The animator
What are the bugs in Bugs Bunny
Submitted 9 hours ago by greenbit@lemmy.zip to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
HeathenPope@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 8 hours ago
Also in-universe, his name/nickname is Bugs.
fubo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Navigation difficulties in the vicinity of Albuquerque, NM
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
finally, a correct answer
greenbit@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I’m thinking a bunch of bees in a rabbit skin?
nomecks@lemmy.wtf 6 hours ago
Rabbits are prolific reproducers. Bugs Bunny has VD.
Naich@lemmings.world 9 hours ago
Could be a reference to Bugsy Malone.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Bugs Moran
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Bugsy Malone was written in 1973.
memfree@piefed.social 5 hours ago
I'd forgotten that Bugsy Malone was fictional version of Bugs Moran (and Al Capone and all).
Gee209@lemmy.world 8 hours 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 5 hours ago
Ah, the ole GUY.BRUSH switcheroo
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
You were alive in the 1930s and able to read. Amazing.
Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 hour ago
Sounds like your own reading comprehension still isn't so great in 2025, because that's not what they said.