Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars

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Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars is a 1988 animated television special broadcast 21 October 1988 on CBS.

Plot

The story revolves around two competing television stations that show music videos from classic Looney Tunes shorts. The stations are hosted by Bugs Bunny (WABBIT) and Daffy Duck (KPUT).

Songs

Station	Song	Actors	Directors	Taken from the Cartoon
WABBIT	In Old Indiana	Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd	F. Freleng	Robot Rabbit (Audio only)
WABBIT	Home on the Range	Bugs Bunny	F. Freleng	The Fair Haired Hare
KPUT	Sunrise in Nutzville	The Wackylanders	R. Clampett	Porky in Wackyland (R. Clampett credit only) Dough for the Do-Do (Video only)
WABBIT	What's Up, Doc?	Bugs Bunny & Elmer Fudd	R. McKimson	What's Up Doc?
KPUT	Oh, People Call Me Daffy!	Daffy Duck	R. McKimson	Boobs in the Woods
WABBIT	Those Were Wonderful Days	The Four Moustaches	B. Brown	Those Were Wonderful Days
WABBIT	Shake Your Powder Puff	The Bunny Sisters	F. Freleng	Shake Your Powder Puff
WABBIT	We're In the Money	Bosko	Hugh Harman Rudolf Ising	Bosko's Picture Show
KPUT	We Watch the Skyways	Daffy Duck	F. Freleng	Yankee Doodle Daffy
WABBIT	Porky's Poppa Has a Farm	Porky Pig	R. Clampett	Porky's Poppa
WABBIT	Let's Rub Noses Like the Eskimoses	Porky Pig	R. Clampett	Polar Pals
WABBIT	The Age of Aquarium	Porky Pig	R. Clampett	Porky's Poor Fish
WABBIT	Would Ya Like to Take a Walk?	Porky Pig and Petunia Pig	R. Clampett	Naughty Neighbors
KPUT	Banjo Chickie Boom	Daffy Duck	F. Freleng	Yankee Doodle Daffy
WABBIT	We Did It Before	The Liberty Mice	F. Freleng	The Fifth-Column Mouse
WABBIT	Any Bonds Today?	Bugs Bunny	R. Clampett	Any Bonds Today?
KPUT	We're In to Win	Daffy Duck	F. Tashlin	Scrap Happy Daffy
WABBIT	Gee Whiz Willigins	Bugs Bunny	F. Freleng	The Bugs Bunny Show Episode 6 (with some audio from Banty Raids)
KPUT	Daffy Drum Boogie	Daffy Duck	F. Freleng	The Bugs Bunny Show Episode 6
WABBIT	The Old Soft Shoe	Bugs Bunny	R. McKimson	Hot Cross Bunny
KPUT	I Can't Get Along, Little Doggie	Yosemite Sam	F. Freleng	The Fair Haired Hare
WABBIT	Wee Widdle Bird	Tweety	F. Freleng	Tweet Tweet Tweety
KPUT	Pussycat's Parade	Sylvester	F. Freleng	Tweety's Circus
WABBIT	Tiptoe Through the Tulips	Pepé Le Pew	C. Jones	A Scent of the Matterhorn
KPUT	Halloween Gavotte	Creep Quartet	F. Tashlin	Have You Got Any Castles?
WABBIT	Columbus Day Rag	Bugs Bunny	R. McKimson	Hare We Go
KPUT	Irish Jig	Porky Pig	C. Jones	The Wearing of the Grin
WABBIT	Yankee Doodle	Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam	F. Freleng	Bunker Hill Bunny
KPUT	Jingle Bells	Daffy Duck	R. McKimson	Daffy Duck Hunt

Trivia

• The theme music for WABBIT is the music score of Bugs Bunny's theme song "What's Up, Doc?" that played over numerous Bugs Bunny cartoon title cards of the early-1950s.
• The Space Jam two-disc box set of the special has a messed-up soundtrack with loud music and new sound effects making it hard to hear what Bugs and Daffy are saying, similar to the mixed audiotracks on the bonus cartoons "Hop and Go" and "Sniffles Takes a Trip" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6. Additionally, one scene from one of the clips in "Scrap Happy Daffy" (where Daffy sings with his reflections from the mirror) was cut due to the inclusion of offensive racial caricatures of WWII such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, amongst others. The original 1992 VHS, however, has the original soundtrack and the uncut version of the clip from Scrap Happy Daffy.
• "Yankee Doodle Daffy", "The Fair Haired Hare", and bridging sequences from The Bugs Bunny Show are the only footage sources that appear twice in this TV special.

Availability

(1992) VHS (uncut, with original audiotrack)

(2003) DVD
Space Jam two-disc special edition (edited, with mixed audiotrack)