Bugs Bunny

thumb|300px|Baby Fozzie in "The Great Muppet Cartoon Show"
thumb|300px|Baby Bean in "Whose Tale is it Anyway?"
Bugs Bunny is the most famous character in the Warner Bros. stable of animated characters, having starred in hundreds of Looney Tunes shorts and other productions. Although formative versions of the character dated to 1938, the fully realized Bugs Bunny is generally recognized as having made his debut in the 1940 Academy Award-nominated short subject A Wild Hare. He was voiced here by Mel Blanc, who would continue to perform the character until his death in 1989.
Bugs, along with Daffy Duck, appeared with Baby Kermit, Baby Piggy, and Baby Gonzo in the 1990 animated television special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and hours later appeared on The Earth Day Special, which featured Kermit the Frog among others. Bugs also appeared in the pro-recycling short "Yakety Yak - Take It Back," which appeared on Sesame Street in the 1990s.
==References==
* When Santa Claus magically makes a Christmas scene for Thig and Thog in The Great Santa Claus Switch, a Bugs Bunny doll is among the toys he makes appear.
* In Episode 0319 of Sesame Street, Richie asks Maria if she's got any Bugs Bunny books at the library.
* Following a game of "One of These Things" involving a carrot in Episode 0970 of Sesame Street, Bob does a brief Bugs impersonation.
* In Episode 1125 of Sesame Street, Big Bird quips, "Eh, what's up Doc?" as he imagines Cody as a doctor.
* The Bugs Bunny Book written by Kathleen Cowles and illustrated by Darrell Baker (published in 1976 by Golden Press) can be seen on the shelf at the Day Care Center in Episode 1218 of Sesame Street.
* The patient in the Veterinarian's Hospital sketch from The Muppet Show episode 422 is a small white bunny. When Piggy inquires its name, Rowlf replies: "Well, he hasn't said, 'Ehhh.....what's up Doc?' so it isn't you-know-who!"
* In an Ernie and Bert sketch from 1983, Ernie is desperately seeking Dr. Livingstone so he can ask him one vital question: "What's up, Doc?"
* Bugs was featured in the Rabbit Hall of Fame in the "Mondo Muppet" section of Muppet Magazine issue 2.
* Baby Fozzie dresses as Bugs in the Muppet Babies episode "The Great Muppet Cartoon Show."
* A parrot in Doc's Workshop says "What's up, Doc?" in the Fraggle Rock episode "Gone, But Not Forgotten."
* In Episode 2703 of Sesame Street Big Bird and Maria imagine the different kinds of jobs Gabi could have when she grows up. When imagining Gabi as a doctor, he asks her to look in his throat, adding, "I want you to see what's up, doc," emphasizing the phrase.
* Baby Bean Bunny dresses and acts like Bugs in the Muppet Babies episode "Whose Tale is it Anyway?."
* Maria finds a book called "Bugs, a Rabbit to Remember!" among Roxie Marie's bug-book collection in Sesame Street Episode 2910.
* In the Elmo's World episode "Ears," a pair of squeaky shoes inadvertently show up at Elmo's doorstep. One shoe remarks that they took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, referencing a Bugs Bunny quote.
* In Elmo's World: Doctors, Elmo greets an Anything Muppet doctor by saying, "What's up, Doc?"
==Notes==
* Bugs was ranked eleventh in Animal Planet's 50 Greatest TV Animals, compared with Big Bird at #16 and Kermit the Frog at #2.
* In his interview with The Archive of American Television, Caroll Spinney stated that he once created a character based on Bugs Bunny called "Sniffy Rabbit."
==External links==
* Bugs Bunny at the Looney Tunes Wiki
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