Bugs Bunny: Superstar documentary footage. "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was the first of a series of Warner cartoon compilation movies released in the 1970s and 1980s. However, as a documentary, it does not fit the mold of the totally animated Warner Brothers compilation movies that began with 1979's "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie". "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was not considered a "canon" compilation movie because it was produced by Larry Jackson's Hare-Raising Films, rather than by Warner Bros. (1982's "" is actually the "fourth" Bugs film, if "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" were to be included.) The nine full-length cartoons featured in "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" were originally
Acrobatty Bunny Acrobatty Bunny Acrobatty Bunny is a Warner Bros. cartoon released in 1946 as part of the "Looney Tunes" series, directed by Robert McKimson (his second), and starring Bugs Bunny and Nero the Lion. A circus is being set up just above Bugs' rabbit hole, causing much noise and vibration. The lion cage is set up directly above the hole, and the lion takes deep sniffs (alternatively yanking Bugs towards the hole or throwing him back) to determine that the animal below is Bugs. When the lion (whom Bugs eventually refers to as "Nero") roars again, Bugs comes to the surface