![]() ![]() In “Mississippi Hare” (1949), Bugs is baled along with some cotton and wakes up on a departing steamboat, where a drawling voice calls out: “All aboard! The steamer Southern Star, now sailing for Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Cuuuucamonga!” In “Daffy Duck Slept Here” (1948), Daffy, as a train conductor, announces, “Train leaving on Track 5 for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuuuuucamonga.” We came up with a mere five examples from the classic period (1930-1969), plus a sixth from the modern era. (This was long before the unincorporated community became Rancho Cucamonga, by the way.)Īs a fan, I compiled what felt like an exhaustive list of Cucamonga references in Looney Tunes cartoons, in consultation with two experts, for a column in 2012. Mickey did manage to beat Bugs and become the first fictional character to appear on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with Bugs coming in second seven years later.Classic Warner Brothers cartoons - Bugs Bunny and the like - mentioned Cucamonga now and then, if perhaps not as often as casual fans like to think. He was the first cartoon character to appear on a US stampīugs managed to beat Mickey to become the first cartoon character to appear on a US Postal Service in 1997 and quickly became popular with collectors. ![]() In the 1940s the Salt Lake City’s United Celery Company reached out to Warner Bros and offered to supply their staff with a months supply of their product if Bugs would swap his carrots for their product, the offer was politely refused. People tried to get him to swap carrots for celeryīugs popularity in America was so great businesses tried to get him to swap his carrots for other vegetables. He has been named the most popular cartoon of all timeĮven though Disney’s mascot Mickey Mouse might come to mind as the world's most famous animated animal, Bugs Bunny beat him to the top spot of TV Guide’s 2002 list of greatest cartoon characters of all time.īugs was also voted by theatre owners to be the best cartoon character in the world every year from 1945 to 1961. Of the several US propaganda cartoons Bugs appeared in, possibly his most famous was when he faced off against Hitler’s righthand man Herman Goring, in 1945’s ‘Herr meets Hare.ĭuring the animated short, a lost Bugs Bunny manages to embarrass and outsmart Goring by disguising himself as Hitler.īugs’ wartime heroism isn’t without controversy, Warner Bros has stopped distributing the 1944 film Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips for its crude depiction of Japanese people. He would later ‘retire’ at the rank of Master Sergeant. Mission: Impossible filming to resume at Warner Bros Studios under quarantine exemption plansĭisney delays release of 'Mulan', 'Star Wars' and 'Avatar 2' due to pandemicĪt the end of the 1943 short Super-Rabbot Bugs is shown wearing a Marines uniform, as a result the US military made him an honorary private. Soldiers across the US military would often choose the rabbit as their mascot, with Bugs appearing on the side of fighter planes and bombers. While the character didn’t have a name, a fellow employee would label Hardaway’s drawings “Bugs Bunny” and the name stuck ever since.īugs' popularity soared during World War Two and Warner Bros were keen to show their character helping out. ![]()
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