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