Bugs Bunny as the "Rabbit Season/Duck Season" trilogy and are famous for originating the "historic" rivalry between Bugs and Daffy Duck. Jones' classic "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), casts Bugs and Elmer Fudd in a parody of Richard Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen". It was deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1992, becoming the first cartoon short to receive this honor. In the fall of 1960, ABC debuted the prime-time television program "The Bugs Bunny Show". This show packaged many of the post-1948 Warners cartoons with newly animated wraparounds.
Knighty Knight Bugs character, having been created for the episode, but a parody of Terrytoons character Sidney the Elephant, a.k.a. "Silly Sidney", whose cartoon "Sidney's Family Tree" was indeed nominated for an Academy Award the same year as "Knighty Knight Bugs". This cartoon is featured uncut on Disc 1 of the "" DVD set, "Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection", and "The Essential Bugs Bunny". It is also available in the "" Blu-ray and DVD. Bugs' White Water Rapids is a Hopkins Rides log flume themed to "Knighty Knight Bugs" that opened in 1998 at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San