Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet
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Production company	DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television
Release date	November 15, 1979
Starring	Mel Blanc June Foray
Narrated by	Denver Pyle
Executive producer(s)	Hal Geer
Music composed by	Harper MacKay
Story by	Hal Geer Jack Enyart
Director(s)	David Detiege
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Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet is a 1979 Thanksgiving television special starring Bugs Bunny and characters from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts. It premiered on November 15, 1979 on CBS. It was written by Hal Geer and Jack Enyart, and directed by David Detiege.

Bugs is a devoted doctor prescribing helpful advice to various characters ranging from Porky, Sylvester and special guest, a certain female rabbit from Slobbovia.

Detailed summary

Cartoons shown in Special

• "Rabbit Every Monday"
• "Stop! Look! And Hasten!"
• "Guided Muscle"
• "Adventures of the Road-Runner”/"Zip Zip Hooray!"
• "Beep, Beep"
• "Tweet Dreams" (Uses some scenes from that cartoon including the flashbacks scenes from "Too Hop To Handle" and "Sandy Claws".)
• "Birds Anonymous"
• "Freudy Cat"
• "Canned Feud"
• "Trip for Tat"
• "Bedevilled Rabbit"

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • Slobbovia

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 15, 1978

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • April 13, 1993: Warner Home Video releases Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet on VHS.
  • September 1, 2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Looney Tunes Holiday Triple Feature on DVD.