The Bugs Bunny Show
Bugs Bunny, the famous, Oscar-winning cartoon rabbit, hosts his first weekly television series, along with all his fellow Warner Brothers cartoon stars, including Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Cat, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, and Speedy Gonzales. Each episode features three theatrical cartoons introduced by Bugs and/or the other characters, and often with a unifying idea, or theme. Many episodes feature Bugs as a lecturer on such subjects as cats, dogs, birds, and humans, and offering classic Warner Brothers cartoon footage to comically illustrate his points.
- 1960-1975
- 3 seasons
- ABC
- Animation, Comedy
- TV-G
Bugs Bunny, the famous, Oscar-winning cartoon rabbit, hosts his first weekly television series, along with all his fellow Warner Brothers cartoon stars, including Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, the Tasmanian Devil, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Cat, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepe Le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn, and Speedy Gonzales. Each episode features three theatrical cartoons introduced by Bugs and/or the other characters, and often with a unifying idea, or theme. Many episodes feature Bugs as a lecturer on such subjects as cats, dogs, birds, and humans, and offering classic Warner Brothers cartoon footage to comically illustrate his points.
Season 2 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Bad-Time Story
Tue, Oct 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.
Episode 2
Satan's Waitin'
Tue, Oct 17, 1961
Yosemite Sam dies after being crushed by a falling safe during his evil scheme to divest a widow of her money and he goes to hell, where the devil promises to release Sam's spirit, provided that Sam bring to the devil a certain rabbit.
Episode 3
Daffy Doodling
Tue, Oct 24, 1961
Daffy outwits Bugs for the position of emcee, Sylvester and a brawny, stupid sidekick hunt mice in a warehouse, the Goofy Gophers find that their lumber-harvested home tree has been converted into human furniture.
Episode 4
Omni-Puss
Tue, Oct 31, 1961
Bugs Bunny lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat, a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat, a pole cat, two Persian cats making a Persian-to-Persian telephone call, etc..
Episode 5
Tired and Feathered
Tue, Nov 7, 1961
Bugs Bunny gives a lecture on birds.
Episode 6
Man's Best Friend
Tue, Nov 14, 1961
Bugs Bunny 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.
Episode 7
Ball Point Puns
Tue, Nov 21, 1961
Red and black dancing pens, named Penelope and Penbroke, perform like figure skaters on paper provided by Bugs.
Episode 8
The Unfinished Symphony
Tue, Nov 28, 1961
Bugs contends with an annoying fly in this musical show, featuring a mouse who can play a miniature piano, Bugs' conducting of an orchestra's performance of "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" by Franz Von Suppe.
Episode 9
Prison to Prison
Tue, Dec 5, 1961
Bugs, dressed like the portly Alfred Hitchcock, lectures on crime.
Episode 10
Go Man Go
Tue, Dec 12, 1961
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.
Episode 11
I'm Just Wild About Hare
Tue, Dec 19, 1961
Bugs has overslept. When the announcer summons him by hole-shaped elevator to the stage, either he is in his bathrobe, barely awake and brushing his teeth, or he is drying himself after a shower, or he is occupied with his vacuum cleaner.
Episode 12
Stage Couch
Tue, Dec 26, 1961
Sylvester needs psychiatric help when his frustration at being unable to catch Tweety has him on the verge of mental collapse.
Episode 13
Do or Diet
Tue, Jan 16, 1962
The Tasmanian Devil is Bugs' guest on this episode, in which the rabbit prescribes a carrot diet to the beast.
Episode 14
Hare Brush
Tue, Jan 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.
Episode 15
Is This a Life?
Tue, Feb 13, 1962
In this spoof of This is Your Life, Bugs Bunny's life is reviewed, with visits from friends and foes.
Episode 16
De-Duck-Tive Story
Tue, Feb 20, 1962
Daffy recounts many of his detective escapades.
Episode 17
The Astro-Nuts
Tue, Mar 13, 1962
Bugs Bunny emerges from his hole on stage as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddy-less, to introduce science fiction cartoons.
Episode 18
Vera's Cruise
Tue, Mar 20, 1962
Sylvester recounts his recent travels through Europe, when his pursuit of Tweety became transoceanic and transcontinental.
Episode 19
Foreign Legion Leghorn
Tue, Jun 19, 1962
Foghorn Leghorn's farmyard life has been so tough on him that he decides to enlist in the French Foreign Legion.
Episode 20
Watch My Line
Tue, Jun 26, 1962
The art of cartoon drawing is demonstrated by an animator, whom Bugs instructs to draw a line, which turns into different things.
Episode 21
What's Up Dog?
Tue, Jul 3, 1962
A second look at dogs, hosted by Bugs.
Episode 22
The Cat's Bah
Tue, Jul 10, 1962
Pepe Le Pew recalls the results of broken romances in Africa. He suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul.
Episode 23
No Business Like Slow Business
Tue, Jul 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.
Episode 24
The Honeymousers
Tue, Jul 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: the show's viewer. So, Bugs as a dutiful host invites his guest to join him in watching a high-rated television show, a mouse version of "The Honeymooners".
Episode 25
A Star Is Bored
Tue, Jul 31, 1962
Bugs provides yet another lecture on cartoon animation, secretly stating that he does the voice of Mel Blanc. Daffy, meanwhile, tries to upstage the rabbit in the guise of a clean-up artist from a cartoon agency.
Episode 26
A Tale of Two Kitties
Tue, Aug 7, 1962
Sylvester and son discuss mice, ranging from those from Mexico to those of the "giant" variety.
