Development of Bugs Bunny start of the story reading, "Starring Bugs Bunny" (the first on-screen use of that name), but nevertheless featured the same initial off-model versions of Elmer and the hare seen in "...Camera". Here, Elmer goes to a pet shop and buys a rabbit that promptly proceeds to turn his life upside down. "A Wild Hare" (July 27, 1940) was the debut of Bugs Bunny as we know him today. Tex Avery changed several of the rabbit's characteristics: his voice became a cross between the Bronx and Brooklyn accents, the color of his gloves became white, as did the color of his
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips is a 1944 "Merrie Melodies" cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. Somewhere in the Pacific, Bugs is floating in a box, singing to himself, when 'the island that inevitably turns up in this kind of picture' turns up. Bugs swims towards it, and admires the peace and quiet, when bombs start going off ("The Storm" from the "William Tell Overture" is also heard in the background). Bugs ducks into a haystack, and soon comes face to face with a Japanese soldier; a short, buck-toothed, bare-footed Japanese man who says his 'Ls'