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
The Bugs Bunny Show more than four decades, and helped inspire animators, comedians, historians, and others who watched Saturday morning television. When Warner Bros. released its video series "Golden Jubilee", featuring the classic cartoons, the opening sequence shows the Tasmanian Devil maniacally riding a motorcycle down a city street, chased by a police car. He makes a sharp turn into a theater, where the rest of the Looney Tunes are performing to the "Bugs Bunny Show" tune. Title sequences and some linking material from the original "Bugs Bunny Show" are included as bonus features on each volume of the "Looney Tunes Golden Collection" DVD