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| Acrobatty Bunny |
1946 |
| Directed by: McKimson, Robert |
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| Description: A circus comes to town and parks Nero the Lion's cage on top of Bugs' rabbit hole. Nero sniffs and sniffs until he decides it's a rabbit down there. Bugs comes up and tortures the lion, ending with a trapeze act and the lion getting blown up in a cannon. |
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| Baseball Bugs |
1946 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
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| Description: Bugs watches a baseball game in which the Gas House Gorillas are creaming the Tea Totalers. He heckles the Gorillas, who finally force him to play. Bugs takes over every position in the baseball game and wins. |
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| Bewitched Bunny |
1954 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
Featuring: Witch Hazel |
| Description: Bugs rescues Hansel and Gretel from Witch Hazel by posing as a truant officer. Bugs walks off with Hazel after she's transformed into a gorgeous female bunny. |
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| Big House Bunny |
1950 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Yosemite Sam |
| Description: Hiding out from hunters, Bugs tunnels into Sing Song Prison where he meets prison guard Sam Schultz. He spends the rest of the cartoon trying to get out, and getting Sam in trouble. |
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| Big Snooze, The |
1946 |
| Directed by: Clampett, Robert |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd |
| Description: Elmer is so totally fed up with chasing and never catching Bugs that he quits. He rips up his contract and makes sure Mr. Warner knows he's quitting. He decides to go fishing instead of hunting. That's when Bugs invades his technicolor nightmare. |
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| Bill of Hare |
1962 |
| Directed by: McKimson, Robert |
Featuring: Tazmanian Devil |
| Description: When Taz puts Bugs in his stew pot, Bugs pretends to be an old man with a white (soap) beard, a woman in a shower, and a drowning victim. Bugs feeds Taz dynamite before the devil is put in a zoo. |
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| Buckaroo Bugs |
1944 |
| Directed by: Clampett, Robert |
Featuring: Red Hot Ryder |
| Description: Brooklyn's famous fighting cowboy Red Hot Ryder travels west to defeat the Masked Marauder, who's been stealing carrots. The villain is none other than Bugs Bunny. |
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| Bugs and Thugs |
1954 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Rocky and Mugsy |
| Description: Bugs thinks he's getting into a cab, but it's a bank robbery getaway car. The thieves think they're taking Bugs "for a ride," but Bugs winds up getting them captured. |
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| Bully For Bugs |
1953 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
Featuring: Bull |
| Description: Bugs is tunneling his way to a carrot festival when a wrong turn puts him in the middle of a bullfighting arena. He's consulting his map as he notices an angry bull breathing down his back. "Stop steamin' up my tail! You'll wrinkle it." The battle begins. |
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| Case of the Missing Hare |
1943 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
Featuring: Ala Bama |
| Description: Magician Ala Bama is nailing signs for his show all over the forest, covering Bugs' hole in a tree. After getting a pie in the face, Bugs declares war. He ruins the magician's act every way possible. |
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| Corny Concerto, A |
1943 |
| Directed by: Clampett, Robert |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig |
| Description: Elmer Fudd hosts an evening at Corny-Gee Hall. This is a two-part cartoon. In the first part Porky hunts for Bugs to the music of "A Tale of the Vienna Woods." The second part is an ugly duckling story to the music of "The Blue Danube." |
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| Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare |
1964 |
| Directed by: McKimson, Robert |
Featuring: Tazmanian Devil |
| Description: The Tazmanian Devil scares all the jungle animals except Bugs. Bugs poses as a doctor, a psychiatrist, and a nurse who delivers Taz's baby: a Frankenstein monster. |
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| Falling Hare |
1943 |
| Directed by: Clampett, Robert |
Featuring: Gremlin |
| Description: Bugs is on a military base reading "Victory Thru Hare Power." As he reads about gremlins in disbelief, a gremlin gets the best of him. It's a rare case of Bugs being the victim, but all is well in the end when their crashing plane runs out of gas. |
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| Forward March Hare |
1953 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
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| Description: Bugs is drafted into the Army by mistake. Somehow no one notices the short soldier with enormous feet for a long time. Eager to serve his country, Bugs takes a job testing bombs to find the duds. |
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| Fresh Hare |
1942 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd |
| Description: Elmer Fudd is a Mountie in search of Bugs, who's wanted dead or alive "Preferably Dead!" He's no match for Bugs, who evades him. Bugs is in front of a firing squad when everyone sings "Camptown Races" in blackface. This ending is not shown on tv anymore. |
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| Hare Grows in Manhattan, A |
1947 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
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| Description: Bugs tells gossip columnist Lola Beverly about his days as a youth in New York. Bugs, a bit of a dandy in his silly suit, is confronted by tough dogs as he sings and dances down the street. "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the weapon that sends them packing. |
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| Hare Trigger |
1945 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Yosemite Sam |
| Description: Bugs' train is held up by bandit Yosemite Sam. Bugs makes Sam think he's been shot by dripping red ink on his head. Bugs is being dangled from the train at the end, tied up and weighed down by an anvil. "He don't know me very well, do he?" |
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| Hare Trimmed |
1953 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Yosemite Sam, Emma |
| Description: Sam courts widow Emma for her money, but Bugs knows what he's up to. Bugs also pretends to court Emma who hasn't seen this much action in years. Sam nearly marries Bugs. |
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| Hare-Brained Hypnotist, The |
1942 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd |
| Description: Elmer decides to use hypnosis to capture animals. He makes a bear fly and sing like a canary. Bugs winds up making Elmer think he's a rabbit, but he gets hypnotized too. He takes off like a plane, saying, "I'm the B-19!" |
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| Haredevil Hare |
1948 |
| Directed by: Jones, Chuck |
Featuring: Marvin Martian |
| Description: Bugs is a test rabbit being blasted into outer space. He meets and foils Marvin Martian, who intends to blow up the earth. |
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| Hare-Um Scare-Um |
1939 |
| Directed by: Hardaway, Ben and Dalton, Cal |
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| Description: One of Bugs' earliest films, he's still that annoying pest with the Woody Woodpecker laugh. |
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| Heckling Hare, The |
1941 |
| Directed by: Avery, Fred |
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| Description: Bugs is pursued by a hunting dog with the familiar "Which way did he go, George?" voice. The dog thinks he's crushed Bugs and brings flowers to his grave. The film ends with Bugs and the dog falling off a cliff. |
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| High Diving Hare |
1949 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Yosemite Sam |
| Description: Bugs is a barker at a circus luring people to see a high-diving act featuring Fearless Freep. When Freep is delayed, Sam forces Bugs to perform the act instead. Naturally, Bugs winds up making Sam fall off the diving platform. |
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| Hillbilly Hare |
1950 |
| Directed by: McKimson, Robert |
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| Description: Bugs gets in the middle of a Martin-McCoy feud in the Ozarks. In a grand finale, he calls a square dance that puts the hillbillies through the wringer. |
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| Hyde and Hare |
1955 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
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| Description: Bugs goes home with a timid doctor who feeds him in the park. This Dr. Jekyll uses a formula to become the monster, Mr. Hyde. Bugs doesn't know they're the same person, and keeps getting caught with the monster. |
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| Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk |
1943 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Giant |
| Description: In this retelling of the famous fairy tale, a dumb giant tries to match wits with Bugs Bunny. As if he has a chance! Includes the famous line, "Duh, he can't outsmart me 'cause I'm a moron." |
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| Knight-Mare Hare |
1955 |
| Directed by: Jones, Chuck |
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| Description: When an apple falls on Bugs' head, he's knocked into medieval times and immediately meets (and aggravates) The Black Knight. He also meets Merlin the Magician who transforms Bugs into different animals. At the end, Bugs isn't sure it was a dream. |
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| Little Red Riding Rabbit |
1944 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
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| Description: Bugs is the rabbit Little Red is taking to her Grandma's house. When they get there, Bugs deals with the Big Bad Wolf, who eventually becomes his partner when they both so annoyed by Red. |
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| Long-Haired Hare |
1949 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
Featuring: Giovanni Jones |
| Description: Bugs' singing and banjo playing annoys opera singer Giovanni Jones. When Jones wrecks Bugs' banjo, Bugs must get his revenge. |
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| Mississippi Hare |
1949 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
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| Description: Bugs winds up on a riverboat where he tangles with an ornery Southern Colonel Shuffle. |
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| Napoleon Bunny-part |
1956 |
| Directed by: Freleng, Friz |
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| Description: Bugs burrows into Napoleon's HQ, thinking it's a theater lobby. Eventually he gets Napoleon taken away, presumably insane. |
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| Old Grey Hare, The |
1944 |
| Directed by: Clampett, Robert |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd |
| Description: In the year 2000, Bugs and Elmer reminisce about how they met as babies, and how long Elmer's been trying to catch that rabbit. |
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| Rabbit Fire |
1951 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
Featuring: Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd |
| Description: Daffy tries to get Bugs shot by Elmer in a war of words. When Elmer gets serious, Bugs and Daffy team up to trick him, posing as a woman and her dog. |
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| Rabbit Transit |
1947 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Cecil Turtle |
| Description: Bugs is taking a steam in a national park's hot springs, reading about the fabled tortoise and hare race. He's incensed! Cecil Turtle, also taking a steam, challenges Bugs to a fair race, but his shell is rocket-powered. Bugs is arrested for speeding. |
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| Rabbit's Feat |
1960 |
| Directed by: Jones, Chuck |
Featuring: Wile E. Coyote |
| Description: Bugs outwits Wile E. Coyote, who announces his plan to capture and eat the rabbit. |
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| Rackateer Rabbit |
1946 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Rocky and Hugo |
| Description: On a rainy night, Bugs makes himself at home in an abandoned house. His peace and quiet are shattered by gangsters on the lam: Edward G. Robinson (Rocky) and Peter Lorre (Hugo). Bugs hides Rocky in a trunk when the pretend police arrive. ("What a pal!") |
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| Rhapsody Rabbit |
1946 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
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| Description: A nearly wordless cartoon, concert pianist Bugs Bunny gives a performance interrupted by battles with the mouse in the piano. |
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| Robot Rabbit |
1953 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd |
| Description: Farmer Fudd is fed up with Bugs' antics and orders a pest control robot from Acme. Bugs foils the robot, reducing him to a heap of nuts and bolts. |
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| Stage Door Cartoon |
1944 |
| Directed by: Freleng, I. |
Featuring: Elmer Fudd |
| Description: Bugs escapes from Elmer by running into a theater. He tricks Elmer into going onstage. Bugs gives him acting instructions from the pit. Elmer's arrested when his pants fall down. |
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| Super Rabbit |
1943 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
Featuring: Cottontail Smith |
| Description: Bugs is a lab rabbit who becomes a super hero when he eats the professor's fortified carrot. He decides to do battle with Cottontail Smith who is running rabbits out of Texas. Bugs gets the best of Smith and his horse. |
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| Tortoise Beats Hare |
1941 |
| Directed by: Avery, Fred |
Featuring: Cecil Turtle |
| Description: A tortoise bets Bugs he can beat him in a race, then tricks Bugs out of $10 by using a gang of lookalike turtles. Bugs reads all the opening credits and gets angry at the title. |
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| Tortoise Wins By a Hare |
1943 |
| Directed by: Clampett, Robert |
Featuring: Cecil Turtle |
| Description: Seeing footage from 1941's "Tortoise Beats Hare" enrages Bugs. Bugs cheats like crazy and loses the race because rabbit gangsters he hired beat him up instead of Cecil Turtle. Bugs is wearing a metal tortoise shell for that "streamlined design." |
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| Wackiki Wabbit |
1943 |
| Directed by: Jones, Charles M. |
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| Description: Two castaways are floating on a raft and starving. They're beginning to hallucinate when they finally see land. The first native they meet is Bugs Bunny, whom they want to eat. Bugs outwits them and winds up being rescued instead of them. |
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