The BEST episodes of The Bugs Bunny Show

Every episode of The Bugs Bunny Show ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bugs Bunny Show!

Last Updated: 11/30/2023Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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#1 - Ball Point Puns

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/21/1961

Red and black dancing pens, named Penelope and Penbroke, perform like figure skaters on paper provided by Bugs. Due to Bugs and Daffy's efforts to direct hunter rifle fire toward each other, Elmer is confused as to what hunting season it really is. Porky Pig and Sylvester are tenants at the haunted Dry Gulch Hotel, and then Porky has a secret house guest- Daffy Duck, seeking shelter from a blizzard and a constant supply of food.

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9.00
1 votes

#2 - Bad-Time Story

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/10/1961

It is 'Reading Out Loud Night', and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop leading into the first cartoon feature for this fairy tales and legends installment, comprised of Bugs' initiative to save the lives of Hansel and Gretel from Witch Hazel, Daffy's pratfalls as an accident-prone Robin Hood, Porky Pig's performance as a laughing Friar Tuck, and Sylvester's raid of an enormous, Tweety-inhabited castle at the top of a certain beanstalk.

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1 votes

#3 - Do or Diet

Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/16/1962

The Tasmanian Devil appears with Bugs on stage. Bugs tells of his first meeting with "Taz-Boy" in the jungle of Tasmania, and then he prescribes a carrot diet to Taz, demonstrating how an anemic weakling, Daffy Duck, supposedly became a super-heroic muscular powerhouse after submitting to a carrot diet. Foghorn Leghorn courts Miss Prissy and finds that he is the prospective father of a quiet genius.

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9.00
1 votes

#4 - The Honey-Mousers

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 7/24/1962

When Bugs descends by his special, hole-shaped elevator from the stage to his dressing room there beneath, he finds that he has company- an off-camera reporter in there waiting to interview him (the reporter never says anything; Bugs does all the talking). So, Bugs, as a dutiful host, invites his guest to join him in watching a high-rated television show. Then Bugs turns on his TV set for a mouse version of "The Honeymooners." Toy bus driver Ralph Crumden and kitchen sink worker Ned Morton seek to acquire food from the humans' kitchen in the Brooklyn apartment in which they and their whiskered wives have neighboring hole dwellings, but a cat blocks their path to the refrigerator and the goodies therein. So, Crumden and Morton plot to outwit their feline opponent.

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8.50
2 votes

#5 - Season # 3, Show # 26

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/4/1972

The subject for tonight's show is one that has always puzzled us little denizens of the woodland glades. In yet another lecture, Bugs talks about man. "You see, folks. Man is basically lazy. In order to keep from using his feet, he uses his brain." The lecture addresses human methods of conveyance, including the pogo stick, the Birdie-mobile (a seat carried in the air by a flock of birds), the horse, and the automobile in its many forms, then discusses the human need for companionship, hence the opposite sex and marriage, with a family of bears portrayed in a cartoon as a parallel to this human tendency.

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8.13
8 votes

#6 - My Bunny Lies Over the Sea/Scaredy Cat/Scent-imental Romeo

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/1960

Daffy wants to be host. So, he banishes all others from the stage, including Pepe, Elmer, and Bugs. Still, the cartoons proceed on schedule, with Bugs in Scotland, Porky and Sylvester in a spooky, mouse-infested house.

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8.00
3 votes

#7 - Ant Pasted/The Fair-Haired Hare/I Gopher You

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/10/1961

Elmer Fudd is host and tries to sing, but he is thwarted when the notes on his sheet music run off of their page and remind him of his July 4 picnic that became a harrowing confrontation.

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8.00
4 votes

#8 - Hare We Go/The Foghorn Leghorn/Little Red Rodent Hood

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1961

Okay, rabbit. Grab a cloud. This is a stick-up." Gun-toting gangsters Rocky and Mugsy hijack the show. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces the cartoons.

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8.00
1 votes

#9 - Season # 3, Show # 25

Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 2/26/1972

When Bugs descends by his special, hole-shaped elevator from the stage to his dressing room there beneath, he finds that he has company- the show's viewer. So, Bugs as a dutiful host invites his guest to join him in watching a high-rated television show, a parody of The Beverly Hillbillies, with Bugs honing his square dance-calling talent, with agonizing consequences for a pair of rustics of the Ozark Mountains. In a mouse version of The Honeymooners, toy bus driver Ralph Crumden and kitchen sink worker Ned Morton strive to snatch a cupcake for a surprise birthday confection for Ralph's spouse, Alice, from the humans' kitchen in the Brooklyn apartment in which they and their whiskered wives have neighboring hole dwellings. However, a cat blocks their path to the refrigerator and the cupcake therein. So, Crumden and Morton plot to outwit their feline opponent.

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7.73
11 votes

#10 - Wild Over You/Go Fly a Kit/Mouse-Warming

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/25/1960

The midget gangster Baby Faced Finster dresses up as a baby to escape the police. To his dismay, he ends up in the hands of Bugs Bunny, who treats him as a baby.

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7.64
22 votes

#11 - Putty Tat Trouble/Wise Quackers/Speedy Gonzales

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/1960

Rocky and Mugsy try to grab up some of the money from the sponsors of the show by going into the television business themselves, intruding on the proceedings in the process.

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7.50
2 votes

#12 - The Leghorn Blows at Midnight/His Bitter Half/Hot Cross Bunny

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/24/1961

Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress.

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7.50
4 votes

#13 - Lovelorn Leghorn/Who's Kitten Who?/The Windblown Hare

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/31/1961

An unseen animator sketches Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and then draws a broom's tail on Foghorn's backside. Foghorn retaliates by lassoing and pummeling the animator- Daffy Duck.

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7.50
2 votes

#14 - Mississippi Hare/Terrier-Stricken/Cheese Chasers

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/21/1961

Yosemite Sam wants to be the show emcee this time around, but Bugs chooses Pepe Le Pew instead, much to Sam's chagrin.

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7.33
3 votes

#15 - Big House Bunny/Canned Feud/Home, Tweet Home

Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/14/1961

Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are again hosts for the show. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce the jailed Bugs, house-imprisoned and in-need-of-food Sylvester, and Tweety-in-a-city-park.

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7.33
3 votes

#16 - Henhouse Henery/Curtain Razor/Devil May Hare

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/28/1961

Bugs introduces Daffy Duck as this installment's host, but Daffy is backstage being chased by the Tasmanian Devil, who has broken out of a crate.

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7.33
9 votes

#17 - Bunker Hill Bunny/Each Dawn I Crow/Golden Yeggs

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/6/1960

Tweety is host of an installment containing two psychological thrillers with birds seemingly doomed to death at a specified time. So that the little canary can be safe from Sylvester, Bugs hangs his cage from the stage ceiling.

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7.29
7 votes

#18 - Canary Row/Knights Must Fall/For Scent-imental Reasons

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/8/1960

Desperate to appear on the show as the guest, Daffy dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, but his costume is deemed inappropriate by Bugs for each cartoon about to commence.

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7.25
4 votes

#19 - Rocket Squad/Daffy Dilly/Drip-Along Daffy

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/17/1961

Daffy finally receives recognition. Bugs hosts an all-Daffy Duck tribute, in which Mama Bear performs "I'm Just Wild About Daffy" and the mallard stars in cartoons as a far-future detective.

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7.25
4 votes

#20 - High Diving Hare/Don't Give Up the Sheep/Stooge For a Mouse

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/7/1961

Two lame-brained Mexicali cats, Jose and Miguel, try to host an episode with Yosemite Sam plummeting again and again into a bucket of water, Ralph Wolf being continually stopped from obtaining mutton by the omnipresent Sam Sheepdog.

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7.20
5 votes

#21 - Long-Haired Hare/Sandy Claws/Mouse Wreckers

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/15/1960

In a musical competition between cartoon features of Bugs at war with an opera singer, Sylvester buffeted by tidal waves in his gastronomic quest for Tweety, and two mice conspiring to induce house cat insanity, Daffy plays the drums.

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7.00
7 votes

#22 - Bully For Bugs/Tweety's S.O.S./One Froggy Evening

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/1960

Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the television show, but a sheepdog, on a day free from his work, walks into the studio, hoping to catch the bunny-rabbit (Bugs) that he saw on television on the previous week.

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7.00
5 votes

#23 - Two's a Crowd/All a Bir-r-r-d/The Hasty Hare

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/20/1960

Bugs introduces Porky Pig as host. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine and complicates Porky's introduction.

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7.00
4 votes

#24 - Mutiny on the Bunny/Punch Trunk/Fast and Furry-ous

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/14/1961

Bugs demonstrates how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell.

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7.00
3 votes

#25 - Hillbilly Hare/Hippety Hopper/You Were Never Duckier

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1961

Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are introduced by Bugs as the host. In the cartoons, Bugs orchestrates a square dance that very much pains two lame-brained men of the Ozark Mountains.

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