The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour

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Spun-off from ABC's prime time series The Bugs Bunny Show and the CBS Saturday morning series The Road Runner Show. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was the most succesful and popular attempt to bring the classic Looney Tunes cartoons to Saturday morning television where they became a mainstay for more than... more »

Spun-off from ABC's prime time series The Bugs Bunny Show and the CBS Saturday morning series The Road Runner Show. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was the most succesful and popular attempt to bring the classic Looney Tunes cartoons to Saturday morning television where they became a mainstay for more than three decades.

The series presented popular animated shorts which were originally produced for the silver screen, where they would appear right before a major motion picture, but here they were introduced by new segments as well as new title cards not shown in the original theatrical versions. Also included were Road Runner cartoons originally shown on the The Road Runner Show.

Many people who grew up watching this show will most likely remember it by the opening theme "This Is It" performed by Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck which was shown in black & white when it was created for The Bugs Bunny Show but then shown in color and remodified specifically for this Saturday morning series. In the late '70s The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour eventually became The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show when CBS decided to add an additional 30 minutes to each episode.less «

• two questions about the road runner show....

  1. does anybody know in which episode Wile E sits on a rocket or something similar and says something like this: "I am the d...more »

  1. does anybody know in which episode Wile E sits on a rocket or something similar and says something like this: "I am the dumbest Coyote of all times, I forgot to build in brakes" funny scene but i cant find the episode although i think i have all of them. -----> 2. So how many episodes exist? are there going to be new ones like the 2003(i think) "Wizard of Oz"? thx benless «

  Thaelmann Last online Dec 31, 1969
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  10 Perfect

  Bugs Bunny at your Breakfast Table! hide « show »

  One of the pleasure of watching Saturday morning cartoons in the 1960's is The Bugs bunny/road runner Hour on CBS. I watch Bugs Bunny and his friends every Saturday morning. Bugs along with the Road Runner and other loony Tunes entertained me with their classic cartoons, and at one full hour, I want more. Watching Bugs bunny is heaven sent cartoons to me. I love the series. it's the best thing on Saturday morning television where the other cartoons tried but failed. the gags had amused me and like the way Bugs bunny handled himself. A hour with Bugs bunny and his friends is time well-spent.

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  GeorgeJobson Added Jun 21, 2007 All my reviews
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  9 Superb

  Another fantastic classic animated series. hide « show »

  This is another version of the classic Looney Tunes cartoons featuring Buggs and his pals. This one was about as good as any of their shows and of course was followed by controversy over the violence. I guess seeing the Road Runner drop a boulder on Wile E. Coyote in a cartoon was suppose to make me do the same my brother and sister or something. To me, it was a lot of fun and I never ever thought about the violence. The Road Runner almost always won out against the Coyote and Buggs almost always won against whomever he was up against. I wish Bugs and daffy would have been allies because I liked them both very much. Porky and Elmer were good to have around so they could battle with somebody.

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  QuadzillaNU Added Nov 23, 2006 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  My Two Favorite Looney Tunes Characters hide « show »

  As far as many try to create a new series of Looney Tunes, this one is unoriginal. It contains most of the classic Looney Tunes shorts. However I enjoy them, because they feature two of my favorite characters; Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner. Bugs Bunny is better and smarter than Mickey Mouse. The Road Runner never gets caught by Wile E. Coyote. I'm a huge fan of the Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote cartoons.
  
  I don't care what type of series they show they Looney Tunes. I still think they are hilarious. That's why their show is so cool.

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  shengongwu3000 Added Aug 20, 2006 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Another classic Warner Brothers cartoon from the 1960's. hide « show »

  Another classic Warner Brothers cartoon from the 1960's. This one was about as good as any of their shows and of course was followed by contorversy over the violence. I guess seeing the Road Runner drop a boulder on Wyle Coyote in a cartoon was supose to make me do the same my brother and sister or something. To me, it was a lot of fun and I never ever thought about the violence. The Road Runner almsot always won out against the Coyote and Buggs almost always won against whoever he was up against. I wish Bugs and daffy would have been allies because i liked them both very much.

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  LostShield Added Jun 27, 2006 All my reviews
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  9.6 Superb

  Like the CBS promo late in the 70s said, "Lip-smacking comedy." hide « show »

  When ABC gave up Bugs Bunny in 1968 and saw CBS make ratings hay when they picked it up as The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, ABC spent the next five years apologizing for it. The expansion of what had been The Bugs Bunny Show since 1960 to a full hour was a masterstroke, showcasing the cream of Warners cartoon comedy that wasn't part of any syndicated package (the A.A.P. cartoons from 1931 to 1948, the redrawn Looney Tunes and the syndicated Bugs and Porky packages).
  
  A great many of these cartoons have stood the test of time: "Duck Amuck," "Rabbit Of Seville," "Hare Way To The Stars" and so much more. These were works born of anarchy as they were the result of producer Edward Selzer not knowing what makes a cartoon or what makes a cartoon funny. (Chuck Jones said that was told by Selzer not to make "Bully For Bugs" because "bullfights aren't funny." So Jones made the cartoon anyway. Our gain.) If there was any let down in quality, it was due to the mid 60s Road Runner cartoons that Warners contracted out, and in the 80s they added the inferior Daffy/Speedy cartoons. Even worse, they were bringing the hammer down on violence so many classic shorts were butchered.
  
  The theme "This Is It" is part of Warner cartoon legend as well. CBS made the mistake of getting DePatie-Freleng to do a restyled and rotoscoped opening for the show, but they gave in weeks later and re-inserted the original animation. In its final season, "This Is It" and the opening were replaced by a new opening with a new theme, "It's Cartoon Gold." The new theme may not be gold, but the cartoons always have been.

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  Uncatoon Added May 30, 2006 All my reviews