Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars

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Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars is a 1988 animated television special broadcast 21 October 1988 on CBS.

Summary

The story revolves around two competing television stations that are hosted by Bugs Bunny (WABBIT) and Daffy Duck (KPUT).

This special features music videos from classic Looney Tunes shorts.

Notes

• The theme music for WABBIT is the music score of Bugs Bunny's theme song "What's Up, Doc?" that played over numerous Bugs Bunny cartoon title cards of the early-1950s.
• The Space Jam two-disc box set of the special has a messed-up soundtrack with loud music and new sound effects making it hard to hear what Bugs and Daffy are saying, similar to the mixed audiotracks on the bonus cartoons "Hop and Go" and "Sniffles Takes a Trip" on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6. Additionally, one scene from one of the clips in "Scrap Happy Daffy" (where Daffy sings with his reflections from the mirror) was cut due to the inclusion of offensive racial caricatures of WWII such as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, amongst others. The original 1992 VHS, however, has the original soundtrack and the uncut version of the clip from Scrap Happy Daffy.
• "Yankee Doodle Daffy", "The Fair Haired Hare", and bridging sequences from The Bugs Bunny Show are the only footage sources that appear twice in this TV special.

Availability

This was released on VHS and then on the Space Jam two-disc box set.