Jul 24, 2024

New Bugs Bunny Special Premieres July 27 on MeTV Toons (Exclusive Clip Available)

MeTV Toons, the recently launched free classic cartoon channel, will air a new one-hour special on Bugs Bunny titled “Hare's to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration” on July The program will air on Saturday, July 27 at 10 a.m. ET and 9 a.m. CT. The special will air multiple encores throughout the day as part of the network's “Bugs Bunny's Birthday Bash.

The network is sharing two exclusive clips from the special with Cartoon Brew:

Produced in honor of Bugs' 84th birthday, the special will air on his new network television home, MeTV Toons, alongside classic It represents a day of animated programming dedicated to the Looney Tunes star. Produced in association with Warner Bros. Discovery, this special show chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and unparalleled global recognition with classic archival footage, voice actors Bob Bergen, Eric Bauza, Jeff Bergman, Candy Milo, Billy West, TV hosts Bill Leff and Kevin Fleming, animation historian and Cartoon Brew co-founder Jerry Beck, animator Eric Goldberg, and Variety TV editor Mike Schneider, among others, draw from new interviews.

Below is the full schedule of Bugs Bunny shorts that will be screened at Bugs Bunny's Birthday Bash this weekend, as well as the full running times of the new specials:

10:00 am: Hare's to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration Original Special Premiere

11 a.m.: Looney Tunes - The Wild Rabbit / The Rabbit Brain Hypnotist / Slick Hare / What's Doc in the Opera / The Unruly Rabbit / Wacky Wabbit

12 p.m.: Looney Tunes - Rabbit's Fire / Rabbit Seasoning Seasoning / Duck! Rabbit, Duck! / Tortoise Beats Hare / Tortoise Wins by A Hare / Rabbit Transit

1pm: Looney Tunes - Ali Baba Bunny / Hillbilly Hare / Big House Bunny / Frigid Hare / Sahara Hare / Abominable Snow Rabbit

2 p.m.: Hare's to Bugs! Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Broadcast 3 p.m.: Looney Tunes - Beanstalk Bunny / Bewitched Bunny / Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears / Rabbit Hood / Little Red Riding Rabbit / The Windblown Hare

. 4pm: Looney Tunes - Stage Door Cartoon / Corny Concerto / Long-Haired Hare / Baton Bunny / Rhapsody Rabbit / Rabbit of Seville

5pm: Looney Tunes - Hare Tonic / Bugs Bunny Gets the Bold / French Rarebit / Half-Fare Hare / Backwoods Bunny / Rabbit Every Monday

6pm: Hare's to Bugs! Celebration Encore Airing

7pm: Looney Tunes - Show Biz Bugs / Duck Amuck / A Star is Bored / Bugs Bonnets / Rabbit Rampage / People Are Bunny

8pm Looney Tunes - Bugs and Thugs / Baby Buggy Bunny / Bugsy and Mugsy / Hare Lift / Racketeer Rabbit / The Unmentionables

9pm: Looney Tunes - Hare- way to the Stars / Broom-stick Bunny / Hare Remover / Transylvania 6-5000? / Water, Water Every Hare / A Witch's Tangled Hare

10pm: Hare's to Bugs! Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Airing

11pm: Looney Tunes - Baseball Bugs / Bully for Bugs / Bunny Hugged / My Bunny Lies Over The Sea / Rabbit Punch / Piker's Peak

12am: Looney Tunes - What's Up Doc- / The Old Grey Hare / A Hare Grows in Manhattan / His Hare Raising Tale / Pre-Hysterical Hare / This is a Life-

1am: Looney Tunes - Yankee Doodle Bugs / Hare We Go / Bonanza Bunny / Napoleon Bunny-Part” / Buckaroo Bugs / Roman Legion-hare

2am. A Bugs Bunny Celebration Encore Airing

3am: Looney Tunes - Haredevil Hare / Hare-Raising Hare / Super Rabbit / Hasty Hare / Hyde and Hare / Mad as a Mars Hare

4am: Looney Tunes - Buccaneer Bunny / Hare Trigger / High Diving Hare / Devi's Feud Cake / Bugs Bunny Rides Again / From Hare to Heir

5am: Looney Tunes - Upswept Hare / Homeless Hare / No Parking Hare / The Fair Haired Hare / Operation: Rabbit / Wabbit Twaddle