The Bugs Bunny And Tweety Show

The Bugs Bunny And Tweety Show is an ABC Saturday Morning cartoon program running from 1986 to 2000. This show packages classic Warner Bros. Cartoons starring their classic cast (aside from Speedy Gonzales, due to stereotypes). On the beginning of it's third season in 1988, the series was expanded to a full hour until it was reduced back to a half hour during its final few years in 1999.

## Legacy

Though the program did not qualify for the educational/informational designation, it nonetheless remained on Saturday mornings after the new designation debuted in 1996, one of the few non-E/I programs to survive the rules changes. The previous year, ABC was bought by The Walt Disney Company, and *The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show* was the only non-Disney cartoon to remain on the lineup, due to their contract not being up yet, and was in the first few years of the Disney's One Saturday Morning block starting in 1997 (with the Disney logo omitted from the blocks bumpers during the show). The program was often paired with ABC's in-house Schoolhouse Rock! shorts during this time.

The hour-long *Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show* remained on the air until 1999, when it was again reduced to a half-hour. In 2000, Warner Bros. made the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies film library exclusive to Cartoon Network, which Time Warner owned as part of the purchase of Turner Broadcasting in 1996. As a result, *The Bugs Bunny Show* ended its nearly four-decade-long network run, one of the longest runs in the history of United States network television.

## Show Times

The show began airing at 11:00AM until Fall 1987, where it was pushed up a half-hour to 11:30. A year later, The Bugs Bunny And Tweety Show aired for an entire hour at 11AM, remaining like that until 1993, where it mixed and matched between 10:00AM and 10:30. In 1994, it was the first show for the Saturday Morning block, starting at 8:00AM until it was pushed back to it's original place a few months later. The show mixed between 10:00AM, 10:30AM and 11AM time slots until 1999, where it was reduced to a half hour and aired at 11 and 11:30AM until it was cancelled.

The Bugs Bunny And Tweety Show aired alongside:

* Teen Wolf (CBS)
* The New Archies (NBC)
* Dennis The Menace (CBS)
* Hey Vern, It's Ernest! and Flip! (CBS)
* The Chipmunks and The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley (NBC)
* The Alf/Alf Tales Hour and Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids (NBC)
* Garfield And Friends and Rude Dog & The Dweebs (CBS)
* Saved By The Bell (NBC)
* Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures and Pee-Wee's Playhouse (CBS)
* Guys Next Door (NBC)
* Back To The Future and Where's Waldo? (CBS)
* Raw Toonage (CBS)
* Super Dave: Daredevil For Hire and George Of The Jungle (FOX)
* Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (CBS)
* Tiny Toon Adventures And Taz-Mania (FOX)
* Marsupilami and The Little Mermaid (CBS)
* Dog City And Bobby's World (FOX)
* X-Men and Where On Earth Is Carmen Santiago? (FOX)
* Wild C.A.T.S and Skeleton Warriors (CBS)
* The Twisted Tales Of Felix The Cat and Santo Bugito (CBS)
* Life With Louie (FOX)
* The Neverending Story (CBS)
* Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Bailey Kipper's P.O.V (CBS)
* Waynehead and Pinky And The Brain (WB)
* Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers (CBS)
* Fudge and The Sports Illustrated For Kids Show (CBS)
* Power Rangers Turbo (FOX)
* Animaniacs and The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries (WB)
* Beakman's World (CBS)
* Silver Surfer (FOX)
* Birdz and Rabbids (CBS)
* The Secret Files Of Spy Dogs (FOX)
* Pinky, Elmyra And The Brain (WB)
* Power Rangers: The Lost Episode and Mad Jack The Pirate (FOX)
* The New Woody Woodpecker Show (FOX)
* The Big Cartoonie Show and Histeria! (WB)
* New Tales From The Cryptkeeper (CBS)
* Rescue Heroes (CBS)
* Power Rangers Lost Galaxy (FOX)
* Flying Rhino Junior High (CBS)
* Flint The Time Detective (FOX)
* Detention (WB)

## Episodes (NON-OFFICIAL + SEASON 1 ONLY)

1. Knighty Knight Bugs/Sandy Claws/Hare-Less Wolf/Goldimouse And The Three Cats
2. The Abominable Snow Rabbit/Hawaiian Aye Aye/Bugs' Bonnets/Home, Tweet Home
3. Beanstalk Bunny/Tweet And Lovely/For Scent-Imental Reasons/Hare Trimmed
4. Duck! Rabbit, Duck!/Muzzle Tough/Cats A-Weigh/This Is A Life?
5. High Diving Hare/A Pizza Tweety-Pie/Woolen Under Where/Bill Of Hare
6. Bunker Hill Bunny/Dog Pounded/Hoppy Go Lucky/Hillbilly Hare
7. Hare-Breadth Hurry/Tweety And The Beanstalk/Hoppy Daze/Hare-Abian Nights
8. From Hare To Heir/The Jet Cage/A Fractured Leghorn/The Fair Haired Hare
9. Robot Rabbit/Double Of Mutton/The Last Hungry Cat/Pre-Hysterical Hare
10. Bedevilled Rabbit/A Bird In A Bonnet/Hare We Go/Mother Was A Rooster
11. Rabbit Of Seville/Tree-Cornered Tweety/Touché And Go/Person To Bunny
12. Mad As A Mars Hare/Tweety's S.O.S/One Froggy Evening/Big House Bunny
13. Bonanza Bunny/Don't Give Up The Sheep/Red Riding Hoodwinked/The Slap-Hoppy Mouse
14. Bewitched Bunny/A Sheep In The Deep/Dr. Jerkyl's Hide/Shiskabugs
15. Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol/Gift Wrapped/Portrait Of An Artist As A Young Bunny
16. Bully For Bugs/Satan's Waitin'/Mouse-Taken Identity/Dumb Patrol
17. No Parking Hare/D' Fightin' Ones/Dog Gone South/Hare-Way To The Stars
18. The Million Hare/Trip For Tat/Two's A Crowd/Transylvania 6-5000
19. Wet Hare/A Bird In A Guilty Cage/Martian Through Georgia/Half-Fare Hare
20. Hare Trimmed/Trick Or Tweet/Hoppy Daze/Tweet Tweet Tweety
21. Bill Of Hare/Terrier-Stricken/Tree For Two/Shiskabugs
22. Long-Haired Hare/Tweet Dreams/Weasel While You Work/Apes Of Wrath
23. Robot Rabbit/Tugboat Granny

## Trivia

* Final Looney Tunes Saturday Morning program to be shown on one of the "Big Three" networks.
* Only Looney Tunes show to be broadcast alongside Disney shows (During One Saturday Morning)
* In 1999-2000, The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show was the first Looney Tunes Saturday Morning show, since The Bugs Bunny Show, to be aired for 30 minutes.