The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special

The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special is an animated television special that was broadcast 15 October 1980 on CBS. Presented as an Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit, the plot is modeled after those of North by Northwest and The Fugitive. Like most Looney Tunes specials of the time, this program consists of clips from classic cartoons with some original animation linking them together.
== Plot ==
A criminal known as the Tall, Dark Stranger robs a bank. Inspector Elmer Fudd mistakenly arrests Bugs Bunny for the crime. Escaping from jail, after driving jail guard Yosemite Sam crazy, Bugs sets out to prove his innocence while evading Elmer, who is searching for him, after his escape.
After some chases and a side story involving Sylvester and Tweety, Bugs ends up dangling from the beak of a Mount Rushmore-sized sculpture of Foghorn Leghorn; he's rescued by the Tall, Dark Stranger, who turns out to be Porky Pig, who was trying to keep the story going. Porky concludes the special from inside his jail cell.
== Cast ==
* Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote and Porky Pig
== Credits ==
Directed by Gerry Chiniquy, Friz Freleng, and Chuck Jones.
== Cartoons Featured ==
*"Bugs and Thugs"
*"Baby Buggy Bunny"
*"Big House Bunny"
*"Operation: Rabbit"
*"Compressed Hare"
*"All a Bir-r-r-d"
*"Catty Cornered"
*"Hare Lift"
== Quotes ==
* Yosemite Sam as Sam Schultz: "I hate him."
== Censorship ==
* See "Big House Bunny" for information on cut scenes.
== Availability ==
Mystery_Special_VHS.jpg|(1993) VHS
== Gallery ==
File:998fd7cdb610278c530a88a939b821b1--bugs-bunny-bunnies.jpg|TV Guide Ad (Also Promoting How Bugs Bunny Won the West, 1983)
== Videos ==
File:Garfield On the Town & The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special promo, 1984
File:Bugs Bunny’s Bustin’ Out All Over-Bugs Bunny Mystery Special CBS Promo (1987)
File:The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special-It's Magic, Charlie Brown CBS promo (1988)
Category:Looney Tunes TV specials
Category:1980
Category:Cartoons directed by Gerry Chiniquy
Category:Cartoons animated by Bob Matz
Category:Cartoons written by Jack Enyart
Category:Cartoons written by Hal Geer
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas