The Bugs Bunny Show
(1960)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 3
Season # 3, Show # 26
Episode 26 - 3-04-1972
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. "You see, folks. Man is basically lazy. In order to keep from using his feet, he uses his brain." The lecture addresses human methods of conveyance, including the pogo stick, the Birdie-mobile (a seat carried in the air by a flock of birds), the horse, and the automobile in its many forms, then discusses the human need for companionship, hence the opposite sex and marriage, with a family of bears portrayed in a cartoon as a parallel to this human tendency.
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Season # 3, Show # 25
Episode 25 - 2-26-1972
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 parody of The Beverly Hillbillies, with Bugs honing his square dance-calling talent, with agonizing consequences for a pair of rustics of the Ozark Mountains. In a mouse version of The Honeymooners, toy bus driver Ralph Crumden and kitchen sink worker Ned Morton strive to snatch a cupcake for a surprise birthday confection for Ralph's spouse, Alice, from the humans' kitchen in the Brooklyn apartment in which they and their whiskered wives have neighboring hole dwellings. However, a cat blocks their path to the refrigerator and the cupcake therein. So, Crumden and Morton plot to outwit their feline opponent.
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Season # 3, Show # 24
Episode 24 - 2-19-1972
It is 'Reading Out Loud Night', and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop. The book is an album of photographs of Bugs' family and life experiences. Bugs and Elmer Fudd are the unwitting participants in a scientific study of the behavioral influence of headgear, and Bugs combats farmer Fudd's addled automaton. Sylvester is aided by a black panther in besting a swaggering bulldog.
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Season # 3, Show # 23
Episode 23 - 2-12-1972
30m
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress. Foghorn reenacts some of Prissy's famous roles, including "Romeo and Juliet", in which she played both parts, and an act involving precarious balancing on a stack of chairs and juggling of bowling pins and hoops. Prissy initiates the cartoons by looking into a crystal ball, and she sees mirthful musical notes preparing for collective self-rendition of "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss and Bugs foiling a scientist's plan to transfer his consciousness into the feathered head of a chicken.
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Season # 3, Show # 22
Episode 22 - 2-05-1972
The Tasmanian Devil appears with Bugs on stage. Bugs tells of his first meeting with "Taz-Boy" in the jungle of Tasmania, and then he prescribes a carrot diet to Taz, demonstrating how an anemic weakling, Daffy Duck, supposedly became an energetic and versatile cartoon star after submitting to a carrot diet.
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Season # 3, Show # 21
Episode 21 - 1-29-1972
Yosemite Sam is a Saharan land baron who disapproves of Bugs' presence on his desert sands and tries to kill the rabbit visitor to his arid estate, the Big Bad Wolf insists to his son that he was the victim of Three cruel Little Pigs who attempted to guillotine his tail and blew down his house, and an unseen animator sketches Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and then draws a broom's tail on Foghorn's backside, preceding a cartoon with Foghorn Leghorn's chickendom in question.
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Season # 3, Show # 20
Episode 20 - 1-22-1972
After a Klondike dispute with Yosemite Sam over entitlement to gold deposits- the first cartoon of this show, Bugs is on stage, imitating "Frankie doing an imitation of Rickie imitating Elvis." His music disturbs Yosemite Sam, who is in a neighboring building, trying to sleep. Sam angrily runs into the Bugs Bunny Show studio and destroys Bugs' guitar. Bugs recollects another instance of his music provoking violence.
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Season # 3, Show # 19
Episode 19 - 1-15-1972
Bugs has not fully awoken and is in no condition to host the show. So, the announcer introduces the individual cartoons: Bugs in a medieval jousting contest, Sylvester aiming to be Elmer Fudd's winter house cat, and Foghorn Leghorn playing golf, with the barnyard dog's nose as tee.
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Season # 3, Show # 18
Episode 18 - 1-08-1972
An installment distinguished by talent agent Porky Pig perusing several previously unknown acts of entertainment, Claude Cat going insane by the upside down room contrivance of two mice intending to inhabit Claude's home, and Bugs rescuing Hansel and Gretel from the clutches of urchin-baker Witch Hazel. On stage, Bugs gives yet another lecture on cartoon animation, confidentially stating that, "I do Mel Blanc's voice." Daffy Duck intrudes upon the lecture, insisting that he is a clean-up artist sent by a cartoon agency, and proceeds to redraw animation of Tweety by putting his own duck's beak and webbed feet on the canary.
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Season # 3, Show # 17
Episode 17 - 1-01-1972
Ralph Wolf's Little Bo Peep ploy to remove a sheep from the field of ba-a-a-ing grazers overseen by Sam Sheepdog is quashed by Sam, who appears out of the carcass of the sheep that Bo Peep Ralph has selected. Daffy is so desperate to appear on the show as the feature performer that he dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, splendid garb but never appropriate or soon enough for Bugs to grant to Daffy a place in any of this episode's cartoons, one thereof set in medieval times as Bugs battles Black Knight Yosemite Sam for possession of a singing sword and the other transpiring in a French perfume shop, as Pepé Le Pew lusts for a cat whose back has been accidentally dyed white.
6.9/10Haven't Seen
Season # 3, Show # 16
Episode 16 - 12-25-1971
George P. Dog is introduced by Bugs as the emcee for this show, but Foghorn Leghorn decides that he would be a better emcee and pushes the dog aside. In the cartoons that follow, Wile E. Coyote consults an electronic brain for advice on how to snatch Bugs Bunny from his desert domicile, unaware that Bugs is the brain's one moving part, and a pair of suicidal mice bedevil Claude Cat with pleas that he eat them. Little Henery Hawk enters the studio on his unending hunt for chicken, and Foghorn uses a magic hat to make Henery disappear, before watching a televised interview with Bugs.
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Season # 3, Show # 15
Episode 15 - 12-18-1971
Yosemite Sam dies after being crushed by a falling safe during his evil scheme to matrimonially divest a widow of her money- and he goes to hell, where the devil promises to release Sam's spirit and give to Sam a new lease on life, provided that Sam bring to the devil a certain rabbit whom the devil has been trying for a long time to entrap in Hades. Sam is returned to Earth on a movie set, where a dictatorial director, who looks and talks like Emperor Nero, orders stagehand Sam to find a victim to feed to a hoard of lions. Sam dies again when he is feasted upon by the lions, and the devil allocates to him one more miscarried chance to catch the bunny, as a homeowner in the American Western frontier.
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Season # 3, Show # 14
Episode 14 - 12-11-1971
Bugs defeats Scotsman Angus McCrory in a golf game of very liberal rules prior to dressing like the portly Alfred Hitchcock to offer a lecture on crime. Standing outside of the laboratory of one Dr. Peabody, he speaks about mad scientists, specifically the meek inventor of a portable hole that is stolen by a shadowy bank robber. Next, he flips through a police record archive to find a dossier on Rocky and Mugsy, two criminals who have, so far- but not for much longer, managed to elude the law.
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Season # 3, Show # 13
Episode 13 - 12-04-1971
Elmer Fudd is host of this mainly music-oriented installment, opened by Bugs' antics as a tuneful barber. While on stage after cartoon one, Elmer tries to sing, but he is thwarted when the notes on his sheet music run off of their page, reminding Elmer of his July 4 life-or-death struggle against belligerent picnic ants. Sylvester, outside of the studio, spoils Elmer's endeavor to conduct an orchestra, by wearing boots and singing "tra-la-la" while noisily stomping up and down a wooden stairwell. The Goofy Gophers seek to regain their vegetable harvest, which has been moved to a food processing factory.
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Season # 3, Show # 12
Episode 12 - 11-27-1971
Gangsters Rocky and Mugsy are in their hideout, watching The Bugs Bunny Show. They see Bugs, in segues between cartoons with Bugs in a vampire's Transylvanian castle and Elmer Fudd's rooster's desperate effort to delay the time of his forecasted death, talking about the sponsors who pay substantial money to support his television program. So, the greedy Rocky decides to gain access to sponsorship dollars by going into the television business. They go to the studio where Bugs' show is being performed. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces a cartoon concerning a singing frog, which he shows from a film projector.
6.9/10Haven't Seen
Season # 3, Show # 11
Episode 11 - 11-20-1971
Bugs Bunny introduces the host for this show, Pepé Le Pew, who is in an apartment in Paris. Pepe steps onto his balcony and gestures for the viewer to gaze upon the romance-filled parks and streets of the city. "Yes, love is everywhere, even at the cinema." The cinema's feature, a love-story situated in a zoo, stars Pepé Le Pew. After next telling about a romance which he had in Casablanca, Pepe suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul when he mistakenly tunneled to Antarctica.
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Season # 3, Show # 10
Episode 10 - 11-13-1971
Foghorn Leghorn is an inept soldier in the French Foreign Legion. Traveling across the Sahara Desert, Foghorn explains to his Sergeant about how his troublesome relationships with a prissy chicken and a genius boy chick caused him to leave America and join the French military. By dint of Bugs' ingenuity, Yosemite Sam is the repeating accidental performer in the same death-defying high diving act that he was violently resolved to see executed by Bugs in a Wild West carnival.
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Season # 3, Show # 9
Episode 9 - 11-06-1971
Mac and Tosh- the Goofy Gophers- are hosts. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce cartoon features of Bugs as a bullfighter and a jailbird and Claude Cat as a hopeful puppy evictor (each insists that the other do it); so, Bugs interrupts them and himself does the job.
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Season # 3, Show # 8
Episode 8 - 10-30-1971
Together with Porky Pig, who descends on a parachute to stage level, Bugs- as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless- announces cartoons with Bugs combating Marvin Martian on Earth near Bugs' hole home and in space, both on Marvin's spaceship and space platform. Bugs also travels to Baghdad with the genie of Aladdin's Lamp, which a greedy sheik will stop at nothing to acquire.
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Season # 3, Show # 7
Episode 7 - 10-23-1971
Yosemite Sam expects to be emcee for the show, but Bugs instead selects Pepé Le Pew for this honor. A furious Sam tries to eliminate Pepe, but the bullets from his guns are repelled by Pepé Le Pew's odor and retreat straight back into the nozzles. Pepe introduces cartoons with himself in the French Foreign Legion and Bugs on a Mississippi river boat.
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Season # 3, Show # 6
Episode 6 - 10-16-1971
A lecture on birds from Bugs, after a cartoon with Bugs on Mars in a close encounter with Marvin Martian. Bugs shows the repulsive vulture (who replies to Bugs' description of his repulsiveness by saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones..."), the Blue "J" (a capital letter "J", painted blue), and a troublesome mockingbird, who repeats everything that Bugs says and does, including a mallet strike on the head. Sylvester intrudes upon the shipboard vacation of Granny and Tweety, and Wile E. Coyote is so desperate for water that he has hallucinations of the Road Runner swimming in an oasis pond.
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Season # 3, Show # 5
Episode 5 - 10-09-1971
The Tasmanian Devil receives explosive medical care from Bugs in a jungle medical clinic, and Bugs next lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat (bowling, that is!), a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat ("Hello, Tom. "Hello, Bob."), a pole cat (sitting atop a pole), two Persian cats making a Persian-to-Persian telephone call, the relationship between a father cat and his son- to introduce Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.'s meeting in their own home with a baby kangaroo believed by them to be a giant mouse, and the existence of cats, including one with painted white back stripe, in exotic places like the French Riviera, as visited by Pepé Le Pew.
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Season # 3, Show # 4
Episode 4 - 10-02-1971
Having been the humble lead character in an epic about the discovery of America, Bugs appears on stage to demonstrate how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell. Then, he directs an animator to draw a line that becomes the wagging tail of a dog in a sad story of canine misery. The animator follows this by sketching a pair of speedy legs- those of the Road Runner, far a cartoon depicting Wile E. Coyote's elaborate attempt to utilize a World War I aircraft in his continuing bid to capture the high- octane fowl.
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Season # 3, Show # 3
Episode 3 - 9-25-1971
After a cartoon wherein Bugs is the victorious protagonist in a pre-1900 San Franciscan gambling casino confrontation with the ruffian who stole his gold and Bugs has next presented to the audience the tale of a little chicken hawk who caught for his personal consumption the husky rooster who had been lecturing him about "starting small", Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the show, but a sheepdog, on a day free from his work, walks into the studio, hoping to catch the bunny-rabbit (Bugs) that he saw on television on the previous week. Daffy, in his rabbit suit, is accosted by the dog, while Bugs, off stage, introduces a cartoon with Sylvester, whose human masters depart for a two-week California vacation and have left him alone in a locked-and-sealed house.
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Season # 3, Show # 2
Episode 2 - 9-18-1971
After starring in a cartoon as the temporary straw-and-wood-house-buying dupe of Three wolf-wary and dishonest Little Pigs, Bugs 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, presumably because, "A man's best friend is his mother." When Bugs clearly states that he intends to talk about dogs, the projectionist flashes a picture of a wiener (a hot dog). "The domestic dog," retorts Bugs, and a picture of a wiener in an apron instantly appears.
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Season # 3, Show # 1
Episode 1 - 9-11-1971
Bugs introduces Porky Pig as the host for the show. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Following the dramatization of Claude Cat's own problems with a dog, Frisky Puppy, with Claude being stuck in a fish bowl and "pickled" in a water cooler and crashing into the concrete at the bottom of a waterless swimming pool- all because of Frisky's sudden and startling barking, Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine for Porky and is the principal character in a cartoon located in Dixieland. Porky turns red from rage at Charlie's interference with his emcee tasks and himself moves to forcefully remove Charlie from the studio, requiring Bugs to fill show time by telling the story of the Tasmanian Devil's arrival in America and fateful visit to a woodland rabbit hole.
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Season 2
A Tale of Two Kitties
Episode 26 - 8-07-1962
Sylvester and his son discuss mice, including those native to Mexico and the "giant-size" kind of rodent encountered by Sylvester and son in an abandoned, decaying house and on a ship.
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A Star is Bored
Episode 25 - 7-31-1962
Bugs gives yet another lecture on cartoon animation, confidentially stating that, "I do Mel Blanc's voice." Daffy Duck intrudes upon the lecture, insisting that he is a clean-up artist sent by a cartoon agency, and proceeds to redraw animation of Tweety by putting his own duck's beak and webbed feet on the canary. Bugs walks over to a film projector and says, "While he's grinding out the clean-ups, let's take a look at a finished cartoon." After the show's audience views Tweety's ordeal as a hostage of gangster Rocky and another in the Road Runner's series of cartoons eluding the determined but woebegone pursuit of his would-be devourer, Wile E. Coyote, Bugs is interviewed by an adulating Hollywood reporter named Lolly, hence raising the ire of Daffy, who resolves to compete with Bugs in several productions by being Bugs' double.
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The Honey-Mousers
Episode 24 - 7-24-1962
When Bugs descends by his special, hole-shaped elevator from the stage to his dressing room there beneath, he finds that he has company- an off-camera reporter in there waiting to interview him (the reporter never says anything; Bugs does all the talking). So, Bugs, as a dutiful host, invites his guest to join him in watching a high-rated television show. Then Bugs turns on his TV set for a mouse version of "The Honeymooners." Toy bus driver Ralph Crumden and kitchen sink worker Ned Morton seek to acquire food from the humans' kitchen in the Brooklyn apartment in which they and their whiskered wives have neighboring hole dwellings, but a cat blocks their path to the refrigerator and the goodies therein. So, Crumden and Morton plot to outwit their feline opponent.
8/10Haven't Seen
No Business Like Slow Business
Episode 23 - 7-17-1962
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, Bugs coyly fleeces desperado and San Francisco casino owner Nasty Canasta of all of his ill-gotten gains, and Ralph Wolf schemes unsuccessfully with Little Bo Peep guise, bowling ball, cannon, and hair grower liquid strategically dripped on the already moppy follicles on Sam Sheepdog's forehead, to filch the flock of sheep in Sam's care.
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The Cat's Bah
Episode 22 - 7-10-1962
Pepé Le Pew recalls the results of broken romances in Africa. Midway through the show, he suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul when he tunneled to Antarctica by mistake and met a temperamental penguin.
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What's Up, Dog?
Episode 21 - 7-03-1962
More dog tales. Charlie Dog chooses urban apartment owner Porky Pig as his master, whether Porky likes this or not. Daffy Duck rivals a barnyard dog for feeding by farmer Elmer Fudd. A middle-class man's shaggy dog, Robert, is determined to prove that he is a thoroughbred.
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Watch My Line
Episode 20 - 4-26-1962
The art of cartoon drawing is demonstrated by an animator, whom Bugs directs to draw a line that becomes a dog's wagging tail for a story of canine mistreatment by an innocent, little girl, and then to sketch a pair of speedy legs- those of the Road Runner, as a start to a Road Runner cartoon containing Wile E. Coyote's dynamite stick on a lasso, giant coil spring, dehydrated boulders, and steam roller- all ineffective at ending the Road Runner's life in the fast lane. The animator next turns mischievous and puts Bugs through various indignities.
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Foreign Foghorn Leghorn
Episode 19 - 4-19-1962
Foghorn Leghorn is an inept soldier in the French Foreign Legion. Traveling across the Sahara Desert, Foghorn explains to his Sergeant about how his troublesome relationships with domineering chickens and cunning boys caused him to leave America and join the French military.
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Vera's Cruise
Episode 18 - 3-20-1962
Sylvester recounts his recent travels through Europe, when his pursuit of Tweety became transoceanic and transcontinental. Relaxing in England, Sylvester was chased by two cockney canines and drank a certain concoction in a laboratory. Escaping the two dogs, Sylvester saw Tweety on a pier and traveled by boat, as an unwelcome passenger, to Italy, where he failed in several attempts to catch the bird. Then, on the Orient Express, Sylvester's pursuit of Tweety was thwarted by a bulldog.
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The Astro-Nuts
Episode 17 - 3-13-1962
Bugs Bunny emerges from his hole on stage as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless, to introduce science fiction cartoons. Intrepid interplanetary adventurer Daffy contends with Marvin Martian in claiming Planet X as home planet's rightful colonial territory, and Porky Pig and Sylvester are a Jupiter buzzard's selected Earthling subjects of study. Bugs is then joined on stage by a space suited Porky, who descends to stage level in a parachute and relates to the audience the story of Bugs' own experience in the cosmos, on a space platform controlled by Marvin with his apocalyptic Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
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De-Duck-Tive Story
Episode 16 - 2-20-1962
Daffy Duck joins the trench coat crowd in a show that highlights some of his greatest detective roles, one of them set in Paris and the other located in an American metropolis to which Beveridge Hills is an affluent suburb. In another cartoon, Daffy is the wily proprietor of an inn with a multi-animal infestation problem.
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Is This a Life?
Episode 15 - 2-13-1962
In this spoof of This is Your Life, Bugs Bunny's life is reviewed, with visits from friends and foes. Yosemite Sam remembers his battles with Bugs in the Klondike and at a Wild West carnival, and Elmer Fudd shows to Bugs a photo album containing snapshots of some of Bugs' relatives, Flopsie, Mopsie, Cottontail, and Peter, and of a farm setting in Indiana, the locale of Bugs' tussle with Fudd and a robot.
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Hare Brush
Episode 14 - 1-23-1962
Introduced by Bugs, Harry the Brush explains his role in the animation of cartoons wherein Claude Cat schemes to implicate bulldog Marc Antony in the confining by Claude of kitten Pussyfoot within a glass jug, a squirrel toils with a particularly tough nut to crack, and Daffy is at the mercy of the mischief of what he says is a "slop-artist".
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Do or Diet
Episode 13 - 1-16-1962
The Tasmanian Devil appears with Bugs on stage. Bugs tells of his first meeting with "Taz-Boy" in the jungle of Tasmania, and then he prescribes a carrot diet to Taz, demonstrating how an anemic weakling, Daffy Duck, supposedly became a super-heroic muscular powerhouse after submitting to a carrot diet. Foghorn Leghorn courts Miss Prissy and finds that he is the prospective father of a quiet genius.
8/10Haven't Seen
Stage Couch
Episode 12 - 12-26-1961
Sylvester needs psychiatric help when his frustration at being unable to catch Tweety has him on the verge of mental collapse. So, Bugs obliges to be Sylvester's "head-doctor" and listens as Sylvester tells of his obsessive chase of the elusive canary in Granny's home and at a circus.
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I'm Just Wild About Hare
Episode 11 - 12-19-1961
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. Cartoons therefore introduced by the announcer: Daffy Duck's refusal at any cost to receive a stork's delivery, the Road Runner's escape from Wile E. Coyote's explosive arrow and a huge, rolling boulder, and Pepé Le Pew's difficult wooing in the waters of southern France of a cat accidentally back-striped white.
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Go Man Go
Episode 10 - 12-12-1961
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. "You see, folks. Man is basically lazy. In order to keep from using his feet, he uses his brain." The lecture addresses human methods of conveyance, including the pogo stick, the Birdie-mobile (a seat carried in the air by a flock of birds), the horse, and the automobile in its many forms, then discusses the human need for companionship, hence the opposite sex and marriage, and then refers to the sprawling of human civilization, which encroaches upon nature- and upon the sanctity of Bugs' home, located in a site chosen by man for building a freeway.
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Prison to Prison
Episode 9 - 12-05-1961
Bugs, dressed like the portly Alfred Hitchcock, lectures on crime. He talks about the seedy underworld of Victorian England, where master sleuth Dorlock Homes is trailing the notorious Shropshire Slasher, and then, standing outside of the laboratory of one Dr. Peabody, he speaks about mad scientists, specifically the meek inventor of a portable hole that is stolen by a shadowy bank robber. Next, he flips through a police record archive to find a dossier on Rocky and Mugsy, two criminals who have, so far- but not for much longer, managed to elude the law.
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The Unfinished Symphony
Episode 8 - 11-28-1961
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, and a be-bop-jazzed version of the Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Pigs.
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Ball Point Puns
Episode 7 - 11-21-1961
Red and black dancing pens, named Penelope and Penbroke, perform like figure skaters on paper provided by Bugs. Due to Bugs and Daffy's efforts to direct hunter rifle fire toward each other, Elmer is confused as to what hunting season it really is. Porky Pig and Sylvester are tenants at the haunted Dry Gulch Hotel, and then Porky has a secret house guest- Daffy Duck, seeking shelter from a blizzard and a constant supply of food.
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Man's Best Friend
Episode 6 - 11-14-1961
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, presumably because, "A man's best friend is his mother." When Bugs clearly states that he intends to talk about dogs, the projectionist flashes a picture of a wiener (a hot dog). "The domestic dog," retorts Bugs, and a picture of a wiener in an apron instantly appears. Finally, the projectionist does something right, and Bugs' requested pictures of dogs are shown: the sheep dog, as seen in a cartoon defending a flock of sheep from lambchop-desirer Ralph Wolf and Ralph's smoke bomb, rock disguise, and underwater unicycle; and the bulldog, willing in one cartoon to resort to any deception to attain meat and acting in another cartoon as protector of his scrappy baby son against a conniving Sylvester.
7/10Buy
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Tired and Feathered
Episode 5 - 9-07-1961
Bugs Bunny gives a lecture on birds, showing the repulsive vulture (who replies to Bugs' description of his repulsiveness by saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones..."), the Blue "J" (a capital letter "J", painted blue), a troublesome mockingbird, who repeats everything that Bugs says and does- including a mallet strike on the head, Tweety Bird in a precarious predicament as Granny's pet trapped with Sylvester in a snowbound mountain cabin, a pair of Mexican crows desiring without avail the capture and eating of a grasshopper, and the Road Runner as fallibly pursued by Wile E. Coyote with a rocket, a dynamite lasso, glue, and a female Road Runner disguise, in the U.S. southwestern desert.
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Omni-Puss
Episode 4 - 10-31-1961
Bugs Bunny lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat (bowling, that is!), a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat, a pole cat (sitting atop a pole), two Persian cats talking on the telephone "making a Persian-to-Persian call"- to which Bugs replies, "I don't write this stuff, I just say it." Three cartoon features depict Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. in a museum as Sylvester combats a baby kangaroo believed by him and by his son to be a giant mouse, a bulldog named Marc Antony striving to prove that his kitten friend, Pussyfoot, is capable of ridding their master's house of its rodents, and Pepé Le Pew's search for love on the French Riviera and, as usual, his lust for a cat whose back is striped white from exposure to paint of that color.
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Daffy Doodling
Episode 3 - 10-24-1961
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, and Foghorn Leghorn's mid-winter fun is fettered by the arrival in his barnyard of a hungry, chicken-craving weasel.
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Satan's Waitin'
Episode 2 - 10-17-1961
Yosemite Sam dies after being crushed by a falling safe during his evil scheme to matrimonially divest a widow of her money- and he goes to hell, where the devil promises to release Sam's spirit and give to Sam a new lease on life, provided that Sam bring to the devil a certain rabbit whom the devil has been trying for a long time to entrap in Hades. Sam is returned to Earth on a movie set, where a dictatorial director, who looks and talks like Emperor Nero, orders stagehand Sam to find a victim to feed to a hoard of lions. Sam dies again when he is feasted upon by the lions, and the devil allocates to him one more miscarried chance to catch the bunny, in the midst of the Sahara Desert.
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Bad-Time Story
Episode 1 - 10-10-1961
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, comprised of Bugs' initiative to save the lives of Hansel and Gretel from Witch Hazel, Daffy's pratfalls as an accident-prone Robin Hood, Porky Pig's performance as a laughing Friar Tuck, and Sylvester's raid of an enormous, Tweety-inhabited castle at the top of a certain beanstalk.
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Season 1
Bugs Bunny Show #26
Episode 26 - 4-04-1961
Okay, rabbit. Grab a cloud. This is a stick-up. Gun-toting gangsters Rocky and Mugsy hijack the show. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces the cartoons: Bugs accompanying Columbus aboard the Santa Maria in 1492, Foghorn Leghorn endeavoring to prove his being a chicken to Henery Hawk, and Sylvester performing as Big Bad Wolf to a dreaming boy mouse's Little Red Riding Hood, each of which Rocky shows from a film projector.
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Bugs Bunny Show #25
Episode 25 - 3-28-1961
Bugs introduces Daffy Duck as this installment's host, but Daffy is backstage being chased by the Tasmanian Devil, who has broken out of a crate. Cartoons include Henery Hawk's lasso-trap capture of Foghorn Leghorn for chicken dinner, Porky Pig's stint as a talent agent, and Bugs' meeting on his home turf with a voracious, spinning juggernaut from Tasmania.
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Bugs Bunny Show #24
Episode 24 - 3-21-1961
30m
Yosemite Sam expects to be emcee for this episode consisting of Bugs' river boat gambling escapade, long-suffering Claude Cat's descent into a waterless swimming pool, and two over-indulged-on-cheese mice's suicide act of stepping into a befuddled Claude's mouth. Bugs selects Pepé Le Pew for the emcee duties. A furious Sam tries to shoot Pepe with his two guns, but the bullets from the guns are repelled by Pepé Le Pew's odor and retreat straight back into the nozzles. Sam next uses the Tasmanian Devil to try to chase Pepe off of the stage, but Pepé Le Pew's foul scent also defeats Taz.
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Bugs Bunny Show #23
Episode 23 - 3-14-1961
Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are again hosts for the show. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce the jailed Bugs, house-imprisoned and in-need-of-food Sylvester, and Tweety-in-a-city-park cartoon features; so, Bugs interrupts them and himself does the job.
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Bugs Bunny Show #22
Episode 22 - 3-07-1961
Sylvester is host and tells to his son, Junior, the Looney Tune-style fairy tales of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs- in which hero and villain roles are seemingly reversed, Pied Piper Porky Pig of Hamelin, and Jack and the Beanstalk- with Bugs and Daffy as a "pair of Jacks" and Elmer Fudd as the towering inhabitant of the land atop the sprouted beanstalk.
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Bugs Bunny Show #21
Episode 21 - 2-28-1961
Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are introduced by Bugs as this episode's hosts. In the cartoons, Bugs is orchestrator of a square dance that very much pains two lame-brained men of the Ozark Mountains, Sylvester's feline integrity is in doubt when he cannot defeat a punchy "giant mouse" before the eyes of a cat-prodding bulldog, and Daffy's ruse in chicken guise to win a $5,000 prize goes dreadfully awry when Henery Hawk selects him as fodder for a chicken hawk father-and-son feast.
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Bugs Bunny Show #20
Episode 20 - 2-21-1960
Tonight, we thought we would go in for a little fast culture, says Bugs, standing in front of the set for "The Barber of Seville", which, starring Bugs Bunny, is to be the opera feature for the show. But Elmer Fudd, hunting Bugs with his rifle, sees the attraction poster billing Bugs as the star and enters the studio with the intention of shooting Bugs. "This is wabbit season, and I'm gonna get me a wabbit. Opewa or no opewa. Wossini or no Wossini. So, watch out, wabbit!" Additionally, Daffy is an insufficiently convincing protagonist in a swashbuckler story, and Wile E. Coyote on a motorcycle collides with a telephone pole.
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Bugs Bunny Show #19
Episode 19 - 2-14-1961
Bugs demonstrates how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell. In this installment's featured cartoons, ball-and-chained sailor Bugs actively expresses his grievances with the captaincy of Shanghai Sam aboard the Sad Sack, an elephant of very small proportion causes hysteria in an American city, and Wile E. Coyote's Superman costume proves anything but airworthy.
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Bugs Bunny Show #18
Episode 18 - 2-07-1961
Two lame-brained Mexicali cats, Jose and Miguel, try to host an episode with Yosemite Sam plummeting again and again into a bucket of water, Ralph Wolf being continually stopped from obtaining mutton by the omnipresent Sam Sheepdog, and a mouse deceiving Mike Bulldog into thinking Sylvester to be a provocative foe. Jose and Miguel are heckled on stage by Speedy Gonzales, who entices the dimwit felines into chasing him, with animation reused from "Mexicali Shmoes".
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Bugs Bunny Show #17
Episode 17 - 1-31-1961
An unseen animator sketches Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and then draws a broom's tail on Foghorn's backside. Foghorn retaliates by lassoing and pummeling the animator- Daffy Duck, before appearing in the first cartoon as the reluctant love interest of Miss Prissy. The peaceful home of Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. is invaded by zoo office escapee Hippety Hopper, and Bugs purchases houses of straw and wood from Three Little Pigs, minus insurance against a Big Bad Wolf.
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Bugs Bunny Show #16
Episode 16 - 1-24-1961
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress. Foghorn reenacts some of Prissy's famous roles, including "Romeo and Juliet", in which she played both parts, and an act involving precarious balancing on a stack of chairs and juggling of bowling pins and hoops. Prissy initiates the cartoons by looking into a crystal ball, and she sees Daffy marrying for money and regretting it and Bugs foiling a scientist's plan to transfer his consciousness into the feathered head of a chicken.
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Bugs Bunny Show #15
Episode 15 - 1-17-1961
Daffy finally receives recognition! Bugs hosts an all-Daffy Duck tribute, in which Mama Bear performs "I'm Just Wild About Daffy" and the mallard stars in cartoons as a far-future detective, the boon companion to a multi- millionaire, and a dubious hero of the Wild West.
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Bugs Bunny Show #14
Episode 14 - 1-10-1961
Elmer Fudd is host and tries to sing, but he is thwarted when the notes on his sheet music run off of their page and remind him of his July 4 picnic that became a harrowing confrontation with an army of ants- and when Sylvester, outside of the studio, wears boots and sings "tra-la-la" while noisily stomping up and down a wooden stairwell. In cartoons presented by Elmer, the Goofy Gophers pursue "vandals" who confiscated all of the vegetables from their garden and Bugs and Yosemite Sam are at odds over property rights.
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Bugs Bunny Show #13
Episode 13 - 1-03-1961
Sylvester is introduced by Bugs as host for the show and is applauded by his son, Junior, who is sitting on a crate containing Hippety Hopper, whom they, as usual, mistake for a giant mouse- during segues between Bugs' visit to Baghdad, Charlie Dog's antics in the Deep South, and Foghorn Leghorn's unsuccessful fishing exercise.
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Bugs Bunny Show #12
Episode 12 - 12-27-1960
George P. Dog is introduced by Bugs as the emcee for this episode, but Foghorn Leghorn decides that he would be a better emcee and pushes the dog aside. Then, Little Henery Hawk enters the studio on his unending hunt for chicken, and Foghorn uses a magic hat to make Henery disappear. Foghorn next watches and shows to the audience an interview with Bugs Bunny, followed by a documentary on the Gambling Bug- with examples of his work, and lastly Sylvester's encounter with a baby kangaroo from a circus.
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Bugs Bunny Show #11
Episode 11 - 12-20-1960
Bugs introduces Porky Pig as the host for the show. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine and complicates Porky's introduction of Claude Cat's struggle to eliminate the loudly barking and feline-startling Frisky Puppy, Sylvester's pursuit of Tweety on a train, and Bugs' thwarting of his own abduction by Marvin Martian.
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Bugs Bunny Show #10
Episode 10 - 12-13-1960
Yosemite Sam wants Bugs' hide! So, gun in hand, he comes to see The Bugs Bunny Show live as a spectator in the studio. Bugs deflects Sam's attempts at mayhem while unflappably introducing the cartoons in the show, cartoons wherein Bugs outwits an African witch doctor desiring a rabbit for his latest potion and Sylvester pursues a mazurka-dancing mouse in a Slobovian cabin and vies with a kitten to be the chosen pet of Elmer Fudd.
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Bugs Bunny Show #9
Episode 9 - 12-06-1960
Tweety is host of an installment containing two psychological thrillers with birds seemingly doomed to death at a specified time. So that the little canary can be safe from Sylvester, Bugs hangs his cage from the stage ceiling. Sylvester attempts to reach Tweety in the hanging cage, and Bugs contests Sam Von Schamm, the Hessian, in the Battle of Bagel Heights.
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Bugs Bunny Show #8
Episode 8 - 11-29-1960
Daffy wants to host the show. So, he banishes all others from the stage, including Pepe, Elmer, and Bugs. Still, the cartoons proceed on schedule, with Bugs in Scotland, Porky and Sylvester in a spooky, mouse-infested house, and Pepe chasing a white-paint-striped cat in a zoo.
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Bugs Bunny Show #7
Episode 7 - 11-22-1960
Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the show, but a sheepdog, on a day free from his work, walks into the studio, hoping to catch the bunny-rabbit (Bugs) that he saw on television on the previous week. Daffy, in his rabbit suit, is accosted by the dog, while Bugs, off stage, introduces cartoons: Bugs' battle against a bull, Sylvester's explosive ordeal at sea, and a tale of woe for a man who discovers, beyond the belief of every person around him, a frog that can sing.
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Bugs Bunny Show #6
Episode 6 - 11-15-1960
In a musical competition between cartoon features of Bugs at war with a soprano, Sylvester buffeted by tidal waves in his gastronomic quest for Tweety, and two mice conspiring to induce house cat insanity, Daffy plays drums and Bugs imitates "Frankie doing an imitation of Rickie imitating Elvis." Their loud music disturbs Yosemite Sam, who is in a neighboring building, trying to sleep. Sam angrily runs into the Bugs Bunny Show studio and destroys Bugs and Daffy's musical instruments, including a trumpet that Bugs tries to play, which Sam twists into knots.
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Bugs Bunny Show #5
Episode 5 - 11-08-1960
Desperate to appear on the show as the feature performer, Daffy dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, but his costume is deemed inappropriate by Bugs for each cartoon about to commence. Sylvester seeks to enter the Broken Arms Hotel, wherein no cats are permitted, to snatch Tweety from hotel guest Granny, Bugs jousts with a short-tempered knight in a medieval tournament, and Pepé Le Pew is in a perfume store in pursuit of a cat believed by him to be a skunk.
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Bugs Bunny Show #4
Episode 4 - 11-01-1960
Wile E. Coyote's chase of the Road Runner has extended into the studio where Bugs is trying to host his show. Two Road Runner cartoons are thus featured, involving Wile E.'s schemes to explode bridges crossed or expected to be crossed by the Road Runner, drop an anvil and a dynamite-laced barrel on the rapid bird, and generate Road Runner-killing tornadoes.
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Bugs Bunny Show #3
Episode 3 - 10-25-1960
Bugs Bunny introduces the host for this show, Pepé Le Pew, who is in an apartment in Paris. Pepe steps onto his balcony and gestures for the viewer to gaze upon the romance-filled parks and streets of the city. "Yes, love is everywhere, even at the cinema." The cinema's feature, a love-story located in a Parisian zoological exhibition, stars Pepé Le Pew. Pepe then introduces further affairs of the heart between a flying cat and his landed paramour and between two young mice of opposing wall holes in a Claude Cat household.
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Bugs Bunny Show #2
Episode 2 - 10-18-1960
Gangsters Rocky and Mugsy are in their hideout, watching The Bugs Bunny Show. They see Bugs talking about the sponsors who pay substantial money to support his television program. So, the greedy Rocky decides to gain access to sponsorship dollars by going into the television business- and intruding upon the proceedings of an episode depicting rivalry at Tweety-grabbing between Sylvester and an orange putty tat, Daffy Duck's mock servitude to farmer Elmer Fudd, and Speedy Gonzales' procurement of abundant cheese for his Mexican mouse brethren.
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Bugs Bunny Show #1
Episode 1 - 10-11-1960
Bugs Bunny introduces his co-hosts individually. Pepé Le Pew is shown standing next to a bistro table and saying, "'Ello, girls." Yosemite Sam rides onto stage atop his un-whoa-able horse. Tweety walks into the stage spotlight and says he, "...taw a putty tat." Sylvester is about to grab Tweety when he is "yee-ha-ed" upward off of the stage by Speedy Gonzales, whom Bugs describes as the fastest mouse in all Mexico. Forever vain Daffy Duck cannot persuade Bugs to mention him, try though he does through the show, which consists of Yosemite Sam's vain try to bake Bugs, Sylvester's disastrous attempt at rodent fatherhood, and a black panther's humbling of an aggressor bulldog.
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Bugs Bunny Show #20
Episode 20 - 2-21-1960
Tonight, we thought we would go in for a little fast culture, says Bugs, standing in front of the set for "The Barber of Seville", which, starring Bugs Bunny, is to be the opera feature for the show. But Elmer Fudd, hunting Bugs with his rifle, sees the attraction poster billing Bugs as the star and enters the studio with the intention of shooting Bugs. "This is wabbit season, and I'm gonna get me a wabbit. Opewa or no opewa. Wossini or no Wossini. So, watch out, wabbit!" Additionally, Daffy is an insufficiently convincing protagonist in a swashbuckler story, and Wile E. Coyote on a motorcycle collides with a telephone pole.
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Bugs Bunny Show #24
Episode 24 - 3-21-1961
30m
Yosemite Sam expects to be emcee for this episode consisting of Bugs' river boat gambling escapade, long-suffering Claude Cat's descent into a waterless swimming pool, and two over-indulged-on-cheese mice's suicide act of stepping into a befuddled Claude's mouth. Bugs selects Pepé Le Pew for the emcee duties. A furious Sam tries to shoot Pepe with his two guns, but the bullets from the guns are repelled by Pepé Le Pew's odor and retreat straight back into the nozzles. Sam next uses the Tasmanian Devil to try to chase Pepe off of the stage, but Pepé Le Pew's foul scent also defeats Taz.
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Bugs Bunny Show #16
Episode 16 - 1-24-1961
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress. Foghorn reenacts some of Prissy's famous roles, including "Romeo and Juliet", in which she played both parts, and an act involving precarious balancing on a stack of chairs and juggling of bowling pins and hoops. Prissy initiates the cartoons by looking into a crystal ball, and she sees Daffy marrying for money and regretting it and Bugs foiling a scientist's plan to transfer his consciousness into the feathered head of a chicken.
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Bugs Bunny Show #26
Episode 26 - 4-04-1961
Okay, rabbit. Grab a cloud. This is a stick-up. Gun-toting gangsters Rocky and Mugsy hijack the show. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces the cartoons: Bugs accompanying Columbus aboard the Santa Maria in 1492, Foghorn Leghorn endeavoring to prove his being a chicken to Henery Hawk, and Sylvester performing as Big Bad Wolf to a dreaming boy mouse's Little Red Riding Hood, each of which Rocky shows from a film projector.
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De-Duck-Tive Story
Episode 16 - 2-20-1962
Daffy Duck joins the trench coat crowd in a show that highlights some of his greatest detective roles, one of them set in Paris and the other located in an American metropolis to which Beveridge Hills is an affluent suburb. In another cartoon, Daffy is the wily proprietor of an inn with a multi-animal infestation problem.
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