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Bugs Bunny was an anthropomorphic rabbit who wore a red bow tie and was famed for his "What's Up, Doc" catchphrase. By one account, he was a Warner Brothers cartoon character. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"page":"40","ed":"2011 edition","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})
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While the TV Terrors were hunting for autographs, they may have seen Bugs Bunny being chased by Yosemite Sam. (GAME: TV Terrors Autograph Hunt [+]Loading...["TV Terrors Autograph Hunt (game)"])
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The Tenth Doctor told Jimmy Stalkingwolf that, as the latter wasn't Bugs Bunny, he shouldn't call him "Doc". (TV: Dreamland [+]Loading...["Dreamland (TV story)"])
Tommy Carmodie imitated Bugs Bunny asking "what's up, Doc?" to Professor Barry Hitchins, thinking he wasn't very good at the voice. (PROSE: Psi-ence Fiction [+]Loading...["Psi-ence Fiction (novel)"]) The phrase was also quoted in Bugs Bunny impressions by Lakksis-2 to the Sixth Doctor (PROSE: Wish You Were Here [+]Loading...["Wish You Were Here (ST short story)"]) and by Ace to the Seventh Doctor. (AUDIO: Night Thoughts [+]Loading...["Night Thoughts (audio story)"])
Just before escaping from a group of humanoids who had been chasing him, the Eleventh Doctor, struck a pose while holding a carrot and saying, "That's all, folks!" (COMIC: Run, Doctor, Run [+]Loading...["Run, Doctor, Run (comic story)"])
When Ace found herself suspended in mid-air with no visible support, she wondered if she would fall when she acknowledged it, like Bugs Bunny when he went off a cliff and didn't fall until he looked down. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders [+]Loading...["The Dimension Riders (novel)"])
In a New Orleans cemetery, a middle-aged woman visited Marie Laveau's tomb, leaving a pot of zinnias and a child's watch with Bugs Bunny on the face. (PROSE: The City of the Dead [+]Loading...["The City of the Dead (novel)"])
Anji Kapoor recalled that commercial spacecraft in the future supplied "viewing ports" which displayed false but pleasing images bearing as much relation to the actual conditions outside as Bugs Bunny did to the proliferation vectors of myxomatosis. (PROSE: The Slow Empire [+]Loading...["The Slow Empire (novel)"])
Another time, Anji compared Sabbath Dei to Wile E. Coyote, but struggled with who to compare herself and Fitz Kreiner, Fitz rejecting Bugs and Daffy since although Bugs was all right, Daffy wasn't. (PROSE: Camera Obscura [+]Loading...["Camera Obscura (novel)"])
Peri Brown described herself as coming from the land of Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny, so she didn't find the image of the anthropomorphic chicken the Sixth Doctor found as interesting as he seemed to. (PROSE: House [+]Loading...["House (short story)"])
Christine Summerfield compared the blackness moving along Earth's time contours on a time map to a spark on a fuse wire in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. (PROSE: Dead Romance [+]Loading...["Dead Romance (novel)"])
Todd Calavero tried to imagine Justin returning from his first tour of duty with the personality of Bugs Bunny, but couldn't see it happening. (PROSE: Against Nature [+]Loading...["Against Nature (novel)"])
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- Bugs Bunny is a character from Looney Tunes, although TV Terrors Autograph Hunt [+]Loading...["TV Terrors Autograph Hunt (game)"] was specifically tying into The Bugs Bunny Show series.
Bugs Bunny appears on the front cover of the TV Comic Annual 1975. - Two DWU actors have appeared alongside Bugs Bunny in Looney Tunes films: Wayne Knight in 1996's Space Jam, and Timothy Dalton in 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action. The latter movie also saw a cameo appearance by the Daleks.
- Bugs Bunny appeared in several TV Comic annuals which also printed Doctor Who comic stories, as well as on their covers.
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Bugs Bunny at the Looney Tunes Wiki
- Bugs Bunny at the Super Friends Wiki