A New Bugs Bunny Special Will Premiere July 27 On MeTV Toons (Exclusive Clips)
MeTV Toons, the recently-launched free all-classic cartoon channel, will premiere a new one-hour special about Bugs Bunny titled Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration on Saturday, July 27, at 10 am ET/PT and 9 am Central. The special will have multiple encore airing throughout the day as part of the network’s “Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Bash.”
The network has shared two exclusive clips from the special with Cartoon Brew, which can be viewed below:
Presented in honor of Bugs’ 84th birthday, the special anchors a day of animated programming dedicated to the classic Looney Tunes star on his new network television home – MeTV Toons. Produced in association with Warner Bros. Discovery, the special charts his meteoric rise to fame and his unmatched global recognition with classic archival footage and new interviews with voice actors Bob Bergen, Eric Bauza, Jeff Bergman, Candi Milo, Billy West, tv hosts Bill Leff and Kevin Fleming, animation historian and Cartoon Brew co-founder Jerry Beck, animator Eric Goldberg, Variety’s tv editor Mike Schneider, and others.
Below is the complete schedule of Bugs Bunny shorts that will be shown during this weekend’s Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Bash, as well as all the screening times for the new special:
10am: Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration Original Special Premiere
11am: Looney Tunes – A Wild Hare / Hare-brained Hypnotist / Slick Hare / What’s Opera Doc / The Unruly Hare / Wacky Wabbit
12pm: Looney Tunes – Rabbit Fire / Rabbit Seasoning / Duck! Rabbit, Duck! / Tortoise Beats Hare / Tortoise Wins by A Hare / Rabbit Transit
1pm: Looney Tunes – Ali Baba Bunny / Hillbilly Hare / Big House Bunny / Frigid Hare / Sahara Hare / Abominable Snow Rabbit
2pm: Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Airing!
3pm: Looney Tunes – Beanstalk Bunny / Bewitched Bunny / Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears / Rabbit Hood / Little Red Riding Rabbit / The Windblown Hare
4pm: Looney Tunes – Stage Door Cartoon / Corny Concerto / Long-Haired Hare / Baton Bunny / Rhapsody Rabbit / Rabbit of Seville
5pm: Looney Tunes – Hare Tonic / Bugs Bunny Gets the Bold / French Rarebit / Half-Fare Hare / Backwoods Bunny / Rabbit Every Monday
6pm: Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Airing
7pm: Looney Tunes – Show Biz Bugs / Duck Amuck / A Star is Bored / Bugs Bonnets / Rabbit Rampage / People Are Bunny
8pm: Looney Tunes – Bugs and Thugs / Baby Buggy Bunny / Bugsy and Mugsy / Hare Lift / Racketeer Rabbit / The Unmentionables
9pm: Looney Tunes – Hare-way to the Stars / Broom-stick Bunny / Hare Remover / Transylvania 6-5000″ / Water, Water Every Hare / A Witch’s Tangled Hare
10pm: Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Airing
11pm: Looney Tunes – Baseball Bugs / Bully for Bugs / Bunny Hugged / My Bunny Lies Over The Sea / Rabbit Punch / Piker’s Peak
12am: Looney Tunes – What’s Up Doc? / The Old Grey Hare / A Hare Grows in Manhattan / His Hare Raising Tale / Pre-Hysterical Hare / This is a Life?
1am: Looney Tunes – Yankee Doodle Bugs / Hare We Go / Bonanza Bunny / Napoleon Bunny-Part” / Buckaroo Bugs / Roman Legion-hare
2am: Hare’s to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Airing
3am: Looney Tunes – Haredevil Hare / Hare-Raising Hare / Super Rabbit / Hasty Hare / Hyde and Hare / Mad as a Mars Hare
4am: Looney Tunes – Buccaneer Bunny / Hare Trigger / High Diving Hare / Devi’s Feud Cake / Bugs Bunny Rides Again / From Hare to Heir
5am: Looney Tunes – Upswept Hare / Homeless Hare / No Parking Hare / The Fair Haired Hare / Operation: Rabbit / Wabbit Twouble
