One of the advantages of watching all of this is that I stumbled onto a lot of great old Hollywood stuff. Probably their most famous cartoon, 'What's Opera Doc,' where Bugs dresses in drag as a Valkyrie warrior, they do not kiss or even come close to it.

Often they were in kissing situations, but didn't actually kiss. But I watched about 25 or 30 Bugs and Elmer cartoons, and less than half had them kiss. When you think of Bugs and Elmer, you think kissing. When it came time to kiss someone, did Bugs kiss his trophy wife, Honey Bunny? No, he kissed Elmer, Yosemite Sam, or some other dude.īugs and Elmer's first kiss from 'A Wild Hare' ain't love grand Think about it, every chance he got, Bugs dressed in drag. My best friend has a theory that Bugs Bunny was the first gay cartoon character, and I think you can make a good case for it. He starred with a mad scientist twice, including one played by a Peter Lorre parody. In addition, Bugs made quite a few films, with one-off characters, like a boxer, a baseball player, and a circus lion. While he often starred with Elmer Fudd, he also starred with Daffy Duck and Yosemite Sam in numerous films. According to Wikipedia, Bugs appeared in more films than any other cartoon character. The most popular character of course is Bugs Bunny. Since I was kind of late getting on board, and I love old cartoons, it seemed like a natural for me.īetween the 1930s and 1960s, Warner Brothers produced several hundred cartoons under the Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes imprints. I think Leslie at Second Sight Cinema posted the Bugs and Elmer graphic above as a joke.

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