The “That’s It, Friends” at the end of every episode of the Looney Tunes we all hear. Big, boys and mediums. This July 27, 2020 Bugs Bunny, that rabbit we saw everywhere, turns 80 since his first television appearance. Created by Texan animator and cartoonist Tex Avery, Bugs Bunny was also the cover of Merrie Melodies (“Animated Fantasies of Yesterday and Today”, series that ran from 1931 to 1969.
Bugs’ first appearance, in “A Wild Hare.”
Friend of Daffy Duck, of Porky, a couple of Lola Bunny and Elmer Fudd’s eternal enemy, Bugs Bunny was responsible for, in addition to cheering on the evenings, for seeing the rabbits as a fan of carrots, to whom did they ever say “I ate the carrot as Bugs Bunny does”? Well, to its creator sure not: Tex Avery was intolerant of the carrot and generated some digestive problems.
One of the few photos you can find of Tex Avery.
By attitude and obviously physical characteristics, many historians claim that Bugs’ character was inspired by the 1934 Oscar-winning short film of The Hare and the Turtle. Later, in 1938 a short film directed by Cal Dalton and Ben Hardaway was released, featuring Happy Rabbit, a prototype prior to Bugs.Two years later, precisely on July 27, 1940, Bugs comes out the burrow, crosses with Elmer and spits his watermark: “What’s new, old man?”
Now, 80 years later, we found his face everywhere, a thousand remakes were made, his merchandising has been sold to the point of exhaustion and even co-starred in a film with Michael Jordan himself. What more can you ask for? Well… in this year he did quite well: he was the protagonist of one of the best Argentine memes of the year and is now missing less and less to see him in a new adventure with LeBron James and Don Cheadle in “Space Jam 2”.That’s all, friends! Happy birthday, Bugs!
