Bugs Bunny: Culture Guide

Drawn: The Story of Animation

HowStuffWorks and Cartoon Network

Tv & Film

4.8 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Since 1950, kids have been learning about opera from Bugs Bunny. And he probably was the first drag performer most people can remember seeing. How did the wascally wabbit become a cultural influencer?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Holly Fry, and this is Drawn.
0:26.0	To prepare for this entire podcast series, I interviewed dozens of people,
0:30.9	and I asked everyone that I spoke with what their favorite cartoon character was.
0:34.6	And I got one answer over and over and over.
0:38.6	Like Bugs Bunny is my all-time favorite character.
0:40.3	Do I have a favorite character?
0:42.6	Well, my go-to answer is Bugs Bunny.
0:43.7	I love Bugs Bunny.
0:45.0	I mean, hands down, Bugs Bunny.
0:45.9	That's right.
0:46.9	Bugs Bunny.
0:55.9	Look at that horrible monster attacking that poor old lady.
0:59.3	And courage, Granny, I'll save you, I'll save you.
1:12.3	He put up a terrific battle, ma'am, but clean living prevailed.
1:14.4	You've ruined my pipes.
1:21.1	Bugs Bunny was my favorite cartoon as a kid, because I was a kid in the 70s, and it's one of the best cartoons of all time.
1:27.9	You know, it's funny that when I first took the job at Cartoon Network, I almost didn't get the job because in every interview, I would disparage Hannah-Barbera cartoons at the expense of Bugs Bunny cartoons. And I'm like, they're
1:33.6	just inferior. But I somehow got the job. Yes, Bugs Bunny cartoons, the best.
1:39.3	That was Michael O'Lean, Chief Marketing Officer for Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Boomerang Networks, and
1:45.2	the creator of Harvey Birdman, attorney at law. And his loyalty and admiration for Bugs mirrors
1:51.0	that of animation fans around the world. More than any other character, it seems,
1:56.6	Bugs has an appeal that's impossible to deny.
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