The Bugs Bunny Show

- Season 2

(1961)

It is "Reading Out Loud Night", and Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop leading into the first cartoon feature for this fairy tales and legends installment.

Yosemite Sam dies after being crushed by a falling safe during his evil scheme to divest a widow of her money and he goes to hell, where the devil promises to release Sam's spirit, provided that Sam bring to the devil a certain rabbit.

Daffy outwits Bugs for the position of emcee, Sylvester and a brawny, stupid sidekick hunt mice in a warehouse, the Goofy Gophers find that their lumber-harvested home tree has been converted into human furniture.

Bugs Bunny lectures about cats, describing with visual aid an alley cat, a Bob Cat greeting a Tom Cat, a pole cat, two Persian cats making a Persian-to-Persian telephone call, etc..

Bugs Bunny gives a lecture on birds.

Bugs Bunny lectures about dogs, but first must struggle with a projectionist who, when Bugs says that the lecture is about man's best friend, shows a picture of a tarantula and then a Whistler's Mother portrait.

Red and black dancing pens, named Penelope and Penbroke, perform like figure skaters on paper provided by Bugs.

Bugs contends with an annoying fly in this musical show, featuring a mouse who can play a miniature piano, Bugs' conducting of an orchestra's performance of "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna" by Franz Von Suppe.

Bugs, dressed like the portly Alfred Hitchcock, lectures on crime.

The subject for tonight's show is one that has always puzzled us little denizens of the woodland glades." In yet another lecture, Bugs talks about man.

Bugs has overslept. When the announcer summons him by hole-shaped elevator to the stage, either he is in his bathrobe, barely awake and brushing his teeth, or he is drying himself after a shower, or he is occupied with his vacuum cleaner.

Sylvester needs psychiatric help when his frustration at being unable to catch Tweety has him on the verge of mental collapse.

The Tasmanian Devil is Bugs' guest on this episode, in which the rabbit prescribes a carrot diet to the beast.

Introduced by Bugs, Harry the Brush explains his role in the animation of cartoons wherein Claude Cat schemes to implicate bulldog Marc Antony.

In this spoof of This is Your Life, Bugs Bunny's life is reviewed, with visits from friends and foes.

Daffy recounts many of his detective escapades.

Bugs Bunny emerges from his hole on stage as Super-Rabbit, defender of the defenseless, buddy of the buddy-less, to introduce science fiction cartoons.

Sylvester recounts his recent travels through Europe, when his pursuit of Tweety became transoceanic and transcontinental.

Foghorn Leghorn's farmyard life has been so tough on him that he decides to enlist in the French Foreign Legion.

The art of cartoon drawing is demonstrated by an animator, whom Bugs instructs to draw a line, which turns into different things.

A second look at dogs, hosted by Bugs.

Pepe Le Pew recalls the results of broken romances in Africa. He suggests that viewers "take a brief respite from romance" by joining Bugs Bunny, whose Miami Beach vacation went afoul.

Slowpoke Rodriguez and Speedy Gonzales are co-hosts, introducing cartoons in which Sylvester and the Big Bad Wolf team to stalk Tweety and Little Red Riding Hood in the house of Granny.

A great spoof of the 1950's TV show, "The Honeymooners", starring Daws Butler as the voices of both the "Ralph Kramden" and "Ed Norton" characters, and June Foray as both "Alice Kramden" and "Trixie Norton"

Bugs provides yet another lecture on cartoon animation, secretly stating that he does the voice of Mel Blanc. Daffy, meanwhile, tries to upstage the rabbit in the guise of a clean-up artist from a cartoon agency.

Sylvester and son discuss mice, ranging from those from Mexico to those of the "giant" variety.