{"id":55544,"date":"2026-10-21T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=55544"},"modified":"2026-10-18T19:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T23:58:47","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugs-bunny-all-american-hero-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/21\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugs-bunny-all-american-hero-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever &#8211; Bugs Bunny: All American Hero (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This 1981 production might be the best of the primetime television specials that sliced and diced classic cartoons with not-so-special new animation \u2013 if only because there is relatively little new animation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The production expands on the 1954 short \u201cYankee Doodle Bugs,\u201d with our hero tutoring his nephew Clyde on American history. Or to be more precise, how Bugs Bunny\u2019s ancestors helped shape the republic.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to \u201cYankee Doodle Bugs,\u201d the production recycles footage from several Bugs Bunny gems (\u201cBunker Hill Bunny,\u201d \u201cSouthern Fried Rabbit\u201d and \u201cBallot Box Bunny\u201d) and one stinker (\u201cThe Dumb Patrol\u201d). One Tweety and Sylvester cartoon (\u201cThe Rebel Without Claws\u201d) is included to pad the running time \u2013 after all, this effort was only working with post-1948 cartoons directed by Friz Freleng, who shared co-directing credit with David Detiege on the new material.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting work is laugh-out-loud funny (except for &#8220;The Dumb Patrol&#8221; scenes), and it is a joy to see the new footage Clyde as he was originally designed and not as a mini-version of Bugs from the Christmas special. Emmy Award voters clearly got a kick out of it, as \u201cBugs Bunny: All American Hero\u201d received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Animated Program. That is no mean feat, considering about 95% of the production consisted of old cartoons. It lost the award to \u201cLife\u2019s a Circus, Charlie Brown,\u201d one of the lesser entries in the Peanuts television specials. Oh well, you can\u2019t win them all.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/ok.ru\/videoembed\/1967263124011?nochat=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1981 production might be the best of the primetime television specials that sliced and diced classic cartoons with not-so-special new animation \u2013 if only because there is relatively little new animation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":55545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,3529,3490],"class_list":["post-55544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-clyde","tag-friz-freleng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55547,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55544\/revisions\/55547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}