1976
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Bugs is the cool-headed headliner: the seasoned professional who treats a Saint-Saëns concert like just another gig he can charm his way through. On stage, Bugs rides the rhythm of pieces even when the vocal gag briefly slips into Daffy's voice, reinforcing the idea that he can handle highbrow music just as effortlessly as any slapstick brawl.
Trivia and other appearances: This special is the first Warner Bros.-commissioned Bugs Bunny production with all-new animation after the original studio's closure.We see the same basic gag of Bugs effortlessly owning the stage while Daffy melts down over applause and top billing in:Show Biz Bugs (1957) or Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988) where the same finale is shown, Daffy can't win because the audience is a giant bunch of bunnies
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Bugs is the cool-headed headliner: the seasoned professional who treats a Saint-Saëns concert like just another gig he can charm his way through. On stage, Bugs rides the rhythm of pieces even when the vocal gag briefly slips into Daffy's voice, reinforcing the idea that he can handle highbrow music just as effortlessly as any slapstick brawl.
Trivia and other appearances: This special is the first Warner Bros.-commissioned Bugs Bunny production with all-new animation after the original studio's closure.We see the same basic gag of Bugs effortlessly owning the stage while Daffy melts down over applause and top billing in:Show Biz Bugs (1957) or Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988) where the same finale is shown, Daffy can't win because the audience is a giant bunch of bunnies
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Porky only makes a very quick, non-musical cameo in this special, briefly stepping in backstage to announce that the show is starting before Bugs and Daffy head out.
Trivia and other appearances: Outside this walk-on, some of Porky Pig's most notable stage or musical showcases include: I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), Porky at the Crocadero (1938), Porky at the Crocadero (1938) and Giant Robot Love (2011)
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Porky only makes a very quick, non-musical cameo in this special, briefly stepping in backstage to announce that the show is starting before Bugs and Daffy head out.
Trivia and other appearances: Outside this walk-on, some of Porky Pig's most notable stage or musical showcases include: I Haven't Got a Hat (1935), Porky at the Crocadero (1938), Porky at the Crocadero (1938) and Giant Robot Love (2011)
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Daffy is the agitated co-star, stuck in a shared dressing room with Bugs and already furious before the music even starts. He argues over how to pronounce Saint-Saëns, fumes about the billing, and clearly believes he should be the big cultural genius on stage.
Trivia and other appearances: This TV special is one of Daffy's first big post-golden-age showcases built entirely around new animation, paving the way for his own headlining compilation specials later like Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (1977) or Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Daffy is the agitated co-star, stuck in a shared dressing room with Bugs and already furious before the music even starts. He argues over how to pronounce Saint-Saëns, fumes about the billing, and clearly believes he should be the big cultural genius on stage.
Trivia and other appearances: This TV special is one of Daffy's first big post-golden-age showcases built entirely around new animation, paving the way for his own headlining compilation specials later like Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (1977) or Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Each musical segment is named after an animal, and the animated sequence, clearly done in experimental styles, represents it. It's a sort of Disney "Fantasia", but on the cheap. This rooster is part of the clip set in a henhouse: some hens peck in time, the rooster sings, end of the thinghie.
Trivia and other appearances: Among Looney poultry, the real star rooster is Foghorn Leghorn, who first appears in Walky Talky Hawky (1946-08-31), while earlier barnyard birds include Clem and Emily in Let It Be Me! (1936-05-02).
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: Each musical segment is named after an animal, and the animated sequence, clearly done in experimental styles, represents it. It's a sort of Disney "Fantasia", but on the cheap. This rooster is part of the clip set in a henhouse: some hens peck in time, the rooster sings, end of the thinghie.
Trivia and other appearances: Among Looney poultry, the real star rooster is Foghorn Leghorn, who first appears in Walky Talky Hawky (1946-08-31), while earlier barnyard birds include Clem and Emily in Let It Be Me! (1936-05-02).
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: The "Aquarium" segment features a small cast of nameless sea creatures: gliding fish, a starfish, jellyfish and a looming whale, drifting through an underwater dreamscape in time with the music, more like living musical notes than real characters.
Trivia and other appearances: Same anonymous gag-animal category is the undersea cast of Fresh Fish (1939) and the dream fish family in Fish Tales (1936). Other notable Warner fish include the mischievous flying fish that torments Porky and his cat in The Sour Puss (1940)
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: The "Aquarium" segment features a small cast of nameless sea creatures: gliding fish, a starfish, jellyfish and a looming whale, drifting through an underwater dreamscape in time with the music, more like living musical notes than real characters.
Trivia and other appearances: Same anonymous gag-animal category is the undersea cast of Fresh Fish (1939) and the dream fish family in Fish Tales (1936). Other notable Warner fish include the mischievous flying fish that torments Porky and his cat in The Sour Puss (1940)
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: The "songbird flock" movement presents a flock of colorful, stylized songbirds flitting and singing through an almost Yellow Submarine-style landscape, while Daffy Duck proudly leans into the fact that he's "the bird" on stage.
Trivia and other appearances: his flock doesn't reappear elsewhere, but they sit comfortably in Warner's long tradition of avian stars: Tweety makes his first appearance in A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) On the more enigmatic side, the nearly omnipotent Minah Bird debuts alongside Inki in The Little Lion Hunter (1939), giving Warner another iconic, music-linked bird character.
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: The "songbird flock" movement presents a flock of colorful, stylized songbirds flitting and singing through an almost Yellow Submarine-style landscape, while Daffy Duck proudly leans into the fact that he's "the bird" on stage.
Trivia and other appearances: his flock doesn't reappear elsewhere, but they sit comfortably in Warner's long tradition of avian stars: Tweety makes his first appearance in A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) On the more enigmatic side, the nearly omnipotent Minah Bird debuts alongside Inki in The Little Lion Hunter (1939), giving Warner another iconic, music-linked bird character.
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: In the "Lions" movement, a nameless cartoon lion prowls and poses in time with the music as a generic king-of-the-jungle figure. More than a still frame presentation than animated short.
Trivia and other appearances: The best-known Looney lion is Leo the Lion, who stars in The Lyin' Mouse (1937), Hold the Lion, Please (1942) and The Lion's Busy (1950), and later returns in spin-off media like The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Tweety's High-Flying Adventure.
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: In the "Lions" movement, a nameless cartoon lion prowls and poses in time with the music as a generic king-of-the-jungle figure. More than a still frame presentation than animated short.
Trivia and other appearances: The best-known Looney lion is Leo the Lion, who stars in The Lyin' Mouse (1937), Hold the Lion, Please (1942) and The Lion's Busy (1950), and later returns in spin-off media like The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and Tweety's High-Flying Adventure.
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: In the "Elephants" movement we see a small herd of unnamed elephants, lumbering, swaying and reacting to the heavy, stomping music as a group of gag performers rather than as individual characters. Creepiest even than the Pink Elephants, basically no one of them even move during this segmen
Trivia and other appearances: The most prominent Looney pachyderm is Bobo the Elephant, introduced in Hobo Bobo (1947) and later seen again in Gone Batty (1954) and in the crowd shots of Space Jam, giving Warner a rare recurring elephant with an actual mini-career.
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: In the "Elephants" movement we see a small herd of unnamed elephants, lumbering, swaying and reacting to the heavy, stomping music as a group of gag performers rather than as individual characters. Creepiest even than the Pink Elephants, basically no one of them even move during this segmen
Trivia and other appearances: The most prominent Looney pachyderm is Bobo the Elephant, introduced in Hobo Bobo (1947) and later seen again in Gone Batty (1954) and in the crowd shots of Space Jam, giving Warner a rare recurring elephant with an actual mini-career.
Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: While Bugs introduces the "Fossils" movement, one of the notes on his sheet music pops to life as a tiny black dinosaur made entirely out of musical notes, scampering across the page like an ink doodle come alive. It is reportedly the only creature from these animal segments that was specifically designed by Chuck Jones and animated in the introductory scenes rather than in the main performance footage
Trivia and other appearances: This little note dinosaur appears only in this special, but he fits neatly into Jones's habit of turning music notation itself into characters, most famously in High Note (1960), where a drunken musical note wrecks a performance of "The Blue Danube"
Release date: 1976-11-22
Plot: A television special directed by Chuck Jones, combining animation and live-action footage. It features Michael Tilson Thomas conducting Camille Saint-Saëns' The Carnival of the Animals, with narration based on Ogden Nash's verses. The program presents musical movements performed by orchestra, framed by brief animated sequences of Bugs and Daffy introducing each piece.
Name and role: While Bugs introduces the "Fossils" movement, one of the notes on his sheet music pops to life as a tiny black dinosaur made entirely out of musical notes, scampering across the page like an ink doodle come alive. It is reportedly the only creature from these animal segments that was specifically designed by Chuck Jones and animated in the introductory scenes rather than in the main performance footage
Trivia and other appearances: This little note dinosaur appears only in this special, but he fits neatly into Jones's habit of turning music notation itself into characters, most famously in High Note (1960), where a drunken musical note wrecks a performance of "The Blue Danube"