When people made up Bugs Bunny’s Birthday, why do they always start off with the short “A Wild Hare”, so that it makes 84 years, instead of starting off with “Porky’s Hare Hunt”, which is Bugs Bunny’s Happy Rabbit era, making 86 years? It’s just like making up Mickey Mouse’s 90th Birthday and starting off with Steamboat Willie rather than Plane Crazy being produced way before that.
When Bugs was called “Happy Rabbit”, the first instance of using “Bugs Bunny” was in Hare-um Scare-um, which Bugs was named after Ben Hardaway. He wore yellow gloves, which came to be white gloves for “Tex’s Rabbit”, Bugs drawn by Tex Avery.
Is there any reason why they can’t start off with Bugs’s prototypes, as of 1938, and believe the real Bugs Bunny appeared in A Wild Hare?