Matthew Hunter
06-01-2001, 05:10 PM
I would've liked to post this for reference on the "What Aired Today" board, but that isn't letting me post...forgive me if I broke a rule or anything. Well, for those of you who need a quick reference, I've copied the CN schedule and posted it here.
-Matthew
All times EASTERN:
Friday
June 1
11 p.m.
Print Schedule Porky's Hare Hunt
1938 - Ben Hardaway
Almost a remake of "Porky's Duck Hunt," which introduced Daffy Duck. Here Porky encounters a rabbit that bears little resemblance to our hero. Appropriately, director Hardaway's nickname was "Bugs."
Prest-O Change-O
1939 - Chuck Jones
Two dogs run across a magician's bag of tricks, including a vexing rabbit.
Hare-um Scare-um
1939 - Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton
Here the crazy rabbit that Hardaway originated takes a few steps closer to the classic Bugs persona: He dons disguises and cross-dresses as he taunts a hunter.
Elmer's Candid Camera
1940 - Chuck Jones
Shutterbug Elmer Fudd heads for the woods and has plenty of trouble photographing a wise-guy rabbit. Still not the Bugs we know and love, but getting closer.
A Wild Hare
1940 - Tex Avery
All of the elements fall into place in the cartoon that finally cemented Bugs' personality and mannerisms. Contains his first uttering of "What's up, Doc?"
Patient Porky
1940 - Bob Clampett
Bugs has a cameo in this crazy Porky-in-a-hospital cartoon.
Saturday
June 2
midnight
Print Schedule Elmer's Pet Rabbit
1941 - Chuck Jones
Elmer buys Bugs in a pet store and comes to regret it as Bugs takes over his house. Contains Bugs' first uttering of "Of course, you realize this means war!"
Tortoise Beats Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a race with Cecil Turtle, with Cecil always impossibly turning up ahead of Bugs, no matter what. Tex Avery would repeat the theme in later years at MGM with Droopy and the Wolf.
The Heckling Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a big dumb hunting dog who gets heckled. This is the one where our heroes fall off a cliff, continue falling forever, then calmly put on the brakes!
Wabbit Trouble
1941 - Bob Clampett
Poor Elmer tries to go camping, but Bugs ruins any chance at relaxation. The first great Clampett-directed Bugs cartoon.
Crazy Cruise
1942 - Tex Avery
Bugs is already a star at Warners, as evidenced by his frequent cameos in other cartoons. Here he pops up in a spot-gag travelogue parody.
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
1942 - Friz Freleng
Elmer Fudd is hunting wabbits when he receives a timely telegram from his Uncle Louie that promises three million dollars on the condition that Elmer never harm any animals--especially rabbits! Now, how can we expect Bugs not to take advantage of THAT?
Saturday
June 2
1 a.m.
Print Schedule The Wacky Wabbit
1942 - Bob Clampett
Gold prospector Elmer Fudd thinks Bugs' rabbit hole is an ideal place to find a rich mineral vein. With a premise like that, you can expect a lot of gags involving dynamite and gold teeth!
Hold The Lion, Please
1942 - Chuck Jones
A lion is mocked by fellow animals who feel he's not worthy of the title "King of the Jungle." The lion goes after Bugs to prove his worth. Watch for a rare appearance by MRS. Bugs Bunny!
Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
1942 - Bob Clampett
Mama Buzzard unleashes her offspring, one of whom (Beaky Buzzard) goes after rabbit meat! Wild gags involving animal bones result in the classic Bugs comment, "Gruesome, isn't it?"
Fresh Hare
1942 - Friz Freleng
In the great white North, Mountie Elmer chases Bugs through the snow. Elmer is foiled by Bugs at every turn and must finally admit that he is a "disgwace to the wegiment."
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942 - Friz Freleng
Having failed in normal methods, Elmer Fudd tries to use the power of hypnotism to foil Bugs, but the tables are turned and it is Elmer who is hypnotized into thinking HE is the rabbit!
Case of the Missing Hare
1942 - Chuck Jones
Bugs enters into a state of war with magician Ala Bama after having a sign rudely posted over his rabbit hole. At his next performance, the magician finds that Bugs knows all the tricks!
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
A wild sequel to Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." Cecil Turtle again races with Bugs, who comes up with his own metal turtle shell for improved aerodynamics.
Saturday
June 2
2 a.m.
Print Schedule Super Rabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
After a letter-perfect parody of the opening of the 1940s Superman cartoons, we follow SuperBugs as he tangles with Cottontail Smith, a rabbit-hater from Texas.
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
1943 - Friz Freleng
A goofy Giant in Giantland goes after Bugs, who is swiping carrots from the garden. Bugs uses the Giant's size against him and watches as the Giant bypasses the Beanstalk for some stairs that aren't there!
Wackiki Wabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
Two starving castaways land on an island inhabited by Bugs Bunny. Bugs not only avoids becoming their next meal--he manages an island escape of his own!
Porky Pig's Feat
1943 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs appears as the pay-off gag in this Porky and Daffy outing.
A Corny Concerto
1943 - Bob Clampett
Two different stories set to classical music in a parody of Fantasia. One entry has Bugs eluding Porky and a hunting dog. Watch for Bugs' elaborate "death" scene.
Falling Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
Classic Clampett cartoon of Bugs vs. the Gremlin. Wild takes, wartime humor and airplane nosedives abound!
Saturday
June 2
3 a.m.
Print Schedule Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944 - Friz Freleng
The familiar fairy tale gets the Termite Terrace treatment. A bobby-soxer is taking Bugs to Grandma's house when a wolf intercepts to get the rabbit meal. Bugs has to handle both the wolf AND the annoying bobby-soxer!
What's Cookin' Doc?
1944 - Bob Clampett
It's Oscar® night in Hollywood, and Bugs' chances for an award are good; in fact, "it's in the bag!" Turns out to be a great excuse for movie star imitations and clips of old Bugs Bunny cartoons!
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
1944 - Chuck Jones
The Three Bears lure Bugs to their place instead of Goldilocks, but they intend to clobber him anyway. The voice of Junior Bear is performed by Stan Freberg.
Hare Ribbin'
1944 - Bob Clampett
One of the strangest Bugs cartoons, it takes place primarily underwater as Bugs is chased by a dog! Imitations of mermaids aside, the setting remains rather inexplicable.
Hare Force
1944 - Friz Freleng
Kind-hearted Granny brings a frozen Bugs in from the cold, but her dog wants the fireplace to himself and devises ways to eliminate the rabbit. Everyone takes turns getting thrown out into the snow, including Granny!
Buckaroo Bugs
1944 - Bob Clampett
Terrific Western cartoon, with Red Hot Ryder storming out of the dust to catch that carrot stealer, the Masked Marauder! Red Hot Ryder's horse almost steals the show!
Saturday
June 2
4 a.m.
Print Schedule The Old Grey Hare
1944 - Bob Clampett
Wild cartoon featuring flash-forwards of Bugs and Elmer chasing each other (in wheelchairs) with ray guns, along with flashbacks of the two as babies!
Stage Door Cartoon
1944 - Friz Freleng
It's another wild variation on the Elmer-hunts-Bugs setup. Here, the chase goes into a vaudeville theater and results in lots of gags in costumes.
The Unruly Hare
1945 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs tangles with Elmer Fudd the surveyor. It seems you can place anything a few inches in front of Elmer's survey viewer, and he will believe it is huge!
Hare Trigger
1945 - Friz Freleng
Classic cartoon in which the Superchief train that Bugs is traveling on is held up by that bandit Yosemite Sam. Watch for the live-action saloon!
Hare Conditioned
1945 - Chuck Jones
Another great chance for Bugs to change costumes throughout a cartoon, as he is chased around a large department store by a burly floorwalker. Watch for Bugs in drag in the shoe department!
Hare Tonic
1945 - Chuck Jones
Elmer has bought fresh rabbit at the market. Bugs could easily escape, but just for fun he pretends to be a carrier of the dreaded disease Rabbititus!
Baseball Bugs
1946 - Friz Freleng
Bugs' rabbit hole is inconveniently located in right field of a baseball diamond. He taunts the Gas House Gorillas that he can beat the whole team by himself--and he does!
Saturday
June 2
5 a.m.
Print Schedule Hare Remover
1946 - Frank Tashlin
Elmer needs a rabbit to perform his laboratory experiments on, so Bugs plays along and pretends to be captured. Think Elmer's potions will work on Bugs? "No soap, Doc!"
Hair-Raising Hare
1946 - Chuck Jones
A mad scientist and Peter Lorre look-alike grabs Bugs with the intention of feeding him to his big orange sneaker-clad monster. Watch for the female rabbit robot and the great Bugs line, "Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven--'cause it hasn't!"
Acrobatty Bunny
1946 - Robert McKimson
The circus comes to town and sets up right above Bugs. Nero Lion is hungry enough to sniff out our hero, but he ends up on a trapeze, in a circus cannon, and as an elephant's fly-swatter!
Racketeer Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
It's fun with gangsters, as crooks Rocky and Hugo try to take Bugs for a ride. Bugs becomes "Mugsy" and can be as thuggish as the best of them!
The Big Snooze
1946 - Bob Clampett
For his last cartoon at Warners, Clampett creates a wild variation on the Elmer-hunts-Bugs theme. Bugs invades Elmer's sleep and causes as much havoc in his dream-state as awake!
Rhapsody Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
A tuxedo-clad Bugs Bunny sits down at his piano to perform the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. A little mouse creates musical havoc. Wasn't this a Tom and Jerry cartoon, too?
Saturday
June 2
6 a.m.
Print Schedule The Goofy Gophers
1947 - Art Davis
The Goofy Gophers battle a watchdog in a vegetable patch. Bugs Bunny has a cameo, but we won't spoil the gag here!
Rabbit Transit
1947 - Friz Freleng
Bugs has his third race with Cecil Turtle and his rocket-powered shell. The two actually agree at the start of the cartoon not to cheat. HA!
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947 - Friz Freleng
Wonderful cartoon that details Bugs' rags-to-riches rise to Hollywood stardom. Growing up in New York's East Side, Bugs gets some hard lessons from a pack of thuggish dogs, but guess who ends up on top of the dog pile?
Easter Yeggs
1947 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gallantly volunteers to help out the Easter Bunny. He finds out the job is pretty thankless, especially when he runs into Elmer Fudd dressed as a baby. No Easter wabbit stew in his future!
Slick Hare
1947 - Friz Freleng
This is the classic in which Humphrey Bogart demands fried rabbit from waiter Elmer Fudd. Thanks to Bugs, all he gets is a coconut custard pie--in the face!
Gorilla My Dreams
1948 - Robert McKimson
Mrs. Gorilla mistakes the cast-adrift Bugs for a delivery from the Stork! He hates to see a grown gorilla cry, so Bugs plays along and "goes ape."
Saturday
June 2
7 a.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Punch
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs heckles the boxing Champ and ends up in the ring with him. Every punching gag you can think of turns up, because this bout goes 110 rounds!
Buccaneer Bunny
1948 - Friz Freleng
Pirate Sam buries his treasure chest on a secluded beach. Secluded, that is, until Bugs makes the scene.
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948 - Friz Freleng
A gun-slinging classic as Yosemite Sam and Bugs square off in the Wild West. When Sam enters the local saloon, his long-winded introduction originally included a reference to Mahatma Gandhi!
Haredevil Hare
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs gets blasted into space and has his very first encounter with Marvin Martian, known here as Commander X-2. Bugs saves the Earth, but not the Moon, which gets blown to bits!
Hot Cross Bunny
1948 - Robert McKimson
Sanitarium hijinks as Bugs fends off a mad doctor bent on transplanting his brain into the body of a chicken!
Hare Splitter
1948 - Friz Freleng
A dim-witted rabbit named "Casbah" crosses swords with Bugs for the affections of the never-to-be-heard-from-again Daisy Lou.
A-Lad-In His Lamp
1948 - Robert McKimson
Best remembered for Jim Backus' exuberant performance as a genie who'd rather not be bothered by his long-eared master.
Saturday
June 2
8 a.m.
Print Schedule My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
1948 - Chuck Jones
A wrong turn on a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits lands Bugs in Scotland, where cranky local "McCrory" duels with our hero across 18 of the goofiest holes of golf ever played. Tiger Woods this ain't.
Hare Do
1949 - Friz Freleng
Exactly why Army surplus manufactured a "wabbit detector" remains a mystery, but Elmer uses his to chase Bugs into a local theater. Eventually, Fudd is tricked into riding a unicycle into the jaws of a hungry lion!
Rebel Rabbit
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs at his most devilish, as a protest over low rabbit bounties mushrooms into a full-scale open war on America!
High Diving Hare
1949 - Friz Freleng
We never DO see the detained "Fearless Freep," but carny barker Bugs manages to sucker Yosemite Sam into countless water-logged free falls.
Bowery Bugs
1949 - Art Davis
Bugs sells an old-timer the Brooklyn Bridge via a colorful tale of Bully Steve Brody, who Bugs drives to jump from the aforementioned bridge!
Long-Haired Hare
1949 - Chuck Jones
Bugs exacts revenge on a violent opera singer and, disguised as famed conductor "Leopold," literally brings down the house.
Saturday
June 2
9 a.m.
Print Schedule Knights Must Fall
1949 - Friz Freleng
In Medieval times, Sir Pantsalot and Bugs cross swords, lances and more in a series of escalating armor-clad gags.
The Grey Hounded Hare
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs falls for an electrified dog-track rabbit and tries his best to fend off a pack of bloodthirsty greyhounds.
The Windblown Hare
1949 - Robert McKimson
Turns out the Three Little Pigs are real estate hucksters, as an unusually gullible Bugs buys houses of straw and sticks, placing him squarely in the path of an even MORE gullible Big Bad Wolf!
Rabbit Hood
1949 - Chuck Jones
Attempting to make off with the King's carrots, Bugs runs afoul of the Sheriff of Nottingham, an ineffectual Little John, and a flesh-and-blood Errol Flynn as Robin!
Hurdy Gurdy Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gets a monkey and goes into the organ grinder trade. The monkey pockets the change for himself, and soon Bugs is partnered with a gorilla!
Mutiny on the Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Shanghai (Yosemite) Sam suckers Bugs with the promise of an around-the-world cruise, but the seafaring rabbit sinks his ship time and again!
Saturday
June 2
10 a.m.
Print Schedule Homeless Hare
1950 - Chuck Jones
Urban renewal threatens Bugs' home as a massive construction worker tries in vain to evict the rabbit from his happy home.
Big House Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Hunting season drives Bugs to take shelter in Sing Song prison, but guard (Yosemite) Sam Shultze declares he'll do 20 years' hard labor!
What's Up, Doc?
1950 - Robert McKimson
Hilarious flashbacks as Bugs tells the story of his meteoric rise to fame, his fateful pairing with Elmer Fudd, and his endless nights as one of the "Boys in the Chorus."
8 Ball Bunny
1950 - Chuck Jones
Hoboken's only native dancing penguin spurs Bugs on a wild goose chase to the South Pole, and Humphrey Bogart panhandles for loose change three times!
Hillbilly Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs ventures into the Ozarks and runs across two Martin cousins with short tempers and long shotguns. Square dancing will never be the same.
Bunker Hill Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Revolutionary War soldier Bugs tries to fend off Yosemite Sam Von Schamm, the Hessian. Sam learns quickly that you shouldn't light a match in a gunpowder house!
Rabbit of Seville
1950 - Chuck Jones
A Jones classic in which Elmer and Bugs act out an operatic overture in The Hollywood Bowl. Bugs wields the razor as the Barber, while Elmer is the befuddled occupant of the Barber's chair. A masterpiece of timing and character animation.
Saturday
June 2
11 a.m.
Print Schedule Hare We Go
1951 - Robert McKimson
Christopher Columbus takes Bugs Bunny across the Atlantic and the merits of rabbits as jinxes are hotly debated. Also, we discover Bugs is roughly as strong as Superman, able to toss a baseball around the entire Earth!
Rabbit Every Monday
1951 - Friz Freleng
This time Yosemite Sam plays the rabbit hunter, not Elmer. The favorite Freleng gag of Bugs enjoying a live-action party reappears; here the party occurs in Sam's oven!
Bunny Hugged
1951 - Chuck Jones
Bugs as "The Terror" steps into the ring with "The Crusher" in this spoof of pro wrestling.
The Fair Haired Hare
1951 - Friz Freleng
Yosemite Sam's prefabricated ranch home is plopped over Bugs' hole, and the "highest court in the country" (really!) orders them to share the property until one of them passes on. Sam tries in vain to hurry things along.
Rabbit Fire
1951 - Chuck Jones
Is it Rabbit Season or Duck Season? Bugs and Daffy argue the point for the benefit of Elmer Fudd in the first of a trio of like-minded cartoons from Jones. This cartoon contains some of the snappiest dialogue of the Looney Tunes run!
French Rarebit
1951 - Robert McKimson
A carrot-crate trip to Paris drops Bugs into a tug of war between two rival chefs, but the bunny holds all the cards with his recipe for "Louisiana Bayou Backbay Bunny Borderlay a la Antoine."
Saturday
June 2
noon
Print Schedule His Hare Raising Tale
1951 - Friz Freleng
It's a clip show, as Bugs tells his nephew Clyde many stories that can conveniently be referenced through old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Fortunately, Warner Bros. did not produce this sort of time-saver cartoon very often.
Ballot Box Bunny
1951 - Friz Freleng
Political satire and broad physical comedy abound as Bugs and Sam duel for political office and attempt to obliterate one another along the way.
Big Top Bunny
1951 - Robert McKimson
Bruno the bear is the star of the circus, so he tries to sabotage any attempt by Bugs at acrobatic derring-do. Watch for the great sequence as Bugs and Bruno try to outdo each other in the high dive.
Operation: Rabbit
1952 - Chuck Jones
Super Genius Wile E. Coyote comes a-callin' and fares no better with Bugs than he does with that scrawny bird he chases in his spare time!
14 Carrot Rabbit
1952 - Friz Freleng
The Gold Rush days of the Klondike is our setting as Chilico Sam tries to scam Bugs, who displays the uncanny ability to sense gold! An ocean liner and Fort Knox figure into this one, too!
Foxy By Proxy
1952 - Friz Freleng
Strange variation on the George-and-Lenny routine, as Bugs picks on a dopey dog engaged in a fox hunt. Bugs plays fox and makes the poor mutt chase a train.
Saturday
June 2
1 p.m.
Print Schedule Water, Water Every Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
A flooding current sweeps sleeping Bugs to an evil scientist's castle, and the orange, sneaker-clad monster from "Hair-Raising Hare" returns, here known as "Rudolph."
The Hasty Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
The return of Marvin the Martian, who brings along his dog, Lieutenant K-9. They abduct Bugs as a sample Earth creature, but soon Bugs is careening the spaceship back toward home.
Oily Hare
1952 - Robert McKimson
A Texas oilman builds a derrick over Bugs' rabbit hole, so Bugs retaliates with dynamite. There is finally a "gusher" coming out of the hole, but it's not oil!
Rabbit Seasoning
1952 - Chuck Jones
Verbal jousting on a level previously unheard of in cartoons, as Bugs and Daffy spar with Elmer and each other. "Pronoun trouble," indeed!
Rabbit's Kin
1952 - Robert McKimson
An adorable baby bunny with a hyperspeed voice enlists Bugs to help put the kibosh on gangly Pete Puma, arguably the dumbest foe the rabbit ever faced!
Hare Lift
1952 - Friz Freleng
The world's largest airplane is hijacked by bank robber Yosemite Sam, but Bugs proves to be a most mutinous pilot. Watch for the most cowardly automatic pilot ever.
Forward March Hare
1953 - Chuck Jones
Following a case of mistaken identity, Bugs finds himself drafted into an army of rather realistically rendered soldiers. Lots of awkward military hi-jinks follow, since Bugs is, well, a big rabbit!
Saturday
June 2
2 p.m.
Print Schedule Duck Amuck
1953 - Chuck Jones
Not really a Bugs cartoon, but the rabbit steals the last scene, and consequently, the show.
Upswept Hare
1953 - Robert McKimson
Elmer is living in a ritzy penthouse apartment (how could he afford that?) and transports Bugs home via a potted plant! One of them must go, so Bugs proposes a contest of skills.
Southern Fried Rabbit
1953 - Friz Freleng Bugs heads to Alabama for carrots, but he must first foil Confederate Colonel Sam, who hasn't been told the Civil War wound down some time ago.
Hare Trimmed
1953 - Friz Freleng
Granny inherits 50 million dollars. Yosemite Sam wants it. Bugs dons a disguise to court Granny and foil Sam. That's just the setup--imagine how weird things get from there!
Bully For Bugs
1953 - Chuck Jones
This uncontested Jones classic has matador Bugs facing down a huge, vicious bull. This has been a favorite for generations for good reason; every gag is a gem.
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
1953 - Chuck Jones
Final entry in the trilogy of classic Bugs-Daffy-Elmer hunting cartoons. This may be the best of the bunch, as Elmer is convinced over and over to blow Daffy's beak into yet another direction!
Saturday
June 2
3 p.m.
Print Schedule Robot Rabbit
1953 - Friz Freleng
Farmer Elmer Fudd goes high-tech and orders a rabbit-exterminating robot. Unfortunately for Elmer, by the end of the conflict the automaton has major "Bugs" in its programming!
Captain Hareblower
1954 - Friz Freleng
Pirate Sam and Bugs square off on the high seas, and we learn of the combustible powers of a ladies' powder room!
Bugs and Thugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is living in the big city and visits the bank for a withdrawal (of carrots!) Thinking it is a cab, he hops in the getaway car of bank robbers Rocky and Mugsy.
No Parking Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A freeway is coming through, so it's Bugs vs. a construction worker. The big dope uses all of the tools of his trade to try and destroy Bugs' domicile, but "a man's house is his castle"!
Devil May Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A new Looney Tunes character arrives on the scene: the Tasmanian Devil! Bugs convinces Taz he wouldn't be much of a meal and gives him several bum steers instead!
Bewitched Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Witch Hazel menaces Hansel and Gretel, and Bugs drops in to bust up this rollicking fairy tale farce. The pronunciation of "Hansel" is much in debate.
Saturday
June 2
4 p.m.
Print Schedule Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Nephew Clyde gets a rollicking American history lesson from Bugs, but the facts play more like fiction when the tyke takes the tall tales to school.
Lumberjack Rabbit
1954 - Chuck Jones
According to rumor, Jack Warner thought 3-D movies were here to stay. They weren't, and this fun romp with Bugs and Paul Bunyan's dog proves to be the only Warner cartoon shot in the process. Unfortunately, it takes no advantage of the medium in any noticeable way.
Baby Buggy Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Midget mobster Ant Hill Hardy has to get his stolen loot back from Bugs. What better way than to dress up like a baby?
Beanstalk Bunny
1955 - Chuck Jones
Wildly imaginative fairy tale variation, with Daffy as Jack, Elmer as the Giant (!), and Bugs somehow involved after the beanstalk carries him aloft. Best gag: tiny Bugs impossibly tripping the gigantic Elmer.
Sahara Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
Sheik Riff Raff Sam discovers a Miami Beach-bound Bugs leaving "footy prints" all over his desert.
Hare Brush
1955 - Friz Freleng
Role reversal reaches new heights as millionaire Elmer Fudd retreats to the rabbit hole and reprogrammed Bugs goes "wabbit" hunting in full hunting garb.
Rabbit Rampage
1955 - Chuck Jones
Basically a remake of "Duck Amuck," this time with Bugs as the tormented subject and Elmer Fudd as the maniacal animator!
Saturday
June 2
5 p.m
Print Schedule This Is A Life?
1955 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is the guest of honor on Elmer Fudd's TV program, but trips down Memory Lane with Yosemite Sam and others only drive the guests to seek revenge on the heckling hare! Daffy is notoriously peeved at the lack of attention paid to him.
Hyde and Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
One of Friz Freleng's funniest cartoons, in which our hero is taken in by Dr. Jekyll. Poor Bugs never discovers that his friend is also the murderous Mr. Hyde, who is out for rabbit blood!
Knight-Mare Hare
1955 - Chuck Jones
A variation on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" has Bugs trying to explain himself in medieval England. Lots of great gags with swords and knights and dragons, and even Merlin shows up.
Roman Legion Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
The place? Ancient Rome. The bunny? Bugs. The captain of the guards? Yosemite Sam. The emperor? Nero. Add a pit of ravenous lions, and you've got yourself a cartoon!
Bugs Bonnets
1956 - Chuck Jones
A truckload of hats fly wildly about this cartoon, and every time a new one lands on Bugs or Elmer Fudd, their personalities are completely changed.
Broom-Stick Bunny
1956 - Chuck Jones
A trick-or-treating Bugs stops at the house of Witch Hazel. She just happens to need rabbit for her latest brew, so the chase begins. June Foray is the voice of Witch.
Saturday
June 2
6 p.m.
Print Schedule Rabbitson Crusoe
1956 - Friz Freleng
Castaway Yosemite "Crusoe" Sam sees a welcome respite from his diet of coconuts in the form of newly washed-ashore Bugs. Luckily, the rabbit has a sharp-toothed ally in the form of Dopey Dick, the man-eating shark.
Napoleon Bunny-Part
1956 - Friz Freleng
Bugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood Freeway and ends up in Napoleon's palace. Bugs is determined to annoy the French emperor for no good reason. Watch for Bugs in drag as Josephine!
Barbary Coast Bunny
1956 - Chuck Jones
The lesson of this cartoon is easy come, easy go. Bugs stumbles upon solid gold, but he is duped out of it by Nasty Canasta. Bugs returns the favor later, playing a rube to clean out "Canasta's Casino."
Half Fare Hare
1956 - Robert McKimson
Bugs hops a railcar to escape a cold winter and take advantage of a bumper crop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. However, Kramden and Norton look-alikes on the train would rather have fried rabbit than raw carrots.
A Star Is Bored
1956 - Friz Freleng Daffy Duck is jealous of movie star Bugs Bunny. Demanding to be in pictures, he is given a job as Bugs' stunt double!
Wideo Wabbit
1956 - Robert McKimson A zillion references to the Golden Age of television as Bugs tries out for Elmer Fudd's "Sportsman's Hour," only to discover the job description includes being shot!
Saturday
June 2
7 p.m.
Print Schedule To Hare Is Human
1956 - Chuck Jones
All rested up from his pounding in "Operation Rabbit," Wile E. Coyote returns for Round Two with a "Univac Electronic Brain" to help him. It doesn't.
Ali Baba Bunny
1957 - Chuck Jones
Bugs and Daffy make like Hope and Crosby on the Road to Pismo Beach and discover Ali Baba's treasure cave. Unfortunately, the loot is guarded by thick-headed and short-tempered Hassan!
Bedevilled Rabbit
1957 - Robert McKimson
Return of the Tasmanian Devil. This is the one with Bugs in drag as a female Tasmanian Devil, complete with a bear trap for a mouth!
Piker's Peak
1957 - Friz Freleng
50,000 Cronkites must be a lot of money, because Yosemite Sam is willing to climb the Schmatterhorn for it! But then, so is Bugs.
What's Opera, Doc?
1957 - Chuck Jones
Perhaps the ultimate variation on the Elmer-hunting-Bugs theme, this is a triumph of layout, design and color. Wagner music mixed with Warner Bros. lunacy is quite a jaw-dropping combination!
Bugsy and Mugsy
1957 - Friz Freleng
Bugs crashes the seedy hideout of the two title crooks and sets about pitting them against each other. Watch for the great scene of Mugsy on roller skates and Bugs under the floor with a big magnet!
Show Biz Bugs
1957 - Friz Freleng
Vaudeville partners Bugs and Daffy vie for attention. Daffy finally succeeds in receiving a rousing ovation but has to atomize himself in the process.
Saturday
June 2
8 p.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Romeo
1957 - Robert McKimson
Elmer's mystery Uncle Judd (Judd Fudd?) sends him a female Slobovian rabbit named "Millicent" to care for. Elmer enlists Bugs (at gunpoint!) to keep her company.
Hare-Less Wolf
1958 - Friz Freleng
The wolf from Tweety's "Red Riding Hoodwinked" shows up with a nagging wife and an urgent need to catch Bugs for dinner. Unfortunately for him, his short-term memory is gone, and he can't remember what animal to shoot!
Hare-Way to the Stars
1958 - Chuck Jones
Wonderful run-in with Marvin the Martian, who intends to blow up the Earth with his Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. This one is just chock full of instant Martians.
Now Hare This
1958 - Robert McKimson
Routine outing in which Bugs matches wits (no difficulty there) with a dense Big Bad Wolf and his annoying nephew.
Knighty Knight Bugs
1958 - Friz Freleng
Court jester Bugs must rescue the singing sword from the Black Knight (a.k.a. Yosemite Sam) and his fire-breathing dragon in this Oscar® winner.
Pre-Hysterical Hare
1958 - Robert McKimson
Bugs finds a reel of film that shows an ancient (and familiar) ritual playing out: a prehistoric hunter looking suspiciously like Elmer Fudd going after a saber-toothed version of Bugs!
Saturday
June 2
9 p.m.
Print Schedule Baton Bunny
1959 - Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow
The model of quiet dignity and sophistication, Conductor Bugs is heckled by a tiny fly! The usually unflappable Bugs makes it his mission to swat his buzzing antagonist.
Hare-Abian Nights
1959 - Ken Harris
Another wrong turn while tunneling brings Bugs up into the tent of a bored Arabian Sultan. The Sultan (who bears a striking resemblance to Yosemite Sam), insists that Bugs entertain him with stories--resulting in another clip cartoon!
Apes of Wrath
1959 - Friz Freleng
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Gorilla get a bundle of joy from the ever-inebriated stork, but it turns out to be Bugs. Bugs beats a retreat, only to be replaced by Daffy!
Backwoods Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
Bugs finds himself in the Ozarks, ducking a couple of hungry hillbilly vultures named Pappy and Elvis!
Wild and Wooly Hare
1959 - Friz Freleng
The final Bugs Bunny Western finds Sam and Bugs jousting with locomotives as Sam tries in vain to rob the train.
Bonanza Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
It's a routine outing as Bugs strikes gold in Alaska (by painting ordinary rocks yellow, apparently). The villain here is named Black Jacque Shellaque!
Saturday
June 2
10 p.m.
Print Schedule A Witch's Tangled Hare
1959 - Abe Levitow
A return appearance for Witch Hazel, as she and Bugs act out scenes from Shakespeare plays--with anvils!
People Are Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
Another parody of a then-current TV show, this time with Daffy trying to cash in on a TV game show along with an understandably reluctant Bugs.
Person To Bunny
1960 - Friz Freleng
Yet another TV parody, here of Edward R. Murrow's interview show. While Daffy Duck does all he can to get some TV time, Elmer challenges some disparaging remarks Bugs made about him on TV.
Rabbit's Feat
1960 - Chuck Jones
The third time is not the charm, but nevertheless Wile E. Coyote gives it the old college try, only to find himself enrolled in Bugs' school of hard knocks.
From Hare to Heir
1960 - Friz Freleng
The rich Duke (Yosemite Sam) has gone bust, but Bugs shows up to reward him because of his mild manner (Hah!). Bugs deducts a portion of the reward for every one of Sam's outbursts, of which there are many!
Lighter Than Hare
1960 - Friz Freleng
Apparently, Yosemite Sam turns out to be an alien from space, bent on capturing an Earth creature. That creature might as well be a rabbit!
The Abominable Snow Rabbit
1961 - Chuck Jones
Bugs is tunneling with Daffy and winds up in the Himalayas, where they encounter a big, dumb Yeti! This is the one where the Yeti pets Daffy violently, saying "I will hold him and squeeze him and call him George!"
Saturday
June 2
11 p.m.
Print Schedule Compressed Hare
1961 - Chuck Jones
Wile E. Coyote rolls up his sleeves and makes yet another try at Bugs. Unfortunately, the tricks up those sleeves are completely ineffective.
Prince Violent
1961 - Friz Freleng
Viking (Yosemite) Sam is trying to storm the castle occupied by Bugs. This one has some wonderfully timed gags with Sam's outlandishly huge elephant.
Wet Hare
1962 - Robert McKimson
Black Jaque Shellac dams up Bugs' shower-giving waterfall. Bugs will have none of it, but for every destroyed dam, the stubborn lumberjack creates another. When Bugs starts countering with his own dams, things really get out of hand!
Bill of Hare
1962 - Robert McKimson
The Tasmanian Devil is back, and he's thrown Bugs into his stew pot. Bugs convinces Taz they should be out moose hunting instead.
Shishkabugs
1962 - Friz Freleng
The King wants "Hassenpheffer" for dinner. Royal cook Yosemite Sam intends to prepare it with Bugs as the main ingredient. With Sam's track record, you'd think he would just order a pizza.
Devil's Feud Cake
1963 - Friz Freleng
In another "clips cartoon," we see several recycled gags as Yosemite Sam dies in a plane crash (!), goes to H-E-double-hockey-sticks, and makes a deal with the devil to return with Bugs in tow!
Sunda
June 3
midnight
Print Schedule The Million-Hare
1963 - Robert McKimson
Bugs and Daffy are drawn into "Beat Your Buddy," a game show precursor to "Survivor" where the winner receives a "million box."
Hare-Breadth Hurry
1963 - Chuck Jones
The Road Runner sprains a giblet and a vitamin-poppin' Bugs Bunny fills his shoes in this final clash with Wile E. Coyote.
The Unmentionables
1963 - Friz Freleng
A fun parody of TV's "The Untouchables," with Bugs as crimebuster Elegant Mess. Rocky and Mugsy are the criminal element, of course.
Mad As Mars Hare
1963 - Chuck Jones
In this neat reversal, it is an Earthling (Bugs in an orange space suit) trying to claim Marvin the Martian's planet in the name of Mankind (and Rabbitkind).
Transylvania 6-5000
1963 - Chuck Jones
Vampire Count Bloodcount wants to put the bite on Bugs, but for every "hocus pocus," there's an "abra kadabra." Oh, and there's a two-headed lady vulture, too!
Dumb Patrol
1964 - Gerry Chiniquy
A loose parody of "Dawn Patrol" finds WWI flying ace Bugs gunning for Baron Sam von Shamm. Sam's heart ain't in it, though--he'd rather go on furlough "to make whoopie, with Schnapps and beautiful Fräuleins!"
Sunday
June3
1 a.m.
Print Schedule Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
1964 - Robert McKimson
Bugs tangles again with the Tasmanian Devil. This time he convinces Taz he is a doctor and a psychiatrist, and really gives him the treatment!
The Iceman Ducketh
1964 - Phil Monroe
Daffy hunts Bugs in the Klondike for his valuable fur. Bugs is less than pleased. A bunch of hibernating bears aren't too happy, either.
False Hare
1964 - Robert McKimson
The final theatrically released Bugs Bunny cartoon from the remnants of Termite Terrace finds our hero matching wits with a bowler-clad big bad wolf and his nephew. Foghorn Leghorn barges in on the last scene!
Fright Before Christmas
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. Bugs and his nephew Clyde are visited by Taz as Santa Claus--and Santa is ready to eat more than just milk and cookies!
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. An odd retelling of Dickens, to say the least, with Porky Pig as Cratchit, Yosemite Sam as Scrooge and Tweety as Tiny Tim!
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
1980 - Chuck Jones
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over. Seeing young rabbits springing by, Bugs remembers his childhood, and the infant Elmer Fudd on his trail.
Spaced Out Bunny
1980 - Chuck Jones
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over. Marvin the Martian lures Bugs with the old carrot-on-a-string trick and brings him to the lonesome Abominable Snowman.
Sunday
June 3
2 a.m.
Print Schedule Box Office Bunny
1990 - Darrell Van Citters
The first theatrical Bugs cartoon since 1964. This is a fun outing in which Bugs explores the movie theater that was built over his rabbit hole. Elmer Fudd is an usher.
Blooper Bunny
1991 - Greg Ford and Terry Lennon
Much of the gang appears in this clever cartoon made in the form of a "behind the scenes" documentary. Outtakes and false starts abound as we watch the production of "The Bugs Bunny 51st and a Half Anniversary Spectacular."
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1991 - Greg Ford and Terry Lennon
In this satirical outing, Bugs encounters "off-model" versions of Elmer, Daffy and Yosemite Sam. They are pod duplicates, and Bugs fears he will be next.
Carrotblanca
1995 - Douglas McCarthy
An elaborate parody of Warner Bros.' most famous live-action feature, with most of the Looney Tunes crew represented. Pepe Le Pew is the logical choice to play Louie, but Tweety as "Usmarte"?
From Hare to Eternity
1997 - Chuck Jones
Nearly 60 years after directing his first Bugs cartoon, Chuck Jones weighs in with his most recent effort. Here Bugs tangles with Pirate Yosemite Sam over a treasure chest. Watch for Bugs in drag as a mermaid!
Patient Porky
1940 - Bob Clampett
Bugs has a cameo in this crazy Porky-Pig-in-a-hospital cartoon. This is the original Black-and-White version.
Sunday
June 3
3 a.m.
Print Schedule Porky's Hare Hunt
1938 - Ben Hardaway
Almost a remake of "Porky's Duck Hunt," which introduced Daffy Duck. Here Porky encounters a rabbit that bears little resemblance to our hero. Appropriately, director Hardaway's nickname was "Bugs." This is the original Black-and-White version.
Porky Pig's Feat
1943 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs appears as the pay-off gag in this Porky and Daffy outing. This is the original Black-and-White version.
Hare Conditioned
1945 - Chuck Jones
Another great chance for Bugs to change costumes throughout a cartoon, as he is chased around a large department store by a burly floorwalker. Watch for Bugs in drag in the shoe department!
Hare Force
1944 - Friz Freleng
Kind-hearted Granny brings a frozen Bugs in from the cold, but her dog wants the fireplace to himself and devises ways to eliminate the rabbit. Everyone takes turns getting thrown out into the snow, including Granny!
Buckaroo Bugs
1944 - Bob Clampett
Terrific Western cartoon, with Red Hot Ryder storming out of the dust to catch that carrot stealer, the Masked Marauder! Red Hot Ryder's horse almost steals the show!
The Wacky Wabbit
1942 - Bob Clampett
Gold prospector Elmer Fudd thinks Bugs' rabbit hole is an ideal place to find a rich mineral vein. With a premise like that, you can expect a lot of gags involving dynamite and gold teeth!
Sunday
June 3
4 a.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Transit
1947 - Friz Freleng
Bugs has his third race with Cecil Turtle and his rocket-powered shell. The two actually agree at the start of the cartoon not to cheat. HA!
The Unruly Hare
1945 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs tangles with Elmer Fudd the surveyor. It seems you can place anything a few inches in front of Elmer's survey viewer, and he will believe it is huge!
Bedevilled Rabbit
1957 - Robert McKimson
Return of the Tasmanian Devil. This is the one with Bugs in drag as a female Tasmanian Devil, complete with a bear trap for a mouth!
Wabbit Trouble
1941 - Bob Clampett
Poor Elmer tries to go camping, but Bugs ruins any chance at relaxation. The first great Clampett-directed Bugs cartoon.
Bugsy and Mugsy
1957 - Friz Freleng
Bugs crashes the seedy hideout of the two title crooks and sets about pitting them against each other. Watch for the great scene of Mugsy on roller skates and Bugs under the floor with a big magnet!
Hyde and Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
One of Friz Freleng's funniest cartoons, in which our hero is taken in by Dr. Jekyll. Poor Bugs never discovers that his friend is also the murderous Mr. Hyde, who is out for rabbit blood!
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
1942 - Friz Freleng
Elmer Fudd is hunting wabbits when he receives a timely telegram from his Uncle Louie that promises three million dollars on the condition that Elmer never harm any animals--especially rabbits! Now, how can we expect Bugs not to take advantage of THAT?
Sunday
June 3
5 a.m.
Print Schedule People Are Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
Another parody of a then-current TV show, this time with Daffy trying to cash in on a TV game show along with an understandably reluctant Bugs.
Rebel Rabbit
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs at his most devilish, as a protest over low rabbit bounties mushrooms into a full-scale open war on America!
High Diving Hare
1949 - Friz Freleng
We never DO see the detained "Fearless Freep," but carny barker Bugs manages to sucker Yosemite Sam into countless water-logged free falls.
Haredevil Hare
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs gets blasted into space and has his very first encounter with Marvin Martian, known here as Commander X-2. Bugs saves the Earth, but not the Moon, which gets blown to bits!
Rabbit Fire
1951 - Chuck Jones
Is it Rabbit Season or Duck Season? Bugs and Daffy argue the point for the benefit of Elmer Fudd in the first of a trio of like-minded cartoons from Jones. This cartoon contains some of the snappiest dialogue of the Looney Tunes run!
Bugs and Thugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is living in the big city and visits the bank for a withdrawal (of carrots!) Thinking it is a cab, he hops in the getaway car of bank robbers Rocky and Mugsy.
Sunday
June 3
6 a.m.
Print Schedule Bugs Bonnets
1956 - Chuck Jones
A truckload of hats fly wildly about this cartoon, and every time a new one lands on Bugs or Elmer Fudd, their personalities are completely changed.
Transylvania 6-5000
1963 - Chuck Jones
Vampire Count Bloodcount wants to put the bite on Bugs, but for every "hocus pocus," there's an "abra kadabra." Oh, and there's a two-headed lady vulture, too!
A Witch's Tangled Hare
1959 - Abe Levitow
A return appearance for Witch Hazel, as she and Bugs act out scenes from Shakespeare plays--with anvils!
Tortoise Beats Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a race with Cecil Turtle, with Cecil always impossibly turning up ahead of Bugs, no matter what. Tex Avery would repeat the theme in later years at MGM with Droopy and the Wolf.
Easter Yeggs
1947 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gallantly volunteers to help out the Easter Bunny. He finds out the job is pretty thankless, especially when he runs into Elmer Fudd dressed as a baby. No Easter wabbit stew in his future!
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942 - Friz Freleng
Having failed in normal methods, Elmer Fudd tries to use the power of hypnotism to foil Bugs, but the tables are turned and it is Elmer who is hypnotized into thinking HE is the rabbit!
Sunday
June 3
7 a.m.
Print Schedule Hold The Lion, Please
1942 - Chuck Jones
A lion is mocked by fellow animals who feel he's not worthy of the title "King of the Jungle." The lion goes after Bugs to prove his worth. Watch for a rare appearance by MRS. Bugs Bunny!
The Old Grey Hare
1944 - Bob Clampett
Wild cartoon featuring flash-forwards of Bugs and Elmer chasing each other (in wheelchairs) with ray guns, along with flashbacks of the two as babies!
The Fair Haired Hare
1951 - Friz Freleng
Yosemite Sam's prefabricated ranch home is plopped over Bugs' hole, and the "highest court in the country" (really!) orders them to share the property until one of them passes on. Sam tries in vain to hurry things along.
Rabbit's Feat 1960 - Chuck Jones The third time is not the charm, but nevertheless Wile E. Coyote gives it the old college try, only to find himself enrolled in Bugs' school of hard knocks.
Bewitched Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Witch Hazel menaces Hansel and Gretel, and Bugs drops in to bust up this rollicking fairy tale farce. The pronunciation of "Hansel" is much in debate.
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947 - Friz Freleng
Wonderful cartoon that details Bugs' rags-to-riches rise to Hollywood stardom. Growing up in New York's East Side, Bugs gets some hard lessons from a pack of thuggish dogs, but guess who ends up on top of the dog pile?
Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
1942 - Bob Clampett
Mama Buzzard unleashes her offspring, one of whom (Beaky Buzzard) goes after rabbit meat! Wild gags involving animal bones result in the classic Bugs comment, "Gruesome, isn't it?"
Sunday
June 3
8 a.m.
Print Schedule Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
1964 - Robert McKimson
Bugs tangles again with the Tasmanian Devil. This time he convinces Taz he is a doctor and a psychiatrist, and really gives him the treatment!
The Heckling Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a big dumb hunting dog who gets heckled. This is the one where our heroes fall off a cliff, continue falling forever, then calmly put on the brakes!
Case of the Missing Hare
1942 - Chuck Jones
Bugs enters into a state of war with magician Ala Bama after having a sign rudely posted over his rabbit hole. At his next performance, the magician finds that Bugs knows all the tricks!
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
1943 - Friz Freleng
A goofy Giant in Giantland goes after Bugs, who is swiping carrots from the garden. Bugs uses the Giant's size against him and watches as the Giant bypasses the Beanstalk for some stairs that aren't there!
Baseball Bugs
1946 - Friz Freleng
Bugs' rabbit hole is inconveniently located in right field of a baseball diamond. He taunts the Gas House Gorillas that he can beat the whole team by himself--and he does!
Hare Remover
1946 - Frank Tashlin
Elmer needs a rabbit to perform his laboratory experiments on, so Bugs plays along and pretends to be captured. Think Elmer's potions will work on Bugs? "No soap, Doc!"
Sunday
June 3
9 a.m.
Print Schedule Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Nephew Clyde gets a rollicking American history lesson from Bugs, but the facts play more like fiction when the tyke takes the tall tales to school.
A Wild Hare
1940 - Tex Avery
All of the elements fall into place in the cartoon that finally cemented Bugs' personality and mannerisms. Contains his first uttering of "What's up, Doc?"
Rabbit Seasoning
1952 - Chuck Jones
Verbal jousting on a level previously unheard of in cartoons, as Bugs and Daffy spar with Elmer and each other. "Pronoun trouble," indeed!
The Big Snooze
1946 - Bob Clampett
For his last cartoon at Warners, Clampett creates a wild variation on the Elmer-hunts-Bugs theme. Bugs invades Elmer's sleep and causes as much havoc in his dream-state as awake!
Long-Haired Hare
1949 - Chuck Jones
Bugs exacts revenge on a violent opera singer and, disguised as famed conductor "Leopold," literally brings down the house.
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
1944 - Chuck Jones
The Three Bears lure Bugs to their place instead of Goldilocks, but they intend to clobber him anyway. The voice of Junior Bear is performed by Stan Freberg.
Sunday
June 3
10 a.m.
Print Schedule Hare Ribbin'
1944 - Bob Clampett
One of the strangest Bugs cartoons, it takes place primarily underwater as Bugs is chased by a dog! Imitations of mermaids aside, the setting remains rather inexplicable.
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
A wild sequel to Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." Cecil Turtle again races with Bugs, who comes up with his own metal turtle shell for improved aerodynamics.
Operation: Rabbit
1952 - Chuck Jones
Super Genius Wile E. Coyote comes a-callin' and fares no better with Bugs than he does with that scrawny bird he chases in his spare time!
Hair-Raising Hare
1946 - Chuck Jones
A mad scientist and Peter Lorre look-alike grabs Bugs with the intention of feeding him to his big orange sneaker-clad monster. Watch for the female rabbit robot and the great Bugs line, "Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven--'cause it hasn't!"
Racketeer Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
It's fun with gangsters, as crooks Rocky and Hugo try to take Bugs for a ride. Bugs becomes "Mugsy" and can be as thuggish as the best of them!
Hare Tonic
1945 - Chuck Jones
Elmer has bought fresh rabbit at the market. Bugs could easily escape, but just for fun he pretends to be a carrier of the dreaded disease Rabbititus!
Falling Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
Classic Clampett cartoon of Bugs vs. the Gremlin. Wild takes, wartime humor and airplane nosedives abound!
Sunday
June 3
11 a.m.
Print Schedule Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944 - Friz Freleng
The familiar fairy tale gets the Termite Terrace treatment. A bobby-soxer is taking Bugs to Grandma's house when a wolf intercepts to get the rabbit meal. Bugs has to handle both the wolf AND the annoying bobby-soxer!
Bully For Bugs
1953 - Chuck Jones
This uncontested Jones classic has matador Bugs facing down a huge, vicious bull. This has been a favorite for generations for good reason; every gag is a gem.
Super Rabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
After a letter-perfect parody of the opening of the 1940s Superman cartoons, we follow SuperBugs as he tangles with Cottontail Smith, a rabbit-hater from Texas.
Wackiki Wabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
Two starving castaways land on an island inhabited by Bugs Bunny. Bugs not only avoids becoming their next meal--he manages an island escape of his own!
Rhapsody Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
A tuxedo-clad Bugs Bunny sits down at his piano to perform the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. A little mouse creates musical havoc. Wasn't this a Tom and Jerry cartoon, too?
Slick Hare
1947 - Friz Freleng
This is the classic in which Humphrey Bogart demands fried rabbit from waiter Elmer Fudd. Thanks to Bugs, all he gets is a coconut custard pie--in the face!
Sunday
June 3
noon
Print Schedule Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
1953 - Chuck Jones
Final entry in the trilogy of classic Bugs-Daffy-Elmer hunting cartoons. This may be the best of the bunch, as Elmer is convinced over and over to blow Daffy's beak into yet another direction!
Rabbit Punch
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs heckles the boxing Champ and ends up in the ring with him. Every punching gag you can think of turns up, because this bout goes 110 rounds!
Beanstalk Bunny
1955 - Chuck Jones
Wildly imaginative fairy tale variation, with Daffy as Jack, Elmer as the Giant (!), and Bugs somehow involved after the beanstalk carries him aloft. Best gag: tiny Bugs impossibly tripping the gigantic Elmer.
Apes of Wrath
1959 - Friz Freleng
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Gorilla get a bundle of joy from the ever-inebriated stork, but it turns out to be Bugs. Bugs beats a retreat, only to be replaced by Daffy!
Rabbit's Kin
1952 - Robert McKimson
An adorable baby bunny with a hyperspeed voice enlists Bugs to help put the kibosh on gangly Pete Puma, arguably the dumbest foe the rabbit ever faced!
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948 - Friz Freleng
A gun-slinging classic as Yosemite Sam and Bugs square off in the Wild West. When Sam enters the local saloon, his long-winded introduction originally included a reference to Mahatma Gandhi!
Sunday
June 3
1 p.m.
Print Schedule Bugsy and Mugsy
1957 - Friz Freleng
Bugs crashes the seedy hideout of the two title crooks and sets about pitting them against each other. Watch for the great scene of Mugsy on roller skates and Bugs under the floor with a big magnet!
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
1941 - Chuck Jones
Elmer buys Bugs in a pet store and comes to regret it as Bugs takes over his house. Contains Bugs' first uttering of "Of course, you realize this means war!"
Hare-Way to the Stars
1958 - Chuck Jones
Wonderful run-in with Marvin the Martian, who intends to blow up the Earth with his Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. This one is just chock full of instant Martians.
Water, Water Every Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
A flooding current sweeps sleeping Bugs to an evil scientist's castle, and the orange, sneaker-clad monster from "Hair-Raising Hare" returns, here known as "Rudolph."
Buccaneer Bunny
1948 - Friz Freleng
Pirate Sam buries his treasure chest on a secluded beach. Secluded, that is, until Bugs makes the scene.
Ballot Box Bunny
1951 - Friz Freleng
Political satire and broad physical comedy abound as Bugs and Sam duel for political office and attempt to obliterate one another along the way.
A Corny Concerto
1943 - Bob Clampett
Two different stories set to classical music in a parody of Fantasia. One entry has Bugs eluding Porky and a hunting dog. Watch for Bugs' elaborate "death" scene.
Sunday
June 3
2 p.m.
Print Schedule Show Biz Bugs
1957 - Friz Freleng
Vaudeville partners Bugs and Daffy vie for attention. Daffy finally succeeds in receiving a rousing ovation but has to atomize himself in the process.
A Star Is Bored
1956 - Friz Freleng
Daffy Duck is jealous of movie star Bugs Bunny. Demanding to be in pictures, he is given a job as Bugs' stunt double!
This Is A Life?
1955 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is the guest of honor on Elmer Fudd's TV program, but trips down Memory Lane with Yosemite Sam and others only drive the guests to seek revenge on the heckling hare! Daffy is notoriously peeved at the lack of attention paid to him.
Rabbit of Seville
1950 - Chuck Jones
A Jones classic in which Elmer and Bugs act out an operatic overture in The Hollywood Bowl. Bugs wields the razor as the Barber, while Elmer is the befuddled occupant of the Barber's chair. A masterpiece of timing and character animation.
What's Up, Doc?
1950 - Robert McKimson
Hilarious flashbacks as Bugs tells the story of his meteoric rise to fame, his fateful pairing with Elmer Fudd, and his endless nights as one of the "Boys in the Chorus."
What's Opera, Doc?
1957 - Chuck Jones
Perhaps the ultimate variation on the Elmer-hunting-Bugs theme, this is a triumph of layout, design and color. Wagner music mixed with Warner Bros. lunacy is quite a jaw-dropping combination!
Sunday
June 3
3 p.m.
Print Schedule Blooper Bunny
1991 - Greg Ford and Terry Lennon
Much of the gang appears in this clever cartoon made in the form of a "behind the scenes" documentary. Outtakes and false starts abound as we watch the production of "The Bugs Bunny 51st and a Half Anniversary Spectacular."
Carrotblanca
1995 - Douglas McCarthy
An elaborate parody of Warner Bros.' most famous live-action feature, with most of the Looney Tunes crew represented. Pepe Le Pew is the logical choice to play Louie, but Tweety as "Usmarte"?
From Hare to Eternity
1997 - Chuck Jones
Nearly 60 years after directing his first Bugs cartoon, Chuck Jones weighs in with his most recent effort. Here Bugs tangles with Pirate Yosemite Sam over a treasure chest. Watch for Bugs in drag as a mermaid!
Hare Splitter
1948 - Friz Freleng
A dim-witted rabbit named "Casbah" crosses swords with Bugs for the affections of the never-to-be-heard-from-again Daisy Lou.
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
1948 - Chuck Jones
A wrong turn on a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits lands Bugs in Scotland, where cranky local "McCrory" duels with our hero across 18 of the goofiest holes of golf ever played. Tiger Woods this ain't.
Hare Do
1949 - Friz Freleng
Exactly why Army surplus manufactured a "wabbit detector" remains a mystery, but Elmer uses his to chase Bugs into a local theater. Eventually, Fudd is tricked into riding a unicycle into the jaws of a hungry lion!
Sunday
June 3
4 p.m.
Print Schedule Bowery Bugs
1949 - Art Davis
Bugs sells an old-timer the Brooklyn Bridge via a colorful tale of Bully Steve Brody, who Bugs drives to jump from the aforementioned bridge!
The Grey Hounded Hare
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs falls for an electrified dog-track rabbit and tries his best to fend off a pack of bloodthirsty greyhounds.
Rabbit Hood
1949 - Chuck Jones
Attempting to make off with the King's carrots, Bugs runs afoul of the Sheriff of Nottingham, an ineffectual Little John, and a flesh-and-blood Errol Flynn as Robin!
Hurdy Gurdy Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gets a monkey and goes into the organ grinder trade. The monkey pockets the change for himself, and soon Bugs is partnered with a gorilla!
Mutiny on the Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Shanghai (Yosemite) Sam suckers Bugs with the promise of an around-the-world cruise, but the seafaring rabbit sinks his ship time and again!
Homeless Hare
1950 - Chuck Jones
Urban renewal threatens Bugs' home as a massive construction worker tries in vain to evict the rabbit from his happy home.
8 Ball Bunny
1950 - Chuck Jones
Hoboken's only native dancing penguin spurs Bugs on a wild goose chase to the South Pole, and Humphrey Bogart panhandles for loose change three times!
Sunday
June 3
5 p.m.
Print Schedule Hillbilly Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs ventures into the Ozarks and runs across two Martin cousins with short tempers and long shotguns. Square dancing will never be the same.
Hare We Go
1951 - Robert McKimson
Christopher Columbus takes Bugs Bunny across the Atlantic and the merits of rabbits as jinxes are hotly debated. Also, we discover Bugs is roughly as strong as Superman, able to toss a baseball around the entire Earth!
Bunny Hugged
1951 - Chuck Jones
Bugs as "The Terror" steps into the ring with "The Crusher" in this spoof of pro wrestling.
French Rarebit
1951 - Robert McKimson
A carrot-crate trip to Paris drops Bugs into a tug of war between two rival chefs, but the bunny holds all the cards with his recipe for "Louisiana Bayou Backbay Bunny Borderlay a la Antoine."
His Hare Raising Tale
1951 - Friz Freleng
It's a clip show, as Bugs tells his nephew Clyde many stories that can conveniently be referenced through old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Fortunately, Warner Bros. did not produce this sort of time-saver cartoon very often.
14 Carrot Rabbit
1952 - Friz Freleng
The Gold Rush days of the Klondike is our setting as Chilico Sam tries to scam Bugs, who displays the uncanny ability to sense gold! An ocean liner and Fort Knox figure into this one, too!
Sunday
June 3
6 p.m.
Print Schedule Foxy By Proxy
1952 - Friz Freleng
Strange variation on the George-and-Lenny routine, as Bugs picks on a dopey dog engaged in a fox hunt. Bugs plays fox and makes the poor mutt chase a train.
The Hasty Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
The return of Marvin the Martian, who brings along his dog, Lieutenant K-9. They abduct Bugs as a sample Earth creature, but soon Bugs is careening the spaceship back toward home.
Oily Hare
1952 - Robert McKimson
A Texas oilman builds a derrick over Bugs' rabbit hole, so Bugs retaliates with dynamite. There is finally a "gusher" coming out of the hole, but it's not oil!
Hare Lift
1952 - Friz Freleng
The world's largest airplane is hijacked by bank robber Yosemite Sam, but Bugs proves to be a most mutinous pilot. Watch for the most cowardly automatic pilot ever.
Forward March Hare
1953 - Chuck Jones
Following a case of mistaken identity, Bugs finds himself drafted into an army of rather realistically rendered soldiers. Lots of awkward military hi-jinks follow, since Bugs is, well, a big rabbit!
Upswept Hare
1953 - Robert McKimson
Elmer is living in a ritzy penthouse apartment (how could he afford that?) and transports Bugs home via a potted plant! One of them must go, so Bugs proposes a contest of skills.
Sunday
June 3
7 p.m.
Print Schedule Hare Trimmed
1953 - Friz Freleng
Granny inherits 50 million dollars. Yosemite Sam wants it. Bugs dons a disguise to court Granny and foil Sam. That's just the setup--imagine how weird things get from there!
Robot Rabbit
1953 - Friz Freleng
Farmer Elmer Fudd goes high-tech and orders a rabbit-exterminating robot. Unfortunately for Elmer, by the end of the conflict the automaton has major "Bugs" in its programming!
No Parking Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A freeway is coming through, so it's Bugs vs. a construction worker. The big dope uses all of the tools of his trade to try and destroy Bugs' domicile, but "a man's house is his castle"!
Devil May Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A new Looney Tunes character arrives on the scene: the Tasmanian Devil! Bugs convinces Taz he wouldn't be much of a meal and gives him several bum steers instead!
Lumberjack Rabbit
1954 - Chuck Jones
According to rumor, Jack Warner thought 3-D movies were here to stay. They weren't, and this fun romp with Bugs and Paul Bunyan's dog proves to be the only Warner cartoon shot in the process. Unfortunately, it takes no advantage of the medium in any noticeable way.
Baby Buggy Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Midget mobster Ant Hill Hardy has to get his stolen loot back from Bugs. What better way than to dress up like a baby?
Hare Brush
1955 - Friz Freleng
Role reversal reaches new heights as millionaire Elmer Fudd retreats to the rabbit hole and reprogrammed Bugs goes "wabbit" hunting in full hunting garb.
Sunday
June 3
8 p.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Rampage
1955 - Chuck Jones
Basically a remake of "Duck Amuck," this time with Bugs as the tormented subject and Elmer Fudd as the maniacal animator!
Roman Legion Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
The place? Ancient Rome. The bunny? Bugs. The captain of the guards? Yosemite Sam. The emperor? Nero. Add a pit of ravenous lions, and you've got yourself a cartoon!
Rabbitson Crusoe
1956 - Friz Freleng
Castaway Yosemite "Crusoe" Sam sees a welcome respite from his diet of coconuts in the form of newly washed-ashore Bugs. Luckily, the rabbit has a sharp-toothed ally in the form of Dopey Dick, the man-eating shark.
Napoleon Bunny-Part
1956 - Friz Freleng
Bugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood Freeway and ends up in Napoleon's palace. Bugs is determined to annoy the French emperor for no good reason. Watch for Bugs in drag as Josephine!
Half Fare Hare
1956 - Robert McKimson
Bugs hops a railcar to escape a cold winter and take advantage of a bumper crop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. However, Kramden and Norton look-alikes on the train would rather have fried rabbit than raw carrots.
To Hare Is Human
1956 - Chuck Jones
All rested up from his pounding in "Operation Rabbit," Wile E. Coyote returns for Round Two with a "Univac Electronic Brain" to help him. It doesn't.
Sunday
June 3
9 p.m.
Print Schedule Ali Baba Bunny
1957 - Chuck Jones
Bugs and Daffy make like Hope and Crosby on the Road to Pismo Beach and discover Ali Baba's treasure cave. Unfortunately, the loot is guarded by thick-headed and short-tempered Hassan!
Piker's Peak
1957 - Friz Freleng
50,000 Cronkites must be a lot of money, because Yosemite Sam is willing to climb the Schmatterhorn for it! But then, so is Bugs.
Hare-Less Wolf
1958 - Friz Freleng
The wolf from Tweety's "Red Riding Hoodwinked" shows up with a nagging wife and an urgent need to catch Bugs for dinner. Unfortunately for him, his short-term memory is gone, and he can't remember what animal to shoot!
Knighty Knight Bugs
1958 - Friz Freleng
Court jester Bugs must rescue the singing sword from the Black Knight (a.k.a. Yosemite Sam) and his fire-breathing dragon in this Oscar® winner.
Baton Bunny
1959 - Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow
The model of quiet dignity and sophistication, Conductor Bugs is heckled by a tiny fly! The usually unflappable Bugs makes it his mission to swat his buzzing antagonist.
Bonanza Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
It's a routine outing as Bugs strikes gold in Alaska (by painting ordinary rocks yellow, apparently). The villain here is named Black Jacque Shellaque!
Sunday
June 3
10 p.m.
Print Schedule Person To Bunny
1960 - Friz Freleng
Yet another TV parody, here of Edward R. Murrow's interview show. While Daffy Duck does all he can to get some TV time, Elmer challenges some disparaging remarks Bugs made about him on TV.
The Abominable Snow Rabbit
1961 - Chuck Jones
Bugs is tunneling with Daffy and winds up in the Himalayas, where they encounter a big, dumb Yeti! This is the one where the Yeti pets Daffy violently, saying "I will hold him and squeeze him and call him George!"
Compressed Hare
1961 - Chuck Jones
Wile E. Coyote rolls up his sleeves and makes yet another try at Bugs. Unfortunately, the tricks up those sleeves are completely ineffective.
Wet Hare
1962 - Robert McKimson
Black Jaque Shellac dams up Bugs' shower-giving waterfall. Bugs will have none of it, but for every destroyed dam, the stubborn lumberjack creates another. When Bugs starts countering with his own dams, things really get out of hand!
Shishkabugs
1962 - Friz Freleng
The King wants "Hassenpheffer" for dinner. Royal cook Yosemite Sam intends to prepare it with Bugs as the main ingredient. With Sam's track record, you'd think he would just order a pizza.
Devil's Feud Cake
1963 - Friz Freleng
In another "clips cartoon," we see several recycled gags as Yosemite Sam dies in a plane crash (!), goes to H-E-double-hockey-sticks, and makes a deal with the devil to return with Bugs in tow!
The Million-Hare
1963 - Robert McKimson
Bugs and Daffy are drawn into "Beat Your Buddy," a game show precursor to "Survivor" where the winner receives a "million box."
Sunday
June 3
11 p.m.
Print Schedule Hare-Breadth Hurry
1963 - Chuck Jones
The Road Runner sprains a giblet and a vitamin-poppin' Bugs Bunny fills his shoes in this final clash with Wile E. Coyote.
Mad As Mars Hare
1963 - Chuck Jones
In this neat reversal, it is an Earthling (Bugs in an orange space suit) trying to claim Marvin the Martian's planet in the name of Mankind (and Rabbitkind).
Dumb Patrol
1964 - Gerry Chiniquy
A loose parody of "Dawn Patrol" finds WWI flying ace Bugs gunning for Baron Sam von Shamm. Sam's heart ain't in it, though--he'd rather go on furlough "to make whoopie, with Schnapps and beautiful Fräuleins!"
Fright Before Christmas
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. Bugs and his nephew Clyde are visited by Taz as Santa Claus--and Santa is ready to eat more than just milk and cookies!
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. An odd retelling of Dickens, to say the least, with Porky Pig as Cratchit, Yosemite Sam as Scrooge and Tweety as Tiny Tim!
Box Office Bunny
1990 - Darrell Van Citters
The first theatrical Bugs cartoon since 1964. This is a fun outing in which Bugs explores the movie theater that was built over his rabbit hole. Elmer Fudd is an usher.
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Friday
June 1
11 p.m.
Print Schedule Porky's Hare Hunt
1938 - Ben Hardaway
Almost a remake of "Porky's Duck Hunt," which introduced Daffy Duck. Here Porky encounters a rabbit that bears little resemblance to our hero. Appropriately, director Hardaway's nickname was "Bugs."
Prest-O Change-O
1939 - Chuck Jones
Two dogs run across a magician's bag of tricks, including a vexing rabbit.
Hare-um Scare-um
1939 - Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton
Here the crazy rabbit that Hardaway originated takes a few steps closer to the classic Bugs persona: He dons disguises and cross-dresses as he taunts a hunter.
Elmer's Candid Camera
1940 - Chuck Jones
Shutterbug Elmer Fudd heads for the woods and has plenty of trouble photographing a wise-guy rabbit. Still not the Bugs we know and love, but getting closer.
A Wild Hare
1940 - Tex Avery
All of the elements fall into place in the cartoon that finally cemented Bugs' personality and mannerisms. Contains his first uttering of "What's up, Doc?"
Patient Porky
1940 - Bob Clampett
Bugs has a cameo in this crazy Porky-in-a-hospital cartoon.
Saturday
June 2
midnight
Print Schedule Elmer's Pet Rabbit
1941 - Chuck Jones
Elmer buys Bugs in a pet store and comes to regret it as Bugs takes over his house. Contains Bugs' first uttering of "Of course, you realize this means war!"
Tortoise Beats Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a race with Cecil Turtle, with Cecil always impossibly turning up ahead of Bugs, no matter what. Tex Avery would repeat the theme in later years at MGM with Droopy and the Wolf.
The Heckling Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a big dumb hunting dog who gets heckled. This is the one where our heroes fall off a cliff, continue falling forever, then calmly put on the brakes!
Wabbit Trouble
1941 - Bob Clampett
Poor Elmer tries to go camping, but Bugs ruins any chance at relaxation. The first great Clampett-directed Bugs cartoon.
Crazy Cruise
1942 - Tex Avery
Bugs is already a star at Warners, as evidenced by his frequent cameos in other cartoons. Here he pops up in a spot-gag travelogue parody.
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
1942 - Friz Freleng
Elmer Fudd is hunting wabbits when he receives a timely telegram from his Uncle Louie that promises three million dollars on the condition that Elmer never harm any animals--especially rabbits! Now, how can we expect Bugs not to take advantage of THAT?
Saturday
June 2
1 a.m.
Print Schedule The Wacky Wabbit
1942 - Bob Clampett
Gold prospector Elmer Fudd thinks Bugs' rabbit hole is an ideal place to find a rich mineral vein. With a premise like that, you can expect a lot of gags involving dynamite and gold teeth!
Hold The Lion, Please
1942 - Chuck Jones
A lion is mocked by fellow animals who feel he's not worthy of the title "King of the Jungle." The lion goes after Bugs to prove his worth. Watch for a rare appearance by MRS. Bugs Bunny!
Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
1942 - Bob Clampett
Mama Buzzard unleashes her offspring, one of whom (Beaky Buzzard) goes after rabbit meat! Wild gags involving animal bones result in the classic Bugs comment, "Gruesome, isn't it?"
Fresh Hare
1942 - Friz Freleng
In the great white North, Mountie Elmer chases Bugs through the snow. Elmer is foiled by Bugs at every turn and must finally admit that he is a "disgwace to the wegiment."
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942 - Friz Freleng
Having failed in normal methods, Elmer Fudd tries to use the power of hypnotism to foil Bugs, but the tables are turned and it is Elmer who is hypnotized into thinking HE is the rabbit!
Case of the Missing Hare
1942 - Chuck Jones
Bugs enters into a state of war with magician Ala Bama after having a sign rudely posted over his rabbit hole. At his next performance, the magician finds that Bugs knows all the tricks!
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
A wild sequel to Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." Cecil Turtle again races with Bugs, who comes up with his own metal turtle shell for improved aerodynamics.
Saturday
June 2
2 a.m.
Print Schedule Super Rabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
After a letter-perfect parody of the opening of the 1940s Superman cartoons, we follow SuperBugs as he tangles with Cottontail Smith, a rabbit-hater from Texas.
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
1943 - Friz Freleng
A goofy Giant in Giantland goes after Bugs, who is swiping carrots from the garden. Bugs uses the Giant's size against him and watches as the Giant bypasses the Beanstalk for some stairs that aren't there!
Wackiki Wabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
Two starving castaways land on an island inhabited by Bugs Bunny. Bugs not only avoids becoming their next meal--he manages an island escape of his own!
Porky Pig's Feat
1943 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs appears as the pay-off gag in this Porky and Daffy outing.
A Corny Concerto
1943 - Bob Clampett
Two different stories set to classical music in a parody of Fantasia. One entry has Bugs eluding Porky and a hunting dog. Watch for Bugs' elaborate "death" scene.
Falling Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
Classic Clampett cartoon of Bugs vs. the Gremlin. Wild takes, wartime humor and airplane nosedives abound!
Saturday
June 2
3 a.m.
Print Schedule Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944 - Friz Freleng
The familiar fairy tale gets the Termite Terrace treatment. A bobby-soxer is taking Bugs to Grandma's house when a wolf intercepts to get the rabbit meal. Bugs has to handle both the wolf AND the annoying bobby-soxer!
What's Cookin' Doc?
1944 - Bob Clampett
It's Oscar® night in Hollywood, and Bugs' chances for an award are good; in fact, "it's in the bag!" Turns out to be a great excuse for movie star imitations and clips of old Bugs Bunny cartoons!
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
1944 - Chuck Jones
The Three Bears lure Bugs to their place instead of Goldilocks, but they intend to clobber him anyway. The voice of Junior Bear is performed by Stan Freberg.
Hare Ribbin'
1944 - Bob Clampett
One of the strangest Bugs cartoons, it takes place primarily underwater as Bugs is chased by a dog! Imitations of mermaids aside, the setting remains rather inexplicable.
Hare Force
1944 - Friz Freleng
Kind-hearted Granny brings a frozen Bugs in from the cold, but her dog wants the fireplace to himself and devises ways to eliminate the rabbit. Everyone takes turns getting thrown out into the snow, including Granny!
Buckaroo Bugs
1944 - Bob Clampett
Terrific Western cartoon, with Red Hot Ryder storming out of the dust to catch that carrot stealer, the Masked Marauder! Red Hot Ryder's horse almost steals the show!
Saturday
June 2
4 a.m.
Print Schedule The Old Grey Hare
1944 - Bob Clampett
Wild cartoon featuring flash-forwards of Bugs and Elmer chasing each other (in wheelchairs) with ray guns, along with flashbacks of the two as babies!
Stage Door Cartoon
1944 - Friz Freleng
It's another wild variation on the Elmer-hunts-Bugs setup. Here, the chase goes into a vaudeville theater and results in lots of gags in costumes.
The Unruly Hare
1945 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs tangles with Elmer Fudd the surveyor. It seems you can place anything a few inches in front of Elmer's survey viewer, and he will believe it is huge!
Hare Trigger
1945 - Friz Freleng
Classic cartoon in which the Superchief train that Bugs is traveling on is held up by that bandit Yosemite Sam. Watch for the live-action saloon!
Hare Conditioned
1945 - Chuck Jones
Another great chance for Bugs to change costumes throughout a cartoon, as he is chased around a large department store by a burly floorwalker. Watch for Bugs in drag in the shoe department!
Hare Tonic
1945 - Chuck Jones
Elmer has bought fresh rabbit at the market. Bugs could easily escape, but just for fun he pretends to be a carrier of the dreaded disease Rabbititus!
Baseball Bugs
1946 - Friz Freleng
Bugs' rabbit hole is inconveniently located in right field of a baseball diamond. He taunts the Gas House Gorillas that he can beat the whole team by himself--and he does!
Saturday
June 2
5 a.m.
Print Schedule Hare Remover
1946 - Frank Tashlin
Elmer needs a rabbit to perform his laboratory experiments on, so Bugs plays along and pretends to be captured. Think Elmer's potions will work on Bugs? "No soap, Doc!"
Hair-Raising Hare
1946 - Chuck Jones
A mad scientist and Peter Lorre look-alike grabs Bugs with the intention of feeding him to his big orange sneaker-clad monster. Watch for the female rabbit robot and the great Bugs line, "Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven--'cause it hasn't!"
Acrobatty Bunny
1946 - Robert McKimson
The circus comes to town and sets up right above Bugs. Nero Lion is hungry enough to sniff out our hero, but he ends up on a trapeze, in a circus cannon, and as an elephant's fly-swatter!
Racketeer Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
It's fun with gangsters, as crooks Rocky and Hugo try to take Bugs for a ride. Bugs becomes "Mugsy" and can be as thuggish as the best of them!
The Big Snooze
1946 - Bob Clampett
For his last cartoon at Warners, Clampett creates a wild variation on the Elmer-hunts-Bugs theme. Bugs invades Elmer's sleep and causes as much havoc in his dream-state as awake!
Rhapsody Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
A tuxedo-clad Bugs Bunny sits down at his piano to perform the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. A little mouse creates musical havoc. Wasn't this a Tom and Jerry cartoon, too?
Saturday
June 2
6 a.m.
Print Schedule The Goofy Gophers
1947 - Art Davis
The Goofy Gophers battle a watchdog in a vegetable patch. Bugs Bunny has a cameo, but we won't spoil the gag here!
Rabbit Transit
1947 - Friz Freleng
Bugs has his third race with Cecil Turtle and his rocket-powered shell. The two actually agree at the start of the cartoon not to cheat. HA!
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947 - Friz Freleng
Wonderful cartoon that details Bugs' rags-to-riches rise to Hollywood stardom. Growing up in New York's East Side, Bugs gets some hard lessons from a pack of thuggish dogs, but guess who ends up on top of the dog pile?
Easter Yeggs
1947 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gallantly volunteers to help out the Easter Bunny. He finds out the job is pretty thankless, especially when he runs into Elmer Fudd dressed as a baby. No Easter wabbit stew in his future!
Slick Hare
1947 - Friz Freleng
This is the classic in which Humphrey Bogart demands fried rabbit from waiter Elmer Fudd. Thanks to Bugs, all he gets is a coconut custard pie--in the face!
Gorilla My Dreams
1948 - Robert McKimson
Mrs. Gorilla mistakes the cast-adrift Bugs for a delivery from the Stork! He hates to see a grown gorilla cry, so Bugs plays along and "goes ape."
Saturday
June 2
7 a.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Punch
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs heckles the boxing Champ and ends up in the ring with him. Every punching gag you can think of turns up, because this bout goes 110 rounds!
Buccaneer Bunny
1948 - Friz Freleng
Pirate Sam buries his treasure chest on a secluded beach. Secluded, that is, until Bugs makes the scene.
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948 - Friz Freleng
A gun-slinging classic as Yosemite Sam and Bugs square off in the Wild West. When Sam enters the local saloon, his long-winded introduction originally included a reference to Mahatma Gandhi!
Haredevil Hare
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs gets blasted into space and has his very first encounter with Marvin Martian, known here as Commander X-2. Bugs saves the Earth, but not the Moon, which gets blown to bits!
Hot Cross Bunny
1948 - Robert McKimson
Sanitarium hijinks as Bugs fends off a mad doctor bent on transplanting his brain into the body of a chicken!
Hare Splitter
1948 - Friz Freleng
A dim-witted rabbit named "Casbah" crosses swords with Bugs for the affections of the never-to-be-heard-from-again Daisy Lou.
A-Lad-In His Lamp
1948 - Robert McKimson
Best remembered for Jim Backus' exuberant performance as a genie who'd rather not be bothered by his long-eared master.
Saturday
June 2
8 a.m.
Print Schedule My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
1948 - Chuck Jones
A wrong turn on a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits lands Bugs in Scotland, where cranky local "McCrory" duels with our hero across 18 of the goofiest holes of golf ever played. Tiger Woods this ain't.
Hare Do
1949 - Friz Freleng
Exactly why Army surplus manufactured a "wabbit detector" remains a mystery, but Elmer uses his to chase Bugs into a local theater. Eventually, Fudd is tricked into riding a unicycle into the jaws of a hungry lion!
Rebel Rabbit
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs at his most devilish, as a protest over low rabbit bounties mushrooms into a full-scale open war on America!
High Diving Hare
1949 - Friz Freleng
We never DO see the detained "Fearless Freep," but carny barker Bugs manages to sucker Yosemite Sam into countless water-logged free falls.
Bowery Bugs
1949 - Art Davis
Bugs sells an old-timer the Brooklyn Bridge via a colorful tale of Bully Steve Brody, who Bugs drives to jump from the aforementioned bridge!
Long-Haired Hare
1949 - Chuck Jones
Bugs exacts revenge on a violent opera singer and, disguised as famed conductor "Leopold," literally brings down the house.
Saturday
June 2
9 a.m.
Print Schedule Knights Must Fall
1949 - Friz Freleng
In Medieval times, Sir Pantsalot and Bugs cross swords, lances and more in a series of escalating armor-clad gags.
The Grey Hounded Hare
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs falls for an electrified dog-track rabbit and tries his best to fend off a pack of bloodthirsty greyhounds.
The Windblown Hare
1949 - Robert McKimson
Turns out the Three Little Pigs are real estate hucksters, as an unusually gullible Bugs buys houses of straw and sticks, placing him squarely in the path of an even MORE gullible Big Bad Wolf!
Rabbit Hood
1949 - Chuck Jones
Attempting to make off with the King's carrots, Bugs runs afoul of the Sheriff of Nottingham, an ineffectual Little John, and a flesh-and-blood Errol Flynn as Robin!
Hurdy Gurdy Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gets a monkey and goes into the organ grinder trade. The monkey pockets the change for himself, and soon Bugs is partnered with a gorilla!
Mutiny on the Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Shanghai (Yosemite) Sam suckers Bugs with the promise of an around-the-world cruise, but the seafaring rabbit sinks his ship time and again!
Saturday
June 2
10 a.m.
Print Schedule Homeless Hare
1950 - Chuck Jones
Urban renewal threatens Bugs' home as a massive construction worker tries in vain to evict the rabbit from his happy home.
Big House Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Hunting season drives Bugs to take shelter in Sing Song prison, but guard (Yosemite) Sam Shultze declares he'll do 20 years' hard labor!
What's Up, Doc?
1950 - Robert McKimson
Hilarious flashbacks as Bugs tells the story of his meteoric rise to fame, his fateful pairing with Elmer Fudd, and his endless nights as one of the "Boys in the Chorus."
8 Ball Bunny
1950 - Chuck Jones
Hoboken's only native dancing penguin spurs Bugs on a wild goose chase to the South Pole, and Humphrey Bogart panhandles for loose change three times!
Hillbilly Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs ventures into the Ozarks and runs across two Martin cousins with short tempers and long shotguns. Square dancing will never be the same.
Bunker Hill Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Revolutionary War soldier Bugs tries to fend off Yosemite Sam Von Schamm, the Hessian. Sam learns quickly that you shouldn't light a match in a gunpowder house!
Rabbit of Seville
1950 - Chuck Jones
A Jones classic in which Elmer and Bugs act out an operatic overture in The Hollywood Bowl. Bugs wields the razor as the Barber, while Elmer is the befuddled occupant of the Barber's chair. A masterpiece of timing and character animation.
Saturday
June 2
11 a.m.
Print Schedule Hare We Go
1951 - Robert McKimson
Christopher Columbus takes Bugs Bunny across the Atlantic and the merits of rabbits as jinxes are hotly debated. Also, we discover Bugs is roughly as strong as Superman, able to toss a baseball around the entire Earth!
Rabbit Every Monday
1951 - Friz Freleng
This time Yosemite Sam plays the rabbit hunter, not Elmer. The favorite Freleng gag of Bugs enjoying a live-action party reappears; here the party occurs in Sam's oven!
Bunny Hugged
1951 - Chuck Jones
Bugs as "The Terror" steps into the ring with "The Crusher" in this spoof of pro wrestling.
The Fair Haired Hare
1951 - Friz Freleng
Yosemite Sam's prefabricated ranch home is plopped over Bugs' hole, and the "highest court in the country" (really!) orders them to share the property until one of them passes on. Sam tries in vain to hurry things along.
Rabbit Fire
1951 - Chuck Jones
Is it Rabbit Season or Duck Season? Bugs and Daffy argue the point for the benefit of Elmer Fudd in the first of a trio of like-minded cartoons from Jones. This cartoon contains some of the snappiest dialogue of the Looney Tunes run!
French Rarebit
1951 - Robert McKimson
A carrot-crate trip to Paris drops Bugs into a tug of war between two rival chefs, but the bunny holds all the cards with his recipe for "Louisiana Bayou Backbay Bunny Borderlay a la Antoine."
Saturday
June 2
noon
Print Schedule His Hare Raising Tale
1951 - Friz Freleng
It's a clip show, as Bugs tells his nephew Clyde many stories that can conveniently be referenced through old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Fortunately, Warner Bros. did not produce this sort of time-saver cartoon very often.
Ballot Box Bunny
1951 - Friz Freleng
Political satire and broad physical comedy abound as Bugs and Sam duel for political office and attempt to obliterate one another along the way.
Big Top Bunny
1951 - Robert McKimson
Bruno the bear is the star of the circus, so he tries to sabotage any attempt by Bugs at acrobatic derring-do. Watch for the great sequence as Bugs and Bruno try to outdo each other in the high dive.
Operation: Rabbit
1952 - Chuck Jones
Super Genius Wile E. Coyote comes a-callin' and fares no better with Bugs than he does with that scrawny bird he chases in his spare time!
14 Carrot Rabbit
1952 - Friz Freleng
The Gold Rush days of the Klondike is our setting as Chilico Sam tries to scam Bugs, who displays the uncanny ability to sense gold! An ocean liner and Fort Knox figure into this one, too!
Foxy By Proxy
1952 - Friz Freleng
Strange variation on the George-and-Lenny routine, as Bugs picks on a dopey dog engaged in a fox hunt. Bugs plays fox and makes the poor mutt chase a train.
Saturday
June 2
1 p.m.
Print Schedule Water, Water Every Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
A flooding current sweeps sleeping Bugs to an evil scientist's castle, and the orange, sneaker-clad monster from "Hair-Raising Hare" returns, here known as "Rudolph."
The Hasty Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
The return of Marvin the Martian, who brings along his dog, Lieutenant K-9. They abduct Bugs as a sample Earth creature, but soon Bugs is careening the spaceship back toward home.
Oily Hare
1952 - Robert McKimson
A Texas oilman builds a derrick over Bugs' rabbit hole, so Bugs retaliates with dynamite. There is finally a "gusher" coming out of the hole, but it's not oil!
Rabbit Seasoning
1952 - Chuck Jones
Verbal jousting on a level previously unheard of in cartoons, as Bugs and Daffy spar with Elmer and each other. "Pronoun trouble," indeed!
Rabbit's Kin
1952 - Robert McKimson
An adorable baby bunny with a hyperspeed voice enlists Bugs to help put the kibosh on gangly Pete Puma, arguably the dumbest foe the rabbit ever faced!
Hare Lift
1952 - Friz Freleng
The world's largest airplane is hijacked by bank robber Yosemite Sam, but Bugs proves to be a most mutinous pilot. Watch for the most cowardly automatic pilot ever.
Forward March Hare
1953 - Chuck Jones
Following a case of mistaken identity, Bugs finds himself drafted into an army of rather realistically rendered soldiers. Lots of awkward military hi-jinks follow, since Bugs is, well, a big rabbit!
Saturday
June 2
2 p.m.
Print Schedule Duck Amuck
1953 - Chuck Jones
Not really a Bugs cartoon, but the rabbit steals the last scene, and consequently, the show.
Upswept Hare
1953 - Robert McKimson
Elmer is living in a ritzy penthouse apartment (how could he afford that?) and transports Bugs home via a potted plant! One of them must go, so Bugs proposes a contest of skills.
Southern Fried Rabbit
1953 - Friz Freleng Bugs heads to Alabama for carrots, but he must first foil Confederate Colonel Sam, who hasn't been told the Civil War wound down some time ago.
Hare Trimmed
1953 - Friz Freleng
Granny inherits 50 million dollars. Yosemite Sam wants it. Bugs dons a disguise to court Granny and foil Sam. That's just the setup--imagine how weird things get from there!
Bully For Bugs
1953 - Chuck Jones
This uncontested Jones classic has matador Bugs facing down a huge, vicious bull. This has been a favorite for generations for good reason; every gag is a gem.
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
1953 - Chuck Jones
Final entry in the trilogy of classic Bugs-Daffy-Elmer hunting cartoons. This may be the best of the bunch, as Elmer is convinced over and over to blow Daffy's beak into yet another direction!
Saturday
June 2
3 p.m.
Print Schedule Robot Rabbit
1953 - Friz Freleng
Farmer Elmer Fudd goes high-tech and orders a rabbit-exterminating robot. Unfortunately for Elmer, by the end of the conflict the automaton has major "Bugs" in its programming!
Captain Hareblower
1954 - Friz Freleng
Pirate Sam and Bugs square off on the high seas, and we learn of the combustible powers of a ladies' powder room!
Bugs and Thugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is living in the big city and visits the bank for a withdrawal (of carrots!) Thinking it is a cab, he hops in the getaway car of bank robbers Rocky and Mugsy.
No Parking Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A freeway is coming through, so it's Bugs vs. a construction worker. The big dope uses all of the tools of his trade to try and destroy Bugs' domicile, but "a man's house is his castle"!
Devil May Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A new Looney Tunes character arrives on the scene: the Tasmanian Devil! Bugs convinces Taz he wouldn't be much of a meal and gives him several bum steers instead!
Bewitched Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Witch Hazel menaces Hansel and Gretel, and Bugs drops in to bust up this rollicking fairy tale farce. The pronunciation of "Hansel" is much in debate.
Saturday
June 2
4 p.m.
Print Schedule Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Nephew Clyde gets a rollicking American history lesson from Bugs, but the facts play more like fiction when the tyke takes the tall tales to school.
Lumberjack Rabbit
1954 - Chuck Jones
According to rumor, Jack Warner thought 3-D movies were here to stay. They weren't, and this fun romp with Bugs and Paul Bunyan's dog proves to be the only Warner cartoon shot in the process. Unfortunately, it takes no advantage of the medium in any noticeable way.
Baby Buggy Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Midget mobster Ant Hill Hardy has to get his stolen loot back from Bugs. What better way than to dress up like a baby?
Beanstalk Bunny
1955 - Chuck Jones
Wildly imaginative fairy tale variation, with Daffy as Jack, Elmer as the Giant (!), and Bugs somehow involved after the beanstalk carries him aloft. Best gag: tiny Bugs impossibly tripping the gigantic Elmer.
Sahara Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
Sheik Riff Raff Sam discovers a Miami Beach-bound Bugs leaving "footy prints" all over his desert.
Hare Brush
1955 - Friz Freleng
Role reversal reaches new heights as millionaire Elmer Fudd retreats to the rabbit hole and reprogrammed Bugs goes "wabbit" hunting in full hunting garb.
Rabbit Rampage
1955 - Chuck Jones
Basically a remake of "Duck Amuck," this time with Bugs as the tormented subject and Elmer Fudd as the maniacal animator!
Saturday
June 2
5 p.m
Print Schedule This Is A Life?
1955 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is the guest of honor on Elmer Fudd's TV program, but trips down Memory Lane with Yosemite Sam and others only drive the guests to seek revenge on the heckling hare! Daffy is notoriously peeved at the lack of attention paid to him.
Hyde and Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
One of Friz Freleng's funniest cartoons, in which our hero is taken in by Dr. Jekyll. Poor Bugs never discovers that his friend is also the murderous Mr. Hyde, who is out for rabbit blood!
Knight-Mare Hare
1955 - Chuck Jones
A variation on "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" has Bugs trying to explain himself in medieval England. Lots of great gags with swords and knights and dragons, and even Merlin shows up.
Roman Legion Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
The place? Ancient Rome. The bunny? Bugs. The captain of the guards? Yosemite Sam. The emperor? Nero. Add a pit of ravenous lions, and you've got yourself a cartoon!
Bugs Bonnets
1956 - Chuck Jones
A truckload of hats fly wildly about this cartoon, and every time a new one lands on Bugs or Elmer Fudd, their personalities are completely changed.
Broom-Stick Bunny
1956 - Chuck Jones
A trick-or-treating Bugs stops at the house of Witch Hazel. She just happens to need rabbit for her latest brew, so the chase begins. June Foray is the voice of Witch.
Saturday
June 2
6 p.m.
Print Schedule Rabbitson Crusoe
1956 - Friz Freleng
Castaway Yosemite "Crusoe" Sam sees a welcome respite from his diet of coconuts in the form of newly washed-ashore Bugs. Luckily, the rabbit has a sharp-toothed ally in the form of Dopey Dick, the man-eating shark.
Napoleon Bunny-Part
1956 - Friz Freleng
Bugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood Freeway and ends up in Napoleon's palace. Bugs is determined to annoy the French emperor for no good reason. Watch for Bugs in drag as Josephine!
Barbary Coast Bunny
1956 - Chuck Jones
The lesson of this cartoon is easy come, easy go. Bugs stumbles upon solid gold, but he is duped out of it by Nasty Canasta. Bugs returns the favor later, playing a rube to clean out "Canasta's Casino."
Half Fare Hare
1956 - Robert McKimson
Bugs hops a railcar to escape a cold winter and take advantage of a bumper crop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. However, Kramden and Norton look-alikes on the train would rather have fried rabbit than raw carrots.
A Star Is Bored
1956 - Friz Freleng Daffy Duck is jealous of movie star Bugs Bunny. Demanding to be in pictures, he is given a job as Bugs' stunt double!
Wideo Wabbit
1956 - Robert McKimson A zillion references to the Golden Age of television as Bugs tries out for Elmer Fudd's "Sportsman's Hour," only to discover the job description includes being shot!
Saturday
June 2
7 p.m.
Print Schedule To Hare Is Human
1956 - Chuck Jones
All rested up from his pounding in "Operation Rabbit," Wile E. Coyote returns for Round Two with a "Univac Electronic Brain" to help him. It doesn't.
Ali Baba Bunny
1957 - Chuck Jones
Bugs and Daffy make like Hope and Crosby on the Road to Pismo Beach and discover Ali Baba's treasure cave. Unfortunately, the loot is guarded by thick-headed and short-tempered Hassan!
Bedevilled Rabbit
1957 - Robert McKimson
Return of the Tasmanian Devil. This is the one with Bugs in drag as a female Tasmanian Devil, complete with a bear trap for a mouth!
Piker's Peak
1957 - Friz Freleng
50,000 Cronkites must be a lot of money, because Yosemite Sam is willing to climb the Schmatterhorn for it! But then, so is Bugs.
What's Opera, Doc?
1957 - Chuck Jones
Perhaps the ultimate variation on the Elmer-hunting-Bugs theme, this is a triumph of layout, design and color. Wagner music mixed with Warner Bros. lunacy is quite a jaw-dropping combination!
Bugsy and Mugsy
1957 - Friz Freleng
Bugs crashes the seedy hideout of the two title crooks and sets about pitting them against each other. Watch for the great scene of Mugsy on roller skates and Bugs under the floor with a big magnet!
Show Biz Bugs
1957 - Friz Freleng
Vaudeville partners Bugs and Daffy vie for attention. Daffy finally succeeds in receiving a rousing ovation but has to atomize himself in the process.
Saturday
June 2
8 p.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Romeo
1957 - Robert McKimson
Elmer's mystery Uncle Judd (Judd Fudd?) sends him a female Slobovian rabbit named "Millicent" to care for. Elmer enlists Bugs (at gunpoint!) to keep her company.
Hare-Less Wolf
1958 - Friz Freleng
The wolf from Tweety's "Red Riding Hoodwinked" shows up with a nagging wife and an urgent need to catch Bugs for dinner. Unfortunately for him, his short-term memory is gone, and he can't remember what animal to shoot!
Hare-Way to the Stars
1958 - Chuck Jones
Wonderful run-in with Marvin the Martian, who intends to blow up the Earth with his Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. This one is just chock full of instant Martians.
Now Hare This
1958 - Robert McKimson
Routine outing in which Bugs matches wits (no difficulty there) with a dense Big Bad Wolf and his annoying nephew.
Knighty Knight Bugs
1958 - Friz Freleng
Court jester Bugs must rescue the singing sword from the Black Knight (a.k.a. Yosemite Sam) and his fire-breathing dragon in this Oscar® winner.
Pre-Hysterical Hare
1958 - Robert McKimson
Bugs finds a reel of film that shows an ancient (and familiar) ritual playing out: a prehistoric hunter looking suspiciously like Elmer Fudd going after a saber-toothed version of Bugs!
Saturday
June 2
9 p.m.
Print Schedule Baton Bunny
1959 - Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow
The model of quiet dignity and sophistication, Conductor Bugs is heckled by a tiny fly! The usually unflappable Bugs makes it his mission to swat his buzzing antagonist.
Hare-Abian Nights
1959 - Ken Harris
Another wrong turn while tunneling brings Bugs up into the tent of a bored Arabian Sultan. The Sultan (who bears a striking resemblance to Yosemite Sam), insists that Bugs entertain him with stories--resulting in another clip cartoon!
Apes of Wrath
1959 - Friz Freleng
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Gorilla get a bundle of joy from the ever-inebriated stork, but it turns out to be Bugs. Bugs beats a retreat, only to be replaced by Daffy!
Backwoods Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
Bugs finds himself in the Ozarks, ducking a couple of hungry hillbilly vultures named Pappy and Elvis!
Wild and Wooly Hare
1959 - Friz Freleng
The final Bugs Bunny Western finds Sam and Bugs jousting with locomotives as Sam tries in vain to rob the train.
Bonanza Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
It's a routine outing as Bugs strikes gold in Alaska (by painting ordinary rocks yellow, apparently). The villain here is named Black Jacque Shellaque!
Saturday
June 2
10 p.m.
Print Schedule A Witch's Tangled Hare
1959 - Abe Levitow
A return appearance for Witch Hazel, as she and Bugs act out scenes from Shakespeare plays--with anvils!
People Are Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
Another parody of a then-current TV show, this time with Daffy trying to cash in on a TV game show along with an understandably reluctant Bugs.
Person To Bunny
1960 - Friz Freleng
Yet another TV parody, here of Edward R. Murrow's interview show. While Daffy Duck does all he can to get some TV time, Elmer challenges some disparaging remarks Bugs made about him on TV.
Rabbit's Feat
1960 - Chuck Jones
The third time is not the charm, but nevertheless Wile E. Coyote gives it the old college try, only to find himself enrolled in Bugs' school of hard knocks.
From Hare to Heir
1960 - Friz Freleng
The rich Duke (Yosemite Sam) has gone bust, but Bugs shows up to reward him because of his mild manner (Hah!). Bugs deducts a portion of the reward for every one of Sam's outbursts, of which there are many!
Lighter Than Hare
1960 - Friz Freleng
Apparently, Yosemite Sam turns out to be an alien from space, bent on capturing an Earth creature. That creature might as well be a rabbit!
The Abominable Snow Rabbit
1961 - Chuck Jones
Bugs is tunneling with Daffy and winds up in the Himalayas, where they encounter a big, dumb Yeti! This is the one where the Yeti pets Daffy violently, saying "I will hold him and squeeze him and call him George!"
Saturday
June 2
11 p.m.
Print Schedule Compressed Hare
1961 - Chuck Jones
Wile E. Coyote rolls up his sleeves and makes yet another try at Bugs. Unfortunately, the tricks up those sleeves are completely ineffective.
Prince Violent
1961 - Friz Freleng
Viking (Yosemite) Sam is trying to storm the castle occupied by Bugs. This one has some wonderfully timed gags with Sam's outlandishly huge elephant.
Wet Hare
1962 - Robert McKimson
Black Jaque Shellac dams up Bugs' shower-giving waterfall. Bugs will have none of it, but for every destroyed dam, the stubborn lumberjack creates another. When Bugs starts countering with his own dams, things really get out of hand!
Bill of Hare
1962 - Robert McKimson
The Tasmanian Devil is back, and he's thrown Bugs into his stew pot. Bugs convinces Taz they should be out moose hunting instead.
Shishkabugs
1962 - Friz Freleng
The King wants "Hassenpheffer" for dinner. Royal cook Yosemite Sam intends to prepare it with Bugs as the main ingredient. With Sam's track record, you'd think he would just order a pizza.
Devil's Feud Cake
1963 - Friz Freleng
In another "clips cartoon," we see several recycled gags as Yosemite Sam dies in a plane crash (!), goes to H-E-double-hockey-sticks, and makes a deal with the devil to return with Bugs in tow!
Sunda
June 3
midnight
Print Schedule The Million-Hare
1963 - Robert McKimson
Bugs and Daffy are drawn into "Beat Your Buddy," a game show precursor to "Survivor" where the winner receives a "million box."
Hare-Breadth Hurry
1963 - Chuck Jones
The Road Runner sprains a giblet and a vitamin-poppin' Bugs Bunny fills his shoes in this final clash with Wile E. Coyote.
The Unmentionables
1963 - Friz Freleng
A fun parody of TV's "The Untouchables," with Bugs as crimebuster Elegant Mess. Rocky and Mugsy are the criminal element, of course.
Mad As Mars Hare
1963 - Chuck Jones
In this neat reversal, it is an Earthling (Bugs in an orange space suit) trying to claim Marvin the Martian's planet in the name of Mankind (and Rabbitkind).
Transylvania 6-5000
1963 - Chuck Jones
Vampire Count Bloodcount wants to put the bite on Bugs, but for every "hocus pocus," there's an "abra kadabra." Oh, and there's a two-headed lady vulture, too!
Dumb Patrol
1964 - Gerry Chiniquy
A loose parody of "Dawn Patrol" finds WWI flying ace Bugs gunning for Baron Sam von Shamm. Sam's heart ain't in it, though--he'd rather go on furlough "to make whoopie, with Schnapps and beautiful Fräuleins!"
Sunday
June3
1 a.m.
Print Schedule Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
1964 - Robert McKimson
Bugs tangles again with the Tasmanian Devil. This time he convinces Taz he is a doctor and a psychiatrist, and really gives him the treatment!
The Iceman Ducketh
1964 - Phil Monroe
Daffy hunts Bugs in the Klondike for his valuable fur. Bugs is less than pleased. A bunch of hibernating bears aren't too happy, either.
False Hare
1964 - Robert McKimson
The final theatrically released Bugs Bunny cartoon from the remnants of Termite Terrace finds our hero matching wits with a bowler-clad big bad wolf and his nephew. Foghorn Leghorn barges in on the last scene!
Fright Before Christmas
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. Bugs and his nephew Clyde are visited by Taz as Santa Claus--and Santa is ready to eat more than just milk and cookies!
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. An odd retelling of Dickens, to say the least, with Porky Pig as Cratchit, Yosemite Sam as Scrooge and Tweety as Tiny Tim!
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
1980 - Chuck Jones
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over. Seeing young rabbits springing by, Bugs remembers his childhood, and the infant Elmer Fudd on his trail.
Spaced Out Bunny
1980 - Chuck Jones
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over. Marvin the Martian lures Bugs with the old carrot-on-a-string trick and brings him to the lonesome Abominable Snowman.
Sunday
June 3
2 a.m.
Print Schedule Box Office Bunny
1990 - Darrell Van Citters
The first theatrical Bugs cartoon since 1964. This is a fun outing in which Bugs explores the movie theater that was built over his rabbit hole. Elmer Fudd is an usher.
Blooper Bunny
1991 - Greg Ford and Terry Lennon
Much of the gang appears in this clever cartoon made in the form of a "behind the scenes" documentary. Outtakes and false starts abound as we watch the production of "The Bugs Bunny 51st and a Half Anniversary Spectacular."
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1991 - Greg Ford and Terry Lennon
In this satirical outing, Bugs encounters "off-model" versions of Elmer, Daffy and Yosemite Sam. They are pod duplicates, and Bugs fears he will be next.
Carrotblanca
1995 - Douglas McCarthy
An elaborate parody of Warner Bros.' most famous live-action feature, with most of the Looney Tunes crew represented. Pepe Le Pew is the logical choice to play Louie, but Tweety as "Usmarte"?
From Hare to Eternity
1997 - Chuck Jones
Nearly 60 years after directing his first Bugs cartoon, Chuck Jones weighs in with his most recent effort. Here Bugs tangles with Pirate Yosemite Sam over a treasure chest. Watch for Bugs in drag as a mermaid!
Patient Porky
1940 - Bob Clampett
Bugs has a cameo in this crazy Porky-Pig-in-a-hospital cartoon. This is the original Black-and-White version.
Sunday
June 3
3 a.m.
Print Schedule Porky's Hare Hunt
1938 - Ben Hardaway
Almost a remake of "Porky's Duck Hunt," which introduced Daffy Duck. Here Porky encounters a rabbit that bears little resemblance to our hero. Appropriately, director Hardaway's nickname was "Bugs." This is the original Black-and-White version.
Porky Pig's Feat
1943 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs appears as the pay-off gag in this Porky and Daffy outing. This is the original Black-and-White version.
Hare Conditioned
1945 - Chuck Jones
Another great chance for Bugs to change costumes throughout a cartoon, as he is chased around a large department store by a burly floorwalker. Watch for Bugs in drag in the shoe department!
Hare Force
1944 - Friz Freleng
Kind-hearted Granny brings a frozen Bugs in from the cold, but her dog wants the fireplace to himself and devises ways to eliminate the rabbit. Everyone takes turns getting thrown out into the snow, including Granny!
Buckaroo Bugs
1944 - Bob Clampett
Terrific Western cartoon, with Red Hot Ryder storming out of the dust to catch that carrot stealer, the Masked Marauder! Red Hot Ryder's horse almost steals the show!
The Wacky Wabbit
1942 - Bob Clampett
Gold prospector Elmer Fudd thinks Bugs' rabbit hole is an ideal place to find a rich mineral vein. With a premise like that, you can expect a lot of gags involving dynamite and gold teeth!
Sunday
June 3
4 a.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Transit
1947 - Friz Freleng
Bugs has his third race with Cecil Turtle and his rocket-powered shell. The two actually agree at the start of the cartoon not to cheat. HA!
The Unruly Hare
1945 - Frank Tashlin
Bugs tangles with Elmer Fudd the surveyor. It seems you can place anything a few inches in front of Elmer's survey viewer, and he will believe it is huge!
Bedevilled Rabbit
1957 - Robert McKimson
Return of the Tasmanian Devil. This is the one with Bugs in drag as a female Tasmanian Devil, complete with a bear trap for a mouth!
Wabbit Trouble
1941 - Bob Clampett
Poor Elmer tries to go camping, but Bugs ruins any chance at relaxation. The first great Clampett-directed Bugs cartoon.
Bugsy and Mugsy
1957 - Friz Freleng
Bugs crashes the seedy hideout of the two title crooks and sets about pitting them against each other. Watch for the great scene of Mugsy on roller skates and Bugs under the floor with a big magnet!
Hyde and Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
One of Friz Freleng's funniest cartoons, in which our hero is taken in by Dr. Jekyll. Poor Bugs never discovers that his friend is also the murderous Mr. Hyde, who is out for rabbit blood!
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
1942 - Friz Freleng
Elmer Fudd is hunting wabbits when he receives a timely telegram from his Uncle Louie that promises three million dollars on the condition that Elmer never harm any animals--especially rabbits! Now, how can we expect Bugs not to take advantage of THAT?
Sunday
June 3
5 a.m.
Print Schedule People Are Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
Another parody of a then-current TV show, this time with Daffy trying to cash in on a TV game show along with an understandably reluctant Bugs.
Rebel Rabbit
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs at his most devilish, as a protest over low rabbit bounties mushrooms into a full-scale open war on America!
High Diving Hare
1949 - Friz Freleng
We never DO see the detained "Fearless Freep," but carny barker Bugs manages to sucker Yosemite Sam into countless water-logged free falls.
Haredevil Hare
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs gets blasted into space and has his very first encounter with Marvin Martian, known here as Commander X-2. Bugs saves the Earth, but not the Moon, which gets blown to bits!
Rabbit Fire
1951 - Chuck Jones
Is it Rabbit Season or Duck Season? Bugs and Daffy argue the point for the benefit of Elmer Fudd in the first of a trio of like-minded cartoons from Jones. This cartoon contains some of the snappiest dialogue of the Looney Tunes run!
Bugs and Thugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is living in the big city and visits the bank for a withdrawal (of carrots!) Thinking it is a cab, he hops in the getaway car of bank robbers Rocky and Mugsy.
Sunday
June 3
6 a.m.
Print Schedule Bugs Bonnets
1956 - Chuck Jones
A truckload of hats fly wildly about this cartoon, and every time a new one lands on Bugs or Elmer Fudd, their personalities are completely changed.
Transylvania 6-5000
1963 - Chuck Jones
Vampire Count Bloodcount wants to put the bite on Bugs, but for every "hocus pocus," there's an "abra kadabra." Oh, and there's a two-headed lady vulture, too!
A Witch's Tangled Hare
1959 - Abe Levitow
A return appearance for Witch Hazel, as she and Bugs act out scenes from Shakespeare plays--with anvils!
Tortoise Beats Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a race with Cecil Turtle, with Cecil always impossibly turning up ahead of Bugs, no matter what. Tex Avery would repeat the theme in later years at MGM with Droopy and the Wolf.
Easter Yeggs
1947 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gallantly volunteers to help out the Easter Bunny. He finds out the job is pretty thankless, especially when he runs into Elmer Fudd dressed as a baby. No Easter wabbit stew in his future!
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942 - Friz Freleng
Having failed in normal methods, Elmer Fudd tries to use the power of hypnotism to foil Bugs, but the tables are turned and it is Elmer who is hypnotized into thinking HE is the rabbit!
Sunday
June 3
7 a.m.
Print Schedule Hold The Lion, Please
1942 - Chuck Jones
A lion is mocked by fellow animals who feel he's not worthy of the title "King of the Jungle." The lion goes after Bugs to prove his worth. Watch for a rare appearance by MRS. Bugs Bunny!
The Old Grey Hare
1944 - Bob Clampett
Wild cartoon featuring flash-forwards of Bugs and Elmer chasing each other (in wheelchairs) with ray guns, along with flashbacks of the two as babies!
The Fair Haired Hare
1951 - Friz Freleng
Yosemite Sam's prefabricated ranch home is plopped over Bugs' hole, and the "highest court in the country" (really!) orders them to share the property until one of them passes on. Sam tries in vain to hurry things along.
Rabbit's Feat 1960 - Chuck Jones The third time is not the charm, but nevertheless Wile E. Coyote gives it the old college try, only to find himself enrolled in Bugs' school of hard knocks.
Bewitched Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Witch Hazel menaces Hansel and Gretel, and Bugs drops in to bust up this rollicking fairy tale farce. The pronunciation of "Hansel" is much in debate.
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947 - Friz Freleng
Wonderful cartoon that details Bugs' rags-to-riches rise to Hollywood stardom. Growing up in New York's East Side, Bugs gets some hard lessons from a pack of thuggish dogs, but guess who ends up on top of the dog pile?
Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
1942 - Bob Clampett
Mama Buzzard unleashes her offspring, one of whom (Beaky Buzzard) goes after rabbit meat! Wild gags involving animal bones result in the classic Bugs comment, "Gruesome, isn't it?"
Sunday
June 3
8 a.m.
Print Schedule Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
1964 - Robert McKimson
Bugs tangles again with the Tasmanian Devil. This time he convinces Taz he is a doctor and a psychiatrist, and really gives him the treatment!
The Heckling Hare
1941 - Tex Avery
It's a big dumb hunting dog who gets heckled. This is the one where our heroes fall off a cliff, continue falling forever, then calmly put on the brakes!
Case of the Missing Hare
1942 - Chuck Jones
Bugs enters into a state of war with magician Ala Bama after having a sign rudely posted over his rabbit hole. At his next performance, the magician finds that Bugs knows all the tricks!
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
1943 - Friz Freleng
A goofy Giant in Giantland goes after Bugs, who is swiping carrots from the garden. Bugs uses the Giant's size against him and watches as the Giant bypasses the Beanstalk for some stairs that aren't there!
Baseball Bugs
1946 - Friz Freleng
Bugs' rabbit hole is inconveniently located in right field of a baseball diamond. He taunts the Gas House Gorillas that he can beat the whole team by himself--and he does!
Hare Remover
1946 - Frank Tashlin
Elmer needs a rabbit to perform his laboratory experiments on, so Bugs plays along and pretends to be captured. Think Elmer's potions will work on Bugs? "No soap, Doc!"
Sunday
June 3
9 a.m.
Print Schedule Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954 - Friz Freleng
Nephew Clyde gets a rollicking American history lesson from Bugs, but the facts play more like fiction when the tyke takes the tall tales to school.
A Wild Hare
1940 - Tex Avery
All of the elements fall into place in the cartoon that finally cemented Bugs' personality and mannerisms. Contains his first uttering of "What's up, Doc?"
Rabbit Seasoning
1952 - Chuck Jones
Verbal jousting on a level previously unheard of in cartoons, as Bugs and Daffy spar with Elmer and each other. "Pronoun trouble," indeed!
The Big Snooze
1946 - Bob Clampett
For his last cartoon at Warners, Clampett creates a wild variation on the Elmer-hunts-Bugs theme. Bugs invades Elmer's sleep and causes as much havoc in his dream-state as awake!
Long-Haired Hare
1949 - Chuck Jones
Bugs exacts revenge on a violent opera singer and, disguised as famed conductor "Leopold," literally brings down the house.
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
1944 - Chuck Jones
The Three Bears lure Bugs to their place instead of Goldilocks, but they intend to clobber him anyway. The voice of Junior Bear is performed by Stan Freberg.
Sunday
June 3
10 a.m.
Print Schedule Hare Ribbin'
1944 - Bob Clampett
One of the strangest Bugs cartoons, it takes place primarily underwater as Bugs is chased by a dog! Imitations of mermaids aside, the setting remains rather inexplicable.
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
A wild sequel to Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." Cecil Turtle again races with Bugs, who comes up with his own metal turtle shell for improved aerodynamics.
Operation: Rabbit
1952 - Chuck Jones
Super Genius Wile E. Coyote comes a-callin' and fares no better with Bugs than he does with that scrawny bird he chases in his spare time!
Hair-Raising Hare
1946 - Chuck Jones
A mad scientist and Peter Lorre look-alike grabs Bugs with the intention of feeding him to his big orange sneaker-clad monster. Watch for the female rabbit robot and the great Bugs line, "Don't think it hasn't been a little slice of heaven--'cause it hasn't!"
Racketeer Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
It's fun with gangsters, as crooks Rocky and Hugo try to take Bugs for a ride. Bugs becomes "Mugsy" and can be as thuggish as the best of them!
Hare Tonic
1945 - Chuck Jones
Elmer has bought fresh rabbit at the market. Bugs could easily escape, but just for fun he pretends to be a carrier of the dreaded disease Rabbititus!
Falling Hare
1943 - Bob Clampett
Classic Clampett cartoon of Bugs vs. the Gremlin. Wild takes, wartime humor and airplane nosedives abound!
Sunday
June 3
11 a.m.
Print Schedule Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944 - Friz Freleng
The familiar fairy tale gets the Termite Terrace treatment. A bobby-soxer is taking Bugs to Grandma's house when a wolf intercepts to get the rabbit meal. Bugs has to handle both the wolf AND the annoying bobby-soxer!
Bully For Bugs
1953 - Chuck Jones
This uncontested Jones classic has matador Bugs facing down a huge, vicious bull. This has been a favorite for generations for good reason; every gag is a gem.
Super Rabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
After a letter-perfect parody of the opening of the 1940s Superman cartoons, we follow SuperBugs as he tangles with Cottontail Smith, a rabbit-hater from Texas.
Wackiki Wabbit
1943 - Chuck Jones
Two starving castaways land on an island inhabited by Bugs Bunny. Bugs not only avoids becoming their next meal--he manages an island escape of his own!
Rhapsody Rabbit
1946 - Friz Freleng
A tuxedo-clad Bugs Bunny sits down at his piano to perform the 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. A little mouse creates musical havoc. Wasn't this a Tom and Jerry cartoon, too?
Slick Hare
1947 - Friz Freleng
This is the classic in which Humphrey Bogart demands fried rabbit from waiter Elmer Fudd. Thanks to Bugs, all he gets is a coconut custard pie--in the face!
Sunday
June 3
noon
Print Schedule Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
1953 - Chuck Jones
Final entry in the trilogy of classic Bugs-Daffy-Elmer hunting cartoons. This may be the best of the bunch, as Elmer is convinced over and over to blow Daffy's beak into yet another direction!
Rabbit Punch
1948 - Chuck Jones
Bugs heckles the boxing Champ and ends up in the ring with him. Every punching gag you can think of turns up, because this bout goes 110 rounds!
Beanstalk Bunny
1955 - Chuck Jones
Wildly imaginative fairy tale variation, with Daffy as Jack, Elmer as the Giant (!), and Bugs somehow involved after the beanstalk carries him aloft. Best gag: tiny Bugs impossibly tripping the gigantic Elmer.
Apes of Wrath
1959 - Friz Freleng
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Gorilla get a bundle of joy from the ever-inebriated stork, but it turns out to be Bugs. Bugs beats a retreat, only to be replaced by Daffy!
Rabbit's Kin
1952 - Robert McKimson
An adorable baby bunny with a hyperspeed voice enlists Bugs to help put the kibosh on gangly Pete Puma, arguably the dumbest foe the rabbit ever faced!
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948 - Friz Freleng
A gun-slinging classic as Yosemite Sam and Bugs square off in the Wild West. When Sam enters the local saloon, his long-winded introduction originally included a reference to Mahatma Gandhi!
Sunday
June 3
1 p.m.
Print Schedule Bugsy and Mugsy
1957 - Friz Freleng
Bugs crashes the seedy hideout of the two title crooks and sets about pitting them against each other. Watch for the great scene of Mugsy on roller skates and Bugs under the floor with a big magnet!
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
1941 - Chuck Jones
Elmer buys Bugs in a pet store and comes to regret it as Bugs takes over his house. Contains Bugs' first uttering of "Of course, you realize this means war!"
Hare-Way to the Stars
1958 - Chuck Jones
Wonderful run-in with Marvin the Martian, who intends to blow up the Earth with his Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. This one is just chock full of instant Martians.
Water, Water Every Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
A flooding current sweeps sleeping Bugs to an evil scientist's castle, and the orange, sneaker-clad monster from "Hair-Raising Hare" returns, here known as "Rudolph."
Buccaneer Bunny
1948 - Friz Freleng
Pirate Sam buries his treasure chest on a secluded beach. Secluded, that is, until Bugs makes the scene.
Ballot Box Bunny
1951 - Friz Freleng
Political satire and broad physical comedy abound as Bugs and Sam duel for political office and attempt to obliterate one another along the way.
A Corny Concerto
1943 - Bob Clampett
Two different stories set to classical music in a parody of Fantasia. One entry has Bugs eluding Porky and a hunting dog. Watch for Bugs' elaborate "death" scene.
Sunday
June 3
2 p.m.
Print Schedule Show Biz Bugs
1957 - Friz Freleng
Vaudeville partners Bugs and Daffy vie for attention. Daffy finally succeeds in receiving a rousing ovation but has to atomize himself in the process.
A Star Is Bored
1956 - Friz Freleng
Daffy Duck is jealous of movie star Bugs Bunny. Demanding to be in pictures, he is given a job as Bugs' stunt double!
This Is A Life?
1955 - Friz Freleng
Bugs is the guest of honor on Elmer Fudd's TV program, but trips down Memory Lane with Yosemite Sam and others only drive the guests to seek revenge on the heckling hare! Daffy is notoriously peeved at the lack of attention paid to him.
Rabbit of Seville
1950 - Chuck Jones
A Jones classic in which Elmer and Bugs act out an operatic overture in The Hollywood Bowl. Bugs wields the razor as the Barber, while Elmer is the befuddled occupant of the Barber's chair. A masterpiece of timing and character animation.
What's Up, Doc?
1950 - Robert McKimson
Hilarious flashbacks as Bugs tells the story of his meteoric rise to fame, his fateful pairing with Elmer Fudd, and his endless nights as one of the "Boys in the Chorus."
What's Opera, Doc?
1957 - Chuck Jones
Perhaps the ultimate variation on the Elmer-hunting-Bugs theme, this is a triumph of layout, design and color. Wagner music mixed with Warner Bros. lunacy is quite a jaw-dropping combination!
Sunday
June 3
3 p.m.
Print Schedule Blooper Bunny
1991 - Greg Ford and Terry Lennon
Much of the gang appears in this clever cartoon made in the form of a "behind the scenes" documentary. Outtakes and false starts abound as we watch the production of "The Bugs Bunny 51st and a Half Anniversary Spectacular."
Carrotblanca
1995 - Douglas McCarthy
An elaborate parody of Warner Bros.' most famous live-action feature, with most of the Looney Tunes crew represented. Pepe Le Pew is the logical choice to play Louie, but Tweety as "Usmarte"?
From Hare to Eternity
1997 - Chuck Jones
Nearly 60 years after directing his first Bugs cartoon, Chuck Jones weighs in with his most recent effort. Here Bugs tangles with Pirate Yosemite Sam over a treasure chest. Watch for Bugs in drag as a mermaid!
Hare Splitter
1948 - Friz Freleng
A dim-witted rabbit named "Casbah" crosses swords with Bugs for the affections of the never-to-be-heard-from-again Daisy Lou.
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
1948 - Chuck Jones
A wrong turn on a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits lands Bugs in Scotland, where cranky local "McCrory" duels with our hero across 18 of the goofiest holes of golf ever played. Tiger Woods this ain't.
Hare Do
1949 - Friz Freleng
Exactly why Army surplus manufactured a "wabbit detector" remains a mystery, but Elmer uses his to chase Bugs into a local theater. Eventually, Fudd is tricked into riding a unicycle into the jaws of a hungry lion!
Sunday
June 3
4 p.m.
Print Schedule Bowery Bugs
1949 - Art Davis
Bugs sells an old-timer the Brooklyn Bridge via a colorful tale of Bully Steve Brody, who Bugs drives to jump from the aforementioned bridge!
The Grey Hounded Hare
1949 - Robert McKimson
Bugs falls for an electrified dog-track rabbit and tries his best to fend off a pack of bloodthirsty greyhounds.
Rabbit Hood
1949 - Chuck Jones
Attempting to make off with the King's carrots, Bugs runs afoul of the Sheriff of Nottingham, an ineffectual Little John, and a flesh-and-blood Errol Flynn as Robin!
Hurdy Gurdy Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs gets a monkey and goes into the organ grinder trade. The monkey pockets the change for himself, and soon Bugs is partnered with a gorilla!
Mutiny on the Bunny
1950 - Friz Freleng
Shanghai (Yosemite) Sam suckers Bugs with the promise of an around-the-world cruise, but the seafaring rabbit sinks his ship time and again!
Homeless Hare
1950 - Chuck Jones
Urban renewal threatens Bugs' home as a massive construction worker tries in vain to evict the rabbit from his happy home.
8 Ball Bunny
1950 - Chuck Jones
Hoboken's only native dancing penguin spurs Bugs on a wild goose chase to the South Pole, and Humphrey Bogart panhandles for loose change three times!
Sunday
June 3
5 p.m.
Print Schedule Hillbilly Hare
1950 - Robert McKimson
Bugs ventures into the Ozarks and runs across two Martin cousins with short tempers and long shotguns. Square dancing will never be the same.
Hare We Go
1951 - Robert McKimson
Christopher Columbus takes Bugs Bunny across the Atlantic and the merits of rabbits as jinxes are hotly debated. Also, we discover Bugs is roughly as strong as Superman, able to toss a baseball around the entire Earth!
Bunny Hugged
1951 - Chuck Jones
Bugs as "The Terror" steps into the ring with "The Crusher" in this spoof of pro wrestling.
French Rarebit
1951 - Robert McKimson
A carrot-crate trip to Paris drops Bugs into a tug of war between two rival chefs, but the bunny holds all the cards with his recipe for "Louisiana Bayou Backbay Bunny Borderlay a la Antoine."
His Hare Raising Tale
1951 - Friz Freleng
It's a clip show, as Bugs tells his nephew Clyde many stories that can conveniently be referenced through old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Fortunately, Warner Bros. did not produce this sort of time-saver cartoon very often.
14 Carrot Rabbit
1952 - Friz Freleng
The Gold Rush days of the Klondike is our setting as Chilico Sam tries to scam Bugs, who displays the uncanny ability to sense gold! An ocean liner and Fort Knox figure into this one, too!
Sunday
June 3
6 p.m.
Print Schedule Foxy By Proxy
1952 - Friz Freleng
Strange variation on the George-and-Lenny routine, as Bugs picks on a dopey dog engaged in a fox hunt. Bugs plays fox and makes the poor mutt chase a train.
The Hasty Hare
1952 - Chuck Jones
The return of Marvin the Martian, who brings along his dog, Lieutenant K-9. They abduct Bugs as a sample Earth creature, but soon Bugs is careening the spaceship back toward home.
Oily Hare
1952 - Robert McKimson
A Texas oilman builds a derrick over Bugs' rabbit hole, so Bugs retaliates with dynamite. There is finally a "gusher" coming out of the hole, but it's not oil!
Hare Lift
1952 - Friz Freleng
The world's largest airplane is hijacked by bank robber Yosemite Sam, but Bugs proves to be a most mutinous pilot. Watch for the most cowardly automatic pilot ever.
Forward March Hare
1953 - Chuck Jones
Following a case of mistaken identity, Bugs finds himself drafted into an army of rather realistically rendered soldiers. Lots of awkward military hi-jinks follow, since Bugs is, well, a big rabbit!
Upswept Hare
1953 - Robert McKimson
Elmer is living in a ritzy penthouse apartment (how could he afford that?) and transports Bugs home via a potted plant! One of them must go, so Bugs proposes a contest of skills.
Sunday
June 3
7 p.m.
Print Schedule Hare Trimmed
1953 - Friz Freleng
Granny inherits 50 million dollars. Yosemite Sam wants it. Bugs dons a disguise to court Granny and foil Sam. That's just the setup--imagine how weird things get from there!
Robot Rabbit
1953 - Friz Freleng
Farmer Elmer Fudd goes high-tech and orders a rabbit-exterminating robot. Unfortunately for Elmer, by the end of the conflict the automaton has major "Bugs" in its programming!
No Parking Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A freeway is coming through, so it's Bugs vs. a construction worker. The big dope uses all of the tools of his trade to try and destroy Bugs' domicile, but "a man's house is his castle"!
Devil May Hare
1954 - Robert McKimson
A new Looney Tunes character arrives on the scene: the Tasmanian Devil! Bugs convinces Taz he wouldn't be much of a meal and gives him several bum steers instead!
Lumberjack Rabbit
1954 - Chuck Jones
According to rumor, Jack Warner thought 3-D movies were here to stay. They weren't, and this fun romp with Bugs and Paul Bunyan's dog proves to be the only Warner cartoon shot in the process. Unfortunately, it takes no advantage of the medium in any noticeable way.
Baby Buggy Bunny
1954 - Chuck Jones
Midget mobster Ant Hill Hardy has to get his stolen loot back from Bugs. What better way than to dress up like a baby?
Hare Brush
1955 - Friz Freleng
Role reversal reaches new heights as millionaire Elmer Fudd retreats to the rabbit hole and reprogrammed Bugs goes "wabbit" hunting in full hunting garb.
Sunday
June 3
8 p.m.
Print Schedule Rabbit Rampage
1955 - Chuck Jones
Basically a remake of "Duck Amuck," this time with Bugs as the tormented subject and Elmer Fudd as the maniacal animator!
Roman Legion Hare
1955 - Friz Freleng
The place? Ancient Rome. The bunny? Bugs. The captain of the guards? Yosemite Sam. The emperor? Nero. Add a pit of ravenous lions, and you've got yourself a cartoon!
Rabbitson Crusoe
1956 - Friz Freleng
Castaway Yosemite "Crusoe" Sam sees a welcome respite from his diet of coconuts in the form of newly washed-ashore Bugs. Luckily, the rabbit has a sharp-toothed ally in the form of Dopey Dick, the man-eating shark.
Napoleon Bunny-Part
1956 - Friz Freleng
Bugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood Freeway and ends up in Napoleon's palace. Bugs is determined to annoy the French emperor for no good reason. Watch for Bugs in drag as Josephine!
Half Fare Hare
1956 - Robert McKimson
Bugs hops a railcar to escape a cold winter and take advantage of a bumper crop in Chattanooga, Tennessee. However, Kramden and Norton look-alikes on the train would rather have fried rabbit than raw carrots.
To Hare Is Human
1956 - Chuck Jones
All rested up from his pounding in "Operation Rabbit," Wile E. Coyote returns for Round Two with a "Univac Electronic Brain" to help him. It doesn't.
Sunday
June 3
9 p.m.
Print Schedule Ali Baba Bunny
1957 - Chuck Jones
Bugs and Daffy make like Hope and Crosby on the Road to Pismo Beach and discover Ali Baba's treasure cave. Unfortunately, the loot is guarded by thick-headed and short-tempered Hassan!
Piker's Peak
1957 - Friz Freleng
50,000 Cronkites must be a lot of money, because Yosemite Sam is willing to climb the Schmatterhorn for it! But then, so is Bugs.
Hare-Less Wolf
1958 - Friz Freleng
The wolf from Tweety's "Red Riding Hoodwinked" shows up with a nagging wife and an urgent need to catch Bugs for dinner. Unfortunately for him, his short-term memory is gone, and he can't remember what animal to shoot!
Knighty Knight Bugs
1958 - Friz Freleng
Court jester Bugs must rescue the singing sword from the Black Knight (a.k.a. Yosemite Sam) and his fire-breathing dragon in this Oscar® winner.
Baton Bunny
1959 - Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow
The model of quiet dignity and sophistication, Conductor Bugs is heckled by a tiny fly! The usually unflappable Bugs makes it his mission to swat his buzzing antagonist.
Bonanza Bunny
1959 - Robert McKimson
It's a routine outing as Bugs strikes gold in Alaska (by painting ordinary rocks yellow, apparently). The villain here is named Black Jacque Shellaque!
Sunday
June 3
10 p.m.
Print Schedule Person To Bunny
1960 - Friz Freleng
Yet another TV parody, here of Edward R. Murrow's interview show. While Daffy Duck does all he can to get some TV time, Elmer challenges some disparaging remarks Bugs made about him on TV.
The Abominable Snow Rabbit
1961 - Chuck Jones
Bugs is tunneling with Daffy and winds up in the Himalayas, where they encounter a big, dumb Yeti! This is the one where the Yeti pets Daffy violently, saying "I will hold him and squeeze him and call him George!"
Compressed Hare
1961 - Chuck Jones
Wile E. Coyote rolls up his sleeves and makes yet another try at Bugs. Unfortunately, the tricks up those sleeves are completely ineffective.
Wet Hare
1962 - Robert McKimson
Black Jaque Shellac dams up Bugs' shower-giving waterfall. Bugs will have none of it, but for every destroyed dam, the stubborn lumberjack creates another. When Bugs starts countering with his own dams, things really get out of hand!
Shishkabugs
1962 - Friz Freleng
The King wants "Hassenpheffer" for dinner. Royal cook Yosemite Sam intends to prepare it with Bugs as the main ingredient. With Sam's track record, you'd think he would just order a pizza.
Devil's Feud Cake
1963 - Friz Freleng
In another "clips cartoon," we see several recycled gags as Yosemite Sam dies in a plane crash (!), goes to H-E-double-hockey-sticks, and makes a deal with the devil to return with Bugs in tow!
The Million-Hare
1963 - Robert McKimson
Bugs and Daffy are drawn into "Beat Your Buddy," a game show precursor to "Survivor" where the winner receives a "million box."
Sunday
June 3
11 p.m.
Print Schedule Hare-Breadth Hurry
1963 - Chuck Jones
The Road Runner sprains a giblet and a vitamin-poppin' Bugs Bunny fills his shoes in this final clash with Wile E. Coyote.
Mad As Mars Hare
1963 - Chuck Jones
In this neat reversal, it is an Earthling (Bugs in an orange space suit) trying to claim Marvin the Martian's planet in the name of Mankind (and Rabbitkind).
Dumb Patrol
1964 - Gerry Chiniquy
A loose parody of "Dawn Patrol" finds WWI flying ace Bugs gunning for Baron Sam von Shamm. Sam's heart ain't in it, though--he'd rather go on furlough "to make whoopie, with Schnapps and beautiful Fräuleins!"
Fright Before Christmas
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. Bugs and his nephew Clyde are visited by Taz as Santa Claus--and Santa is ready to eat more than just milk and cookies!
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979 - Friz Freleng
Originally part of the CBS TV special called Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. An odd retelling of Dickens, to say the least, with Porky Pig as Cratchit, Yosemite Sam as Scrooge and Tweety as Tiny Tim!
Box Office Bunny
1990 - Darrell Van Citters
The first theatrical Bugs cartoon since 1964. This is a fun outing in which Bugs explores the movie theater that was built over his rabbit hole. Elmer Fudd is an usher.