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.
The Bugs Bunny Show on the air until 1999, when it was again reduced to a half-hour. In 2000, Warner Bros. made the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" film library exclusive to Cartoon Network, as it, along with Warner Bros., is owned by what is now WarnerMedia (formerly Time Warner). As a result, "The Bugs Bunny Show" ended its four-decade-long network run, one of the longest runs in the history of United States network television. This show is credited for keeping the Warner Bros. cartoons made during the Golden Age of American animation a part of the American consciousness. Indeed, the show ran for