Line #1 Trivia/BugsBunny


1	* BannedInChina: "Bewitched Bunny" was banned by the National Film Board of Canada when it was released in 1954, for Bugs' line of "Ah sure, I know. But aren't they all witches inside?" when Hazel is turned into a female rabbit, but retains Hazel's laugh. The ban was rescinded three days later.
2	* BeamMeUpScotty: The word "Nimrod" becoming an insult is often credited to Bugs calling Elmer Fudd by that name, in an ironic parallel to Nimrod, a great hunter mentioned briefly in [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Genesis]], with the thought that kids, perhaps not knowing that obscure Biblical figure, thought it was a novel way of saying "moron", and started using it. But the cartoon where Elmer was called "Nimrod" was "WesternAnimation/WhatMakesDaffyDuck" in 1948, by Daffy himself. Bugs ''did'' use the term later, calling Yosemite Sam a "little Nimrod" in 1951's "Rabbit Every Monday".
3	* BlackSheepHit: ''WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs'', the only Bugs short to win an Oscar, is generally regarded as a solid Bugs entry but not really anything special.
4	* CreatorBacklash: Some directors such as Creator/FrizFreleng hated working on the Bugs vs Elmer series, claiming Elmer was so meek and minimal a threat it was difficult not to devolve Bugs' character more into that of an unheroic bully. Other more imposing antagonists such as Yosemite Sam and Marvin the Martian were created specifically to rectify this, though Sam would become just as ineffective as Elmer, if still [[AssholeVictim more belligerent]].
5	** Creator/RobertMcKimson complained this strategy itself started to backfire, with Jones and Freleng so insistent on making Bugs look heroic and affable he became a FlatCharacter by the end of TheFifties. Freleng himself started to notice this as well, joking in an interview that they figured Bugs was "getting old" and no longer mischievous.
6	* CreatorsFavorite: Creator/MelBlanc always said that Bugs was his favorite character to voice, to the point that he considered the rabbit something of an alter ego, incorporating him into his personal life. He had a hot tub with a tile mosaic of Bugs' face at the bottom, used "Bugs Bunny" as his CB radio handle, and credited Bugs with saving his life after he was briefly in a coma following a 1961 car accident.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Depending on who you want to believe, Blanc either saw Bugs on TV after waking up and surprised the doctor by saying "What's up, Doc?", or the doctor got Blanc to speak for the first time after waking up by addressing him as Bugs.[[/labelnote]]
7	* CrossDressingVoices: In the Japanese dub of ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow The Bugs Bunny Show]], Bugs was voiced by Kazue Takahashi.
8	* LifeImitatesArt: Sort of. After Bugs appeared as a U.S. Marine in "Super-Rabbit", [[SemperFi the real Marines]] made him one. He was officially inducted into the force as a private, complete with dogtags. The character was regularly promoted until Bugs was officially "discharged" at the end of World War II as a Master Sergeant.
9	* MorePopularReplacement: Since the original ending to 1939’s ''Hare-Um Scare-Um'' (which had ''never even been theatrically released'') has been found and released on the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2'', this restored cut has effectively replaced the original on television, being the version that airs on [=MeTV=]’s ''Toon in with Me'' and ''Bugs Bunny and Friends''.
10	* TheOtherDarrin:
11	** While Creator/MelBlanc was alive, there were a handful of cases (mainly children's albums, TV promos and redub work) where various voice actors took on the role of the iconic rabbit for an officially licensed product, presumably because of availability (or affordability) issues with Blanc.
12	** After Blanc died in 1989, a variety of others have voiced Bugs, especially Creator/JeffBergman (who was Blanc's first official replacement, and took over permanently in 2011), but also Creator/JoeAlaskey, Creator/GregBurson, Creator/BillyWest (most famously in ''Film/SpaceJam''), Creator/EricBauza and, on a couple of smaller non-animated projects, Blanc's son Noel.
13	* TheRedStapler: Inverted. According to [[https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/the-rabbit-outbreak an article in The New Yorker]], Bugs' popularity has resulted in a ''decline'' of rabbit meat as an American food staple.
14	* ReferencedBy: Shares [[ReferencedBy/LooneyTunes a page]] with the ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' franchise.
15	* TimeMarchesOn: ''WesternAnimation/EightBallBunny'': Animal welfare laws and zoological care standards established since the 1960s have basically spoiled the cartoon’s TwistEnding for modern audiences, who would sooner expect a top hat-wearing showbiz penguin like Playboy to have been born in captivity anyways (putting aside his previous appearance in ''WesternAnimation/FrigidHare'', where he ''actually was'' a wild animal).
16	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/TexAvery originally wanted to call him Jack E. Rabbit.
17	* WriteWhatYouKnow: "What's Up, Doc?" was a very popular [[SmallReferencePools Texan colloquialism]] that [[Creator/TexAvery Fred "Tex" Avery]], nicknamed for the state in which he grew up, often heard when he was in college.

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