Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray scooby doo shot white rabbit or hare who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality. Bugs starred in more than 160 cartoon shorts produced between 1940 and 1964. He has since appeared in feature films, compilation films, TV series, music records, comics, video games, award shows, amusement park rides, and commercials. Chuck Jones, where he is the pet rabbit of unseen character Sham-Fu the Magician.
Two dogs, fleeing the local dogcatcher, enter the rabbit’s absent master’s house. The rabbit harasses them but is ultimately bested by the bigger of the two dogs. This cartoon—the first in which he is depicted as a gray bunny instead of a white one—is also notable as the rabbit’s first singing role. Charlie Thorson, lead animator on the film, gave the character a name. In his autobiography, Blanc claimed 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 Bugs Hardaway. In Hare-um Scare-um, a newspaper headline reads, “Happy Hardaway. Thorson had been approached by Tedd Pierce, head of the story department, and asked to design a better rabbit. The decision was influenced by Thorson’s experience in designing hares.
For Hardaway, Thorson created the model sheet previously mentioned, with six different rabbit poses. This time the rabbit looks more like the present-day Bugs, taller and with a similar face—but retaining the more primitive voice. While Porky’s Hare Hunt was the first Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny, A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, is widely considered to be the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon. For the film, Avery asked Givens to remodel the rabbit. The result had a closer resemblance to Max Hare.
He had a more elongated body, stood more erect, and looked more poised. If Thorson’s rabbit looked like an infant, Givens’ version looked like an adolescent. Blanc gave Bugs the voice of a city slicker. Bugs, announcing to the audience that 750 rabbits have been born.