<P> While Porky's Hare Hunt was the first Warner Bros. cartoon to feature a Bugs Bunny - like rabbit, A Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, is widely considered to be the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon . It is the first film where both Elmer Fudd and Bugs, both redesigned by Bob Givens, are shown in their fully developed forms as hunter and tormentor, respectively; the first in which Mel Blanc uses what would become Bugs' standard voice; and the first in which Bugs uses his catchphrase, "What's up, Doc?" A Wild Hare was a huge success in theaters and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cartoon Short Subject . </P> <P> For the film, Avery asked Givens to remodel the rabbit . The result had a closer resemblance to Max Hare . He had a more elongated body, stood more erect, and looked more poised . If Thorson's rabbit looked like an infant, Givens' version looked like an adolescent . Blanc gave Bugs the voice of a city slicker . The rabbit was as audacious as he had been in Hare - um Scare - um and as cool and collected as in Prest - O Change - O . </P> <P> Immediately following on A Wild Hare, Bob Clampett's Patient Porky (1940) features a cameo appearance by Bugs, announcing to the audience that 750 rabbits have been born . The gag uses Bugs' Wild Hare visual design, but his goofier pre-Wild Hare voice characterization . </P> <P> The second full - fledged role for the mature Bugs, Chuck Jones' Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941), is the first to use Bugs' name on - screen: it appears in a title card, "featuring Bugs Bunny," at the start of the film (which was edited in following the success of A Wild Hare). However, Bugs' voice and personality in this cartoon is noticeably different, and his design was slightly altered as well; Bugs' visual design is based on the prototype rabbit in Candid Camera, but with yellow gloves and no buck teeth, has a lower - pitched voice and a more aggressive, arrogant and thuggish personality instead of a fun - loving personality . After Pet Rabbit, however, subsequent Bugs appearances returned to normal: the Wild Hare visual design and personality returned, and Blanc re-used the Wild Hare voice characterization . </P>

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