The BEST episodes of The Bugs Bunny Show season 1

Every episode of The Bugs Bunny Show season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Bugs Bunny Show season 1!

Last Updated: 11/30/2023Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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8.13
8 votes

#1 - 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

#2 - 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

#3 - 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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7.73
11 votes

#4 - 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

#5 - 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

#6 - 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

#7 - 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

#8 - 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
9 votes

#9 - 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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7.33
3 votes

#10 - 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

#11 - 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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7.29
7 votes

#12 - 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

#13 - 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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7.25
4 votes

#14 - 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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7.20
5 votes

#15 - 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

#16 - 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

#17 - 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

#18 - 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

#19 - 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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7.00
3 votes

#20 - The Turn-Tale Wolf/Paying the Piper/Beanstalk Bunny

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1961

Sylvester is host and tells to his son, Junior, the Looney Tune-style fairy tales of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs- in which hero and villain roles are seemingly reversed.

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6.89
9 votes

#21 - Which is Witch/Mouse Mazurka/Kit For Cat

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/13/1960

Yosemite Sam wants Bugs' hide. So, gun in hand, he comes to see The Bugs Bunny Show live as a spectator in the studio.

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6.86
7 votes

#22 - What's Up, Doc?/Early to Bet/Pop 'im Pop!

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/27/1960

George P. Dog is introduced by Bugs as the emcee for the show, but Foghorn Leghorn decides that he would be a better emcee and pushes the dog aside.

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6.80
10 votes

#23 - To Itch His Own/Gee Whiz-z-z-z!/Whoa, Be-Gone!

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1960

Wile E. Coyote's chase of the Road Runner has extended into the studio where Bugs is trying to host his television show. Two Road Runner cartoons are thus featured, involving Wile E.'s schemes.

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6.75
4 votes

#24 - Rabbit of Seville/The Scarlet Pumpernickel/Stop! Look! And Hasten!

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/21/1961

Bugs tries to indulge the audience in a bit of culture, such as in his own rendition of the opera, "The Barber of Seville", in spite of constant interruptions from Elmer Fudd.

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6.67
3 votes

#25 - A-Lad-in His Lamp/Dog Gone South/A Fractured Leghorn

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/3/1961

Sylvester is introduced by Bugs as host, and he is joined on stage by his son, Sylvester Jr., who is underwhelmed at Sylvester's all-too-brief introduction of him.

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