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Happy Birthday Bugs: 50 Looney Years is a TV special celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bugs Bunny. It aired on August 15, 1990 on CBS. Many clips are shown, while various celebrities come to wish Bugs Bunny a happy birthday. Meanwhile, Daffy Duck watches the special on TV, despising Bugs for his birthday celebration (reused animation from Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars[1]). A subplot involves a group of protesters who favor Daffy over Bugs, but it's later revealed that Daffy hired them to protest. Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng make cameos talking about Bugs Bunny.
The special was directed by Gary Smith.
Highlights[]
- Bugs Bunny's life story is told on Entertainment Tonight. (including info on Tiny Toon Adventures and Box Office Bunny).
- Various talk shows have topics relating to Bugs.
- A commercial for ACME
- "A Current Affair" reports that there were several Bugs Bunnies. Elmer Fudd as "Mr. X" appears in an interview, face blurred and told what to say by Daffy (reused animation from Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports[1]).
- Bill Cosby talks to Raven-Symone about Bugs Bunny and Mel Blanc.
- Whoopi Goldberg pays tribute to Bugs Bunny and Mel Blanc.
- "Happy Birthday Bugs in 3 1/2 Minutes".
Celebrities[]
- Harry Anderson
- Milton Berle
- Pierce Brosnan
- Kirk Cameron
- Bill Cosby
- Phil Donahue (from Donahue show)
- Morgan Fairchild
- Martin Buhr
- Gabi Gibson
- Whoopi Goldberg
- John Goodman
- Valerie Harper
- Mary Hart (from Entertainment Tonight)
- Hulk Hogan (from WWF)
- Mean Gene Okerlund (from WWF)
- Chuck Norris
- Maury Povich (from A Current Affair)
- Sally Jessy Raphael
- Geraldo Rivera
- Dr. Ruth
- Pat Sajak (from Wheel Of Fortune)
- Fred Savage
- John Schneider
- Peter Scholari
- Raven-Symone
- William Shatner
- Shadoe Stevens
- John Volz
- Cindy Williams
- Little Richard
- Vanna White
- Mel Blanc (archive recordings from 1984)
- Noel Blanc
List of Cartoon preview[]
- A Wild Hare (1940)
- Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
- Hare We Go (1951)
- Person to Bunny (1960)
- Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
- Long-Haired Hare (1949)
- My Bunny Lies over the Sea (1948)
- The Big Snooze (1946)
- This Is a Life? (1955)
- What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
- Box Office Bunny (1991, in production)
- Hare Splitter (1948)
- Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
- Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
- No Parking Hare (1954)
- The Iceman Ducketh (1964)
- Bunny Hugged (1951)
- Show Biz Bugs (1957)
- Hare Do (1949)
- Apes of Wrath (1959)
- Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)
- Mad as a Mars Hare (1963)
- Baseball Bugs (1946)
- A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959)
- Hot Cross Bunny (1948)
- Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
- Hare-abian Nights (1959)
- High Diving Hare (1949)
- You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
- Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
- Rabbit Rampage (1955)
- What's Up Doc? (1950)
- Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988)
- Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports (1989)