Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired as Carnival of the Animals) is a live action/animated television special featuring the "Looney Tunes" characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and directed by Chuck Jones. The special, based on Camille Saint-Saëns' musical suite of the same name and consisting of entirely new animation, was purposely cast in the successful mold of Jones' own earlier musical cartoons (including "Rabbit of Seville", "Long-Haired Hare" and "Baton Bunny"), and is set the familiar showbiz rivalry between Bugs and Daffy against the orchestral backdrop of conductor Michael
West Country Carnival from others who are concerned that the new timing could affect the ability of clubs to participate in other local carnival processions – North Petherton carnival has traditionally taken place on the following Saturday. The new timing would also spoil another local tradition known as Black Friday, when locals celebrate their hard work on carnival in an alcoholic manner. However, accepting that shops and work times in the present have changed greatly and the local economic business need, the Bridgwater Carnival Committee decided, not without much controversy, to move the carnival to a Friday with effect from 2001. This was