Reader’s Digest (UK)

Loopey For Looney Tunes

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Bugs Bunny got his name by accident in 1940 when a model sheet was hand-labelled "Bugs' Bunny" to indicate it was for animator Ben "Buggsy" Hardaway to work on. The possessive apostrophe was dropped when staff thought that was the rabbit's actual name, and it stuck.

The cartoon character Taz the Tasmanian Devil was only in five original Looney Tunes shorts before unexpected­ly gaining popularity in the 90s.

Actors Peter Cushing and Christophe­r Lee frequently went to cinemas to watch Looney Tunes cartoons together and were once kicked out for laughing too hard.

Mel Blanc (voice actor for Bugs Bunny, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Wile E Coyote and more) has "That's all folks" written on his tomb stone.

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