Bugs introduces many of his co-hosts individually: Pepe Le Pew, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales. But Daffy Duck can't convince Bugs to introduce him as well, try as he might during the show.
Rocky and Mugsy try to grab up some of the money from the sponsors of the show by going into the television business themselves, intruding on the proceedings in the process.
The midget gangster Baby Faced Finster dresses up as a baby to escape the police. To his dismay, he ends up in the hands of Bugs Bunny, who treats him as a baby.
Wile E. Coyote's chase of the Road Runner has extended into the studio where Bugs is trying to host his television show. Two Road Runner cartoons are thus featured, involving Wile E.'s schemes.
Desperate to appear on the show as the guest, Daffy dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, but his costume is deemed inappropriate by Bugs for each cartoon about to commence.
In a musical competition between cartoon features of Bugs at war with an opera singer, Sylvester buffeted by tidal waves in his gastronomic quest for Tweety, and two mice conspiring to induce house cat insanity, Daffy plays the drums.
Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the television show, but a sheepdog, on a day free from his work, walks into the studio, hoping to catch the bunny-rabbit (Bugs) that he saw on television on the previous week.
Daffy wants to be host. So, he banishes all others from the stage, including Pepe, Elmer, and Bugs. Still, the cartoons proceed on schedule, with Bugs in Scotland, Porky and Sylvester in a spooky, mouse-infested house.
Tweety is host of an installment containing two psychological thrillers with birds seemingly doomed to death at a specified time. So that the little canary can be safe from Sylvester, Bugs hangs his cage from the stage ceiling.
Yosemite Sam wants Bugs' hide. So, gun in hand, he comes to see The Bugs Bunny Show live as a spectator in the studio.
Bugs introduces Porky Pig as host. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine and complicates Porky's introduction.
George P. Dog is introduced by Bugs as the emcee for the show, but Foghorn Leghorn decides that he would be a better emcee and pushes the dog aside.
Sylvester is introduced by Bugs as host, and he is joined on stage by his son, Sylvester Jr., who is underwhelmed at Sylvester's all-too-brief introduction of him.
Elmer Fudd is host and tries to sing, but he is thwarted when the notes on his sheet music run off of their page and remind him of his July 4 picnic that became a harrowing confrontation.
Daffy finally receives recognition. Bugs hosts an all-Daffy Duck tribute, in which Mama Bear performs "I'm Just Wild About Daffy" and the mallard stars in cartoons as a far-future detective.
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress.
An unseen animator sketches Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and then draws a broom's tail on Foghorn's backside. Foghorn retaliates by lassoing and pummeling the animator- Daffy Duck.
Two lame-brained Mexicali cats, Jose and Miguel, try to host an episode with Yosemite Sam plummeting again and again into a bucket of water, Ralph Wolf being continually stopped from obtaining mutton by the omnipresent Sam Sheepdog.
Bugs demonstrates how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell.
Bugs tries to indulge the audience in a bit of culture, such as in his own rendition of the opera, "The Barber of Seville", in spite of constant interruptions from Elmer Fudd.
Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are introduced by Bugs as the host. In the cartoons, Bugs orchestrates a square dance that very much pains two lame-brained men of the Ozark Mountains.
Sylvester is host and tells to his son, Junior, the Looney Tune-style fairy tales of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs- in which hero and villain roles are seemingly reversed.
Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are again hosts for the show. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce the jailed Bugs, house-imprisoned and in-need-of-food Sylvester, and Tweety-in-a-city-park.
Yosemite Sam wants to be the show emcee this time around, but Bugs chooses Pepe Le Pew instead, much to Sam's chagrin.
Bugs introduces Daffy Duck as this installment's host, but Daffy is backstage being chased by the Tasmanian Devil, who has broken out of a crate.
Okay, rabbit. Grab a cloud. This is a stick-up." Gun-toting gangsters Rocky and Mugsy hijack the show. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces the cartoons.
It is 'Reading Out Loud Night', and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop leading into the first cartoon feature for this fairy tales and legends installment, comprised of Bugs' initiative to save the lives of Hansel and Gretel from Witch Hazel, Daffy's pratfalls as an accident-prone Robin Hood, Porky Pig's performance as a laughing Friar Tuck, and Sylvester's raid of an enormous, Tweety-inhabited castle at the top of a certain beanstalk.
Yosemite Sam dies after being crushed by a falling safe during his evil scheme to matrimonially divest a widow of her money- and he goes to hell, where the devil promises to release Sam's spirit and give to Sam a new lease on life, provided that Sam bring to the devil a certain rabbit whom the devil has been trying for a long time to entrap in Hades. Sam is returned to Earth on a movie set, where a dictatorial director, who looks and talks like Emperor Nero, orders stagehand Sam to find a victim to feed to a hoard of lions. Sam dies again when he is feasted upon by the lions, and the devil allocates to him one more miscarried chance to catch the bunny, in the midst of the Sahara Desert.
Daffy outwits Bugs for the position of emcee, Sylvester and a brawny, stupid sidekick hunt mice in a warehouse, the Goofy Gophers find that their lumber- harvested home tree has been converted into human furniture, and Foghorn Leghorn's mid-winter fun is fettered by the arrival in his barnyard of a hungry, chicken-craving weasel.
Bugs Bunny lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat (bowling, that is!), a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat, a pole cat (sitting atop a pole), two Persian cats talking on the telephone "making a Persian-to-Persian call"- to which Bugs replies, "I don't write this stuff, I just say it." Three cartoon features depict Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. in a museum as Sylvester combats a baby kangaroo believed by him and by his son to be a giant mouse, a bulldog named Marc Antony striving to prove that his kitten friend, Pussyfoot, is capable of ridding their master's house of its rodents, and Pepé Le Pew's search for love on the French Riviera and, as usual, his lust for a cat whose back is striped white from exposure to paint of that color.
Bugs Bunny gives a lecture on birds, showing the repulsive vulture (who replies to Bugs' description of his repulsiveness by saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones..."), the Blue "J" (a capital letter "J", painted blue), a troublesome mockingbird, who repeats everything that Bugs says and does- including a mallet strike on the head, Tweety Bird in a precarious predicament as Granny's pet trapped with Sylvester in a snowbound mountain cabin, a pair of Mexican crows desiring without avail the capture and eating of a grasshopper, and the Road Runner as fallibly pursued by Wile E. Coyote with a rocket, a dynamite lasso, glue, and a female Road Runner disguise, in the U.S. southwestern desert.
Bugs Bunny lectures about dogs, but first must struggle with a projectionist who, when Bugs says that the lecture is about man's best friend, shows a picture of a tarantula and then a Whistler's Mother portrait, presumably because, "A man's best friend is his mother." When Bugs clearly states that he intends to talk about dogs, the projectionist flashes a picture of a wiener (a hot dog). "The domestic dog," retorts Bugs, and a picture of a wiener in an apron instantly appears. Finally, the projectionist does something right, and Bugs' requested pictures of dogs are shown: the sheep dog, as seen in a cartoon defending a flock of sheep from lambchop-desirer Ralph Wolf and Ralph's smoke bomb, rock disguise, and underwater unicycle; and the bulldog, willing in one cartoon to resort to any deception to attain meat and acting in another cartoon as protector of his scrappy baby son against a conniving Sylvester.
Red and black dancing pens, named Penelope and Penbroke, perform like figure skaters on paper provided by Bugs. Due to Bugs and Daffy's efforts to direct hunter rifle fire toward each other, Elmer is confused as to what hunting season it really is. Porky Pig and Sylvester are tenants at the haunted Dry Gulch Hotel, and then Porky has a secret house guest- Daffy Duck, seeking shelter from a blizzard and a constant supply of food.
Bugs contends with an annoying fly in this musical show, featuring a mouse who can play a miniature piano, Bugs' conducting of an orchestra's performance of "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" by Franz Von Suppe, and a be-bop-jazzed version of the Big Bad Wolf and Three Little Pigs.
Bugs, dressed like the portly Alfred Hitchcock, lectures on crime. He talks about the seedy underworld of Victorian England, where master sleuth Dorlock Homes is trailing the notorious Shropshire Slasher, and then, standing outside of the laboratory of one Dr. Peabody, he speaks about mad scientists, specifically the meek inventor of a portable hole that is stolen by a shadowy bank robber. Next, he flips through a police record archive to find a dossier on Rocky and Mugsy, two criminals who have, so far- but not for much longer, managed to elude the law.
The subject for tonight's show is one that has always puzzled us little denizens of the woodland glades. In yet another lecture, Bugs talks about man. "You see, folks. Man is basically lazy. In order to keep from using his feet, he uses his brain." The lecture addresses human methods of conveyance, including the pogo stick, the Birdie-mobile (a seat carried in the air by a flock of birds), the horse, and the automobile in its many forms, then discusses the human need for companionship, hence the opposite sex and marriage, and then refers to the sprawling of human civilization, which encroaches upon nature- and upon the sanctity of Bugs' home, located in a site chosen by man for building a freeway.
Bugs has overslept. When the announcer summons him by hole-shaped elevator to the stage, either he is in his bathrobe, barely awake and brushing his teeth, or he is drying himself after a shower, or he is occupied with his vacuum cleaner. Cartoons therefore introduced by the announcer: Daffy Duck's refusal at any cost to receive a stork's delivery, the Road Runner's escape from Wile E. Coyote's explosive arrow and a huge, rolling boulder, and Pepé Le Pew's difficult wooing in the waters of southern France of a cat accidentally back-striped white.
Sylvester needs psychiatric help when his frustration at being unable to catch Tweety has him on the verge of mental collapse. So, Bugs obliges to be Sylvester's "head-doctor" and listens as Sylvester tells of his obsessive chase of the elusive canary in Granny's home and at a circus.
The Tasmanian Devil appears with Bugs on stage. Bugs tells of his first meeting with "Taz-Boy" in the jungle of Tasmania, and then he prescribes a carrot diet to Taz, demonstrating how an anemic weakling, Daffy Duck, supposedly became a super-heroic muscular powerhouse after submitting to a carrot diet. Foghorn Leghorn courts Miss Prissy and finds that he is the prospective father of a quiet genius.
Introduced by Bugs, Harry the Brush explains his role in the animation of cartoons wherein Claude Cat schemes to implicate bulldog Marc Antony in the confining by Claude of kitten Pussyfoot within a glass jug, a squirrel toils with a particularly tough nut to crack, and Daffy is at the mercy of the mischief of what he says is a "slop-artist".
In this spoof of This is Your Life, Bugs Bunny's life is reviewed, with visits from friends and foes. Yosemite Sam remembers his battles with Bugs in the Klondike and at a Wild West carnival, and Elmer Fudd shows to Bugs a photo album containing snapshots of some of Bugs' relatives, Flopsie, Mopsie, Cottontail, and Peter, and of a farm setting in Indiana, the locale of Bugs' tussle with Fudd and a robot.
Daffy Duck joins the trench coat crowd in a show that highlights some of his greatest detective roles, one of them set in Paris and the other located in an American metropolis to which Beveridge Hills is an affluent suburb. In another cartoon, Daffy is the wily proprietor of an inn with a multi-animal infestation problem.
Bugs Bunny emerges from his hole on stage as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless, to introduce science fiction cartoons. Intrepid interplanetary adventurer Daffy contends with Marvin Martian in claiming Planet X as home planet's rightful colonial territory, and Porky Pig and Sylvester are a Jupiter buzzard's selected Earthling subjects of study. Bugs is then joined on stage by a space suited Porky, who descends to stage level in a parachute and relates to the audience the story of Bugs' own experience in the cosmos, on a space platform controlled by Marvin with his apocalyptic Aludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
Sylvester recounts his recent travels through Europe, when his pursuit of Tweety became transoceanic and transcontinental. Relaxing in England, Sylvester was chased by two cockney canines and drank a certain concoction in a laboratory. Escaping the two dogs, Sylvester saw Tweety on a pier and traveled by boat, as an unwelcome passenger, to Italy, where he failed in several attempts to catch the bird. Then, on the Orient Express, Sylvester's pursuit of Tweety was thwarted by a bulldog.
Foghorn Leghorn is an inept soldier in the French Foreign Legion. Traveling across the Sahara Desert, Foghorn explains to his Sergeant about how his troublesome relationships with domineering chickens and cunning boys caused him to leave America and join the French military.
The art of cartoon drawing is demonstrated by an animator, whom Bugs directs to draw a line that becomes a dog's wagging tail for a story of canine mistreatment by an innocent, little girl, and then to sketch a pair of speedy legs- those of the Road Runner, as a start to a Road Runner cartoon containing Wile E. Coyote's dynamite stick on a lasso, giant coil spring, dehydrated boulders, and steam roller- all ineffective at ending the Road Runner's life in the fast lane. The animator next turns mischievous and puts Bugs through various indignities.
More dog tales. Charlie Dog chooses urban apartment owner Porky Pig as his master, whether Porky likes this or not. Daffy Duck rivals a barnyard dog for feeding by farmer Elmer Fudd. A middle-class man's shaggy dog, Robert, is determined to prove that he is a thoroughbred.
Pepé Le Pew recalls the results of broken romances in Africa. Midway through the show, he suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul when he tunneled to Antarctica by mistake and met a temperamental penguin.
Slowpoke Rodriguez and Speedy Gonzales are co-hosts, introducing cartoons in which Sylvester and the Big Bad Wolf team to stalk Tweety and Little Red Riding Hood in the house of Granny, Bugs coyly fleeces desperado and San Francisco casino owner Nasty Canasta of all of his ill-gotten gains, and Ralph Wolf schemes unsuccessfully with Little Bo Peep guise, bowling ball, cannon, and hair grower liquid strategically dripped on the already moppy follicles on Sam Sheepdog's forehead, to filch the flock of sheep in Sam's care.
When Bugs descends by his special, hole-shaped elevator from the stage to his dressing room there beneath, he finds that he has company- an off-camera reporter in there waiting to interview him (the reporter never says anything; Bugs does all the talking). So, Bugs, as a dutiful host, invites his guest to join him in watching a high-rated television show. Then Bugs turns on his TV set for a mouse version of "The Honeymooners." Toy bus driver Ralph Crumden and kitchen sink worker Ned Morton seek to acquire food from the humans' kitchen in the Brooklyn apartment in which they and their whiskered wives have neighboring hole dwellings, but a cat blocks their path to the refrigerator and the goodies therein. So, Crumden and Morton plot to outwit their feline opponent.
Bugs gives yet another lecture on cartoon animation, confidentially stating that, "I do Mel Blanc's voice." Daffy Duck intrudes upon the lecture, insisting that he is a clean-up artist sent by a cartoon agency, and proceeds to redraw animation of Tweety by putting his own duck's beak and webbed feet on the canary. Bugs walks over to a film projector and says, "While he's grinding out the clean-ups, let's take a look at a finished cartoon." After the show's audience views Tweety's ordeal as a hostage of gangster Rocky and another in the Road Runner's series of cartoons eluding the determined but woebegone pursuit of his would-be devourer, Wile E. Coyote, Bugs is interviewed by an adulating Hollywood reporter named Lolly, hence raising the ire of Daffy, who resolves to compete with Bugs in several productions by being Bugs' double.
Sylvester and his son discuss mice, including those native to Mexico and the "giant-size" kind of rodent encountered by Sylvester and son in an abandoned, decaying house and on a ship.
Bugs introduces Porky Pig as the host for the show. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Following the dramatization of Claude Cat's own problems with a dog, Frisky Puppy, with Claude being stuck in a fish bowl and "pickled" in a water cooler and crashing into the concrete at the bottom of a waterless swimming pool- all because of Frisky's sudden and startling barking, Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine for Porky and is the principal character in a cartoon located in Dixieland. Porky turns red from rage at Charlie's interference with his emcee tasks and himself moves to forcefully remove Charlie from the studio, requiring Bugs to fill show time by telling the story of the Tasmanian Devil's arrival in America and fateful visit to a woodland rabbit hole.
After starring in a cartoon as the temporary straw-and-wood-house-buying dupe of Three wolf-wary and dishonest Little Pigs, Bugs lectures about dogs, but first must struggle with a projectionist who, when Bugs says that the lecture is about man's best friend, shows a picture of a tarantula and then a Whistler's Mother portrait, presumably because, "A man's best friend is his mother." When Bugs clearly states that he intends to talk about dogs, the projectionist flashes a picture of a wiener (a hot dog). "The domestic dog," retorts Bugs, and a picture of a wiener in an apron instantly appears.
After a cartoon wherein Bugs is the victorious protagonist in a pre-1900 San Franciscan gambling casino confrontation with the ruffian who stole his gold and Bugs has next presented to the audience the tale of a little chicken hawk who caught for his personal consumption the husky rooster who had been lecturing him about "starting small", Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the show, but a sheepdog, on a day free from his work, walks into the studio, hoping to catch the bunny-rabbit (Bugs) that he saw on television on the previous week. Daffy, in his rabbit suit, is accosted by the dog, while Bugs, off stage, introduces a cartoon with Sylvester, whose human masters depart for a two-week California vacation and have left him alone in a locked-and-sealed house.
Having been the humble lead character in an epic about the discovery of America, Bugs appears on stage to demonstrate how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell. Then, he directs an animator to draw a line that becomes the wagging tail of a dog in a sad story of canine misery. The animator follows this by sketching a pair of speedy legs- those of the Road Runner, far a cartoon depicting Wile E. Coyote's elaborate attempt to utilize a World War I aircraft in his continuing bid to capture the high- octane fowl.
The Tasmanian Devil receives explosive medical care from Bugs in a jungle medical clinic, and Bugs next lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat (bowling, that is!), a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat ("Hello, Tom. "Hello, Bob."), a pole cat (sitting atop a pole), two Persian cats making a Persian-to-Persian telephone call, the relationship between a father cat and his son- to introduce Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.'s meeting in their own home with a baby kangaroo believed by them to be a giant mouse, and the existence of cats, including one with painted white back stripe, in exotic places like the French Riviera, as visited by Pepé Le Pew.
A lecture on birds from Bugs, after a cartoon with Bugs on Mars in a close encounter with Marvin Martian. Bugs shows the repulsive vulture (who replies to Bugs' description of his repulsiveness by saying, "Sticks and stones may break my bones..."), the Blue "J" (a capital letter "J", painted blue), and a troublesome mockingbird, who repeats everything that Bugs says and does, including a mallet strike on the head. Sylvester intrudes upon the shipboard vacation of Granny and Tweety, and Wile E. Coyote is so desperate for water that he has hallucinations of the Road Runner swimming in an oasis pond.
Yosemite Sam expects to be emcee for the show, but Bugs instead selects Pepé Le Pew for this honor. A furious Sam tries to eliminate Pepe, but the bullets from his guns are repelled by Pepé Le Pew's odor and retreat straight back into the nozzles. Pepe introduces cartoons with himself in the French Foreign Legion and Bugs on a Mississippi river boat.
Together with Porky Pig, who descends on a parachute to stage level, Bugs- as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddyless- announces cartoons with Bugs combating Marvin Martian on Earth near Bugs' hole home and in space, both on Marvin's spaceship and space platform. Bugs also travels to Baghdad with the genie of Aladdin's Lamp, which a greedy sheik will stop at nothing to acquire.
Mac and Tosh- the Goofy Gophers- are hosts. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce cartoon features of Bugs as a bullfighter and a jailbird and Claude Cat as a hopeful puppy evictor (each insists that the other do it); so, Bugs interrupts them and himself does the job.
Foghorn Leghorn is an inept soldier in the French Foreign Legion. Traveling across the Sahara Desert, Foghorn explains to his Sergeant about how his troublesome relationships with a prissy chicken and a genius boy chick caused him to leave America and join the French military. By dint of Bugs' ingenuity, Yosemite Sam is the repeating accidental performer in the same death-defying high diving act that he was violently resolved to see executed by Bugs in a Wild West carnival.
Bugs Bunny introduces the host for this show, Pepé Le Pew, who is in an apartment in Paris. Pepe steps onto his balcony and gestures for the viewer to gaze upon the romance-filled parks and streets of the city. "Yes, love is everywhere, even at the cinema." The cinema's feature, a love-story situated in a zoo, stars Pepé Le Pew. After next telling about a romance which he had in Casablanca, Pepe suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul when he mistakenly tunneled to Antarctica.
Gangsters Rocky and Mugsy are in their hideout, watching The Bugs Bunny Show. They see Bugs, in segues between cartoons with Bugs in a vampire's Transylvanian castle and Elmer Fudd's rooster's desperate effort to delay the time of his forecasted death, talking about the sponsors who pay substantial money to support his television program. So, the greedy Rocky decides to gain access to sponsorship dollars by going into the television business. They go to the studio where Bugs' show is being performed. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces a cartoon concerning a singing frog, which he shows from a film projector.
Elmer Fudd is host of this mainly music-oriented installment, opened by Bugs' antics as a tuneful barber. While on stage after cartoon one, Elmer tries to sing, but he is thwarted when the notes on his sheet music run off of their page, reminding Elmer of his July 4 life-or-death struggle against belligerent picnic ants. Sylvester, outside of the studio, spoils Elmer's endeavor to conduct an orchestra, by wearing boots and singing "tra-la-la" while noisily stomping up and down a wooden stairwell. The Goofy Gophers seek to regain their vegetable harvest, which has been moved to a food processing factory.
Bugs defeats Scotsman Angus McCrory in a golf game of very liberal rules prior to dressing like the portly Alfred Hitchcock to offer a lecture on crime. Standing outside of the laboratory of one Dr. Peabody, he speaks about mad scientists, specifically the meek inventor of a portable hole that is stolen by a shadowy bank robber. Next, he flips through a police record archive to find a dossier on Rocky and Mugsy, two criminals who have, so far- but not for much longer, managed to elude the law.
Yosemite Sam dies after being crushed by a falling safe during his evil scheme to matrimonially divest a widow of her money- and he goes to hell, where the devil promises to release Sam's spirit and give to Sam a new lease on life, provided that Sam bring to the devil a certain rabbit whom the devil has been trying for a long time to entrap in Hades. Sam is returned to Earth on a movie set, where a dictatorial director, who looks and talks like Emperor Nero, orders stagehand Sam to find a victim to feed to a hoard of lions. Sam dies again when he is feasted upon by the lions, and the devil allocates to him one more miscarried chance to catch the bunny, as a homeowner in the American Western frontier.
George P. Dog is introduced by Bugs as the emcee for this show, but Foghorn Leghorn decides that he would be a better emcee and pushes the dog aside. In the cartoons that follow, Wile E. Coyote consults an electronic brain for advice on how to snatch Bugs Bunny from his desert domicile, unaware that Bugs is the brain's one moving part, and a pair of suicidal mice bedevil Claude Cat with pleas that he eat them. Little Henery Hawk enters the studio on his unending hunt for chicken, and Foghorn uses a magic hat to make Henery disappear, before watching a televised interview with Bugs.
Ralph Wolf's Little Bo Peep ploy to remove a sheep from the field of ba-a-a-ing grazers overseen by Sam Sheepdog is quashed by Sam, who appears out of the carcass of the sheep that Bo Peep Ralph has selected. Daffy is so desperate to appear on the show as the feature performer that he dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, splendid garb but never appropriate or soon enough for Bugs to grant to Daffy a place in any of this episode's cartoons, one thereof set in medieval times as Bugs battles Black Knight Yosemite Sam for possession of a singing sword and the other transpiring in a French perfume shop, as Pepé Le Pew lusts for a cat whose back has been accidentally dyed white.
An installment distinguished by talent agent Porky Pig perusing several previously unknown acts of entertainment, Claude Cat going insane by the upside down room contrivance of two mice intending to inhabit Claude's home, and Bugs rescuing Hansel and Gretel from the clutches of urchin-baker Witch Hazel. On stage, Bugs gives yet another lecture on cartoon animation, confidentially stating that, "I do Mel Blanc's voice." Daffy Duck intrudes upon the lecture, insisting that he is a clean-up artist sent by a cartoon agency, and proceeds to redraw animation of Tweety by putting his own duck's beak and webbed feet on the canary.
Bugs has not fully awoken and is in no condition to host the show. So, the announcer introduces the individual cartoons: Bugs in a medieval jousting contest, Sylvester aiming to be Elmer Fudd's winter house cat, and Foghorn Leghorn playing golf, with the barnyard dog's nose as tee.
After a Klondike dispute with Yosemite Sam over entitlement to gold deposits- the first cartoon of this show, Bugs is on stage, imitating "Frankie doing an imitation of Rickie imitating Elvis." His music disturbs Yosemite Sam, who is in a neighboring building, trying to sleep. Sam angrily runs into the Bugs Bunny Show studio and destroys Bugs' guitar. Bugs recollects another instance of his music provoking violence.
Yosemite Sam is a Saharan land baron who disapproves of Bugs' presence on his desert sands and tries to kill the rabbit visitor to his arid estate, the Big Bad Wolf insists to his son that he was the victim of Three cruel Little Pigs who attempted to guillotine his tail and blew down his house, and an unseen animator sketches Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and then draws a broom's tail on Foghorn's backside, preceding a cartoon with Foghorn Leghorn's chickendom in question.
The Tasmanian Devil appears with Bugs on stage. Bugs tells of his first meeting with "Taz-Boy" in the jungle of Tasmania, and then he prescribes a carrot diet to Taz, demonstrating how an anemic weakling, Daffy Duck, supposedly became an energetic and versatile cartoon star after submitting to a carrot diet.
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress. Foghorn reenacts some of Prissy's famous roles, including "Romeo and Juliet", in which she played both parts, and an act involving precarious balancing on a stack of chairs and juggling of bowling pins and hoops. Prissy initiates the cartoons by looking into a crystal ball, and she sees mirthful musical notes preparing for collective self-rendition of "The Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss and Bugs foiling a scientist's plan to transfer his consciousness into the feathered head of a chicken.
It is 'Reading Out Loud Night', and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop. The book is an album of photographs of Bugs' family and life experiences. Bugs and Elmer Fudd are the unwitting participants in a scientific study of the behavioral influence of headgear, and Bugs combats farmer Fudd's addled automaton. Sylvester is aided by a black panther in besting a swaggering bulldog.
When Bugs descends by his special, hole-shaped elevator from the stage to his dressing room there beneath, he finds that he has company- the show's viewer. So, Bugs as a dutiful host invites his guest to join him in watching a high-rated television show, a parody of The Beverly Hillbillies, with Bugs honing his square dance-calling talent, with agonizing consequences for a pair of rustics of the Ozark Mountains. In a mouse version of The Honeymooners, toy bus driver Ralph Crumden and kitchen sink worker Ned Morton strive to snatch a cupcake for a surprise birthday confection for Ralph's spouse, Alice, from the humans' kitchen in the Brooklyn apartment in which they and their whiskered wives have neighboring hole dwellings. However, a cat blocks their path to the refrigerator and the cupcake therein. So, Crumden and Morton plot to outwit their feline opponent.
The subject for tonight's show is one that has always puzzled us little denizens of the woodland glades. In yet another lecture, Bugs talks about man. "You see, folks. Man is basically lazy. In order to keep from using his feet, he uses his brain." The lecture addresses human methods of conveyance, including the pogo stick, the Birdie-mobile (a seat carried in the air by a flock of birds), the horse, and the automobile in its many forms, then discusses the human need for companionship, hence the opposite sex and marriage, with a family of bears portrayed in a cartoon as a parallel to this human tendency.
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (original working title: The Great American Chase) is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and newly animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The bridging sequences, which had been produced in 1978, show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania). Early on, Bugs discusses the wild villains he had co-starred with in his cartoons, which is followed by a tongue-in-cheek sequence depicting the history of comedy and a scene in which Bugs discusses his "several fathers". The latter scene was written by Chuck Jones as a way to debunk fellow animation director Robert Clampett's claims throughout the 1970s that he alone created Bugs, and Clampett's name is notably missing from Bugs's list, as a result of the conflict between Jones and Clampett. The movie Bugs Bunny: Superstar featured Bob Clampett, and is another compilation of cartoon shorts, probably the first to examine the history of Warner cartoons, which under-played Bugs' other 'several fathers' and is part of the mentioned conflict.
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is a 1981 American animated package film with a compilation of classic Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences produced by Friz Freleng, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The new footage was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and the first Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies film with a compilation of classic shorts produced by Warner Bros. Animation.
Rival book salesmen Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are forced by Sultan Yosemite Sam to read fairy tales to his spoiled, selfish son, Prince Abba-Dabba. Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales is a 1982 Merrie Melodies film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts (many of which have been abridged) and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny.