{"id":55705,"date":"2026-11-04T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=55705"},"modified":"2026-10-30T20:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:58:44","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugs-bunnys-mad-world-of-television-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugs-bunnys-mad-world-of-television-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bugs Bunny&#8217;s Mad World of Television (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is trouble brewing at QTTV \u2013 up on the top floor of the network\u2019s skyscraper headquarters, the latest president was fired for failing to turn around dismal ratings. His dismissal was a tad extreme \u2013 he was thrown head-first out of a window and into a street-level fountain, with his desk thrown after him! The network then hires Bugs Bunny as the new president. While Bugs is reviewing the new shows that brought to the network, Yosemite Sam keeps pestering him for a job. After Porky Pig buys QTTV, Bugs steps aside and Sam becomes president \u2013 only to have Porky immediately fire him and toss him out of the window and into the street-level fountain.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As a spoof of the television industry, this 1982 primetime television special presentation is not at the same level of acidic satire as \u201cNetwork.\u201d But it is an amusing riff on this corner of the entertainment world, with the cartoon characters acknowledging the medium that brought them to successive generations.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation harvests several show business-focused Warner Bros. gems for its classic animation segments, most notably \u201cWhat\u2019s Up Doc?\u201d, \u201cThe Ducksters\u201d and \u201cWideo Wabbit.\u201d (\u201cThe Ducksters\u201d gets a few new lines on the soundtrack that switch its setting from radio to television.) The quality of the new animation is an improvement over the offerings in previous primetime specials, and the bridging gimmick of having Bugs (in the new segments) review the network\u2019s shows (the classic cartoons) is a clever way to integrate animation from different eras.<\/p>\n<p>This production marked the 16th television special from the Warner Bros. animation unit since the studio revived the cartoon franchises in 1976 with \u201cBugs and Daffy\u2019s Carnival of the Animals.\u201d All but two of those specials centered on Bugs, with a pair of offerings focused on Daffy Duck. After this special aired, the studio took a breather and would not be back in primetime with Bugs and his pals for another four years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/ok.ru\/videoembed\/1894577867486?nochat=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is trouble brewing at QTTV \u2013 up on the top floor of the network\u2019s skyscraper headquarters, the latest president was fired for failing to turn around dismal ratings. His dismissal was a tad extreme \u2013 he was thrown head-first out of a window and into a street-level fountain, with his desk thrown after him! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":55706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,1832],"class_list":["post-55705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55705","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=55705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55707,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55705\/revisions\/55707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}