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,
The Bugs Bunny Show for two seasons, only for CBS to re-acquire both shows and bring back "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" in 1975. In 1976, Sylvester and Tweety were featured in their own "Sylvester and Tweety Show" for one year, necessitating the removal of most of the Tweety and/or Sylvester cartoons on "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" that season. Also that year, a weekly half-hour prime-time edition of "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" briefly aired on CBS' Tuesday night schedule from April through June. "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" became "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" in November 1977 after CBS added another half-hour to the