The Wild Hare 1940 - Bring Bugs Back!

[MrFireboar]

i agree with the fist guy because you can bring them back and the new cartoons would still be bad but if they had tried to do the voice over of this guy they would not sound like him in the first place

[colliric]

@CainmosniMirrored that was "proto-bugs". This is the first appearance of final-form Bugs Bunny.

[neilerone]

Bugs Bunny. My favorite cartoon character, and not a Puka either.

[colliric]

This was the original Bugs bunny cartoon... although this is actually the reissue "Blue Ribbon" version of it.

[CainmosniMirrored]

@colliric Porky's Hare Hunt was the first appearance of Bugs Bunny. He looked and sounded nothing like the bugs we all love but it was still Bugs.

[TimoonMoth]

I miss the time when kids' cartoon characters were allowed to smoke and drink and shoot guns and laugh about death and be cynical and irrational... Am I a bad person ? :x

[colliric]

@TimoonMoth

They actually called Wild E Coyote literally a "Hardhead Motherfucker" in the "Latin titles" once.... and I once thought Disney was pretty badass for "Sex" in the Lion King...

[CainmosniMirrored]

@TimoonMoth These cartoons were originally made for adults. They used to show them before movies at the movie houses.

[Aadilf1]

I Believe this fella is a R-E-T-A-R-D

[BugsBunny494]

Ah, the cartoon that started my career. Those were the days.

-Bugs Bunny

[tiburcio9999]

For me this is the best "DRAW ERA" of BUGS BUNNY... i really didnt like what they do with the character making it more large... they should keep drawning bugs in this way

[colliric]

@tiburcio9999

I can understand why they toned bugs down in later cartoons, it also happened to the Disney characters as well, but I like this original Bugs... he was pretty badass...

Sometimes I wonder if they animated Bugs as if carrots were actually his "Cigars" because that's how he seems to hold and treat them.

[xxPanteraxxx]

I'm very curious. How did they make cartoons like this way back in 1940?

This cartoon makes my grandfather look like a child! lol

[williamg209]

he is back its calles 2009 aniamtions and the loney tunes show

[DaveWollenberg]

@williamg209 Who wants ta see PG-rated 'toons?

[jtp53790]

213321

[ThumbsxDUp]

I love how he replaces his r's with w's

[Alicenotinchains]

p.s. I grew up on the newer bugs bunny...around the time 'Bugs Bunny & Road Runner Show 'came out...I appreciate this but the later bugs that was less 'zanny' was my favorite!

[MrKuwaitwolf]

They do still air The Wild Hare in some places

[MrTrippleAAA]

2:06 TROLLFACE!!!

[OmagaMinion]

Bring Bosko back

[Paddydhistorian]

Bring Bugs back? And just why would we want to do that? The inimitable Mel Blanc is long dead. The newer cartoons featuring someone else's voice suck. And with today's silly damned "politically correct" climate (may it die in a fire!) they could not feature half the action they used to (simulated violence, etc.) No, let's enjoy the old cartoons and keep them preserved.

[BringBugsBack]

@Paddydhistorian the original reason i made this account was an attempt to get them to place the old Cartoons on Air. I had no idea they was gonna remake looney tune series. But i am still happy they did because a few of them remind me of the oldies, but I gotta admit the old version of Bugs bunny is better.

[Paddydhistorian]

@BringBugsBack Ah yes, indeed! It would be nice to see the old ones back on the air. I think they would garner a new and appreciative audience. Failing that, however, reissuing them on DVD would find a ready market. Those who upload them on YouTube are doing a great service to all of us and I for one am grateful.

[Alicenotinchains]

@Paddydhistorian me too!

[MagicBus101]

@Paddydhistorian

Well said!!

[dharmaseed]

@Paddydhistorian Yep, Mel is long gone, so is Arthur Q. Bryan, and no one, not the animators, writers or producers understand slapstick anymore. That's why the gag cartoons are so lame nowadays.

[classicsguy626]

@Paddydhistorian I agree and disagree with this. Agreed because without Mel Blanc, it's obviously not going to be the same when making new LT shorts, look at the shorts from the early 2000s/even late 90s, pretty lackluster for the most part ain't they? However, I disagree with the 'PC' climate preventing the violence overall (unless you're referencing the TLTS, but that's tv, a breeding ground for PC), look at the new LT shorts made within the past year......

[jlovell4419]

I wuv the Heddy Wamar wefewence!

[tdmidwest]

The debut of the greatest cartoon character of all time.

[Fanofcartoons1994]

This is what should happen in every cartoon, even in Disney: Have the main character pulling pranks on the villains.

[charkee167]

Ah how do i make VCR, Beta, and reels into digital copies? i have alot of vintage cartoons that icollected such as the original littlest pet shop (I think i have the very original though they are talking animals and micro versions of big animals... there a big lizard), Betty boop, etc....

Also do i need to buy special equipments or something?

[guitargod21122112]

@charkee167 I would try walgreens or walmart. They can do format to format copies. Just an idea!!

Good luck!

[F14ace]

Back when cartoons were awesome...

[xXxMasterwafflexXx]

Just think, when this was made the Nazi's were just getting started.

[rankingtrevor]

**Faces camera** "Be vrery vrery quriet, im huntin wabbits" LOL

[MrKuwaitwolf]

Notice the pitch is higher. Like PAL (568i) UK

[Electricpraise777]

Every cartoon I've found so far has a lag, why's that?

[trainmandan05]

I think you won to, They made a new Updated Looney Tunes on CN and they play these older ones all the time to...

[Corey6496]

Watching Bugs eating a carrot makes me kind of hungry.

[H0LLYW00DMIKE]

This is my favorite cartoon ever, but bugs was a faggot in this episode...sorry to say...sue me

[legolaughter2986]

be vewy vrwy quiet, im huntin wabbits. 

[mgg121288able]

4:42: Prototype Pepe Le Pew?? :/

[loonytunesvideo]

it worked the original looney tunes appears twice a day

[ZapMxl]

Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny !!!

[crunchycereal10]

Listen, don't spread this around, but, confidentially, 2 PEOPLE ARE RABBITS

[leftnutnamedchancey]

@crunchycereal10 Make that 3.

[grassmover99]

@crunchycereal10 No, that not sounds true. For Rabbits this must be as funny as hell :p

[ZackVomit]

@crunchycereal10 >.> 3 are now...

[hinatachan96]

@crunchycereal10 or more likely elmers 

[REDX3211]

Mel Blanc FTW

[pokemon461033]

they brought him back lol

[notAwerewolf]

dang this is the premire episode of bugs bunny how crazy

[IJustWatchEm71]

Which volume of the Golden Collection DVDs has this short? I have the first three volumes, but it's not on there so far.

[cavalierfan1995]

now dont spread this around but uh....confidentially.......I AM A WABBIT! 

[TheGoldenMarioBro]

1:05 BUGS IS FLIPPING THE CARROT, HES SHOWING THE FINGER

[mdalsted]

4:57-5:09 That's a lot more subtle than how it would happen in later 'toons, isn't it? XD

[mrtheluckybucket]

why do these cartoons always have some animal kissen a guy?

[BringBugsBack]

@mrtheluckybucket cause its looney lol :D

[sheupe]

@BringBugsBack And it's funny

[mercanaries3]

@BringBugsBack

is bugs bunny gay?? in the modern version they phased out him kissing people

[TormentedBrutality]

@mercanaries3 hes not gay this was made when he was still crazy, thats why they call them looney tunes

[mercanaries3]

@TormentedBrutality

Lol i still think he's gay because after 66 years he's still not married and lives with daffy duck

the new looney toons shows that

[TormentedBrutality]

@mercanaries3 daffy is bugs's roomate, bugs in love with lola bunny,

[mercanaries3]

@TormentedBrutality

really? every episode he seems to hate her... also i wouldnt call daffy a roommate more of an asshole

[dakentaijutsu2010]

@TormentedBrutality Lola is a stalker on the looney tunes show!

[TormentedBrutality]

@dakentaijutsu2010 well she will do anything to win bugs's heart even if it means stalking bugs and being mentally unstable XD

[dakentaijutsu2010]

@TormentedBrutality but why the stalker personality?

[rankingtrevor]

@mrtheluckybucket homosexual agenda! Its terrible

[dyzoly]

@mrtheluckybucket also, because the bible teaches you to love your enemies!

[travelsonic]

audio / video is offsync, stull funny as hell. :D

[tiburcio9999]

i think bugs bunny should always draw this way... not like the did it later...

[SirenSima]

I love the sound that you hear from the quality of the cameras back then when it's super quiet. It used to always calm me down as a kid. It's like the soft crackling of fire. You hear it immediately when the episode starts at 0:17.

[NinJutsuDude1997]

Looney Tunes are back on Cartoon Network! 6AM and 12PM! United States only.

[mkworkman]

7:45 YouTube video: The Wild Hare, 1940; very first Bugs Bunny cartoon.

February 26, 1908: birth of Tex Avery in Taylor, Texas; American cartoonist (d. 1980); created the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, and developed Porky Pig and Chilly Willy into the personas for which they are remembered.

[fromthesidelines]

After Bugs' initial cartoons (in August 1939 and March 1940), it took Tex Avery to define what the rabbit was SUPPOSED to be- and other directors took their cue from him. Originally released as "A Wild Hare" in July 1940 [this is the 1944 reissue].