Elmer takes up wildlife photography, but finds his subject, a rabbit similar to the later Bugs Bunny character, much too wild.

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.

It seems the whole animal kingdom make fun of the lion as a has-been. Anxious to prove them wrong, the lion decides to try and catch a rabbit.

Mama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.

Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit-hating cowboy and his horse.

Bugs fights the legendary giant. In the historical context of World War II much fun is made of the giant's claimed superiority over the more clever and fun-loving rabbit.

When James Cagney wins the Oscar, Bugs shows a clip from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) and demands a recount of the voting.

The three bears set a trap to catch Goldilocks but their carrot soup attracts Bugs Bunny early on and he grows wise to their plans.

Bugs is chased into a lake by a dog who speaks with a thick Russian accent; the rest of the story unfolds under water.

Elmer Fudd asks God when he will finally be able to catch Bugs. God tells him to look far into the future so he imagines a little Elmer still trying to catch a baby Bugs years later.

Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.

A sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.

Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre make it home to their hideout only to find Bugs already settled down there for the night.

A western showdown of Bugs Bunny versus Yosemite Sam.

Bugs is tricked into being the first rabbit shot into space. When he lands on the moon he finds Commander X-2 (later known as Marvin Martian) set to blow up planet Earth.

At Eureka Experimental Hospital, a doctor plans to switch the characteristics of a chicken into the brain and a rabbit, into each other. Bugs Bunny was registered as the experimental rabbit, Number 46.

When Bugs arrives for his date with Daisy Lou and finds her out shopping, he puts on her clothes to fool his rival Casbah.

Bugs must joust with Sir Pantsalot of Drop Seat Manor when he tosses a partially eaten carrot into a suit of armor.

Bugs' showbiz career is recounted from babyhood to stardom. Bugs and Elmer Fudd perform the title song.

Bugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.

Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.

Yosemite Sam traps Bugs Bunny and tries to cook him -- until he sees that Bugs is having a party and wants to join in the fun.

After Yosemite Sam builds his house over Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, the two of them try to determine who owns the land through the courts and other less legal means.

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.

Bugs tells stories to his nephew Clyde, derived from earlier cartoons (Baseball Bugs (1946), Stage Door Cartoon (1944), Rabbit Punch (1948), Falling Hare (1943) and Haredevil Hare (1948)).

Bank robber Yosemite Sam forces Bugs to try to fly the largest airplane in the world.

Elmer Fudd digs up a rare desert flower along with Bugs Bunny's home and takes them to his penthouse in the city. Bugs and Elmer then compete to own the penthouse.

Bugs Bunny faces off against Farmer Fudd's robot.

Bugs will not bend to the threats of Pirate (Yosemite) Sam.

A construction worker wants to blast Bugs out of his rabbit hole so he can build a freeway.

Bugs lectures his nephew Clyde about early America, inserting himself into events wherever possible.

Bugs Bunny stumbles on the carrot patch of Paul Bunyan, but doesn't realize that it is guarded by a 124-foot, 4,600-ton dog named Smidgen.

Baby-faced Finster robs a bank, but the baby carriage with the money in it goes down Bugs' rabbit hole.

The corporate board has Elmer committed to an asylum because he thinks he's a rabbit. At the sanitarium Bugs agrees to trade places with Elmer.

Elmer Fudd brings Bugs Bunny on a parody of This Is Your Life (1950) where he and Yosemite Sam try to get revenge on the rabbit. Daffy Duck laments that the show is not about him.

Crusoe, played by Yosemite Sam, has been living off coconuts for 20 years when Bugs washes up on his island.

Bugs takes a wrong turn off the Hollywood freeway and tunnels into the headquarters of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Bugs decides to travel to Chattanooga. He hitches a ride on a train where he meets two bums who are so hungry that at first sight they yell "food". The bums chase him all across the train, but Bugs deftly defies them.

In the Alps Bugs and Yosemite Sam vie for 50,000 Cronkites, the prize for the who "climbs the Schmatterhorn."

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.

Bugs Bunny finds that gangsters Rocky and Mugsy have chosen his new abode, a condemned building, as their hideout. Bugs manipulates them into attacking each other to prove that crime doesn't pay.

Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.

An absent-minded wolf sets out to catch Bugs for dinner but keeps forgetting what he was heading out to shoot in the first place.

Big Bad Wolf and his little nephew try to trap Bugs Bunny by making like fairy tale characters.

Court jester Bugs races against the Black Knight (Yosemite Sam) and his sneezing dragon in pursuit of the Singing Sword.

Bugs entertains the Sultan with tales from his cartoons: "Bully for Bugs", "Sahara Hare" and "Water, Water Every Hare".

When Bugs vacations in the Ozarks he is pursued by hungry buzzards.

In an old west shootout Bugs and Yosemite Sam duel with trains.

Bugs fights with Blacque Jacque Shellacque over Klondike gold.

Daffy Duck manages to get Bugs into a TV studio in order to win the thousand dollar bounty.

In his Hollywood home Bugs is being interviewed by the Edward R. Murrow TV show "People to People" when Daffy and Elmer show up.

Wile E. Coyote decides to cook and eat Bugs, but Bugs is on to his plan and tries to escape by acting looney.

Sam, the Duke of Yosemite, will inherit one million pounds if he can keep his temper in check. Thing is, he has to endure Bugs Bunny as his house guest.

Bugs battles Wile E. Coyote. A ten billion volt electric magnet draws everything imaginable.

Bugs Bunny tries to protect a castle by kicking Sam the Terrible out and not letting him back in.

A spoiled-rotten monarch orders royal chef Yosemite Sam to make "Hasenpfeffer", the basic ingredient of which is rabbit. When Bugs comes to the door asking to borrow some carrots, Sam decides to cook him.

As Daffy Duck visits Bugs Bunny (after being invited) Daffy only watches Bugs' television, until his favorite show "Beat Your Buddy" comes on and the two contestants are Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Then they race to television station QTTV.

In a spoof of TV's "Untouchables" Rocky and Mugsy chase "Elegant Ness" (Bugs) through the ACME cereal company.

Big Bad Wolf and his nephew use a club for rabbits, Club del Conejo, to try to catch Bugs.

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "The Bugs Bunny 51st-and-a-Half Anniversary Spectacular," complete with shaky camera and a variety of outtakes from stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam.