Two dates around Bugs come together in 2025. First, this year marks the 85 th anniversary of Bugs Bunny of his first official screen appearance, in the short A Wild Hare (1940, directed by Tex Avery).

On this day in history, July 27, 1940, Bugs Bunny, now an iconic pop culture cartoon character, debuted in the short animated film "A Wild Hare," released by Warner Brothers.

I like Bugs and Daffy, Marvin the Martian and his "illudium Q-36 explosive space mod-u-la-tor" and a more obscure character: Gossamer, the hairy red monster who wears giant tennis shoes.