42 Facts About Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros.

Bugs Bunny is an anthropomorphic gray and white rabbit or hare who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality.

Bugs Bunny starred in more than 160 cartoon shorts produced between 1940 and 1964.

Bugs Bunny has since appeared in feature films, compilation films, TV series, music records, comics, video games, award shows, amusement park rides, and commercials.

Bugs Bunny has 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.

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Bugs Bunny retained the guttural laugh but was otherwise silent.

Bugs Bunny had written "Bug's Bunny" on the model sheet that he drew for Hardaway.

Bugs Bunny had an exaggerated long neck, gloved hands with three fingers, oversized feet, and a "smart aleck" grin.

Bugs Bunny had an obvious Disney influence, but looked like an awkward merger of the lean and streamlined Max Hare from The Tortoise and the Hare and the round, soft bunnies from Little Hiawatha .

Bugs Bunny had a more elongated body, stood more erect, and looked more poised.

Immediately following on A Wild Hare, Bob Clampett's Patient Porky features a cameo appearance by Bugs Bunny, announcing to the audience that 750 rabbits have been born.

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid shows a slight redesign of Bugs, with less-prominent front teeth and a rounder head.

Bugs Bunny used this version until 1949 when he started using the version he had designed for Clampett.

Bugs Bunny did not star in a Looney Tunes film until that series made its complete conversion to only color cartoons beginning in 1944.

Buckaroo Bugs Bunny was Bugs Bunny' first film in the Looney Tunes series and was the last Warner Bros.

Bugs Bunny' popularity soared during World War II because of his free and easy attitude, and he began receiving special star billing in his cartoons by 1943.

From 1943 to 1946, Bugs Bunny was the official mascot of Kingman Army Airfield, Kingman, Arizona, where thousands of aerial gunners were trained during World War II.

In 1944, Bugs Bunny made a cameo appearance in Jasper Goes Hunting, a Puppetoons film produced by rival studio Paramount Pictures.

Bugs Bunny made a cameo in the Private Snafu short Gas, in which he is found stowed away in the titular private's belongings; his only spoken line is his usual catchphrase.

Bugs Bunny starred in over 167 theatrical short films, most of which were directed by Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, and Chuck Jones.

The Bugs Bunny Show changed format and exact title frequently but remained on network television for 40 years.

Bugs Bunny did not appear in any of the post-1964 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies films produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises or Seven Arts Productions, nor did he appear in Filmation's Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies.

Bugs Bunny did have two cameo appearances in the 1974 Joe Adamson short A Political Cartoon; one at the beginning of the short, and another in which he is interviewed at a pet store.

Bugs Bunny did not appear in new material on-screen again until Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals aired in 1976.

Bugs Bunny later appeared in another animated production featuring numerous characters from rival studios: the 1990 drug prevention TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue.

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In 1997, Bugs appeared on a U S postage stamp, the first cartoon to be so honored, beating the iconic Mickey Mouse.

Younger version of Bugs Bunny is the main character of Baby Looney Tunes, which debuted on Kids' WB in 2001.

In 2015, Bugs Bunny starred in the direct-to-video film Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, and later returned to television yet again as the star of Cartoon Network and Boomerang's comedy series New Looney Tunes .

In 2020, Bugs Bunny began appearing on the HBO Max streaming series Looney Tunes Cartoons.

Bugs Bunny's personality is a combination of Freleng's trickery, Clampett's defiance, and Jones' resilience, while maintaining his confident, insolent, smooth-talking demeanor.

Bugs Bunny is voiced by Eric Bauza, who is the current voice of Daffy Duck and Tweety, among others.

Bugs Bunny made his return to movie theaters in the 2021 Space Jam sequel Space Jam: A New Legacy, this time starring NBA superstar LeBron James.

Bugs Bunny is characterized as being clever and capable of outsmarting almost anyone who antagonizes him, including Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Tasmanian Devil, Marvin the Martian, Wile E Coyote, Gossamer, Witch Hazel, Rocky and Mugsy, The Crusher, Beaky Buzzard, Willoughby, Count Bloodcount, Daffy Duck and a host of others.

The only one to consistently beat Bugs Bunny is Cecil Turtle, who defeats Bugs Bunny in three consecutive shorts based on the premise of the Aesop fable The Tortoise and the Hare.

Concerned that viewers would lose sympathy for an aggressive protagonist who always won, Jones arranged for Bugs Bunny to be bullied, cheated, or threatened by the antagonists while minding his own business, justifying his subsequent antics as retaliation or self-defense.

Bugs Bunny paid homage to Groucho in other ways, such as occasionally adopting his stooped walk or leering eyebrow-raising or sometimes with a direct impersonation .

When Bugs Bunny meets other successful characters, his overconfidence becomes a disadvantage and sometimes even leads to his undoing.

Bugs Bunny was continuously featured in comic books for more than 40 years, from 1941 to 1983, and has appeared sporadically since then.

Bugs Bunny was a recurring star in that book all through its 153-issue run, which lasted until July 1954.

Bugs Bunny published 81 issues of the joint title Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny from December 1970 to 1983.

Bugs Bunny has been a pitchman for companies including Kool-Aid and Nike.

Bugs Bunny not only is a great cartoon character, he's a great comedian.