The Bugs Bunny Show (1960)
The Bugs Bunny Show is an Animated television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros. between August 1, 1948 and the end of 1969. The show originally debuted as a primetime half-hour program on ABC in 1960, featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. Cartoons with new linking sequences produced by the Warner Bros. After three seasons, The Bugs Bunny Show moved to Saturday mornings, where it remained in one format or another for nearly four decades. The show's title and length changed regularly over the years, as did the network: both ABC and CBS broadcast versions of The Bugs Bunny Show.
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1960 / TV-GThe Bugs Bunny Show is an Animated television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros. between August 1, 1948 and the end of 1969. The show originally debuted as a primetime half-hour program on ABC in 1960, featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. Cartoons with new linking sequences produced by the Warner Bros. After three seasons, The Bugs Bunny Show moved to Saturday mornings, where it remained in one format or another for nearly four decades. The show's title and length changed regularly over the years, as did the network: both ABC and CBS broadcast versions of The Bugs Bunny Show.
Seasons & Episode
Yosemite Sam expects to be emcee for the show, but Bugs instead selects Pepé Le Pew for this honor. A furious Sam tries to eliminate Pepe, but the bullets from his guns are repelled by Pepé Le Pew's odor and retreat straight back into the nozzles. Pepe introduces cartoons with himself in the French Foreign Legion and Bugs on a Mississippi river boat.
Together with Porky Pig, who descends on a parachute to stage level, Bugs- as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless- announces cartoons with Bugs combating Marvin Martian on Earth near Bugs' hole home and in space, both on Marvin's spaceship and space platform. Bugs also travels to Baghdad with the genie of Aladdin's Lamp, which a greedy sheik will stop at nothing to acquire.
Mac and Tosh- the Goofy Gophers- are hosts. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce cartoon features of Bugs as a bullfighter and a jailbird and Claude Cat as a hopeful puppy evictor (each insists that the other do it); so, Bugs interrupts them and himself does the job.
Bugs has not fully awoken and is in no condition to host the show. So, the announcer introduces the individual cartoons: Bugs in a medieval jousting contest, Sylvester aiming to be Elmer Fudd's winter house cat, and Foghorn Leghorn playing golf, with the barnyard dog's nose as tee.
After a Klondike dispute with Yosemite Sam over entitlement to gold deposits- the first cartoon of this show, Bugs is on stage, imitating "Frankie doing an imitation of Rickie imitating Elvis." His music disturbs Yosemite Sam, who is in a neighboring building, trying to sleep. Sam angrily runs into the Bugs Bunny Show studio and destroys Bugs' guitar. Bugs recollects another instance of his music provoking violence.
The Tasmanian Devil appears with Bugs on stage. Bugs tells of his first meeting with "Taz-Boy" in the jungle of Tasmania, and then he prescribes a carrot diet to Taz, demonstrating how an anemic weakling, Daffy Duck, supposedly became an energetic and versatile cartoon star after submitting to a carrot diet.
It is 'Reading Out Loud Night', and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop. The book is an album of photographs of Bugs' family and life experiences. Bugs and Elmer Fudd are the unwitting participants in a scientific study of the behavioral influence of headgear, and Bugs combats farmer Fudd's addled automaton. Sylvester is aided by a black panther in besting a swaggering bulldog.
The Bugs Bunny Show is an Animated television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros. between August 1, 1948 and the end of 1969. The show originally debuted as a primetime half-hour program on ABC in 1960, featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. Cartoons with new linking sequences produced by the Warner Bros. After three seasons, The Bugs Bunny Show moved to Saturday mornings, where it remained in one format or another for nearly four decades. The show's title and length changed regularly over the years, as did the network: both ABC and CBS broadcast versions of The Bugs Bunny Show.