History YMMV / BugsBunny

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Cecil Turtle can bring divisive opinions. Some believe his victories over Bugs were unearned, others believe giving Bugs ATasteOfDefeat helped make him avoid InvincibleHero status and thus retain the audience's interest.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Bugs' "What's up, doc?" was meant as CasualDangerDialogue as he was being hunted. Now that it's simply a common American saying, it's hardly seen as anything special.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: Robert [=McKimson's=] shorts from the late 1950s are seen as this for Bugs' classic run, due to generally suffering from mediocre animation, unoriginal stories and uninspired gags. [=McKimson=] by his own admission had a difficult time working with Chuck Jones' revised characterization of Bugs and considered him too suave and reserved to utilize properly. It also didn't help that after the cartoon studio's brief shutdown in 1953 (a victim of Jack Warner's demand that the studio pivot to 3D that was rapidly abandoned when the gimmick turned out to be a dud), unlike Jones and Freling, [=McKimson=] didn't get his entire old unit back (in fact, his first shorts after the reopening he had to do the entire animation himself). "Pre-Hysterical Hare" in particular is widely considered to be Bugs' worst cartoon, due to suffering all the aforementioned problems, plus a bland stock music score and Dave Barry's ''terrible'' voicing of Elmer Fudd. Fortunately, [=McKimson's=] shorts would improve in the early 1960s, after his long-time story artist Tedd Pierce left the studio, and John W. Dunn became story artist for all three units.

* ValuesResonance: In "Southern Fried Rabbit", Yosemite Sam is a prideful Confederate soldier convinced the Civil War had never ended. Bugs tells him it ended [[DatedHistory "almost 90 years ago"]] and that he should move on. Sam's attitudes aren't too far off from Confederate enthusiasts' today, and the short very much puts him in the wrong for his beliefs. Despite some racial stereotyping – for instance, Bugs in a ([[PaperThinDisguise very obvious]]) blackface disguise to goad Sam into "whipping slaves" – the gags set up the idea of Confederate sympathizers as looking foolish for their beliefs.

* AudienceAlienatingEra: Robert [=McKimson's=] shorts from the late 1950s are seen as this for Bugs' classic run, due to generally suffering from mediocre animation, unoriginal stories and uninspired gags. Mckimson by his own admission had a difficult time working with Chuck Jones' revised characterisation of Bugs and considered him too suave and reserved to utilise properly. "Pre-Hysterical Hare" in particular is widely considered to be Bugs' worst cartoon, due to suffering all the aforementioned problems, plus a bland stock music score and Dave Barry's ''terrible'' voicing of Elmer Fudd. Fortunately, [=McKimson's=] shorts would improve in the early 1960s, after his long-time story artist Tedd Pierce left the studio, and John W. Dunn became story artist for all three units.

** Also we have Bugs to thank for "Nimrod" becoming an insult. In one of the earliest Bugs cartoons, he's squaring off against Elmer Fudd, and at one point remarks "poor little Nimrod". The original intent was to draw an ironic parallel to Nimrod, a great hunter mentioned briefly in [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Genesis]], but many kids, perhaps not knowing that obscure Biblical figure, thought it was a novel way of saying "moron", and the meaning stuck. [[note]]This new meaning even seems to have bled into later cartoons, as Bugs would use "Nimrod" to insult characters who ''weren't'' hunters.[[/note]]