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The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
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This anthology series, packaging the classic Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, aired on ABC and CBS (bouncing back and forth between the two) under various titles for forty years (1960–2000), thereby making it the longest-running American animated program of any capacity to date. If the current rights-holders for these cartoons allowed it (they don't), then they likely would still have been on network TV well into the 2000s.Beginning during the era of local kids' shows, this series was an all-animated variant on the format, combining the classic theatrical shorts with newly-produced bridging material. Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck introduced the shorts, all of which were in color and originally released after August 1948,note The TV rights to the black-and-white cartoons (except for the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies) were sold off to Guild Films in 1955; the copyrights were actually transferred to Warners' advertisement production subsidiary, Sunset Productions. After Guild went bankrupt in 1961, the rights were sold to Seven Arts, which Warner Bros. merged with in 1967. Meanwhile the copyrights to the pre-August 1948 color cartoons and Harman–Ising Merrie Melodies were outright sold to syndicator Associated Artists Productions in 1956 (they also bought almost the entire pre-1950 WB features library!). a.a.p. eventually landed in the hands of United Artists, which merged with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1981. Turner Broadcasting acquired the shorts (and WB features) along with the pre-1986 MGM library when they acquired MGM/UA for 74 days in 1986 before selling it back. With the 1996 acquisition of Turner by WB parent Time Warner, the entire filmography was reunited, but the pre-1948 cartoons were still never included in The Bugs Bunny Show. while various animated antics happened in between. The basic format didn't change much.Originally airing in prime time before moving to Saturday mornings, the show was generally an hour in length (though some incarnations were only 30 minutes, while others ran as long as 90 minutes), and Looney Tunes shorts were slightly shorter than the standard Saturday-Morning Cartoon shorts, so you could see a lot of cartoons in that hour. Many of these cartoons were either originally aimed above the average age of the audience of the show, but there was something for everyone. | |
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Noisy Shut-Up | |
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Noisy Shut-Up: In one show, Daffy interrupts Bugs' monologue by putting on a song-and-dance act, prompting Bugs to pull out a megaphone and shout "DAFFY!!" to get him to stop. In "The Honeymousers", Bugs invites the viewer into his dressing room to watch his favorite sitcom. At one point, he gives "you" carrots to eat, but he can't hear himself talking over the loud chewing, so he shouts "QUIET!" and swaps out the carrots for marshmallows. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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The Friends Who Never Hang | |
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The Friends Who Never Hang: A few of the wraparounds were utilized to pair up Looney Tunes regulars who seldom if ever interacted. One case had Yosemite Sam fighting for the spotlight against an oblivious Pepé Le Pew. | |
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Animated Actors: Everyone. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: ABC tended to ensure that The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show always featured at least one cartoon each starring Bugs Bunny and Tweety, but for the half-hour length episodes of the final 1999-2000 season, that was no longer a constant guarantee. Six of the final 14 episodes only featured cartoons starring one of the two title characters, and the February 5, 2000, episode featured neither. One of the Teletoon episodes features nothing but Bugs Bunny cartoons. | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: Only really a presence in the ABC years. "Broom-Stick Bunny", "Corn On The Cop", and "Devil's Feud Cake" were commonly run in late October, among other supernaturally tinged shorts, though ABC didn't stick solely to this range for said episodes. Like with "Sandy Claws" at Christmas, you could occasionally see "Trick or Tweet" on Halloween episodes, despite the title just being a non-seasonal pun. | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Although the show had Evolving Credits visually, the original 1960 audio of "This Is It" was never updated or re-recorded, and it continued to be heard even after Mel Blanc's death in 1989. (In the last years of the show, the theme was extended with a new beginning and ending.) | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall/2-for-1 Show: The bridge sections. This show as a whole is for our benefit. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: In the earliest episodes, Daffy's vocals stood out more during the final line of "This Is It". | |
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Legion of Lost Souls | |
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Legion of Lost Souls: The episode "Foreign Legion Leghorn" had Foghorn Leghorn in the Legion, with older cartoons serving as flashbacks showing what drove him to join. | |
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Overcrank | |
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Overcrank: The episode "Bad-Time Story" features Bugs demonstrating how a cartoon character zips out of a scene by doing one in super slow-motion. | |
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Episode Title Card | |
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Episode Title Card: The first season of The Bugs Bunny Show didn't have individual titles, but the second season had titles with cards at the beginning. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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Christmas Episode: Largely averted, as the only overtly Christmas-themed Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short that they could run from after 1948 was the 1952 Sylvester & Tweety cartoon "Gift Wrapped". Even after recycling the three new shorts from the 1979 TV special Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales in the 1980s and 1990s, that still left two or three openings, which typically didn't even go to winter-set cartoons. The Sylvester & Tweety short "Sandy Claws" was aired in a couple of Christmas episodes, even though its title was just a pun reflecting its beach setting. Canadian broadcast network Global aired a special Christmas-themed episode of The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show annually in the mid-late 1990s, as part of their annual Global Christmas Special marathon of holiday cartoon specials in late November. This included "Gift Wrapped", all three shorts from Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales, and three winter-set cartoons ("The Abominable Snow-Rabbit", "Riff-Raffy Daffy", and "Two Scents Worth"). | |
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Comedic Spanking | |
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Comedic Spanking: At the end of "Tale of Two Kitties", Sylvester drags his son offstage to give him a spanking for muting out his stories about fatherhood so he can tell the audience their embarrassing truths. After a short break, Junior walks onstage with a pillow tied over his sore rear. | |
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song | |
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Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The German version, Mein Name ist Hase, used this theme. | |
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Hit Flash | |
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Hit Flash: In the outro for The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, this happens when the car Bugs is driving through the desert collides with the boulder the Coyote is holding during his flight. | |
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On the Next | |
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On the Next: The Bugs Bunny Show featured a montage of short clips from the cartoons featured on next week's show. | |
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Thanksgiving Episode | |
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Thanksgiving Episode: Averted. There were never many Thanksgiving shorts to pick from even if you included pre-1948 cartoons, and even 1949's Holiday for Drumsticks tended to air outside of November. | |
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High-Pressure Emotion | |
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High-Pressure Emotion: One episode of The Bugs Bunny Show has Porky Pig do this when driven up the wall by Charlie Dog (as part of a reprise of their "Labrador Retriever" exchange from the short "Often an Orphan"). | |
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Midseason Replacement | |
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The Daffy Duck Show (Kids' WB!). A Saturday morning version of the weekday afternoon block Bugs 'n Daffy that aired in 1997 as a Mid Season Replacement for Freakazoid!, it featured two Daffy shorts, one short starring another character, and a "Hip Clip" excerpt from another short. Like its weekday counterpart at the time, it was able to use pre-1948 shorts as their distribution rights had come back into Warner Bros.' possession following the merger with Turner the year before. Only 13 episodes were aired, as its purpose was to fill the schedule while acting as a promotion for Space Jam until the 1997-98 TV season began. | |
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Bullet Dodges You | |
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Bullet Dodges You: In one episode, Yosemite Sam tries to shoot at Pepé Le Pew, but the bullets get repulsed by his stench and scurried right back into Sam's pistols. | |
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By the Lights of Their Eyes | |
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By the Lights of Their Eyes: In "Do or Diet", Bugs has the stage lights turned off to show how carrots are good for your eyes. The result is Bugs' eyes appearing in the dark, only for the eyes of the Tasmanian Devil to join his. | |
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Theme Tune Roll Call | |
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Theme Tune Roll Call: "Cartoon Gold" from the final season on CBS (1984-5) lists off several characters, each delivering their respective Catchphrase (save for Porky Pig and Yosemite Sam, the latter of whom never really had a catchphrase); all characters except Elmer, Speedy, and Sam use footage from the opening of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie: | |
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Hostile Show Takeover | |
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Hostile Show Takeover: One episode of The Bugs Bunny Show has Daffy do this. Another had Rocky and Mugsy take over. Another episode had an unintentional example when Pepe Le Pew becomes the guest host after Bugs and the intended emcee, Yosemite Sam, get driven away by his stench. | |
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Limited Animation | |
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Limited Animation: Much of the animation made for the compilations, especially for the original 1960s incarnations, was like this due to the move to television. The title sequences for the various shows would be animated in a similarly stiff fashion until the 1992 revamp gave them a much-needed Animation Bump. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: "This Is It" is performed by Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc) and Daffy Duck (Mel Blanc) as a two-part harmony. | |
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Wraparound Background | |
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Wrap Around Background: There is no backstage. | |
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