Summary
- Bugs Bunny, voiced by Mel Blanc, remains a hilarious and iconic character loved for his clever tricks and sarcasm.
- Bugs Bunny always outsmarts his opponents with his smart-mouthed antics, although he appears in plenty of different situations.
- Bugs Bunny's classic cartoons, from Halloween-themed antics to chases with Elmer Fudd, continue to entertain audiences with clever gags.
Bugs Bunny appeared in over 160 short films between 1940 and 1964, and his best moments are still just as funny decades later. Voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc, Bugs was an icon during the golden age of American animation, and he became the official mascot of Warner Bros. He has since appeared in dozens more movies, TV shows and video games, proving that audiences have never tired of his tricky antics. He will almost certainly return in the new Looney Tunes movie, The Day the Earth Blew Up.
Bugs Bunny plays many roles. He is a musician, an athlete, a drag performer, and so much more. The tough-talking bunny from Brooklyn is an extremely versatile character, but he almost always outsmarts his opponents before chomping down on a carrot with a sarcastic remark or two. Other classic cartoon characters are known for being on the receiving end of repeated punishment, like Wile E. Coyote and Tom Cat, but Bugs is a winner, and he's someone who the audience want to see win.
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25 Most Iconic Cartoon Character Voices
From maniacal laughs to monotones, from goofy to smarmy, they're the voices in viewers' heads when hearing words like "donkey," "doc" and "picnic."
15 Broom-Stick Bunny (1956)
Bugs knocks on Witch Hazel's door on Halloween
Bugs Bunny appears in a few Halloween-themed cartoons, and Broom-Stick Bunny is one of the best. As Bugs goes trick-or-treating dressed as an ugly witch, he knocks on the door of a real witch who prides herself on being the ugliest witch in the land. Witch Hazel shows up in a few other cartoons alongside Bugs Bunny, and her dark magic makes her a supernatural alternative to Elmer Fudd. In Broom-Stick Bunny, her potions and spells all backfire and even her magic mirror becomes a problem.
14 Water, Water, Every Hare (1952)
Bugs has to outrun Gossamer in a mad scientist's lab
Water, Water, Every Hare starts with Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole being flooded, but this is just the set-up for a visit to the lab of a mad scientist, who needs some kind of brain to put in his enormous robot. To catch Bugs, he unleashes his monster, who he refers to as Rudolph, although Looney Tunes fans will know him as Gossamer. Bugs and Gossamer's fight is replete with clever gags, but Water, Water, Every Hare saves the best for Bugs' confrontation with the scientist, as they are both drugged by ether, and they engage in a slow-motion chase.