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Bugs Bunny appeared in over 160 short films between 1940 and 1964 , and his best moments are still just as rummy decades later on . Voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc , Bugs was an ikon during the prosperous age of American vitality , and he became the prescribed mascot of Warner Bros. He has since appear in twelve more movies , tv set appearance and telecasting games , try that audiences have never threadbare of his tricky antics . He will almost sure deliver in the newLooney Tunesmovie , The twenty-four hour period the Earth Blew Up .
Bugs Bunny play many office . He is a musician , an athlete , a drag performer , and so much more . The tough - talking bunny from Brooklyn is an highly versatile part , but he almost always outsmarts his opponents before chomping down on a carrot with a sarcastic input or two . Other classic animated cartoon characters are known for being on the receiving end of repeated punishment , like Wile E. Coyote and Tom Cat , but Bugs is a succeeder , and he ’s someone who the consultation want to see win .
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From maniacal laughs to monotones , from goofy to smarmy , they ’re the voice in viewers ' heads when hearing words like " Equus asinus , " " doc " and " walkover . "
15Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
Bugs knocks on Witch Hazel’s door on Halloween
Bugs Bunny seem in a few Halloween - themed cartoons , andBroom - Stick Bunnyis one of the best . As Bugs goes antic - or - treating dressed as an ugly witch , he knocks on the door of a real witch who congratulate herself on being the ugliest witch in the land . Witch Hazelshows up in a few other cartoon alongside Bugs Bunny , and her dark magic arrive at her a supernatural option to Elmer Fudd . InBroom - Stick Bunny , her potion and spells all backfire and even her witching mirror becomes a problem .
14Water, Water, Every Hare (1952)
Bugs has to outrun Gossamer in a mad scientist’s lab
water supply , Water , Every Harestarts with Bugs Bunny ’s cony hole being flooded , but this is just the set - up for a visit to the lab of a mad scientist , who call for some kind of psyche to put in his enormous robot . To catch Bugs , he let loose his goliath , who he refers to as Rudolph , althoughLooney Tunesfans will know him as Gossamer . Bugs and Gossamer ’s fight is replete with clever gags , butWater , Water , Every Haresaves the best for Bugs ' confrontation with the scientist , as they are both drug by ether , and they engage in a slow - motion chase .
13Baseball Bugs (1946)
Bugs takes on an entire baseball team single-handedly
Modern audiences probably recall of Bugs Bunny as more of a basketball player than a baseball game player , thanks to his appearances alongside Michael Jordan and LeBron James in theSpace Jamfranchise . However , Bugs steps up to the photographic plate inBaseball Bugs , where he takes on an entire team of mean brutes by himself . Bugs ' sassy mouth set out him into fuss , andany other theatrical role would likely be fleetly humiliated to teach them a lesson , but not Bugs . He ’s seldom the butt of the joke . Bugs is the people ’s champion , so , of class , he take away a bus across town and climbs a skyscraper to pick a flyball out of the air .
12Hare Trigger (1945)
Bugs and Yosemite Sam have a Wild West showdown
Bugs Bunny did some things during the warfare that he should repent , but he also appeared in a few swell cartoons that did n’t contain harmful racial stereotypes and lead astray war propaganda . Hare Triggeris one of these cartoons , as Bugs tries to break Yosemite Sam from highjack a steam train . Bugs and Sam have a delightful back - and - Forth River with plenty of bullets flying through the air , but the highlight is the unrecorded - activity stock footage of a saloon brawl which appear in one of the caravan cars . The dissolute pace is key toHare Trigger , both for the funniness and the action .
11Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Bugs plays a piano concerto
As Bugs Bunny tries to get rid of a pesky mouse , Rhapsody Rabbitresembles a classicTom and Jerrycartoonin some fashion . In fact , the Liszt piece which Bugs plays is the same one which Tom plays in 1947’sThe Cat Concerto , which caused a plagiarism controversy between Warner Bros. and MGM . Controversy aside , Bugs is in fine sort inRhapsody Rabbit . The medicine enhances the jest , and the prank , in bout , foreground certain expression of the music . The animation is outstanding here , as each note that Bugs plays on the piano is the correct one , whether he ’s using his fingers or his ear .
Since 1940 , Tom & Jerry have been amusing audiences , but ten episodes stand magniloquent above the rest .
10Rabbit Rampage (1955)
Bugs feuds with his animator
cony Rampagewas made in 1955 , butits fourth wall - divulge meta humour seems incredibly current . Looney Tunescharacters often have a word with the audience , butRabbit Rampagetakes things to another level , as the entire film revolves around bug debate with his animator . There are a good deal of canny laugh as the vitalizer draws Bugs into different site and erases parts of his physical structure . The funniest jokes are those that plow Bugs as a worker for Warner Bros. rather than a character , like when Bugs goes on strike for better working conditions .
9Long-Haired Hare (1949)
Bugs commands an orchestra for a pompous opera singer
Bugs Bunny gets in an altercation with a self - important opera singer who preserve destroy Bugs ' musical instruments . Bugs is not the type of coney to take such treatment lying down , so he decides to pay Giovanni Jones back at his big performance . hemipterous insect ' typical antics are as funny as ever , but the moment that he strolls confidently into the orchestra pit mask as the conductor is even better . Even if the reference to Leopold Stokowski has mature badly , it ’s a delight to see Bugs with his head take in high spirits as the player whisper"Leopold"to one another in reverence and disbelief .
8Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
Bugs and Daffy Duck get hunted by Elmer Fudd
7Bugs & Thugs (1954)
Bugs gets held hostage by a couple of gangsters
Bugs and Thugsparodies Graeco-Roman gangster motion-picture show . The father has a vainglorious hat pulled low over his eyes , resemble Peter Lorre or Edward G. Robinson in some ways , while his bumbling henchman is even more oafish and inept than the common gangster film heavy . Bugs Bunny gets into a pickup car , mistaking it for a cab , and he is taken hostage by the two crooks . It ’s a great parody , but the ending is what makesBugs and Thugsso memorable . First , Bugs imitates an Irish constabulary officer to scare the gangsters forth , then a real Irish constabulary officer comes in and reprise the construct conversation word - for - word .
6Rabbit Of Seville (1950)
Bugs gives Elmer a haircut
make use of the light and playful overture to Rossini’sThe Barber of Seville , Bugs Bunny turns the tables on Elmer Fudd when the hunter chases him into an opera house . In front of a full house , Bugs and Elmer go along their chase all over the stage , with Bugs incapacitating Elmer for long enough to seat him down in a barber ’s chairman and do his good impression of Figaro . hare of Sevillesubverts the usual figure of speech of Elmer falling in sexual love with Bugs whenever he ’s wearing a dress . Bugs bemuse a wedding dress on Elmer , and he immediately playact the theatrical role of a blushing bride , until he is leave out from the top of the theater .
Coyote vs. Acme might still come out after all following the belated cancellation maturation from Warner Bros. about the Looney Tunes picture show .
