Ehhhh, what’s up, doc…umentary? In honor of his momentous 84th birthday, Bugs Bunny is getting the royal treatment in a nostalgia-filled new special befitting the cotton-tailed king of ...

Happy Easter, little cottontail ... modeled Peter Rabbit after it in her famous children’s book. As for Bugs Bunny? He’s cute but not a cottontail – in fact, not even a rabbit.

From lust to Bugs Bunny – the rabbit has taken on different meanings throughout history, in global folklore and artistic symbolism. But how did it become the poster boy for Easter? Matthew ...

Don’t be misled by those earlier rabbits. On Sept. 10, 1940, Variety ran a brief item about the “new character Bugs Bunny” that WB was booking into Fox West Coast theaters. Bugs’ name ...

“Bugs Bunny is in that upper pantheon of the most-recognizable cartoon characters in the world,” agrees Michael Schneider, Variety’s TV editor, in the special, adding that Bugs’ impact on ...