The Looney Tunes cartoons have been populatedby many characters, but Bugs Bunny has withstood the test of time. First introduced in the animated short “Porky’s Hare Hunt” in 1938, he has been a constant in animation and in popular culture. The “wascally wabbit” has starred in classic short cartoons, has been on shirts, hats, and shoes, and has even starred in several full-length feature films.
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Bugs Bunny has also become an element of internet culture, being the subject of multiple memes. Given his wide range of appearances and Bugs Bunny’s “animated” personality, there is no shortage of memes that capture a range of ideas and moods. Here are such memes that are a “hare” above the rest.
8"Uh, Meow?"
This meme from Monhamd muaed1000 on aminoapps.com has two different reactions toSonic the Hedgehog’s CG Designs for the first movie. The top image of Sonic gets the rabbit’s enthusiastic seal of approval, with a large grin and outstretched arms. The bottom design causes Bugs to recoil, cringing and gritting his teeth.
To say that the originalSonic the Hedgehogdesign from the first teaser trailer for the 2020Sonic the Hedgehogmoviewas controversial doesn’t even describe the backlash. The design is more similar to the Sonic meme Sanic than the popular blue blur himself. This prompted Paramount to delay the movie in order to redesign Sonic, and the final product was an inconceivable turnaround.
7Yosemite Sam Has Competition
Aspiring cowboys were swept up inRed Dead Redemption 2’sstory of Arthur Morganand his gang in Blackwater, allowing them to live out their cowboy movie fantasies. This includes causing chaos at the local saloon.
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That sentiment is reflected in this meme by lqflynn on Chess.com, with Bugs Bunny in a red shirt and black stetson, casually leaning back against the booth of a bar, then, with the same casual swagger, pulling out a revolver and firing it. The fun of open-world sandbox games likeRed Dead Redemption 2comes from doing whatever players want without real-world consequences, including just messing with the NPCs.
6Bugs Bunny Says To Procrastinate
Everyone knows that they have tasks to complete. Everyone knows that they will probably be in trouble if they hold their tasks off until the last minute. Everyone knows that they should do that work ahead of time.
Unfortunately, that is not how humans work. They either get caught up in other matters, make excuses to hold things off, or simply don’t feel like doing the work. This meme is very apt for acknowledging procrastination has part of the human condition. Logic says to just get it done, but human beings say “no.”
5This Meme Is Brought By The Letter A For Anvil
Television can make a positive difference in children’s lives. It can be used to educate, inform, and build important life skills. That is the case with Sesame Street, a children’s show about Jim Henson’s puppets on their friendly neighborhood street getting along with their human companions and learning letters, numbers, and life skills along the way, as described by the top image of this meme.
The bottom image, showing Bugs Bunny handing an anvil to Yosemite Sam as he is about to fall to his death, is a different story. With all the hunters, gunmen, mobsters, and monsters that Bugs Bunny has had to deal with, he is not above using some devious tricks to gain the upper hand on them and make them suffer.
4Bugs Bunny Wins The Infinity War
Avengers fans will neverforget theendingofAvengers: Infinity War, in which Thanos snapped his fingers with the Infinity Gauntlet. This move incinerated half of all life in the universe and left Peter Parker not feeling so good. If Bugs Bunny were one of theAvengers, it might have been a different story.
Bugs Bunny doesn’t just use violence to solve his problems; he uses his brains as well. That is captured in this frame of a comic posted on Vampiric Yoshi’s Tumblr page, where Bugs Bunny sets up a TSA checkpoint and metal detector in order to prompt Thanos to remove the Infinity Gauntlet. Thanos may have the Infinity Gauntlet, but Bugs is wily.
3"We Live In A Society"
Joaquin Phoenix’s starring rolein the 2019 movie simply calledJokercaused controversy upon release. The media reported concerns about how the film might inspire viewers to engage in similar acts of anarchy to the clown prince of crime.
This is where Bugs Bunny breaks in, addressing the controversy with this sign. Given how the media latches onto a subject and runs with it, this fear was latched on for a while at the time. The fear of media causing consumers to turn to destructive acts of violence is not something new, as anyone who is a member of the gaming community can confirm.
2How Dare Michael Stand Where LeBron Stood!
Bugs Bunny will always be known in part for his starring role in the 1996 film,Space Jam, in which he teams up with NBA GOAT Michael Jordan andhis fellow Tunesin a game of basketball against alien invaders to save the Looney Tunes from becoming their slaves.
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Nobody could replace His Greatness Air Jordan, as is the sentiment of this meme, in which Harry Potter on the bottom confronts LeBron James in the top image, scolding him for taking Jordan’s place. This frame of Harry Potter was taken fromHarry Potter and Deathly Hallows: Part 2,in which he approaches Snape, standing at the front of the Great Hall, where former Hogwarts Headmaster Dumbledore once stood. Replacing Michael Jordan in Space Jam is as heinous of an offense as what Snape did.
1Bugs Bunny Gets An Upgrade
Speaking of which, inSpace Jam:A New Legacy, Bugs Bunny gets a visual upgrade when he enters the video game basketball court of the film’s nefarious artificial intelligence, Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), having his 2-D body changed into a full 3-D model.
This meme by Reddit user ILCrazyLenny247 is a riff on the upgrade based on NVIDIA’s line of RTX products. These new graphics cards provide such games features as ray tracing and AI upscaling, according to theNVIDIA website. It also makes Bugs Bunny look like a rejected Pixar character.
