Moments when Bugs loses the upper hand are very rare, and his opponents are almost always morons who pose no serious threat
Tag Archives: Bugs Bunny
Bugs Bunny gets another weird reboot
This time around, Bugs and Daffy are sitcom characters living in the suburbs
He Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby
Just a bit of frivolity after a weekend where most of the news was anything but frivolous: someone compiled a collection of scenes where Bugs Bunny dresses in drag.
My Favourite Halloween-Themed Cartoon
I think it’s Chuck Jones’s “Broom-Stick Bunny.” I think I have a real fondness for Halloween stories where trick-or-treating turns disastrous, whether it’s for Bugs in this cartoon or Margaret O’Brien in Meet Me In St. Louis (one of the few movies that portrays kids playing old-fashioned Halloween games, where they literally try to be evil). It is kind of a spooky concept.
Weekend Viewing: The Witch Hazel Trilogy
Can’t find what I was originally going to post for Halloween, so the fallback position is, as always, some Bugs Bunny cartoons (which count as TV ’cause that’s where we all saw them for the first time). And the ultimate Halloween antagonist for Bugs is Witch Hazel, a green, cackling, bobby-pin-shedding witch created by Chuck Jones in 1954’s “Bewitched Bunny,” where she was voiced by Bea Benaderet (Betty Rubble).
Weekend Viewing: “Ballot Box Bunny”
Since nobody can think of anything except elections (even those of us in ridings, districts or states where the winner is already known and our vote doesn’t count), I feel I should highlight some election-related clips. And obviously, the place to start is with the cartoon that introduced us all to the violent, backstabbing and sometimes literally suicidal nature of political campaigning.