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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980)

In this primetime television special, dimwitted law enforcement agent Elmer Fudd arrests Bugs Bunny for being the notorious bank robber known as the Tall Dark Stranger. Bugs goes to prison but aggravates corrections officer Yosemite Sam to the point that Sam kicks him out of the facility. Bugs is eager to clear his name, although he faces distracting detours from Wile E. Coyote (who attempts to capture and eat him) and Tweety and Sylvester (who engage in violent knockabout during a train ride where Bugs is a passenger).

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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales (1979)

The 1979 television special “Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales” marked the first time since the end of the Golden Age that the Warner Bros. animators created a genuine classic. Consisting of three new shorts with brief bridging sections, this holiday offering was rich with inventive laugh-out-loud comedy.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bugs Bunny’s Thanksgiving Diet (1979)

This primetime television special finds Bugs as a diet doctor who is running his own practice after only six months of medical school. The upcoming Thanksgiving holiday creates a renewed emphasis on food management, with Bugs treating such diverse patients as Porky Pig (who is put on a carrot diet), Millicent the Slobbovian Rabbit (who has problems with food management and her love life), and an excessively nervous Sylvester.
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