This time Happy looks more like the present-day Bugs, taller and with a similar face but retaining the more primitive voice. In Chuck Jones' Elmer's Candid Camera, Happy first meets Elmer Fudd. In Hare-um Scare-um, a newspaper headline reads, "Happy Hardaway". In the 1970s, Mel Blanc stated that another proposed name for the character was "Happy Rabbit." In the actual cartoons and publicity, however, the name "Happy" only seems to have been used in reference to Ben Hardaway. In promotional material for the short, including a surviving 1939 presskit, the name on the model sheet was altered to become the rabbit's own name: "Bugs" Bunny (quotation marks only used, on and off, until 1944). He had written "Bugs' Bunny" on the model sheet that he drew for Ben. Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the short, gave the character a name. This short (the first in which he is depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one) is also notable as Happy's first singing role. Happy's 3rd appearance comes in another 1939 cartoon, Hare-um Scare-um, once again directed by Cal and Ben. Happy harasses them, but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs. Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter his absent master's house. Happy returns in 1939's Prest-O Change-O, directed by Chuck Jones, where he is the pet rabbit of unseen character Sham-Fu The Magician. Hare Hunt also gives Happy the famous Groucho Marx line, "Of course you realize, this means war!" The rabbit character was so popular with audiences that the Leon Schlesinger staff decided to use it again. Happy introduces himself with the odd expression "Jiggers, fellers," and Mel Blanc gave the character a voice and laugh much like those he would later use for Woody Woodpecker. Hare Hunt, which the Proto-Bugs make the actual appearance, replaces the little black duck with a small white rabbit. Porky Pig is again cast as a hunter tracking a silly prey who is more interested in driving his pursuer insane and less interested in escaping. Co-directed by Ben Hardaway and an uncredited Cal Dalton (who was responsible for the initial design of the rabbit), this short has an almost identical plot to Tex Avery's 1937 cartoon Porky's Duck Hunt, which had introduced Daffy Duck. Happy Rabbit, a hare with some of the personality of Bugs, though looking very different, first appears in the cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt, released on April 30th, 1938. Robert McKimson, who created Bugs' definitive character design, and Mel Blanc, who originated the voice of Bugs. Animation) including Tex Avery, who directed Bugs' debut short A Wild Hare (1940). In reality, he was brought to life by the animators and staff of Leon Schlesinger Productions (later Warner Bros.
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logos.Īccording to his 1990 biography Bugs Bunny: 50 Years & Only 1 Grey Hare, Bugs was born on Jin Brooklyn, New York. He is also the mascot in some of the Warner Bros. Bugs has appeared in more films than any other cartoon character and is the 9th most portrayed film personality in the world. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit, famous for his relaxed, passive personality, pronouned mid-atlantic accent, depiction as a trickster, and his catchphrase: "Eh, what's up, doc?" usually said while chewing a carrot. His popularity during this era led to his becoming a corporate mascot of the Warner Bros. during The Golden Age Of American Animation.
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