Bugs Bunny is a fictional main character who starred in the
Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which became Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1944.
Bugs starred in 163 shorts during the Golden Age of American animation, and made cameos in three others along with a few appearances in non-animated films.
According to
Bugs Bunny: 50 Years and Only One Grey Hare, he was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. In reality, he was created by many animators and staff, including Tex Avery, who directed
A Wild Hare, Bugs' debut role, and Robert McKimson, who created the definitive
Bugs Bunny character design. According to Mel Blanc, the character's original voice actor, Bugs has a Flatbush accent.
Bugs has had numerous catchphrases, the most prominent being a casual "Eh... What's up, doc?", usually said while chewing a carrot. Other prominent phrases include: "Of course you realize, this means war", "Ain't I a stinker?", "What a maroon!" (a twist on the term "moron,"
[citation needed] but also a term once used for runaway African slaves in the West Indies now known as the Caribbean
), "What a rube!" (a person of rural heritage), and "I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque."
He is the most prominent of the Looney Tunes characters as his calm, flippant insouciance endeared him to American audiences during and after World War II. He is a mascot of the Looney Tunes series, and Warner Bros. in general
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