Music accompanying this newly formatted cartoon titling, had also been changed to match the motifs in the opening song. Each cartoon was titled in a different way, with different graphic movements. Now, the same poses of the characters and the words of the cartoon titles were turned into moving graphics that left a blurry trail as they moved around the screen to eventually settle into a stationary position. On all previous seasons of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show and on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, all cartoons were titled with a still image of Bugs, the Road Runner, or other characters on stage, or Sylvester peeking from behind a tree at a fleeing Tweety, et cetera. The famous cartoon show's the only way to go. "And they go beep-beep-beep-beep-oom-bapa-mao-mao-bubba-bubba-bub-a-Bugs! The opening song would then finish with these lyrics: Instead, new graphics were introduced to blend into a series of fast cuts from such cartoons as "Knighty Knight Bugs" and "Freeze Frame", complimented by an appealing theme song which went as follows:Įach character was introduced in the song and said his trademark line. The familiar stage setting was dropped, and Bugs and Daffy did not sing "This is it". Each episode had the opening on a stage, with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck singing "This is it" and with a procession of characters marching across the stage, and such was followed by a Road Runner song with rapid clips from various Road Runner cartoons.įor the final season (1984-5) of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show on CBS, the television series was overhauled and given an entirely new look. Though the lengths of its instalments changed from 60 minutes to 90 to two 60 minutes (in 1982-3) and back to 90 (for 1983-5), all other aspects of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner format remained in the main quite constant until 1984. CBS had been running the cartoons on its Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (until 1978), then on its 90-minute or 2-separate-hour Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (until 1985). In 1985, the network rights to Saturday morning television broadcast of Warner Brothers' cartoons in the United States transferred to ABC from CBS.
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