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Bugs 'n' Daffy
Genre	Anthology
Directed by	Tex Avery Bob Clampett Arthur Davis Friz Freleng Ken Harris Chuck Jones Rudy Larriva Norman McCabe Robert McKimson Phil Monroe Hawley Pratt Frank Tashlin
Theme music composer	Randy Rogel Gordon Goodwin Richard Stone
Composers	Bernard Brown Milt Franklyn William Lava Eugene Poddany John Seely Carl Stalling
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	130 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer	Kathleen Helppie-Shipley
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Warner Bros. Classic Animation
Original release
Network	Kids' WB
Release	September 11, 1995 (1995-09-11) – September 11, 1998 (1998-09-11)

Bugs 'n' Daffy (formerly That's Warner Bros.!) is an American animated anthology television series that aired on The WB from 1995 to 1998 as part of their Kids' WB weekday lineup. The series featured cartoons from Warner Bros.' library of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. A weekly companion series, The Daffy Duck Show aired on Saturday mornings from 1996 to 1997.

This series is not to be confused with Cartoon Network's former block of Warner shorts, The Bugs & Daffy Show.

History and format

That's Warner Bros.! premiered on September 11, 1995 as part of Kids' WB's inaugural season, on their weekday lineup alongside classic episodes of Animaniacs. The show's title sequence reused the opening for the Fox Kids version of Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends, now scored with a jazzy rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along" and with a different ending showing the show's title. 65 episodes were created featuring three cartoons in each, with a "Hip Clip" (a holdover from Merrie Melodies) placed in between the second and third shorts to fill up any remaining time. Unlike Merrie Melodies before it, not every episode featured a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

The following season, That's Warner Bros.! was renamed Bugs 'n' Daffy, which brought forth several changes to the format. Each show now began with a new title sequence set to an original theme song by Animaniacs composer Randy Rogel. In addition, the cartoons' staff credits were cut, leaving only a shot of their titles with a sting based on the theme song playing underneath them. Other than these changes, the contents of the original 65 episodes remained mostly the same.

For the 1997–98 season, a new set of 65 episodes were created. Thanks to Time Warner's merger with Turner Broadcasting System on October 10, 1996, Warner Bros. had regained the broadcast rights to Turner's package of color Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies made before August 1948; at least one cartoon from the pre-1948 package was included in each episode (though some aired on The Daffy Duck Show first). Because of the lengths of those shorts, not every episode featured a "Hip Clip".

Bugs 'n' Daffy was removed from the Kids' WB lineup at the start of the 1998–99 season, although some affiliates were allowed to air the series as a replacement for Tiny Toon Adventures.

The Daffy Duck Show

On November 23, 1996, a companion series titled The Daffy Duck Show began airing on Kids' WB's Saturday morning lineup as a replacement for the low-rated Freakazoid!. Each episode featured two Daffy Duck cartoons, with one featuring another character in between them. 13 episodes of The Daffy Duck Show were created, airing weekly until the start of the 1997–98 season.

Episodes

Season 1 (1995/1996)

• Cartoons marked with an asterisk (*) are black-and-white cartoons that have been computer-colorized.
• When That's Warner Bros.! became Bugs 'n' Daffy for the 1996–97 season, The Bee-Deviled Bruin was removed from episodes 24 and 54, presumably due to its violent content, and replaced with Beanstalk Bunny and What's Up, Doc?, respectively.

Season 2 (1997)

• Cartoons marked with an asterisk (*) are black-and-white cartoons that have been computer-colorized.

The Daffy Duck Show

• Cartoons marked with an asterisk (*) are black-and-white cartoons that have been computer-colorized.

References

1. McCorry, Kevin; Cooke, Jon. "That's Warner Bros.!/The Bugs n' Daffy Show". Archived from the original on November 5, 2015. Retrieved January 23, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

External links

• Bugs 'n' Daffy at IMDb

• 1990s American animated television series
• 1995 American television series debuts
• 1998 American television series endings
• 1990s American anthology television series
• 1990s American children's comedy television series
• Looney Tunes television series
• Television shows edited from films
• Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
• American children's animated anthology television series
• American children's animated comedy television series
• The WB animated television series
• Kids' WB original shows
• American English-language television shows
• Bugs Bunny
• Animated television series about ducks
• Animated television series about rabbits and hares
• Daffy Duck