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 length changed regularly over the years, as did the network: both ABC and CBS broadcast versions of "The Bugs Bunny Show". In 2000, the series, by then known as "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show", was canceled. Reruns of "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show" were aired on the Canadian channels Teletoon and Teletoon's sister channel, Teletoon Retro. The original "Bugs Bunny Show" debuted on ABC prime time on October 11, 1960, airing on Tuesdays at 7:30 PM EST, under the sponsorship of General Foods (Post cereals, Tang, etc.). Newly produced linking segments were done for each episode by the