Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection (1940)

Name: Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
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Synopsis

Bugs Bunny first hopped onto the screen in 1940 and he’s been a pop-culture icon ever since. More than eight generations have enjoyed the timeless antics of the carrot-munching wise guy who always outsmarts his rivals. Cartoons, movies, TV, comics, music, sports and more – this wascally wabbit has done it all. Clever pranks and one-liners are here, along with interviews with today’s most renowned animators, historians and superstars. Enjoy the full range of his silly and smart-alecky personality with 60 theatrical shorts restored and remastered to their original 4x3 aspect ratio on Blu-ray for the first time. It's just what the doctor – er, doc – ordered.

First Air Date: 1940-03-02

Last Air Date: 2020-12-01

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 60

Created By: Chuck Jones, Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson

Top Cast

Mel Blanc as N/A
Arthur Q. Bryan as N/A
Bea Benaderet as N/A
Daws Butler as N/A

Seasons

Season 1 (1940)

Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection is a three-disc Blu-ray box set that contains 60 remastered cartoons starring Bugs Bunny and numerous special features and commentaries.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Elmer's Candid Camera (1940-03-02)

Elmer takes up wildlife photography, but finds his subject, a rabbit similar to the later Bugs Bunny character, much too wild.
Ep. 2: A Wild Hare (1940-07-27)

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
Ep. 3: Hold The Lion, Please (1942-06-06)

It seems the whole animal kingdom make fun of the lion as a has-been. Anxious to prove them wrong, the lion decides to try and catch a rabbit.
Ep. 4: Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid (1942-07-11)

Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.
Ep. 5: Super-Rabbit (1943-04-03)

Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit-hating cowboy and his horse.
Ep. 6: Jack-Wabbit & The Beanstalk (1943-06-12)

Bugs fights the legendary giant. In the historical context of World War II much fun is made of the giant's claimed superiority over the more clever and fun-loving rabbit.
Ep. 7: What's Cookin' Doc? (1944-01-08)

When James Cagney wins the Oscar, Bugs shows a clip from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) and demands a recount of the voting.
Ep. 8: Bugs Bunny & The Three Bears (1944-02-26)

The three bears set a trap to catch Goldilocks but their carrot soup attracts Bugs Bunny early on and he grows wise to their plans.
Ep. 9: Hare Ribbin' (1944-06-24)

Bugs is chased into a lake by a dog who speaks with a thick Russian accent; the rest of the story unfolds under water.
Ep. 10: The Old Grey Hare (1944-10-28)

Elmer knows that if he can't catch the wabbit he should twy, twy again; but he falls asleep and does a Rip Van Winkle to the year 2,000. Bugs is now a grand-pappy and Elmer presumably kills him with a rocket type wabbit killer.
Ep. 11: Baseball Bugs (1946-02-02)

Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gas-House Gorillas.
Ep. 12: Hair-Raising Hare (1946-05-25)

A sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.
Ep. 13: Racketeer Rabbit (1946-09-14)

Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre make it home to their hideout only to find Bugs already settled down there for the night.
Ep. 14: Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948-06-12)

A western showdown of Bugs Bunny versus Yosemite Sam.
Ep. 15: Haredevil Hare (1948-07-24)

Bugs is tricked into being the first rabbit shot into space. When he lands on the moon he finds Commander X-2 (later known as Marvin Martian) set to blow up planet Earth.
Ep. 16: Hot Cross Bunny (1948-08-21)

At Eureka Experimental Hospital, a doctor plans to switch the characteristics of a chicken into the brain and a rabbit, into each other. Bugs Bunny was registered as the experimental rabbit, Number 46.
Ep. 17: Hare Splitter (1948-09-25)

When Bugs arrives for his date with Daisy Lou and finds her out shopping, he puts on her clothes to fool his rival Casbah.
Ep. 18: Knights Must Fall (1949-07-16)

Bugs must joust with Sir Pantsalot of Drop Seat Manor when he tosses a partially eaten carrot into a suit of armor.
Ep. 19: What's Up Doc? (1950-06-17)

Bugs' showbiz career is recounted from babyhood to stardom. Bugs and Elmer Fudd perform the title song.
Ep. 20: 8 Ball Bunny (1950-07-08)

Bugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.
Ep. 21: Rabbit Of Seville (1950-12-16)

Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.
Ep. 22: Rabbit Every Monday (1951-02-10)

Yosemite Sam traps Bugs Bunny and tries to cook him -- until he sees that Bugs is having a party and wants to join in the fun.
Ep. 23: The Fair Haired Hare (1951-04-14)

After Yosemite Sam builds his house over Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, the two of them try to determine who owns the land through the courts and other less legal means.
Ep. 24: Rabbit Fire (1951-05-19)

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.
Ep. 25: His Hare Raising Tale (1951-08-11)

Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde, derived from earlier cartoons (Baseball Bugs (1946), Stage Door Cartoon (1944), Rabbit Punch (1948), Falling Hare (1943) and Haredevil Hare (1948).
Ep. 26: Hare Lift (1952-12-20)

Bank robber Yosemite Sam forces Bugs to try to fly the largest airplane in the world.
Ep. 27: Upswept Hare (1953-03-14)

Elmer Fudd digs up a rare desert flower along with Bugs Bunny's home and takes them to his penthouse in the city. Bugs and Elmer then compete to own the penthouse.
Ep. 28: Robot Rabbit (1953-12-12)

Bugs Bunny faces off against Farmer Fudd's robot.
Ep. 29: Captain Hareblower (1954-01-16)

Bugs will not bend to the threats of Pirate (Yosemite) Sam.
Ep. 30: No Parking Hare (1954-05-01)

A construction worker wants to blast Bugs out of his rabbit hole so he can build a freeway.
Ep. 31: Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954-08-28)

Bugs lectures his nephew Clyde about early America, inserting himself into events wherever possible.
Ep. 32: Lumber Jack-Rabbit (1953-09-25)

Bugs Bunny stumbles on the carrot patch of Paul Bunyan, but doesn't realize that it is guarded by a 124-foot, 4,600-ton dog named Smidgen.
Ep. 33: Baby Buggy Bunny (1954-12-18)

Baby-faced Finster robs a bank, but the baby carriage with the money in it goes down Bugs' rabbit hole.
Ep. 34: Hare Brush (1955-05-07)

The corporate board has Elmer committed to an asylum because he thinks he's a rabbit. At the sanitarium Bugs agrees to trade places with Elmer.
Ep. 35: This Is A Life? (1955-07-09)

Elmer Fudd brings Bugs Bunny on a parody of This Is Your Life (1950) where he and Yosemite Sam try to get revenge on the rabbit. Daffy Duck laments that the show is not about him.
Ep. 36: Rabbitson Crusoe (1956-04-28)

Crusoe, played by Yosemite Sam, has been living off coconuts for 20 years when Bugs washes up on his island.
Ep. 37: Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956-06-16)

Bugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood freeway and tunnels into the headquarters of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Ep. 38: Half-Fare Hare (1956-08-18)

Bugs decides to travel to Chattanooga. He hitches a ride on a train where he meets two bums who are so hungry that at first sight they yell "food". The bums chase him all across the train, but Bugs deftly defies them.
Ep. 39: Piker's Peak (1957-05-25)

In the Alps Bugs and Yosemite Sam vie for 50,000 Cronkites, the prize for the one who "climbs the Schmatterhorn."
Ep. 40: What's Opera, Doc? (1957-07-06)

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Richard Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they chew the scenery.
Ep. 41: Bugsy and Mugsy (1957-08-31)

Bugs Bunny finds that gangsters Rocky and Mugsy have chosen his new abode, a condemned building, as their hideout. Bugs manipulates them into attacking each other to prove that crime doesn't pay.
Ep. 42: Show Biz Bugs (1957-11-02)

Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.
Ep. 43: Hare-Less Wolf (1958-02-01)

An absent-minded wolf sets out to catch Bugs for dinner but keeps forgetting what he was heading out to shoot in the first place.
Ep. 44: Now, Hare This (1958-05-31)

Big Bad Wolf and his little nephew try to trap Bugs Bunny by making like fairy tale characters.
Ep. 45: Knighty Knight Bugs (1958-08-23)

Court jester Bugs races against the Black Knight (Yosemite Sam) and his sneezing dragon in pursuit of the Singing Sword.
Ep. 46: Hare-Abian Nights (1959-02-28)

Bugs entertains the Sultan with tales from his cartoons: "Bully for Bugs", "Sahara Hare" and "Water, Water Every Hare".
Ep. 47: Backwoods Bunny (1959-06-13)

When Bugs vacations in the Ozarks he is pursued by hungry buzzards.
Ep. 48: Wild and Woolly Hare (1959-08-01)

In an old west shootout Bugs and Yosemite Sam duel with trains.
Ep. 49: Bonanza Bunny (1959-09-05)

Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.
Ep. 50: People Are Bunny (1959-12-19)

Daffy Duck manages to get Bugs into a TV studio in order to win the thousand dollar bounty.
Ep. 51: Person to Bunny (1960-04-01)

In his Hollywood home Bugs is being interviewed by the Edward R. Murrow TV show "People to People" when Daffy and Elmer show up.
Ep. 52: Rabbit's Feat (1959-06-04)

Wile E. Coyote decides to cook and eat Bugs, but Bugs is on to his plan and tries to escape by acting looney.
Ep. 53: From Hare to Heir (1960-09-03)

Sam, the Duke of Yosemite, will inherit one million pounds if he can keep his temper in check. Thing is, he has to endure Bugs Bunny as his house guest.
Ep. 54: Compressed Hare (1961-07-29)

Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten billion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.
Ep. 55: Prince Violent (1961-09-02)

Bugs Bunny tries to protect a castle by kicking Sam the Terrible out and not letting him back in.
Ep. 56: Shishkabugs (1962-12-08)

A spoiled-rotten monarch orders royal chef Yosemite Sam to make "Hasenpfeffer", the basic ingredient of which is rabbit. When Bugs comes to the door asking to borrow some carrots, Sam decides to cook him.
Ep. 57: The Million Hare (1963-04-06)

As Daffy Duck visits Bugs Bunny (after being invited) Daffy only watches Bugs' television, until his favorite show "Beat Your Buddy" comes on and the two contestants are Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Then they race to television station QTTV.
Ep. 58: The Unmentionables (1963-09-07)

In a spoof of TV's "Untouchables" Rocky and Mugsy chase "Elegant Mess" (Bugs) through the ACME cereal company.
Ep. 59: False Hare (1964-07-18)

Big Bad Wolf and his nephew use a club for rabbits, Club del Conejo, to try to catch Bugs.
Ep. 60: (Blooper) Bunny (1997-06-13)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "The Bugs Bunny 51st-and-a-Half Anniversary Spectacular," complete with shaky camera and a variety of outtakes from stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam.