1980
Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Daffy Duck is the host of this special, which is split into three original animated segments, sprinkled between sequences where Daffy interacts with the animator and a handful of other Looney guest stars. Not exactly a masterpiece... but hey, it aired on April Fools' Day. What were you expecting, Citizen Kane?
Name and role: As usual, Daffy can't help but butt heads with whoever's holding the pencil. The animator delights in humiliating him, including forcing him to wear a hideous giant chick costume that makes him look like a rejected Easter mascot.
Trivia and other appearances: This special marks the second time Daffy goes to war with his own animator, the first, of course, being the iconic 1953 short Duck Amuck
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Daffy Duck is the host of this special, which is split into three original animated segments, sprinkled between sequences where Daffy interacts with the animator and a handful of other Looney guest stars. Not exactly a masterpiece... but hey, it aired on April Fools' Day. What were you expecting, Citizen Kane?
Name and role: As usual, Daffy can't help but butt heads with whoever's holding the pencil. The animator delights in humiliating him, including forcing him to wear a hideous giant chick costume that makes him look like a rejected Easter mascot.
Trivia and other appearances: This special marks the second time Daffy goes to war with his own animator, the first, of course, being the iconic 1953 short Duck Amuck
Daffy Flies North
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: During the summer migration north, a worn-out and out-of-shape Daffy Duck decides to find an easier way to reach his destination. After several failed attempts Daffy manages to board an airplane... only to discover it's heading to South America, miles away from where he was trying to go.
Name and role: Daffy in the middle of the short, resorts to riding a horse. Unfortunately, the horse wants no part of it and throws him off repeatedly, leading to a series of slapstick gags.
Trivia and other appearances: Let's focus on the shorts that revolve around the theme of migration: there are three disastrous attempts by Daffy to fly north in Looney Tunes history: Daffy's Southern Exposure (1942), Cracked Quack (1952), and Wise Quackers (1949).
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: During the summer migration north, a worn-out and out-of-shape Daffy Duck decides to find an easier way to reach his destination. After several failed attempts Daffy manages to board an airplane... only to discover it's heading to South America, miles away from where he was trying to go.
Name and role: Daffy in the middle of the short, resorts to riding a horse. Unfortunately, the horse wants no part of it and throws him off repeatedly, leading to a series of slapstick gags.
Trivia and other appearances: Let's focus on the shorts that revolve around the theme of migration: there are three disastrous attempts by Daffy to fly north in Looney Tunes history: Daffy's Southern Exposure (1942), Cracked Quack (1952), and Wise Quackers (1949).
The Chocolate Chase
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: In this Easter-themed short, Daffy Duck is hired by a pig factory owner to guard a chocolate bunny factory from a village of hungry Mexican mice. Instead of accepting the mice's money and delivering the bunnies, Daffy pockets the cash and refuses to give them anything, forcing the desperate rodents to call in Speedy Gonzales.
Name and role: Here Daffy Duck is pure greedy security guard mode: he's supposed to protect the chocolate for the factory, but the moment the mouse mayor offers to pay for Easter bunnies, Daffy nabs the money and blocks the order. Speedy Gonzales, as usual, is the heroic fixer of the community, summoned specifically to break through Daffy's defenses and get chocolate to the kids.
Trivia and other appearances: The short was produced as one of the three new cartoons inside Daffy Duck's Easter Show (alongside The Yolks on You and Daffy Flies North) That's effectively the last true "battle" between Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales in classic continuity, since later projects tend to use them separately rather than as a duo.
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: In this Easter-themed short, Daffy Duck is hired by a pig factory owner to guard a chocolate bunny factory from a village of hungry Mexican mice. Instead of accepting the mice's money and delivering the bunnies, Daffy pockets the cash and refuses to give them anything, forcing the desperate rodents to call in Speedy Gonzales.
Name and role: Here Daffy Duck is pure greedy security guard mode: he's supposed to protect the chocolate for the factory, but the moment the mouse mayor offers to pay for Easter bunnies, Daffy nabs the money and blocks the order. Speedy Gonzales, as usual, is the heroic fixer of the community, summoned specifically to break through Daffy's defenses and get chocolate to the kids.
Trivia and other appearances: The short was produced as one of the three new cartoons inside Daffy Duck's Easter Show (alongside The Yolks on You and Daffy Flies North) That's effectively the last true "battle" between Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales in classic continuity, since later projects tend to use them separately rather than as a duo.
The Yolks on You
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Foghorn Leghorn tasks Miss Prissy with laying colorful Easter eggs. However, instead of a pastel surprise, she lays a golden egg and immediately tries to hide it. The shimmering treasure soon falls into the hands of Daffy Duck and Sylvester, who enter a frantic, slapstick rivalry to claim it for themselves.
Name and role: The egg rolls out of the henhouse and lands in Daffy's hands, who immediately claims it with dreams of getting rich. But of course, Sylvester spots it too and decides he wants in on the golden prize. What follows is a full-blown showdown of trickery, traps, and well-placed mallets: the two steal the egg from each other, guard it, hide it, throw it, and fiercely defend it... doing absolutely everything except working together.
Trivia and other appearances: The two actually share only a small handful of collaborations in Looney Tunes shorts, just two, to be precise: The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950), and A Taste of Catnip (1966). Their paths rarely cross, making any Daffy-Sylvester pairing a real collector's item in the Looney canon.
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Foghorn Leghorn tasks Miss Prissy with laying colorful Easter eggs. However, instead of a pastel surprise, she lays a golden egg and immediately tries to hide it. The shimmering treasure soon falls into the hands of Daffy Duck and Sylvester, who enter a frantic, slapstick rivalry to claim it for themselves.
Name and role: The egg rolls out of the henhouse and lands in Daffy's hands, who immediately claims it with dreams of getting rich. But of course, Sylvester spots it too and decides he wants in on the golden prize. What follows is a full-blown showdown of trickery, traps, and well-placed mallets: the two steal the egg from each other, guard it, hide it, throw it, and fiercely defend it... doing absolutely everything except working together.
Trivia and other appearances: The two actually share only a small handful of collaborations in Looney Tunes shorts, just two, to be precise: The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950), and A Taste of Catnip (1966). Their paths rarely cross, making any Daffy-Sylvester pairing a real collector's item in the Looney canon.
The Yolks on You
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Foghorn Leghorn tasks Miss Prissy with laying colorful Easter eggs. However, instead of a pastel surprise, she lays a golden egg and immediately tries to hide it. The shimmering treasure soon falls into the hands of Daffy Duck and Sylvester, who enter a frantic, slapstick rivalry to claim it for themselves.
Name and role: Foghorn create the initial situation of the cartoon, it's his bright idea to prep colorful eggs and his relentless pressure on Miss Prissy that kicks things off. Then, poof! He vanishes from the rest of the short like a rooster-shaped ghost. Why is he even here? Because it's one of the very rare times Foghorn Leghorn actually acts like a real rooster: he actually crows! A proper "COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOO!" moment, proving that beneath all the bluster, there is a barnyard bird in there somewhere.
Trivia and other appearances: Foghorn and Miss Prissy have a long history of on-screen appearances together. But this is the first time we see him in a more farmer-like role toward her: laying down the law, even threatening to send her off to the "House of Old Hen" if she doesn't start laying eggs that meet the Easter quota. It's bossy and also vaguely sinister...
Quote: "I say... COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOO!"
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Foghorn Leghorn tasks Miss Prissy with laying colorful Easter eggs. However, instead of a pastel surprise, she lays a golden egg and immediately tries to hide it. The shimmering treasure soon falls into the hands of Daffy Duck and Sylvester, who enter a frantic, slapstick rivalry to claim it for themselves.
Name and role: Foghorn create the initial situation of the cartoon, it's his bright idea to prep colorful eggs and his relentless pressure on Miss Prissy that kicks things off. Then, poof! He vanishes from the rest of the short like a rooster-shaped ghost. Why is he even here? Because it's one of the very rare times Foghorn Leghorn actually acts like a real rooster: he actually crows! A proper "COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOO!" moment, proving that beneath all the bluster, there is a barnyard bird in there somewhere.
Trivia and other appearances: Foghorn and Miss Prissy have a long history of on-screen appearances together. But this is the first time we see him in a more farmer-like role toward her: laying down the law, even threatening to send her off to the "House of Old Hen" if she doesn't start laying eggs that meet the Easter quota. It's bossy and also vaguely sinister...
Quote: "I say... COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOO!"
The Yolks on You
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Foghorn Leghorn tasks Miss Prissy with laying colorful Easter eggs. However, instead of a pastel surprise, she lays a golden egg and immediately tries to hide it. The shimmering treasure soon falls into the hands of Daffy Duck and Sylvester, who enter a frantic, slapstick rivalry to claim it for themselves.
Name and role: Even the sun is baffled by Foghorn's crowing and stares at him in surprise. But now... if the sun has a face, a personality... does that make it a character? Just to be safe, I'm counting it.
Trivia and other appearances: We've hit a tricky point here: the sun appears, often off-screen, in almost every short! Oh my god, this is too much even for me.
Release date: 1980-04-01
Plot: Foghorn Leghorn tasks Miss Prissy with laying colorful Easter eggs. However, instead of a pastel surprise, she lays a golden egg and immediately tries to hide it. The shimmering treasure soon falls into the hands of Daffy Duck and Sylvester, who enter a frantic, slapstick rivalry to claim it for themselves.
Name and role: Even the sun is baffled by Foghorn's crowing and stares at him in surprise. But now... if the sun has a face, a personality... does that make it a character? Just to be safe, I'm counting it.
Trivia and other appearances: We've hit a tricky point here: the sun appears, often off-screen, in almost every short! Oh my god, this is too much even for me.
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: This springtime TV special strings together three new cartoons introduced by Bugs Bunny, who bounds through blooming fields bragging that everyone and everything is happy and at peace.
Name and role: In one of these openings he meets the only living thing around: a tiny, nameless butterfly who suddenly squares up like a boxer and threatens to beat Bugs senseless, flipping the mood from idyllic to absurd in a single gag.
Trivia and other appearances: For other insect-focused oddities in the Warner catalog, see Joe Glow in Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941), the narrated bug-gag reel The Bug Parade (1941), the live-action/animation hybrid moth romance Eatin' on the Cuff (or The Moth Who Came to Dinner) (1942), and the spider-vs-fly duel of Meatless Flyday (1944).
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: This springtime TV special strings together three new cartoons introduced by Bugs Bunny, who bounds through blooming fields bragging that everyone and everything is happy and at peace.
Name and role: In one of these openings he meets the only living thing around: a tiny, nameless butterfly who suddenly squares up like a boxer and threatens to beat Bugs senseless, flipping the mood from idyllic to absurd in a single gag.
Trivia and other appearances: For other insect-focused oddities in the Warner catalog, see Joe Glow in Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941), the narrated bug-gag reel The Bug Parade (1941), the live-action/animation hybrid moth romance Eatin' on the Cuff (or The Moth Who Came to Dinner) (1942), and the spider-vs-fly duel of Meatless Flyday (1944).
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: Bugs Bunny enters a dream in which he relives his youth. In the dream, a young Bugs and a young Elmer Fudd find themselves caught in a series of classic-style gags, with all the gunfire replaced by harmless cork poppers. In the end, Bugs wakes up, reflecting on how he and Elmer were among the youngest rivals to ever get started.
Name and role: Young Bugs appears just like his older self: clever, sarcastic, and always in control of the situation. Throughout the short, he uses his trademark wit to confuse and frustrate young Elmer.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the childhood or younger versions of Bugs and Elmer include The Old Grey Hare (1944) and This Is a Life? (1955).
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: Bugs Bunny enters a dream in which he relives his youth. In the dream, a young Bugs and a young Elmer Fudd find themselves caught in a series of classic-style gags, with all the gunfire replaced by harmless cork poppers. In the end, Bugs wakes up, reflecting on how he and Elmer were among the youngest rivals to ever get started.
Name and role: Young Bugs appears just like his older self: clever, sarcastic, and always in control of the situation. Throughout the short, he uses his trademark wit to confuse and frustrate young Elmer.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the childhood or younger versions of Bugs and Elmer include The Old Grey Hare (1944) and This Is a Life? (1955).
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: Bugs Bunny enters a dream in which he relives his youth. In the dream, a young Bugs and a young Elmer Fudd find themselves caught in a series of classic-style gags, with all the gunfire replaced by harmless cork poppers. In the end, Bugs wakes up, reflecting on how he and Elmer were among the youngest rivals to ever get started.
Name and role: Young Elmer Fudd is determined to hunt Bugs, but his lack of knowledge and childlike innocence leave him wide open to Bugs' tricks. One standout moment comes when Elmer doesn't fall off a cliff because he hasn't "studied gravity" yet. After reading a book Bugs left behind, Elmer immediately plummets, prompting him to declare that he'll "stay ignorant" from now on to avoid such pitfalls.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the childhood or younger versions of Bugs and Elmer include The Old Grey Hare (1944) and This Is a Life? (1955). Also this is the olny time Wile and Elmer pairs in a shoot
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: Bugs Bunny enters a dream in which he relives his youth. In the dream, a young Bugs and a young Elmer Fudd find themselves caught in a series of classic-style gags, with all the gunfire replaced by harmless cork poppers. In the end, Bugs wakes up, reflecting on how he and Elmer were among the youngest rivals to ever get started.
Name and role: Young Elmer Fudd is determined to hunt Bugs, but his lack of knowledge and childlike innocence leave him wide open to Bugs' tricks. One standout moment comes when Elmer doesn't fall off a cliff because he hasn't "studied gravity" yet. After reading a book Bugs left behind, Elmer immediately plummets, prompting him to declare that he'll "stay ignorant" from now on to avoid such pitfalls.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the childhood or younger versions of Bugs and Elmer include The Old Grey Hare (1944) and This Is a Life? (1955). Also this is the olny time Wile and Elmer pairs in a shoot
Soup or Sonic
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: And so the dance continues into the 1980s. Wile E. Coyote tries out a fresh batch of tricks to catch the Road Runner, only to meet the same old fate. From pole vaulting disasters to tennis mishaps, and even a sticky trap involving flypaper that ends up attracting a massive, monstrous fly, everything backfires spectacularly. In the finale, Wile is sucked into a series of tubes that shrink him down to the size of a toenail. He actually catches Road Runner, but being bite-sized, all he can do is turn to the audience and ask: "Now that I've caught him... what do I do?"
Name and role: The intro sets the tone: Wile rushes into a dust cloud left behind by Road Runner, completely misses the curve, and goes flying off a cliff. But not before doing a little peek over the cloud to confirm just how far down it is.
Trivia and other appearances: This 1980 entry marks their last animated short together before a long hiatus, with no new appearances until Little Go Beep in 2000, at least as far as official theatrical shorts go.
Quote: "Okay, wise guys, you Always wanted me to catch him. now what do I do?"
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: And so the dance continues into the 1980s. Wile E. Coyote tries out a fresh batch of tricks to catch the Road Runner, only to meet the same old fate. From pole vaulting disasters to tennis mishaps, and even a sticky trap involving flypaper that ends up attracting a massive, monstrous fly, everything backfires spectacularly. In the finale, Wile is sucked into a series of tubes that shrink him down to the size of a toenail. He actually catches Road Runner, but being bite-sized, all he can do is turn to the audience and ask: "Now that I've caught him... what do I do?"
Name and role: The intro sets the tone: Wile rushes into a dust cloud left behind by Road Runner, completely misses the curve, and goes flying off a cliff. But not before doing a little peek over the cloud to confirm just how far down it is.
Trivia and other appearances: This 1980 entry marks their last animated short together before a long hiatus, with no new appearances until Little Go Beep in 2000, at least as far as official theatrical shorts go.
Quote: "Okay, wise guys, you Always wanted me to catch him. now what do I do?"
Soup or Sonic
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: And so the dance continues into the 1980s. Wile E. Coyote tries out a fresh batch of tricks to catch the Road Runner, only to meet the same old fate. From pole vaulting disasters to tennis mishaps, and even a sticky trap involving flypaper that ends up attracting a massive, monstrous fly, everything backfires spectacularly. In the finale, Wile is sucked into a series of tubes that shrink him down to the size of a toenail. He actually catches Road Runner, but being bite-sized, all he can do is turn to the audience and ask: "Now that I've caught him... what do I do?"
Name and role: The only running gag in the short is Wile's repeated attempts to ride the iconic red Acme rocket. Each time ends in a uniquely explosive failure, even Wile starts to question why he keeps trying it.
Trivia and other appearances: This 1980 entry marks their last animated short together before a long hiatus, with no new appearances until Little Go Beep in 2000, at least as far as official theatrical shorts go.
Quote: "Okay, wise guys, you Always wanted me to catch him. now what do I do?"
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: And so the dance continues into the 1980s. Wile E. Coyote tries out a fresh batch of tricks to catch the Road Runner, only to meet the same old fate. From pole vaulting disasters to tennis mishaps, and even a sticky trap involving flypaper that ends up attracting a massive, monstrous fly, everything backfires spectacularly. In the finale, Wile is sucked into a series of tubes that shrink him down to the size of a toenail. He actually catches Road Runner, but being bite-sized, all he can do is turn to the audience and ask: "Now that I've caught him... what do I do?"
Name and role: The only running gag in the short is Wile's repeated attempts to ride the iconic red Acme rocket. Each time ends in a uniquely explosive failure, even Wile starts to question why he keeps trying it.
Trivia and other appearances: This 1980 entry marks their last animated short together before a long hiatus, with no new appearances until Little Go Beep in 2000, at least as far as official theatrical shorts go.
Quote: "Okay, wise guys, you Always wanted me to catch him. now what do I do?"
Spaced Out Bunny
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: In this short, originally aired inside Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over, Bugs Bunny is lured by a tranquilizer carrot into Marvin the Martian's spaceship and hauled off to Mars to be a playmate for the over-friendly Hugo the Abominable Snowman
Name and role: Marvin treats Bugs like a delivery for his giant pet. Bugs spends the cartoon wedged between them, playing the uptight Martian and the dim but affectionate snowman against each other until Hugo turns on Marvin, making this a rare team-up where two of Bugs's usual solo antagonists collide instead of staying in separate cartoons.
Trivia and other appearances: Spaced Out Bunny as Hugo's second classic-era appearance after The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961) Outside this crossover, Hugo's notable one-off partners include Granny, Sylvester and Tweety in the TV episode Yodel Recall, while Marvin is usually paired with Duck Dodgers in space adventures like Haredevil Hare (1948), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century (1953)
Release date: 1980-05-21
Plot: In this short, originally aired inside Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over, Bugs Bunny is lured by a tranquilizer carrot into Marvin the Martian's spaceship and hauled off to Mars to be a playmate for the over-friendly Hugo the Abominable Snowman
Name and role: Marvin treats Bugs like a delivery for his giant pet. Bugs spends the cartoon wedged between them, playing the uptight Martian and the dim but affectionate snowman against each other until Hugo turns on Marvin, making this a rare team-up where two of Bugs's usual solo antagonists collide instead of staying in separate cartoons.
Trivia and other appearances: Spaced Out Bunny as Hugo's second classic-era appearance after The Abominable Snow Rabbit (1961) Outside this crossover, Hugo's notable one-off partners include Granny, Sylvester and Tweety in the TV episode Yodel Recall, while Marvin is usually paired with Duck Dodgers in space adventures like Haredevil Hare (1948), Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 th Century (1953)
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
Release date: 1980-10-15
Plot: In this Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit TV special, Porky Pig introduces the case of a mysterious "Tall, Dark Stranger" who robs a bank, only for inspector Elmer Fudd to arrest Bugs Bunny by mistake. Bugs escapes from prison and crosses trains, city streets and even a Mount Rushmore sized Foghorn Leghorn monument while trying to clear his name.
Name and role: Porky frames the whole story as a portly Alfred Hitchcock stand-in, stepping out in silhouette to warn the audience about suspense, twist endings and "tall, dark strangers".the final gag flips everything when the Stranger rescues Bugs and unmasks as Porky himself, who admits he staged the whole thing just to "keep the story going".
Trivia and other appearances: Casting him as the mastermind behind a mystery ties neatly into his other "serious" roles in crime or detective settings, like Daffy's long-suffering Watson-style partner in Deduce, You Say (1956-09-29), and his various police or detective turns alongside Daffy in later spoofs such as Rocket Squad (1956) and Corn on the Cop (1965).
Release date: 1980-10-15
Plot: In this Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit TV special, Porky Pig introduces the case of a mysterious "Tall, Dark Stranger" who robs a bank, only for inspector Elmer Fudd to arrest Bugs Bunny by mistake. Bugs escapes from prison and crosses trains, city streets and even a Mount Rushmore sized Foghorn Leghorn monument while trying to clear his name.
Name and role: Porky frames the whole story as a portly Alfred Hitchcock stand-in, stepping out in silhouette to warn the audience about suspense, twist endings and "tall, dark strangers".the final gag flips everything when the Stranger rescues Bugs and unmasks as Porky himself, who admits he staged the whole thing just to "keep the story going".
Trivia and other appearances: Casting him as the mastermind behind a mystery ties neatly into his other "serious" roles in crime or detective settings, like Daffy's long-suffering Watson-style partner in Deduce, You Say (1956-09-29), and his various police or detective turns alongside Daffy in later spoofs such as Rocket Squad (1956) and Corn on the Cop (1965).
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
Release date: 1980-10-15
Plot: In this Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit TV special, Porky Pig introduces the case of a mysterious "Tall, Dark Stranger" who robs a bank, only for inspector Elmer Fudd to arrest Bugs Bunny by mistake. Bugs escapes from prison and crosses trains, city streets and even a Mount Rushmore sized Foghorn Leghorn monument while trying to clear his name.
Name and role: Here Elmer isn't just the usual hapless hunter but a full-blown "supercop" introduced in some synopses as simultaneously F.B.I. and C.I.A. while he blusters his way through the investigation. He hires Yosemite Sam as a bounty hunter and flies a plane in the reworked Hare Lift climax.
Trivia and other appearances: This special is one of the few times Elmer is explicitly labeled as a federal agent, but functionally he plays the same role he has in Rabbit Run (2012) where follows the storyarc as a super agent.
Release date: 1980-10-15
Plot: In this Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit TV special, Porky Pig introduces the case of a mysterious "Tall, Dark Stranger" who robs a bank, only for inspector Elmer Fudd to arrest Bugs Bunny by mistake. Bugs escapes from prison and crosses trains, city streets and even a Mount Rushmore sized Foghorn Leghorn monument while trying to clear his name.
Name and role: Here Elmer isn't just the usual hapless hunter but a full-blown "supercop" introduced in some synopses as simultaneously F.B.I. and C.I.A. while he blusters his way through the investigation. He hires Yosemite Sam as a bounty hunter and flies a plane in the reworked Hare Lift climax.
Trivia and other appearances: This special is one of the few times Elmer is explicitly labeled as a federal agent, but functionally he plays the same role he has in Rabbit Run (2012) where follows the storyarc as a super agent.
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
Release date: 1980-10-15
Plot: In this Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit TV special, Porky Pig introduces the case of a mysterious "Tall, Dark Stranger" who robs a bank, only for inspector Elmer Fudd to arrest Bugs Bunny by mistake. Bugs escapes from prison and crosses trains, city streets and even a Mount Rushmore sized Foghorn Leghorn monument while trying to clear his name.
Name and role: the "Tall, Dark Stranger" is the shadowy bank robber whose crime kicks off the whole plot, seen in trench coat and hat during the holdup before the story refocuses on Bugs' wrongful arrest. The character's design and robbery footage are actually reused from Baby Buggy Bunny, where miniature crook Finster wears the same tall disguise, so the Stranger is less a fully new villain and more a collage built from that earlier short plus new narration.
Trivia and other appearances: Because the Tall, Dark Stranger is literally Porky in Finster's recycled disguise, most guides treat him as a story device rather than an independent character.His visual roots in Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)
Release date: 1980-10-15
Plot: In this Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit TV special, Porky Pig introduces the case of a mysterious "Tall, Dark Stranger" who robs a bank, only for inspector Elmer Fudd to arrest Bugs Bunny by mistake. Bugs escapes from prison and crosses trains, city streets and even a Mount Rushmore sized Foghorn Leghorn monument while trying to clear his name.
Name and role: the "Tall, Dark Stranger" is the shadowy bank robber whose crime kicks off the whole plot, seen in trench coat and hat during the holdup before the story refocuses on Bugs' wrongful arrest. The character's design and robbery footage are actually reused from Baby Buggy Bunny, where miniature crook Finster wears the same tall disguise, so the Stranger is less a fully new villain and more a collage built from that earlier short plus new narration.
Trivia and other appearances: Because the Tall, Dark Stranger is literally Porky in Finster's recycled disguise, most guides treat him as a story device rather than an independent character.His visual roots in Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)