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!
The Bugs Bunny Show is an Animated television anthology series hosted by Bugs Bunny, that was mainly composed of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons released by Warner Bros. between August 1, 1948 and the end of 1969. The show originally debuted as a primetime half-hour program on ABC in 1960, featuring three theatrical Warner Bros. Cartoons with new linking sequences produced by the Warner Bros.
#1 - What's Up, Dog?
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 7/3/1962
More dog tales. Charlie Dog chooses urban apartment owner Porky Pig as his master, whether Porky likes this or not. Daffy Duck rivals a barnyard dog for feeding by farmer Elmer Fudd. A middle-class man's shaggy dog, Robert, is determined to prove that he is a thoroughbred.
#2 - Season # 3, Show # 7
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/1971
Yosemite Sam expects to be emcee for the show, but Bugs instead selects Pepé Le Pew for this honor. A furious Sam tries to eliminate Pepe, but the bullets from his guns are repelled by Pepé Le Pew's odor and retreat straight back into the nozzles. Pepe introduces cartoons with himself in the French Foreign Legion and Bugs on a Mississippi river boat.
#3 - Season # 3, Show # 6
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1971
A lecture on birds from Bugs, after a cartoon with Bugs on Mars in a close encounter with Marvin Martian. Bugs shows the repulsive vulture (who replies to Bugs' description of his repulsiveness by saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones..."), the Blue "J" (a capital letter "J", painted blue), and a troublesome mockingbird, who repeats everything that Bugs says and does, including a mallet strike on the head. Sylvester intrudes upon the shipboard vacation of Granny and Tweety, and Wile E. Coyote is so desperate for water that he has hallucinations of the Road Runner swimming in an oasis pond.
#4 - Season # 3, Show # 5
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/1971
The Tasmanian Devil receives explosive medical care from Bugs in a jungle medical clinic, and Bugs next lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat (bowling, that is!), a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat ("Hello, Tom. "Hello, Bob."), a pole cat (sitting atop a pole), two Persian cats making a Persian-to-Persian telephone call, the relationship between a father cat and his son- to introduce Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.'s meeting in their own home with a baby kangaroo believed by them to be a giant mouse, and the existence of cats, including one with painted white back stripe, in exotic places like the French Riviera, as visited by Pepé Le Pew.
#5 - Season # 3, Show # 4
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/1971
Having been the humble lead character in an epic about the discovery of America, Bugs appears on stage to demonstrate how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell. Then, he directs an animator to draw a line that becomes the wagging tail of a dog in a sad story of canine misery. The animator follows this by sketching a pair of speedy legs- those of the Road Runner, far a cartoon depicting Wile E. Coyote's elaborate attempt to utilize a World War I aircraft in his continuing bid to capture the high- octane fowl.
#6 - Season # 3, Show # 3
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1971
After a cartoon wherein Bugs is the victorious protagonist in a pre-1900 San Franciscan gambling casino confrontation with the ruffian who stole his gold and Bugs has next presented to the audience the tale of a little chicken hawk who caught for his personal consumption the husky rooster who had been lecturing him about "starting small", Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the 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. Daffy, in his rabbit suit, is accosted by the dog, while Bugs, off stage, introduces a cartoon with Sylvester, whose human masters depart for a two-week California vacation and have left him alone in a locked-and-sealed house.
#7 - Season # 3, Show # 2
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1971
After starring in a cartoon as the temporary straw-and-wood-house-buying dupe of Three wolf-wary and dishonest Little Pigs, Bugs lectures about dogs, but first must struggle with a projectionist who, when Bugs says that the lecture is about man's best friend, shows a picture of a tarantula and then a Whistler's Mother portrait, presumably because, "A man's best friend is his mother." When Bugs clearly states that he intends to talk about dogs, the projectionist flashes a picture of a wiener (a hot dog). "The domestic dog," retorts Bugs, and a picture of a wiener in an apron instantly appears.
#8 - Season # 3, Show # 1
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1971
Bugs introduces Porky Pig as the host for the show. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Following the dramatization of Claude Cat's own problems with a dog, Frisky Puppy, with Claude being stuck in a fish bowl and "pickled" in a water cooler and crashing into the concrete at the bottom of a waterless swimming pool- all because of Frisky's sudden and startling barking, Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine for Porky and is the principal character in a cartoon located in Dixieland. Porky turns red from rage at Charlie's interference with his emcee tasks and himself moves to forcefully remove Charlie from the studio, requiring Bugs to fill show time by telling the story of the Tasmanian Devil's arrival in America and fateful visit to a woodland rabbit hole.
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Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 7/17/1962
Slowpoke Rodriguez and Speedy Gonzales are co-hosts, introducing cartoons in which Sylvester and the Big Bad Wolf team to stalk Tweety and Little Red Riding Hood in the house of Granny, Bugs coyly fleeces desperado and San Francisco casino owner Nasty Canasta of all of his ill-gotten gains, and Ralph Wolf schemes unsuccessfully with Little Bo Peep guise, bowling ball, cannon, and hair grower liquid strategically dripped on the already moppy follicles on Sam Sheepdog's forehead, to filch the flock of sheep in Sam's care.
#10 - The Cat's Bah
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/10/1962
Pepé Le Pew recalls the results of broken romances in Africa. Midway through the show, he suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul when he tunneled to Antarctica by mistake and met a temperamental penguin.
#11 - Season # 3, Show # 8
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1971
Together with Porky Pig, who descends on a parachute to stage level, Bugs- as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless- announces cartoons with Bugs combating Marvin Martian on Earth near Bugs' hole home and in space, both on Marvin's spaceship and space platform. Bugs also travels to Baghdad with the genie of Aladdin's Lamp, which a greedy sheik will stop at nothing to acquire.
#12 - Watch My Line
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/26/1962
The art of cartoon drawing is demonstrated by an animator, whom Bugs directs to draw a line that becomes a dog's wagging tail for a story of canine mistreatment by an innocent, little girl, and then to sketch a pair of speedy legs- those of the Road Runner, as a start to a Road Runner cartoon containing Wile E. Coyote's dynamite stick on a lasso, giant coil spring, dehydrated boulders, and steam roller- all ineffective at ending the Road Runner's life in the fast lane. The animator next turns mischievous and puts Bugs through various indignities.
#13 - Foreign Legion Leghorn
Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/19/1962
Foghorn Leghorn is an inept soldier in the French Foreign Legion. Traveling across the Sahara Desert, Foghorn explains to his Sergeant about how his troublesome relationships with domineering chickens and cunning boys caused him to leave America and join the French military.
#14 - Vera's Cruise
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/20/1962
Sylvester recounts his recent travels through Europe, when his pursuit of Tweety became transoceanic and transcontinental. Relaxing in England, Sylvester was chased by two cockney canines and drank a certain concoction in a laboratory. Escaping the two dogs, Sylvester saw Tweety on a pier and traveled by boat, as an unwelcome passenger, to Italy, where he failed in several attempts to catch the bird. Then, on the Orient Express, Sylvester's pursuit of Tweety was thwarted by a bulldog.
#15 - The Astro-Nuts
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/13/1962
Bugs Bunny emerges from his hole on stage as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless, to introduce science fiction cartoons. Intrepid interplanetary adventurer Daffy contends with Marvin Martian in claiming Planet X as home planet's rightful colonial territory, and Porky Pig and Sylvester are a Jupiter buzzard's selected Earthling subjects of study. Bugs is then joined on stage by a space suited Porky, who descends to stage level in a parachute and relates to the audience the story of Bugs' own experience in the cosmos, on a space platform controlled by Marvin with his apocalyptic Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
#16 - De-duck-tive Story
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/20/1962
Daffy Duck joins the trench coat crowd in a show that highlights some of his greatest detective roles, one of them set in Paris and the other located in an American metropolis to which Beveridge Hills is an affluent suburb. In another cartoon, Daffy is the wily proprietor of an inn with a multi-animal infestation problem.
#17 - This is A Life?
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/13/1962
In this spoof of This is Your Life, Bugs Bunny's life is reviewed, with visits from friends and foes. Yosemite Sam remembers his battles with Bugs in the Klondike and at a Wild West carnival, and Elmer Fudd shows to Bugs a photo album containing snapshots of some of Bugs' relatives, Flopsie, Mopsie, Cottontail, and Peter, and of a farm setting in Indiana, the locale of Bugs' tussle with Fudd and a robot.
Watch Now:Apple TV#18 - Hare Brush
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/23/1962
Introduced by Bugs, Harry the Brush explains his role in the animation of cartoons wherein Claude Cat schemes to implicate bulldog Marc Antony in the confining by Claude of kitten Pussyfoot within a glass jug, a squirrel toils with a particularly tough nut to crack, and Daffy is at the mercy of the mischief of what he says is a "slop-artist".
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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.
#20 - Stage Couch
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/26/1961
Sylvester needs psychiatric help when his frustration at being unable to catch Tweety has him on the verge of mental collapse. So, Bugs obliges to be Sylvester's "head-doctor" and listens as Sylvester tells of his obsessive chase of the elusive canary in Granny's home and at a circus.
#21 - Season # 3, Show # 17
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/1/1972
Ralph Wolf's Little Bo Peep ploy to remove a sheep from the field of ba-a-a-ing grazers overseen by Sam Sheepdog is quashed by Sam, who appears out of the carcass of the sheep that Bo Peep Ralph has selected. Daffy is so desperate to appear on the show as the feature performer that he dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, splendid garb but never appropriate or soon enough for Bugs to grant to Daffy a place in any of this episode's cartoons, one thereof set in medieval times as Bugs battles Black Knight Yosemite Sam for possession of a singing sword and the other transpiring in a French perfume shop, as Pepé Le Pew lusts for a cat whose back has been accidentally dyed white.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - Season # 3, Show # 24
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 2/19/1972
It is 'Reading Out Loud Night', and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop. The book is an album of photographs of Bugs' family and life experiences. Bugs and Elmer Fudd are the unwitting participants in a scientific study of the behavioral influence of headgear, and Bugs combats farmer Fudd's addled automaton. Sylvester is aided by a black panther in besting a swaggering bulldog.
#25 - Season # 3, Show # 23
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/12/1972
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress. Foghorn reenacts some of Prissy's famous roles, including "Romeo and Juliet", in which she played both parts, and an act involving precarious balancing on a stack of chairs and juggling of bowling pins and hoops. Prissy initiates the cartoons by looking into a crystal ball, and she sees mirthful musical notes preparing for collective self-rendition of "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss and Bugs foiling a scientist's plan to transfer his consciousness into the feathered head of a chicken.