The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979 animated feature film directed by Chuck Jones

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (original working title: The Great American Chase) is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts and newly animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The bridging sequences, which had been produced in 1978, show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania).

Bugs Bunny

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  • Oh. How do you do? Nice of you to drop by me humble abode! My name is Bunny, Bugs Bunny, Esquire, to be exact! Eh. One of the Back-Bay Bunnies! Back-Bay of Brooklyn that is!
  • Now, one of the problems I always had with Aminators-- Animators--is that they can't ever seem to tell the differences between a rabbit and a mole. Very humiliating having to burrow your way wherever you want to go, and somehow, I always forgot to take that left turn at Albuquerque.
  • Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds!
  • Of course you realize this means war.
  • Of course you know this means war!

Daffy Duck

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  • [to Bugs Bunny] You're despicable!

Dialogue

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Bugs Bunny: So you see, that's how chases began, and that's how I came into the picture, just a mild mannered forest creature, shy, easily frightened. A quiet-living rabbit am I. And yet... I guess in a way I *am* an unusual rabbit on account of, uh... instead of having hundreds of children, like your ordinary run-of-the-mill rabbit, I had several fathers, fathers with odd names, like Tex Avery... uh, Friz Freleng... Chuck Jones... and Bob McKimson, the ones who directed most of me pictures. Fathers like Tedd Pierce... Warren Foster... and Mike Maltese, who wrote most of me bee-ography. And of course a father named Mel Blanc, who had thousands of voices and was nice enough to give me one of them. This show you're gonna see now is about what just one of those fathers did with me and me cartoon associates, an animation director who goes by the unlikely name of Chuck Jones. And old Chuck seemed determined to get poor little old me into outer space, too.

Operation: Rabbit
Bugs Bunny: Eh. What's up, doc?
Wile E. Coyote: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is "Wile E. Coyote"... Genius. I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college, so let's get down to cases. You are a rabbit, and I am going to eat you for supper. Now, don't try to get away. I am more muscular, more cunning, faster, and larger than you are... and I'm a genius, while you could hardly pass the entrance examinations to kindergarten. So, I'll give you the customary two minutes to say your prayers.
Bugs Bunny: I'm sorry, mac, but the lady of the house ain't home and besides we mailed you people a check last week! [Slam]
Wile E. Coyote: Why do they always want to do it the hard way?

What's Opera, Doc?

Elmer Fudd: [sticking his spear in a rabbit hole; singing] Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!
Bugs Bunny:[peeps out from another hole] Kill the Wabbit?
Elmer Fudd: Yo-ho-to-ho! Yo-ho-to-ho! Yo-ho...
[Bugs and Elmer sing]
Bugs Bunny: Oh, mighty warrior of great fighting stock! Might I inquire to ask-Eh, [eats a carrot] ... what's up, Doc?
Elmer Fudd: I am going to kill the Wabbit!
Bugs Bunny: Oh, mighty hunter, twil be quite a task. How will you do it? Might I inquire to ask?
Elmer Fudd: I will do it with my spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: Spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: Magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet.

[Bugs and Daffy are trying to convince Elmer to shoot the other and make a meal out of him]
Elmer Fudd: I'm sorry fellas, but I'm a vegetarian. I just hunt for the sport of it. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Bugs Bunny: Oh yeah! Well there's other sports besides hunting, you know!
Daffy Duck: [Daffy appears in a tennis outfit] Anyone for tennis? [Elmer shoots Daffy] Nice game.

Dr I.Q. Hi: Can you do it, Dodgers?
Daffy Duck: Oh, indubitabooblyoobly sir. Because there's nobody knows his way round outer space like Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half century!

Road Runner: Meep, meep!

[Wile E. Coyote is filling a row of fake carrots with nitroglycerin while inside an explosives shack within a construction site. Bugs, using a tractor, pulls the shack to a nearby railroad track and deposits it in the middle of the tracks]
Wile E. Coyote: Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.
[Wile E. hears a train whistle blow, but he ignores it]
Wile E. Coyote: I like the way that rolls out! Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius!
[Wile E. again hears the train whistle and then sees the train coming right towards him. He pulls the blinds over the shack's window down. The train hits Wile E. in the shack causing a huge explosion from the nitroglycerin. As the train chugs off undamaged, Wile E. is all burnt and crispy, while hanging onto a branch from a cliff]
Wile E. Coyote: [slurring] Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius.

Wile E. Coyote: [slurring] Allow me to introduce myself. My name is mud. [he faints]
Bugs Bunny: And remember, "mud" spelled backwards is "dum".

Cartoons

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  Creators     Tex Avery ·
  Characters     Bugs Bunny · Daffy Duck · Porky Pig · Elmer Fudd · Foghorn Leghorn · Granny · Lola Bunny · Marvin the Martian · Pepé Le Pew · Speedy Gonzales · Sylvester the Cat · Tasmanian Devil (Taz) · Tweety · Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner · Yosemite Sam · Babbit and Catstello · Barnyard Dawg · Beaky Buzzard · Beans · Bosko · Buddy · Cecil Turtle · Charlie Dog · Claude Cat · Clyde Bunny · Colonel Shuffle · Conrad the Cat · Cool Cat · Egghead Jr. · Foxy · Goofy Gophers · Goopy Geer · Gossamer · Henery Hawk · Hippety Hopper · Hubie and Bertie · Hugo the Abominable Snowman · Inki · Marc Antony and Pussyfoot · Merlin the Magic Mouse · Michigan J. Frog · Miss Prissy · Nasty Canasta · Penelope Pussycat · Petunia Pig · Piggy · Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit · Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog · Sniffles · Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier · Sylvester Jr. · The Three Bears · Willoughby · Witch Hazel
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  Short films     Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid  (1929) · Porky's Duck Hunt  (1937) · Porky & Daffy  (1938) · What Price Porky  (1938) · The Daffy Doc  (1938) · Daffy Duck & Egghead  (1938) · Porky in Egypt  (1938) . Daffy Duck in Hollywood  (1938) · Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur  (1939) · Wise Quacks  (1939) · Elmer's Candid Camera  (1940) · A Wild Hare  (1940) · You Ought to Be in Pictures  (1940) · Wabbit Twouble  (1941) ·  (1941) · The Henpecked Duck  (1941) · Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt  (1941) · Who's Who in the Zoo  (1942) · Conrad the Sailor  (1942) · Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid  (1942) · Case of the Missing Hare  (1942) · Crazy Cruise  (1942) · Fresh Hare  (1942) · The Wacky Wabbit  (1942) · The Wabbit Who Came to Supper  (1942) · The Hare-Brained Hypnotist  (1942) · Hold the Lion, Please  (1942) · Fox Pop  (1942) · Yankee Doodle Daffy  (1943) · Porky Pig's Feat  (1943) · A Corny Concerto  (1943) · Daffy – The Commando  (1943) · The Wise Quacking Duck  (1943) · To Duck or Not to Duck  (1943) · Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk  (1943) · Super-Rabbit  (1943) · Wackiki Wabbit  (1943) · What's Cookin' Doc?  (1944) · Hare Force  (1944) · Plane Daffy  (1944) · Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears  (1944) · Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips  (1944) · Stage Door Cartoon  (1944) · Little Red Riding Rabbit  (1944) · Tom Turk and Daffy  (1944) · Duck Soup to Nuts  (1944) · Life with Feathers  (1945) · Draftee Daffy  (1945) · Hare Tonic  (1945) · The Unruly Hare  (1945) · Racketeer Rabbit  (1946) · Rhapsody Rabbit  (1946) · Racketeer Rabbit  (1946) · Baseball Bugs  (1946) · Hair-Raising Hare  (1946) · Acrobatty Bunny  (1946) · The Great Piggy Bank Robbery  (1946) · Daffy Doodles  (1946) · Kitty Kornered  (1946) · Walky Talky Hawky  (1946) · Tweetie Pie  (1947) · One Meat Brawl  (1947) · A Pest in the House  (1947) · Easter Yeggs  (1947) · Slick Hare  (1947) · The Goofy Gophers  (1947) · A Hare Grows in Manhattan  (1947) · Gorilla My Dreams  (1948) · A-Lad-In His Lamp  (1948) · Hot Cross Bunny  (1948) · Rabbit Punch  (1948) · My Bunny Lies over the Sea  (1948) · You Were Never Duckier  (1948) · Buccaneer Bunny  (1948) · Daffy Dilly  (1948) · What Makes Daffy Duck  (1948) · Daffy Duck Slept Here  (1948) · Bugs Bunny Rides Again  (1948) · I Taw a Putty Tat  (1948) · Back Alley Oproar  (1948) · Haredevil Hare  (1948) · Odor of the Day  (1948) · Which Is Witch  (1949) · Long-Haired Hare  (1949) · Rebel Rabbit  (1949) · Knights Must Fall  (1949) · Mississippi Hare  (1949) · Daffy Duck Hunt  (1949) · High Diving Hare  (1949) · Bunker Hill Bunny  (1949) · Often an Orphan  (1949) · For Scent-imental Reasons  (1949) · Hippety Hopper  (1949) · Rabbit Hood  (1949) · Canary Row  (1949) · Bad Ol' Putty Tat  (1949) · The Stupor Salesman  (1949) · Hare Do  (1949) · Frigid Hare  (1949) · The Grey Hounded Hare  (1949) · Holiday for Drumsticks  (1949) · Bushy Hare  (1950) · All a Bir-r-r-d  (1950) · Home Tweet Home  (1950) · The Scarlet Pumpernickel  (1950) · Boobs in the Woods  (1950) · Golden Yeggs  (1950) · Big House Bunny  (1950) · Mutiny on the Bunny  (1950) · Rabbit of Seville  (1950) · Homeless Hare  (1950) · Hillbilly Hare  (1950) · What's Up, Doc?  (1950) · French Rarebit  (1951) · Drip-Along Daffy  (1951) · The Fair-Haired Hare  (1951) · Rabbit Every Monday  (1951) · Rabbit Fire  (1951) · Big Top Bunny  (1951) · Tweety's S.O.S.  (1951) · Room and Bird  (1951) · Canned Feud  (1951) · Scentimental Romeo  (1951) · Putty Tat Trouble  (1951) · A Bird in a Guilty Cage  (1952) · Ain't She Tweet  (1952) · Who's Kitten Who?  (1952) · Operation: Rabbit  (1952) · Rabbit's Kin  (1952) · The Hasty Hare  (1952) · Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century  (1952) · Little Beau Pepé  (1952) · 14 Carrot Rabbit  (1952) · Hare Lift  (1952) · Rabbit Seasoning  (1952) · Foxy by Proxy  (1952) · Oily Hare  (1952) · Water, Water Every Hare  (1952) · Bully for Bugs  (1953) · Forward March Hare  (1953) · Robot Rabbit  (1953) ·  (1953) · Lumber Jack-Rabbit  (1953) · Muscle Tussle  (1953) · Duck! Rabbit, Duck!  (1953) · Catty Cornered  (1953) · Wild Over You  (1953) · Hare Trimmed  (1953) · Duck Amuck  (1953) · Fowl Weather  (1953) · Snow Business  (1953) · Sandy Claws  (1954) · Devil May Hare  (1954) · Captain Hareblower  (1954) · Baby Buggy Bunny  (1954) · Bewitched Bunny  (1954) · Bugs and Thugs  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · [[]]  (1954) · Knight-mare Hare  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · Beanstalk Bunny  (1955) · Rabbit Rampage  (1955) · [[]]  (1955) · Hare Brush  (1955) · Red Riding Hoodwinked  (1955) · Speedy Gonzales  (1955) · Two Scent's Worth  (1955) · Roman Legion-Hare nbsp;(1955) · Sahara Hare  (1955) · Tweety's Circus  (1955) · Barbary Coast Bunny  (1956) · A Star is Bored  (1956) · Rabbitson Crusoe  (1956) · Half-Fare Hare  (1956) · Stupor Duck  (1956) · Tweet and Sour  (1956) · Tree Cornered Tweety  (1956) · To Hare is Human  (1956) · The High and the Flighty  (1956) · Napoleon Bunny-Part  (1956) · Bedevilled Rabbit  (1957) · Ducking the Devil  (1957) · Tweety and the Beanstalk  (1957) · Birds Anonymous  (1957) · Fox Terror  (1957) · Touché and Go  (1957) · Ali Baba Bunny  (1957) · Show Biz Bugs  (1957) · Bugsy and Mugsy  (1957) · What's Opera, Doc?  (1957) · Now Hare This  (1958) · Robin Hood Daffy  (1958) · Knighty Knight Bugs  (1958) · Don't Axe Me  (1958) · Pre-Hysterical Hare  (1958) · Hare-Less Wolf  (1958) · A Pizza Tweety Pie  (1958) · Hare-Way to the Stars  (1958) · Tweet and Lovely  (1959) · Unnatural History  (1959) · Hare-Abian Nights  (1959) · Apes of Wrath  (1959) · Bonanza Bunny  (1959) · Lighter Than Hare  (1960) · Hyde and Go Tweet  (1960) · Goldimouse and the Three Cats  (1960) · Rabbit's Feat  (1960) · Crockett-Doodle-Do  (1960) · Who Scent You?  (1960) · Person to Bunny  (1960) · Compressed Hare  (1961) · Prince Varmint  (1961) · The Abominable Snow Rabbit  (1961) · Birds of a Father  (1961) · Bill of Hare  (1962) · Louvre Come Back to Me!  (1962) · Shishkabugs  (1962) · Quackodile Tears  (1962) · Wet Hare  (1962) · Transylvania 6-5000  (1963) · Claws in the Lease  (1963) · Hare-Breadth Hurry  (1963) · Mad as a Mars Hare  (1963) ·  (1963) · False Hare  (1964) · Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare  (1964) · Dumb Patrol  (1964) · The Iceman Ducketh  (1964) · Cool Cat  (1967) · See Ya Later Gladiator  (1968) · 3 Ring Wing-Ding  (1968) · Injun Trouble  (1969) · Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century  (1980) · Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny  (1980) · Box-Office Bunny  (1990) · (Blooper) Bunny  (1991) · Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers  (1992) · Another Froggy Evening  (1995) · Carrotblanca  (1995) · Pullet Surprise  (1997) · From Hare to Eternity  (1997) · Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas  (2004)
  Television series        (1990-92) · Taz-Mania  (1992-95) · The Plucky Duck Show  (1992) · The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries  (1995-2002) · Baby Looney Tunes  (2002-05) · Duck Dodgers  (2003-05) ·    (2005-07) ·    (2011-13) ·    (2015-2020) · Looney Tunes Cartoons  (2020-24) · Bugs Bunny Builders  (2022-present) · Tiny Toons Looniversity  (2023-present)
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