Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet
Directed by	David Detiege Friz Freleng (classic cartoons) Chuck Jones (classic cartoons) Robert McKimson (classic cartoons)
Executive produced by	Hal Geer
Starring	Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Sylvester) June Foray (Millicent, Honey Bunny)
Release date(s)	November 15, 1979
Preceded by	The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
Followed by	Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet is a 1979 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving television special. It premiered on CBS on 15 November 1979.

Plot

Cartoons Featured

• "Rabbit Every Monday" (Some of the dialogue during the oven party scenes in the cartoon were redubbed for the special)'
• "Stop! Look! And Hasten!" (Uses the opening scene where Wile E. scavenges for food and then chases the Road Runner)
• "Guided Muscle" (Uses scene where Wile E. is cooking a tin can only to throw it away only)
• ”Adventures of the Road-Runner”/"Zip Zip Hooray!" (Uses scene where Wile E. explains why he chases the Road Runner, only to skip ahead to when he shows a cookbook entitled, "4,000 Recipes for Road Runner".)
• "Beep, Beep" (The abstrusely designed rocket gag only)
• "Tweet Dreams" (Uses some scenes from that cartoon including the flashbacks scenes from "Too Hop To Handle" and "Sandy Claws".)
• "Birds Anonymous" (Uses scenes where Sylvester gives up eating Tweety, only to be tempeted by both TV and Radio and then uses another scene where he struggles to go to sleep only to run off crazily.)
• "Freudy Cat " (Only uses the scene where Sylvester runs home, only to change to the next cartoon.)
• "Canned Feud" (Starts where Sylvester tried to find canned food in the cupboard and ends with Sylvester trying to crush the can open with a piano)
• "Trip for Tat" (Only uses the ending scene where Sylvester eats at an Italian restaurant, provided that a small scene was changed where instead of swearing off birds, he swears off fish.)
• "Bedevilled Rabbit" (Starts where Bugs reads information about the Tasmanian Devil, redubs a scene where Bugs Bunny explains to Taz that he doesn't serve rabbit on Thanksgiving, but instead serve Wild Turkey Surprise and ends where Taz, named Claude, gets beaten by his wife, Rosebud)

Credits

• Directed by David Detiege, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson
• Produced by Hal Geer

Availability

• This special has been released on VHS and Laserdisc, but not on DVD.

External Links

• Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet at the Internet Movie Database

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1930s (Happy Rabbit) Porky's Hare Hunt • Prest-O Change-O • Hare-um Scare-um 1940s Elmer's Candid Camera • A Wild Hare • Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Tortoise Beats Hare • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt • The Heckling Hare • All This and Rabbit Stew • Wabbit Twouble • The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • The Wacky Wabbit • Hold the Lion, Please • Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist • Case of the Missing Hare • Tortoise Wins by a Hare • Super-Rabbit • Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk • Wackiki Wabbit • Falling Hare • Little Red Riding Rabbit • What's Cookin' Doc? • Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears • Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips • Hare Ribbin' • Hare Force • Buckaroo Bugs • The Old Grey Hare • Stage Door Cartoon • Herr Meets Hare • The Unruly Hare • Hare Trigger • Hare Conditioned • Hare Tonic • Baseball Bugs • Hare Remover • Hair-Raising Hare • Acrobatty Bunny • Racketeer Rabbit • The Big Snooze • Rhapsody Rabbit • Rabbit Transit • A Hare Grows in Manhattan • Easter Yeggs • Slick Hare • Gorilla My Dreams • A Feather in His Hare • Rabbit Punch • Buccaneer Bunny • Bugs Bunny Rides Again • Haredevil Hare • Hot Cross Bunny • Hare Splitter • A-Lad-In His Lamp • My Bunny Lies Over The Sea • Hare Do • Mississippi Hare • Rebel Rabbit • High Diving Hare • Bowery Bugs • Long-Haired Hare • Knights Must Fall • The Grey Hounded Hare • The Windblown Hare • Frigid Hare • Which Is Witch • Rabbit Hood 1950s Hurdy-Gurdy Hare • Mutiny on the Bunny • Homeless Hare • Big House Bunny • What's Up Doc? • 8 Ball Bunny • Hillbilly Hare • Bunker Hill Bunny • Bushy Hare • Rabbit of Seville • Hare We Go • Rabbit Every Monday • Bunny Hugged • The Fair-Haired Hare • Rabbit Fire • French Rarebit • His Hare-Raising Tale • Ballot Box Bunny • Big Top Bunny • Operation: Rabbit • Foxy by Proxy • 14 Carrot Rabbit • Water, Water Every Hare • The Hasty Hare • Oily Hare • Rabbit Seasoning • Rabbit's Kin • Hare Lift • Forward March Hare • Upswept Hare • Southern Fried Rabbit • Hare Trimmed • Bully for Bugs • Lumber Jack-Rabbit • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit • Captain Hareblower • Bugs and Thugs • No Parking Hare • Devil May Hare • Bewitched Bunny • Yankee Doodle Bugs • Baby Buggy Bunny • Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This is a Life? • Hyde and Hare • Knight-mare Hare • Roman Legion-Hare • Bugs' Bonnets • Broom-Stick Bunny • Rabbitson Crusoe • Napoleon Bunny-Part • Barbary-Coast Bunny • Half-Fare Hare • A Star Is Bored • Wideo Wabbit • To Hare Is Human • Ali Baba Bunny • Bedeviled Rabbit • Piker's Peak • What's Opera, Doc? • Bugsy and Mugsy • Show Biz Bugs • Rabbit Romeo • Hare-Less Wolf • Hare-Way To The Stars • Now, Hare This • Knightly Knight Bugs • Pre-Hysterical Hare • Baton Bunny • Hare-Abian Nights • Apes of Wrath • Backwoods Bunny • Wild and Woolly Hare • Bonanza Bunny • A Witch's Tangled Hare • People Are Bunny 1960s Horse Hare • Person to Bunny • Rabbit's Feat • From Hare to Heir • Lighter Than Hare • The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Compressed Hare • Prince Violent • Wet Hare • Bill of Hare • Shishkabugs • Devil's Feud Cake • The Million Hare • Hare-Breadth Hurry • The Unmentionables • Mad as a Mars Hare • Transylvania 6-5000 • Dumb Patrol • Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare • The Iceman Ducketh • False Hare 1970s-present Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol • The Fright Before Christmas • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny • Spaced Out Bunny • Box-Office Bunny • Blooper Bunny • Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers • Carrotblanca • From Hare to Eternity • Daffy Duck for President • Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas See also Happy Rabbit

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1930s I Haven't Got a Hat • Gold Diggers of '49 • Plane Dippy • Alpine Antics • Boom Boom • The Blow Out • Westward Whoa • Fish Tales • Shanghaied Shipmates • Porky's Pet • Porky the Rain-Maker • Porky's Poultry Plant • Porky's Moving Day • Milk and Money • Little Beau Porky • The Village Smithy • Porky in the North Woods • Porky the Wrestler • Porky's Road Race • Picador Porky • Porky's Romance • Porky's Duck Hunt • Porky and Gabby • Porky's Building • Porky's Super Service • Porky's Badtime Story • Porky's Railroad • Get Rich Quick Porky • Porky's Garden • Rover's Rival • The Case of the Stuttering Pig • Porky's Double Trouble • Porky's Hero Agency • Porky's Poppa • Porky at the Crocadero • What Price Porky • Porky's Phoney Express • Porky's Five & Ten • Porky's Hare Hunt • Injun Trouble • Porky the Fireman • Porky's Party • Porky's Spring Planting • Porky & Daffy • Wholly Smoke • Porky in Wackyland • Porky's Naughty Nephew • Porky in Egypt • The Daffy Doc • Porky the Gob • The Lone Stranger and Porky • It's an Ill Wind • Porky's Tire Trouble • Porky's Movie Mystery • Chicken Jitters • Porky and Teabiscuit • Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. • Polar Pals • Scalp Trouble • Old Glory • Porky's Picnic • Wise Quacks • Porky's Hotel • Jeepers Creepers • Naughty Neighbors • Pied Piper Porky • Porky the Giant Killer • The Film Fan 1940s Porky's Last Stand • Africa Squeaks • Ali-Baba Bound • Pilgrim Porky • Slap Happy Pappy • Porky's Poor Fish • You Ought to Be in Pictures • The Chewin' Bruin • Porky's Baseball Broadcast • Patient Porky • Calling Dr. Porky • Prehistoric Porky • The Sour Puss • Porky's Hired Hand • The Timid Toreador • Porky's Snooze Reel • Porky's Bear Facts • Porky's Preview • Porky's Ant • A Coy Decoy • Porky's Prize Pony • Meet John Doughboy • We, The Animals - Squeak! • The Henpecked Duck • Notes to You • Robinson Crusoe, Jr. • Porky's Midnight Matinee • Porky's Pooch • Porky's Pastry Pirates • Who's Who in the Zoo • Porky's Cafe • My Favorite Duck • Confusions of a Nutzy Spy • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Swooner Crooner • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Brother Brat • Trap Happy Porky • Wagon Heels • Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Kitty Kornered • Mouse Menace • One Meat Brawl • Little Orphan Airedale • Daffy Duck Slept Here • Nothing But The Tooth • The Pest That Came to Dinner • Riff Raffy Daffy • Scaredy Cat • Awful Orphan • Porky Chops • Paying the Piper • Daffy Duck Hunt • Curtain Razor • Often an Orphan • Dough for the Do-Do • Bye, Bye Bluebeard 1950s Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • An Egg Scramble • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters • Dog Collared • The Wearing of the Grin • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest • Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Fool Coverage • Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century • Claws for Alarm • My Little Duckaroo • Jumpin' Jupiter • Dime to Retire • Rocket Squad • Deduce, You Say • Boston Quackie • Robin Hood Daffy • China Jones 1960s Daffy's Inn Trouble • Corn on the Cop 1970s-present Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century • Superior Duck • My Generation G...G... Gap

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1940s Fast and Furry-ous 1950s Beep, Beep 1960s 1970s-present See also

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1940s Fast and Furry-ous 1950s Beep, Beep 1960s 1970s-present See also

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1940s Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles 1950s Home, Tweet Home 1960s The Pied Piper of Guadalupe 1970s-present

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1940s "A Tale of Two Kitties" (1942) • "Birdy and the Beast" (1944) • "A Gruesome Twosome" (1945) • "Tweetie Pie" (1947) • "I Taw A Putty Tat" (1948) • "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (1949) 1950s "Home, Tweet Home" (1950) • "Putty Tat Trouble" (1951) • "Tweety's S.O.S." (1951) • "Tweet Tweet Tweety" (1951) • "Snow Business" (1953) • "Dog Pounded" (1954) • "Red Riding Hoodwinked" (1955) • "Tree Cornered Tweety" (1956) 1960s "Hyde and Go Tweet" (1960) • "The Jet Cage" (1962) 1970s-present

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Media Franchises: • Shorts: Television: The Bugs Bunny Show • The Porky Pig Show • The Road Runner Show • The Merrie Melodies Show • Sylvester and Tweety • The Daffy Duck Show • The Daffy/Speedy Show • Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon • Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends • That's Warner Bros.! • Bugs N' Daffy Feature Films: The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie • The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie • Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales • Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island • Daffy Duck's Quackbusters • Space Jam • The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame • Looney Tunes: Back in Action Specials: Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Ghoulies • Carnival of the Animals • Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies • Bugs Bunny in Space • Bugs Bunny's Howl-o-Ween Special • A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court • Bugs Bunny's Valentine • Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales • How Bugs Bunny Won the West • The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special • Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet • Daffy Duck's Easter Special • Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over • The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special • Daffy Duck's Thanks-For-Giving Special • Bugs Bunny: All American Hero • Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television • An Ounce of Prevention • Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars • Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports • Happy Birthday Bugs! 50 Looney Years • Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster • Bugs Bunny's Creature Features • Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Characters Main characters: Barnyard Dawg • Beaky Buzzard • Bugs Bunny • Cecil Turtle • Charlie Dog • Claude Cat • Daffy Duck • Elmer Fudd • Foghorn Leghorn • Gossamer • Granny • Hector the Bulldog • Henery Hawk • Hippety Hopper • Hubie and Bertie • Lola Bunny • Mac and Tosh • Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot • Marvin the Martian • Michigan J. Frog • Miss Prissy • Penelope Pussycat • Pepé Le Pew • Pete Puma • Porky Pig • Ralph Wolf • Road Runner • Sam Sheepdog • Speedy Gonzales • Sylvester • Sylvester Jr. • Taz • The Crusher • Tweety Bird • Wile E. Coyote • Witch Hazel • Yosemite Sam Minor characters: Blacque Jacque Shellacque • Bosko • The Crusher • Giovanni Jones • Yoyo Dodo • Tasmanian She-Devil • Melissa Duck • Hugo the Abominable Snowman • Spike and Chester • Nasty Canasta • The Gremlin • Private Snafu • Petunia Pig • Playboy Penguin • Shropshire Slasher • Count Bloodcount • Mama Buzzard • Colonel Shuffle • Egghead Jr. • Owl Jolson • Toro the Bull • Rocky and Mugsy • Minah Bird • Inki • Beans • Little Kitty • Ham And Ex • Oliver Owl • Piggy • Gabby Goat • Buddy • Honey • Slowpoke Rodriguez • The Three Bears • Foxy • K-9 • A. Flea • Sniffles • Construction Worker • Frisky Puppy • Ralph Mouse • Honey Bunny • Roxy • The Martin Brothers • Ralph Phillips • Clyde Bunny • Fauntleroy Flip • Dr. I.Q. Hi • Gruesome Gorilla • Sloppy Moe • Hatta Mari • Businessman • The Weasel • Wiloughby • The Two Curious Puppies • Cool Cat • Babbit and Catstello • Instant Martians • Bobo the Elephant • Colonel Rimfire • Smokey The Genie • Jose and Manuel • Merlin the Magic Mouse and Second Banana • Conrad the Cat • Angus MacRory • Banty Rooster • Three Little Pigs • Tom Turkey • Goopy Geer • Nelly the Giraffe • Ala Bahma • Dr. Lorre • Cottontail Smith • Bunny and Claude • Claude Hopper • The Hep Cat •The Drunk Stork • The Cat • Singing Cat • Southern Sheriff • Old Woman's Canary • Old Woman's Cat • Bluebeard • Porky's Drunken Friends • Old Woman• Little Red Riding Hood's Grandma • Little Red Riding Hood (Little Red Walking Hood/Little Red Riding Rabbit/Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears) • Goldilocks (The Bear's Tale/Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears) • The Crow • King Arthur • King Arthur's Knights Studios Warner Bros. Cartoons • DePatie-Freleng Enterprises • Format Films • Chuck Jones Enterprises • Reel FX People Dave Barry • Warren Batchelder • Mel Blanc • Ted Bonnicksen • Arthur Q. Bryan • Bill Butler • Bob Clampett • Russ Dyson • Milt Franklyn • Friz Freleng • Manny Gould • George Grandpre • Ken Harris • Hugh Harman • Rochelle Hudson • Rudolf Ising • Ub Iwerks • Chuck Jones • Carman Maxwell • Norman McCabe • Chuck McKimson • Robert McKimson • Tom McKimson • Willian Lava • Lou Lilly • Michael Maltese • Tedd Pierce • Hawley Pratt • Tom Ray • Virgil Ross • Leon Schlesinger • Rob Scribner • Eddie Selzer • Carl Stalling • Larry Storch Music/Songs A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight • Whistle and Blow Your Blues Away • I Think You're Ducky • The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down • Merrily We Roll Along Other

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Media Shorts (1929-1939): Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid • Sinkin' in the Bathtub • Congo Jazz • Hold Anything • The Booze Hangs High • Box Car Blues • Big Man from the North • Ain't Nature Grand! • Speaking of the Weather • Daffy Duck & Egghead • Katnip Kollege • Have You Got Any Castles? • Believe It or Else Shorts (1940-1949): A Wild Hare • Odor-able Kitty • Life with Feathers Shorts (1950-1959): Home, Tweet Home Shorts (1960-1969): False Hare Studios Songs Other Warner Bros. Cartoons • Looney Tunes • Merrie Melodies See also

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Looney Tunes/Spielberg universe Animated series: The Bugs Bunny Show • Tiny Toon Adventures • Taz-Mania • Animaniacs • The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries • Pinky and the Brain • Freakazoid! • Road Rovers • Histeria! • Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain • The Cat&Birdy Warneroonie PinkyBrainy Big Cartoonie Show • Baby Looney Tunes • Duck Dodgers • Loonatics Unleashed • The Looney Tunes Show • New Looney Tunes Films: Bugs Bunny: Superstar • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie • The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie • Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales • Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island • Daffy Duck's Quackbusters • Space Jam • Wakko's Wish • Tweety's High-Flying Adventure • Looney Tunes: Back in Action • Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas • Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run DC Comics Animated series: Batman: The Animated Series • Superman: The Animated Series • Batman Beyond • Static Shock • The Zeta Project • Justice League • Teen Titans • Justice League Unlimited • The Batman • Krypto the Superdog • Legion of Super Heroes • Batman: The Brave and the Bold • Young Justice • Green Lantern: The Animated Series • Teen Titans Go! • Beware the Batman • DC Super Hero Girls Animated films: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm • Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero • The Lego Batman Movie • Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders • Batman vs. Two-Face Hanna-Barbera Animated series: What's New, Scooby-Doo? • Tom and Jerry Tales • Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! • Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated • The Tom and Jerry Show • Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! • Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! Direct-to-video film series: Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island • Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost • Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring • Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars • The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! • The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania! Other TV series Detention • ¡Mucha Lucha! • Xiaolin Showdown • Coconut Fred's Fruit Salad Island • Baby Blues • Right Now Kapow • Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz • Bunnicula • Green Eggs and Ham • Unikitty! • Waynehead • Ozzy & Drix • Mike Tyson Mysteries • 3 South • Mad • Johnny Test • Firehouse Tales • ThunderCats • ThunderCats Roar Other original films Theatrical: Quest for Camelot • The Iron Giant • Osmosis Jones • The Lego Movie • Storks • The Lego Ninjago Movie Direct-to-video: Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.! • ¡Mucha Lucha!: The Return of El Maléfico • Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown Films, distribution only Gay Purr-ee • The Incredible Mr. Limpet • Treasure Island • Oliver Twist • The Nutcracker Prince • Rover Dangerfield • Thumbelina • A Troll in Central Park • The Pebble and the Penguin • Cats Don't Dance • The Fearless Four • The King and I • The Scarecrow