Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d Subject: Re: Bugs is gay (I don't think so) Message-ID: <717@shark.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 10:05:40 EDT Article-I.D.: shark.717 Posted: Thu Apr 26 10:05:40 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 30-Apr-84 05:29:33 EDT References: <811@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 25 A possibility none of you flamers seems to have noticed: The very early Bugs Bunny, like the very early Daffy Duck, was portrayed deliberately as completely crazy. Out of his widdle mind. Note that until very recently, it was considered insanity to be homosexual. Remember? Anyway, Bugs demonstrated mania, depressive behaviour, and compulsiveness as well. Humor in America has changed somewhat, and around the late-40s it stopped being "funny" to be insane. Anyway, Bugs got more comprehensible as time passed, because they (the writers and editors) wanted to make him a more likeable character, one that the public could identify with. Then they had to invent Daffy Duck to take up the empty places Bugs had left. The same things happened to him. Incidentally, in case any of you think I am inventing this from nowhere, except for some opinions about Bugs behavior, I am paraphrasing a gentleman named Bob Clampett, who was an animator in the Warner studios back when Chuck Jones was still emptying wastebaskets. Hutch