![]() Freleng was speaking about a girl that would change Bugs Bunny's personality or "domesticate" him. In the meantime, however, Freleng created a few sericels in which we see Bugs Bunny showing his emotions to Honey Bunny. In one of interviews he gave in middle 1980's, when asked about why Bugs Bunny doesn't have a girlfriend, he stated that Bugs "wouldn't be the same troublemaker". His opinion was shared by Maurice Noble, an artist who created visual backgrounds for many animated shorts directed by Jones.Īlthough another of famous animators working on animated shorts with Bugs Bunny and his friends, Isadore "Friz" Freleng, didn't get to see the "Space Jam" (Freleng died in 1995), though he did give his opinion about pairing Bugs Bunny with women. He didn't like Lola or the idea and comedy of "Space Jam" at all. ![]() In one of later interviews he stated that, in his opinion, Lola Bunny is a character with no future, she's a totally worthless character with no personality. However, all his suggestions were rejected. McDonalds’s had refused to sell Lola Rabbit toys and happy meal items if that was to be her final appearance to be used in the film on the grounds that it would be wrong to have Bugs Bunny paired up with what resembled a teenage girl.Ĭhuck Jones, a famous animator and director of many well-known animated Looney Tunes shorts, helped (or rather tried to help) artists working on "Space Jam". on selling Happy Meals with characters from Space Jam. This caused a negative reaction from McDonald's, who had signed a contract with Warner Bros. because of her visual appearance resembling that of a teenager. Lola Rabbit, as she was named at that time made problems for Warner Bros. They rejected Honey Bunny in version from 1990's whose appearance was almost exactly like Bugs’ and started working on a new character.Īfter "four months of hard work" the character was ready. started working on a visual appearance of Bugs Bunny's female counterpart whom they wanted to put in the film. Cartoons featuring stereotypedAmerican Indians were taken out of circulation about five yearsago.Controversies arose when artists in Warner Bros. began pulling the cartoons lampooning blacks in thelate 1960s, animationexpert Jerry Beck told the Journal. Sensitized by the civil-rights movement, Warner Bros. The Cartoon Network holds licensing agreement with Warner Bros.for the entire library of Bugs Bunny cartoons. ![]() That idea was nixed after Warner Bros., which owns the rabbit,expressed its worry that the episodes might affect the company'sextensive merchandising ventures. Initially the network planned to air the cartoons late at nightwith prominent disclaimers, explaining that the cartoons wererepresentative of their time and should be viewed as historicalrecords. These and other racially charged cartoons were supposed to beincluded in the retrospective slated for next month on AOL TimeWarner Inc.'s Cartoon Network, until executives changed course lastweek, The Wall Street Journal reported today. In one episode, the wisecracking, carrot-chomping Bugs isfeatured parodying a black-faced Al Jolson in another he calls anoafish, bucktoothed Eskimo a "big baboon" and in yet another hedistracts a black rabbit hunter by rattling a pair of dice. A retrospective initially intended to featureevery Bugs Bunny cartoon will fall just short of complete, asCartoon Network executives have decided not to air a dozen of theanimated shorts deemed too racially charged.
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