Bugs Bunny that another proposed name for the character was "Happy Rabbit." In the actual cartoons and publicity, however, the name "Happy" only seems to have been used in reference to Bugs Hardaway. In "Hare-um Scare-um", a newspaper headline reads, "Happy Hardaway." Animation historian David Gerstein disputes that "Happy Rabbit" was ever used as an official name, believing that the only usage of the term was from Mel Blanc himself in humorous and fanciful tales he told about the character's development in the 1970s and 1980s; the name "Bugs Bunny" was used as early as August 1939, in the Motion Picture Herald,
Chocolate bunny Chocolate bunny A chocolate bunny or chocolate rabbit is a piece of chocolate in the shape of a rabbit, usually stylized, and generally hollow. It is in some ways a variant of the chocolate Easter egg, being made in a mould in the same manner, both the egg and the rabbit symbolise new life, and spring. Specifically the production of such eggs for Easter is related to the Easter bunny. Chocolate bunnies come in many different figures, hence there is a wide variety of recipes for different kinds of chocolate bunnies. Chocolate bunnies can be eaten frozen, in pieces, and