The Essential Bugs Bunny The Essential Bugs Bunny The Essential Bugs Bunny is a DVD set featuring cartoons focusing on Bugs Bunny. It was released on October 12, 2010. The contents are split over two discs. The first disc features 12 Bugs Bunny theatrical shorts which have all previously been released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection sets, except for the restored version of "A Wild Hare" (which instead was previously released on the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection). Previous Golden Collections have had it unrestored as part of specials/documentaries in the bonus features. The second disc features TV specials, more
Bugs Bunny Rides Again and the "William Tell Overture" were already associated with the Old West, cowboys, and cattle, and were familiar to audiences. "Der Erlkönig", the "Inflamatus", and the "Sonata Pathétique" fit the function of generic dramatic or agitated music used in genre films. In contrast, the titular tune of "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" is styled after the music of vaudeville shows.* Bugs Bunny Rides Again Bugs Bunny Rides Again is a 1948 Warner Bros. "Merrie Melodies" short, released in 1948, directed by Friz Freleng, and written by Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese. The short is both part of the Western and a