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What are the bugs in Bugs Bunny
Submitted 2 weeks ago by greenbit@lemmy.zip to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
HeathenPope@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Also in-universe, his name/nickname is Bugs.
fubo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
finally, a correct answer
nomecks@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Rabbits are prolific reproducers. Bugs Bunny has VD.
Naich@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Could be a reference to Bugsy Malone.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Bugsy Malone was written in 1973.
memfree@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I'd forgotten that Bugsy Malone was fictional version of Bugs Moran (and Al Capone and all).
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bugs Moran
greenbit@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m thinking a bunch of bees in a rabbit skin?
Gee209@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Ah, the ole GUY.BRUSH switcheroo
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
You were alive in the 1930s and able to read. Amazing.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sounds like your own reading comprehension still isn't so great in 2025, because that's not what they said.