Trivia / The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show

• Adored by the Network: If Disney didn't buy ABC and Time Warner didn't pressure ABC to cancel the show, it would've ran well into the 2000s.
  • Teletoon in Canada really liked the show, airing it well into the 2010s (by that point they were mostly gone from U.S. television) It even got print ads for its airings on the French version of the channel in Montreal bus shelters, something that never happened for any other show on the channel in all of its history.
• Banned Episode: "Wideo Wabbit" only aired once on The Bugs Bunny Show due to the complaints over the "You Beat Your Wife" sequence (a spoof of You Bet Your Life in which Bugs, disguised as Groucho Marx, gets Elmer Fudd stuck in a no-win situation by asking him if he's going to stop beating his wife — which he can't say yes or no to without looking bad), which was surprisingly left uncut considering every other channel that the short aired on edited it in some way and how severely ABC edited the show.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: WB hacked up the negatives of The Bugs Bunny Show for subsequent incarnations of the show, meaning that the whole episodes in color are Missing Episodes. The Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs reconstructed the bridging segments of a few episodes using surviving color footage (usually sourced from The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour) and black-and-white broadcast prints.
• Long-Runners: The show, under its various incarnations, lasted 40 years, making it the longest-running American animated program of any kind to date. Of these, The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show lasted the longest, with 14 years, and would probably have remained on the air well into the 2000s if ABC didn't lose the rights to Cartoon Network.
• No Export for You: The only version of the show to be exported outside of the Americas were the first two seasons (those produced between 1960 and 1962), which were oddly enough plastered with the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts logo in place of the original WB shield; Mel Blanc even re-recorded the line Bugs Bunny says when the shield opens up to "This folks is a Warner Bros.–Seven Arts Television presentation" instead of "This folks is a Warner Bros. Television production" as seen on all versions of the show's intro that used "This is It" in the US and Canada.
  • Averted when The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show existed. Well, in some countries.
  • In Germany, unique musical numbers and new show titles happened because the licensor working for Warner Bros. wanted something unique because of the popularity of Bugs Bunny.
• Screwed by the Network: Of course, it didn't help that ABC had at that point been bought by WB's greatest rival, and was somewhat awkwardly squeezed in between Disney's One Saturday Morning stuff; not only that, but it was frequently preempted in favor of The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and afternoon sports, and many affiliates dropped it altogether.
• Un-Canceled: A variant. After Warner Bros. began producing new Looney Tunes TV specials and theatrical productions in the late 1970s, newly produced 7 minute Looney Tunes shorts became available for the Saturday morning series to add to their rotation, rather than only rerunning the old stand-bys in a new order. CBS only opted to run 5 of them ^note "Freeze Frame", "Spaced-Out Bunny", "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century", "Daffy Flies North", and "Soup or Sonic" while ABC went with 8 from the revived series. ^note "Freeze Frame", "Spaced-Out Bunny", "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century", "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol", "The Fright Before Christmas", "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny", "The Duxorcist", and the only included cartoon made after Mel Blanc's death, "Box Office Bunny".
  • Canada had a pseudo-revival of The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show in 2002 via the cable network Teletoon. 26 newly re-arranged one hour episodes of the series aired then, as constructed from 1989-1992 episodes, complete with the old and new graphics from that time period to introduce each cartoon. However, no brand new content aired during this period.
  • MeTV started airing The Bugs Bunny Show in 2021 as part of their three hour block of vintage theatrical Saturday morning cartoons. While it features bumpers reflective of the station, a CBS-era "This Is It" introduction with the pink backdrop begins each episode. Unlike on CBS & ABC, MeTV runs cartoons before August 1948, and more of the revival/made-for-television shorts from the 1970s onward. Also, censorship isn't as strict.

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