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What are the bugs in Bugs Bunny
Submitted 11 months ago by greenbit@lemmy.zip to [deleted]
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
HeathenPope@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the correct answer. As Hardaway’s rabbit sketch made the rounds about the studio, people began to refer to it as “Bugs’s Bunny”. Eventually, the possessive was dropped and the name Bugs Bunny just stuck.
TheBat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also in-universe, his name/nickname is Bugs.
fubo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
finally, a correct answer
nomecks@lemmy.wtf 11 months ago
Rabbits are prolific reproducers. Bugs Bunny has VD.
Naich@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Could be a reference to Bugsy Malone.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Bugsy Malone was written in 1973.
memfree@piefed.social 11 months ago
I'd forgotten that Bugsy Malone was fictional version of Bugs Moran (and Al Capone and all).
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bugs Moran
greenbit@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I’m thinking a bunch of bees in a rabbit skin?
Gee209@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I once read that in the 1930’s, one of the animators for Warner Bros. was working on a prototype rabbit character. The animator was named Ben (nicknamed “Bugs”) Hardaway.
A model sheet for the character was labeled “Bugs’ Bunny”—as in, the bunny belonging to Bugs (Hardaway). The name stuck to the character we know as Bugs Bunny today. The name wasn’t given purposely, but by association.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ah, the ole GUY.BRUSH switcheroo
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You were alive in the 1930s and able to read. Amazing.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 11 months ago
Sounds like your own reading comprehension still isn't so great in 2025, because that's not what they said.