Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny
July 27th, 2007 by Menachem Wecker
Keillor notes on the Writer’s Almanac that 67 years ago today, Bugs Bunny debuted in “A Wild Hare.”
(Above) “Bugs Bunny dresses as Groucho for the cartoon Slick Hare (1947), where he’s trying to hide in plain sight in the Mocrumbo restaurant. However, Elmer dresses as Harpo, prompting Bugs to walk off with one of Groucho’s signature lines ‘I think I’ll slip out of these wet things and into a dry martini.’” Wikipedia.
Keillor explains:
Bugs Bunny was designed to be the epitome of cool, modeled on Groucho Marx, with a carrot rather than a cigar. He is never fazed by what the world throws at him. He nonchalantly chews on his carrot in the face of all his enemies, speaking in a Brooklyn accent.