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Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros. Cartoons) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc.[2] Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films, produced by Warner Bros. Due to his popularity during the golden age of American animation, he became an American cultural icon and the official mascot of Warner Bros. Entertainment.[3]Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray hare or rabbit who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality. He is also characterized by a Brooklyn accent, his portrayal as a trickster, and his catch phrase "Eh.. What's up, doc?". Though a similar rabbit character began appearing in the Warner Bros.

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Bugs Bunny is widely credited to have made his debut in director Tex Avery's Oscar- nominated film A Wild Hare (1. Since his debut, Bugs has appeared in various short films, feature films, compilations, TV series, music records, comic books, video games, award shows, amusement park rides, and commercials. He has also appeared in more films than any other cartoon character,[4] is the ninth most- portrayed film personality in the world,[4] and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[5]Animation history[edit]Development[edit].

A depiction of Bugs' evolution throughout the years. According to Chase Craig, who later wrote and drew the first Bugs Bunny comic Sunday pages and the first Bugs comic book, "Bugs was not the creation of any one man; however, he rather represented the creative talents of perhaps five or six directors and many cartoon writers. In those days, the stories were often the work of a group who suggested various gags, bounced them around and finalized them in a joint story conference."[6] A rabbit with some of the personality of Bugs, though looking very different, was originally featured in the film Porky's Hare Hunt, released on April 3. It was co- directed by Ben "Bugs" Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton (who was responsible for the initial design of the rabbit). This cartoon has an almost identical plot to Avery's Porky's Duck Hunt (1.

Daffy Duck. Porky Pig is again cast as a hunter tracking a silly prey who is more interested in driving his pursuer insane and less interested in escaping. Hare Hunt replaces the little black duck with a small white rabbit. The rabbit introduces himself with the odd expression "Jiggers, fellers," and Mel Blanc gave the character a voice and laugh much like those he would later use for Woody Woodpecker. Hare Hunt also gives its rabbit the famous Groucho Marx line, "Of course you realize, this means war!" The rabbit character was popular enough with audiences that the Termite Terrace staff decided to use it again.[7][8] According to Friz Freleng, Hardaway and Dalton had decided to dress the duck in a rabbit suit.[9] The white rabbit had an oval head and a shapeless body.

In characterization, he was "a rural buffoon". He was loud, zany with a goofy, guttural laugh. Blanc provided him with a hayseed voice.[1.

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The rabbit comes back in Prest- O Change- O (1. Chuck Jones, where he is the pet rabbit of unseen character Sham- Fu the Magician. Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master's house.

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The rabbit harasses them but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs. This version of the rabbit was cool, graceful, and controlled. He retained the guttural laugh but was otherwise silent.[1. The rabbit's third appearance comes in Hare- um Scare- um (1.

Dalton and Hardaway. This cartoon—the first in which he is depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one—is also notable as the rabbit's first singing role. Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the film, gave the character a name. He had written "Bugs' Bunny" on the model sheet that he drew for Hardaway.[8][1. In promotional material for the cartoon, including a surviving 1. Bugs" Bunny (quotation marks only used, on and off, until 1.

In his autobiography, Blanc claimed that another proposed name for the character was "Happy Rabbit."[1. In the actual cartoons and publicity, however, the name "Happy" only seems to have been used in reference to Bugs Hardaway.

In Hare- um Scare- um, a newspaper headline reads, "Happy Hardaway."[1. Thorson had been approached by Tedd Pierce, head of the story department, and asked to design a better rabbit. The decision was influenced by Thorson's experience in designing hares. He had designed Max Hare in Toby Tortoise Returns (Disney, 1. For Hardaway, Thorson created the model sheet previously mentioned, with six different rabbit poses. Thorson's model sheet is "a comic rendition of the stereotypical fuzzy bunny".

He had a pear- shaped body with a protruding rear end. His face was flat and had large expressive eyes. He had an exaggerated long neck, gloved hands with three fingers, oversized feet, and a "smart aleck" grin. The end result was influenced by Walt Disney Animation Studios' tendency to draw animals in the style of cute infants.[9] He had an obvious Disney influence, but looked like an awkward merger of the lean and streamlined Max Hare from The Tortoise and the Hare (1. Little Hiawatha (1. In Jones' Elmer's Candid Camera (1.

Elmer Fudd. This time the rabbit looks more like the present- day Bugs, taller and with a similar face—but retaining the more primitive voice. Watch The Perfect Man Online Freeform. Candid Camera's Elmer character design is also different: taller and chubbier in the face than the modern model, though Arthur Q. Bryan's character voice is already established.

Official debut[edit]While Porky's Hare Hunt was the first Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny- like rabbit, A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on July 2.

Bugs Bunny cartoon.[1][1. It is the first film where both Elmer Fudd and Bugs, both redesigned by Bob Givens, are shown in their fully developed forms as hunter and tormentor, respectively; the first in which Mel Blanc uses what would become Bugs' standard voice; and the first in which Bugs uses his catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?"[1. A Wild Hare was a huge success in theaters and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cartoon Short Subject.[1.

For the film, Avery asked Givens to remodel the rabbit. The result had a closer resemblance to Max Hare. He had a more elongated body, stood more erect, and looked more poised. If Thorson's rabbit looked like an infant, Givens' version looked like an adolescent.[9] Blanc gave Bugs the voice of a city slicker. The rabbit was as audacious as he had been in Hare- um Scare- um and as cool and collected as in Prest- O Change- O.[1. Immediately following on A Wild Hare, Bob Clampett's Patient Porky (1. Bugs, announcing to the audience that 7.

The gag uses Bugs' Wild Hare visual design, but his goofier pre- Wild Hare voice characterization. The second full- fledged role for the mature Bugs, Chuck Jones' Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1.

Bugs' name on- screen: it appears in a title card, "featuring Bugs Bunny," at the start of the film (which was edited in following the success of A Wild Hare). However, Bugs' voice and personality in this cartoon is noticeably different, and his design was slightly altered as well; Bugs' visual design is based on the prototype rabbit in Candid Camera, but with yellow gloves and no buck teeth, has a lower- pitched voice and a more aggressive, arrogant and thuggish personality instead of a fun- loving personality. After Pet Rabbit, however, subsequent Bugs appearances returned to normal: the Wild Hare visual design and personality returned, and Blanc re- used the Wild Hare voice characterization.

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1. Friz Freleng, became the second Bugs Bunny cartoon to receive an Academy Award nomination.[1. The fact that it didn't win the award was later spoofed somewhat in What's Cookin' Doc?

Bugs demands a recount (claiming to be a victim of "sa- bo- TAH- gee") after losing the Oscar to James Cagney and presents a clip from Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt to prove his point.[1. World War II[edit]By 1.