Bugs Bunny had been in "Hare-um Scare-um" and as cool and collected as in "Prest-O Change-O". Immediately following on "A Wild Hare", Bob Clampett's "Patient Porky" (1940) features a cameo appearance by Bugs, announcing to the audience that 750 rabbits have been born. The gag uses Bugs' "Wild Hare" visual design, but his goofier pre-"Wild Hare" voice characterization. The second full-fledged role for the mature Bugs, Chuck Jones' "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (1941), is the first to use Bugs' name on-screen: it appears in a title card, "featuring Bugs Bunny," at the start of the film (which was edited in following the success
Bugs Bunny: Superstar of Bugs Bunny, claiming that he used Clark Gable's carrot-eating scene in "It Happened One Night" as inspiration for the character. (Although he never made the claim in "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" itself, Clampett further took credit for drawing the model sheet for the first Porky Pig cartoon "I Haven't Got a Hat" (1935), even though it was actually drawn by Friz Freleng.) Subsequently, Chuck Jones pointedly left out Clampett's name in the 1979 compilation film "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie" when Bugs discusses his "fathers" (i.e. Jones and other Warner's directors). Although Chuck Jones opted to not contribute to "Bugs