches into the sunset playing the tune on a fife (in reality, a carrot) and affecting a stiff leg as with the fifer in the painting. Bugs later plays it at the end of "Bunker Hill Bunny", accompanied by Yosemite Sam. The title of Eastman Johnson's painting, made shortly after the American Civil War, was drawn from this ballad. In the 1980 movie The Long Riders,
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The Abominable Snow Rabbit


the environment. Bugs comments, "He really "was" a snowman!" and Daffy, soaked in water, replies, "Abominable, that is." "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" is included on the DVD collection "" as well as the VHS collections Looney Tunes After Dark, Bugs Bunny: Big Top Bunny and To Grandmother's House We Go. Most of the footage was also used in the compilation movie, "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters" except for one part when Bugs and Daffy traveled to the
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Gorilla My Dreams


Gorilla My Dreams it is Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical animated short, released in 1948, starring Bugs Bunny. The short was directed by Robert McKimson and written by Warren Foster. The story is a parody of the many jungle movies that were prominent in the 1930s and 1940s which often featured gorillas extensively (though not always behaviorally accurately), most notably the Tarzan movies. The title is a play on the expression "Girl o' My Dreams". This is the ninth Bugs Bunny cartoon in which the title does not
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Jeff Bergman


45-minute session. Bergman credits Blanc with helping him gain his diploma two years later. Jeff Bergman voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy following Paul Frees' death from 1986 to 2013. Bergman's work with Warner Bros. began in 1986, recording voices for "The Bugs Bunny Show". After being rebuffed several times by Warner Bros. directors, he recorded a tape of himself as several of Blanc's characters, including Bugs Bunny. He took the tape to the production company and used a switch to toggle back and forth between his work and
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The Unmentionables


underwear". Bugs takes on the role of crime fighter Elegant Mess (a reference to Eliot Ness). To design this cartoon, director Friz Freleng and his team studied the works of John Held Jr. This was the last Bugs Bunny cartoon that Freleng directed in the original classic era of "Looney Tunes". The cartoon later appeared (combined with two other Rocky and Mugsy cartoons) in "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie" in 1981. The cartoon opens with a pair of eyes looking through a peep door
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Duck Amuck


again with Daffy tormenting Bugs in the "New Looney Tunes" episode "One Carroter in Search of an Artist" (for this reason, this version has garnered the alternative name "Rabbit Rampage II" among series fans) with the technology updated and the pencil and paintbrush replaced by a digital pen, the victim is Bugs Bunny and the animator is Daffy Duck. In issue #94 of the "Looney Tunes" comic, Bugs Bunny gets his back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie
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Bugs Bunny


Crazy Castle" series, "Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout", "Bugs Bunny: Rabbit Rampage", "Bugs Bunny in Double Trouble", "Looney Tunes B-Ball", "Looney Tunes Racing", "", "Bugs Bunny Lost in Time", "Bugs Bunny and Taz Time Busters", "", "", "Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe", "Looney Tunes Dash", and "Looney Tunes World of Mayhem". Bugs Bunny is characterized as being
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Bugs Bunny: Superstar


's letter, which was publicly circulated, refers to "the grossly unfair misrepresentations of BUGS BUNNY SUPER STAR," adding, "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was first released in theaters in late 1975. At the time of the film's release, the rights to the individual cartoons themselves were controlled by United Artists as part of their acquisition of the pre-1950 Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p.) library Warner Bros. films. The former a.a.p. library was later owned by MGM/UA Entertainment Co., and eventually by Turner Entertainment
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales


asks Bugs if he brought some suntan oil for him. As the movie closes, the 1956 "Merrie Melodies" "That's all, Folks!" end title sequence appears with the 1955 "Looney Tunes" rendition of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", before seguing into the movie's closing credits on a red background. Carrie Rickey, reviewer for the "Village Voice", remarked that Bugs and Daffy "used to be burrowers, explorers; now they're traveling salesmen imprisoned by the nuclear
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Hare Brush


Hare Brush is a 1955 Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" animated short, featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. "Hare Brush" pokes fun at Freudian psychoanalysis, psychiatric medication, hypnosis, and the cliches of other Bugs Bunny shorts. Along with "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Rabbit Rampage", it is one of the first three cartoons where Elmer Fudd defeats Bugs Bunny. In the boardroom of the Elmer J. Fudd Corporation, the board of directors meets to discuss a serious threat to the company's
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The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie


him and lands in Hell. Satan offers to give Sam another chance in life provided he sends someone in his place. Sam agrees to this and, as a Roman guard captain, an Arab, and in his usual cowboy guise, attempts to kill Bugs. His attempts are unsuccessful, but when Satan keeps offering him one more chance, Sam refuses, stating Satan should get the rabbit himself and decides to stay. Bugs Bunny explains about cops and robbers, as well as gangster films. In Act 2, there are
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Derek Griffiths


sang and played the theme tune to the cartoon "Bod". Another children's TV role was in Granada Television's early 1980s series "Film Fun", in which he played the entire staff of a cinema (the manager, the commissionaire (with the catchphrase "Get on with it!!"), the projectionist, the usherette and also himself) while also showing cartoons such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. He appeared on "Crown Court" (1973) as
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Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage


Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage is an action video game developed by Viacom New Media (a then-sister company to Nickelodeon, who had broadcast "Looney Tunes" cartoons at the time of the game's release) and published by Sunsoft released exclusively for the SNES in 1993 and 1994. The player controls Bugs Bunny as he fights traditional Looney Tunes villains in order to confront the main villain of the story, animator Daffy Duck. The game's title is derived from the 1955 animated short "Rabbit Rampage", which follows a
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Bugs Bunny's Easter Special


Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (also known as "The Bugs Bunny Easter Special" and "Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies") is a "Looney Tunes" television special featuring a number of Warner Bros. cartoons. It originally debuted on the CBS network on Thursday, April 7, 1977. The Easter bunny is ill, Granny needs to find a replacement for him and suggests Bugs Bunny. When she reaches the Warner Bros. lot, she finds to her disappointment that Bugs is tied up in filming "Knighty Knight Bugs"
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Guided Muscle


Guided Muscle is a 1955 Warner Bros. cartoon in the "Looney Tunes" series featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Along with "The Grey Hounded Hare" and "Tugboat Granny", "Guided Muscle" was one of the three cartoons on the final episode of ABC's "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show", on September 2, 2000. In fact, it was the last cartoon seen in that episode. "Introduction": Wile E. Coyote is cooking some food in a tin bucket over a
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G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)


. The scene with Homer being chased by the mini helicopter parodies the style seen in many Looney Tunes cartoons. The scene makes a nod to "Bugs Bunny", "the Road Runner" and "Tom and Jerry". The scene ends with a computer monitor showing the "That's All Folks!" end title card, with the early closing of The Three Stooges shorts from the 1930s. The episode also contains the melody of "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye". The song that the U.S. Army plays on
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Bugs Bunny


Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc. Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Though a similar character called Happy Rabbit debuted in the WB cartoon "Porky's Hare Hunt" (1938) and appeared in a few subsequent shorts, the definitive character of Bugs is widely credited to have made his
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Bugs Bunny


"). A couple of late-1950s/early-1960s cartoons of this ilk also featured Daffy Duck travelling with Bugs ("Hey, wait a minute! Since when is Pismo Beach inside a cave?"). The following are the various vocal artists who have voiced Bugs Bunny over the last 75-plus years for Warner Bros.' animated productions: Mel Blanc voiced the character for almost 50 years, from Bugs' debut in the 1940 short "A Wild Hare" until Blanc's death in 1989. Blanc described the voice as a
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Martha Sigall


creation of such characters as Bugs Bunny, Tweety and Road Runner. Sigall has also contributed commentary to the "Looney Tunes - Golden Collection, Volume One" DVD set, along with Jerry Beck. She was part of several documentaries. One, made by Teleductions, called "Cartoons Go to War." Another was "Extremes and Inbetweens: A Tribute to Chuck Jones." In 2004, Sigall received the June Foray Award from ASIFA-Hollywood for her lifetime of work in the animation field. In 2010, Sigall
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Maurice Noble


the Road Runner cartoons their characteristic spaciousness. The cartoons Noble designed at Warners include "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), a Bugs Bunny parody of Wagner's Ring Cycle that has been inducted into the National Film Registry. Noble's futuristic settings enhance "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" (1953). Other cartoons included the Academy Award nominees "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z" (1954), "High Note" (1960), "Beep Prepared" (1961
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Manuel Perez (animator)


" (1941). Among the cartoons he animated were those featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweetie and Sylvester, Quick Draw McGraw, the "Pink Panther", Charlie Brown specials they are two of them like "A Charlie Brown Christmas" and "He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown"., Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Doctor Dolittle, The Cat in the Hat, Fritz the Cat and Plastic Man, among many others. A member of the labor union The Screen Cartoonists
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Six Flags America


of the 1930s and 1940s, and the aesthetic of the era. It allows guests the chance to visit the homes of the stars of the cartoons such as Bugs Bunny and Granny. The "town" features the Great Chase a children's coaster which takes guests through the set of the next Looney Tunes cartoon being filmed, starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Formerly South West Territory, Mardi Gras is supposed to be an all year New Orleans Mardi Gras celebration. Added to the park in 2014, the new
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Superman & Bugs Bunny


Gonzales and later the Road Runner (the latter being pursued by Wile E. Coyote), Plastic Man disguises himself as a cat to spy on a cat-loving gangster only to be romanced by Pepé Le Pew before encountering Sylvester and Tweety, Aquaman is nearly blown out of the water by Yosemite Sam's pirate ship and Batman, on the trail of the Penguin, instead finds Playboy Penguin. The Looney Tunes do not find this unusual, but the fact that they only appear briefly and then vanish means that the superheroes are
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Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch


Bugs Bunny & Lola Bunny: Operation Carrot Patch, known in North America as Looney Tunes: Carrot Crazy, is a 1998 Game Boy Color video game starring Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny. Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, The Tasmanian Devil, Marvin the Martian and Elmer Fudd have stolen Bugs and Lola's carrots and hid them in different sets in the nearby studio. Bugs and Lola head through five different "sets" in order to reclaim them. In the game, Bugs and Lola (the player can switch between them
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Herb Sheldon


Sheldon's appearances on "Wonderama", "The Bugs Bunny Theater" (during his tenure the title was changed to "Bugs Bunny Presents"), "The Looney Tunes Show" and "Speaking Of Animals"). He also hosted a teens rock and roll dance and music program "Studio Party" and a late night old movie show "Rickey Tickey Playhouse". He again had problems with management for working for other stations, and for working as an MC for nightclub acts. Sheldon was ousted by WABD
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Mel Blanc


Golden Age-era Warner Bros. cartoons, such as "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie", "", "Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island", and "Daffy Duck's Quackbusters". His final performance of his "Looney Tunes" roles was in "Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports" (1989). After spending most of two seasons voicing the diminutive robot Twiki in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", Blanc's last original character was Heathcliff from 1980 to 1988. In the live
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Honey Bunny


rabbit with Honey Bunny's yellow character design (who is unnamed in the cartoon but credited as Honey Bunny) makes a cameo appearance in the closing scene of the "Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet" (1978) animated television special. She also appeared in the 1989 video game "The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle" and the 1991 video game "The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2", as well as a 1990 pinball game, "Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball". The most recent mention of Honey was in the book
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Warner Bros.


Walt Disney Productions. He sold off the unit's pre-August 1948 library for $3,000 each, which proved a shortsighted transaction in light of its eventual value. Warner Bros. Cartoons continued, with intermittent interruptions, until 1969 when it was dissolved as the parent company ceased film shorts entirely. Characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, and Porky Pig became central to the company's image in subsequent decades. Bugs in particular remains a mascot to Warner Bros., its various divisions and Six Flags
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Ralph Wright


premise into Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Sylvester and Tweety, and Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck cartoons. This highly reusable format proved to be wildly successful. In fact, full credit was attributed by Frank Tashlin interviewed by Michael Barrier in 2004: "That all came from a marvelous fellow who came from Tillamook, Oregon, a fellow by the name of Ralph Wright. He came down, and his pants were twelve inches too short for him, and he wore suspenders—he was out of the hills.
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Six Flags Magic Mountain


Road Runner Express.) Also that year, there was re-theming and High Sierra Territory was opened. The Showcase Theatre became Golden Bear Theater, the Animal Star Theatre was created in Bugs Bunny World, and a large, fake, wooden tree was built. This year also saw the end of live non-Christian themed concerts in the park due to the riot that broke out as a result of a "TLC" concert that was oversold. Magic Mountain was quickly overwhelmed by large crowds that vandalized and destroyed property
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