Bugs Bunny the lynchpin of the Looney Tunes, has been called everything from "classic" to "perennial"to "an American institution" to "one of our national heroes"--and "wascally wabbit," "long-eared galoot," and a lot of other things besides! But most of us just like to call him Bugs. Bugs was voted the most populat in the entire short-subject field in the United States and the Canada for the year 1945, and then stayed in the Number One spot for the next 16 years straight. Today Bugs continues to draw a crowd-in fact, a recent survey showed him to be the most popular animated character in the world! When Bugs' classic cartoons were being made and regularly released to theaters in the 1940's and 1950's, is was his stardom in short subjects that slyrocketed his studio to prominence in the animation field. Part of Bugs' great achievement had been to establish a strong prersonality who can exist for 7 minutes at a time, show us a facet of his personality, disappear for weeks, months, maybe years at a time, then reappear and still be recognized and entertaining. His possibilities were not exhausted by any single episode.
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