Category: Characters

What is wrong with me? I should have talked about this guy already. Elmer and Bugs developed at  pretty much the same time. Elmer evolved from a character called Egghead, (Who I consider to be an entirely different character, even if some people don’t. On this website, they’re wrong.)

Elmer had his first appearance in “Elmer’s Candid Camera.” In this short he was not a hunter, but rather a photographer trying to get a photo of the Proto-Bugs. Needless to say, he failed and that is probably why he has spent the rest of his life trying to get the rabbit. It’s revenge!

Fudd may be a classic, but when it comes to Bug’s nemeses, I find Sam to be my favorite. Sam emerged as he would today in the Bugs Bunny short “Hare Trigger”. Though he is always remembered as a cowboy, he had many other roles from sultan, to general, to pirate, to alien. Nothing about this guy bugs me. Like the fact that Yosemite is in California and he sounds like a Texan. Perhaps my favorite thing is that before they named him, other names they considered were Wyoming Willie, Denver Dan, and Texas Tiny.

Well how would you start a website about looney tunes?

Bugs got his start in the 1938 short “Porky’s Hare Hunt”. Here he was just a prototype and as such he had a completely different voice and a laugh that I find hysterical. However, many people did not find it very well made because it was essentially just a remake of the short “Porky’s duck hunt”. (If you guessed that that cartoon was Daffy’s debut then you win a cookie pizza) This prototype bugs returned in the cartoons “Presto Chango”, “Hare-um Scare-um” Elmer’s candid camera” and a brief cameo in “Patient Porky”. His first real cartoon was the 1940 short “A Wild Hare” When he asked the immortal words “What’s up, doc?” the audience loved him. Bugs did not have to evolve much to look like he does today. In fact, he was pretty much the same as he is now, albeit he had a deeper voice. Bugs would go on to star in over a 100 different cartoons and today he is a worldwide phenomenon. Next I will be talking about some of the cartoons he starred in. Until next time then.

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