History WesternAnimation / TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow

* {{Bowdlerize}}: This happened to the more violent stuff like whaps on the head and guns being shot, especially on ''The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show'', where the cartoons were transferred to videotape and easier to edit. Censorship is much less strict on MeTV, with edits generally reserved for {{Blackface}} and other racial stereotypes.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: This happened to the more violent stuff like whaps on the head and guns being shot, especially on ''The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show'', where the cartoons were transferred to videotape and easier to edit.

This {{anthology}} series, packaging the classic ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon shorts, aired on Creator/{{ABC}} and Creator/{{CBS}} (bouncing back and forth between the two) under various titles for forty years (1960–2000), thereby making it [[LongRunners the longest-running American animated program of any capacity]] to date. If the current rights-holders for these cartoons allowed it (they don't), then [[WhatCouldHaveBeen they likely would still have been on network TV well into the 2000s.]]

* ''The Daffy Duck Show'' (Kids' WB!). A Saturday morning version of the weekday afternoon block ''Bugs 'n Daffy'' that aired in 1997 as a MidSeasonReplacement for ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', it featured two Daffy shorts, one short starring another character, and a "Hip Clip" excerpt from another short. Like its weekday counterpart at the time, it was able to use pre-1948 shorts as those had come back into Warner Bros.' possession following the merger with Turner the year before. Only 13 episodes were aired, as its purpose was to fill the schedule while acting as a promotion for ''Film/SpaceJam'' until the 1997-98 TV season began.

* ''The Daffy Duck Show'' (Kids' WB!). A Saturday morning version of the weekday afternoon block ''Bugs 'n Daffy'' that aired in 1997 as MidSeasonReplacement for ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', it featured two Daffy shorts, one short starring another character, and a "Hip Clip" excerpt from another short. Like its weekday counterpart at the time, it was able to use pre-1948 shorts as those had come back into Warner Bros.' possession following the merger with Turner the year before. Only 13 episodes were aired, as its purpose was to fill the schedule while acting as a promotion for ''Film/SpaceJam'' until the 1997-98 TV season began.

* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The German version , ''Mein Name ist Hase'', used [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaMHZ6xWwQ this theme]].

* ''The Merrie Melodies Show'' (syndication). Ran in 1972, featuring three cartoons each episode (usually starring Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, and Sylvester and mainly from the post-1960 period).

* ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show'' (CBS). The name change reflected the show's increase in length from 60 to 90 minutes. Aired from 1978 to 1983 as a 90-minute block, then aired as two separate hour-long programs in 1983, and reverted to 90 minutes from 1983 to 1985. It notably included newer shorts originally made as segments of the late-70s/early 80s primetime specials mixed in with older shorts. In 1983, the wraparound segments were discontinued.

* ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour'' (CBS). When ''The Bugs Bunny Show'' moved to CBS in 1968, it was combined with the network's already-existing block of ''Looney Tunes'' shorts, ''The Road Runner Show'' (see below), using wraparound material from both shows. First-run episodes run from 1968 to 1969, with reruns airing until 1971, when ''The Road Runner Show'' was split back off and moved to ABC. A new version aired from 1975 (when both shows returned to CBS) to 1978 and included several shorts not broadcast in the previous incarnation.

* ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour'' (CBS). When ''The Bugs Bunny Show'' moved to CBS in 1968, it was combined with the network's already-existing block of ''Looney Tunes'' shorts, ''The Road Runner Show'' (see below). First-run episodes run from 1968 to 1969, with reruns airing until 1971, when ''The Road Runner Show'' was split back off and moved to ABC. A new version aired from 1975 (when both shows returned to CBS) to 1978 and included several shorts not broadcast in the previous incarnation.
* ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show'' (CBS). The name change reflected the show's increase in length from 60 to 90 minutes. Aired from 1978 to 1983 as a 90-minute block, then aired as two separate hour-long programs in 1983, and reverted to 90 minutes from 1983 to 1985. It notably included newer shorts originally made as segments of the late-70s/early 80s primetime specials mixed in with older shorts.

* ThemeTune: "This Is It" was the main theme from 1960 to 1984 and 1988 to 2000, but the Road Runner segment had its own theme music. From 1968-71 and 1977-84, the two were combined.

* ''The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show'' (CBS). The name change reflected the show's increase in length from 60 to 90 minutes. Aired from 1978 to 1981 as a 90-minute block, then back down to a 60-minute block (with a separate 30-minute block on earlier, see bellow) until 1985. It notably included newer shorts originally made as segments of the late-70s/early 80s primetime specials mixed in with older shorts.

* ''The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour'' (ABC). The show jumped back to ABC in 1985, airing as an hour long block. Included shorts of every notable ''Looney Tunes'' character regardless of which previous block they were included, except Speedy Gonzales and Tweety, for reasons unclear. The latter was particularly conspicuous in his absence, leading to a surprisingly large amount of public commentary for the pre-internet age. That's what lead to:
* ''The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show'' (ABC). The name was changed when Tweety shorts were added to the mix in 1986, which also saw the restoration of the original opening theme in a newly animated version. Always considered the most important block because of its Saturday morning major network time slot, it was always given the ''creme de la creme'' of the shorts. The final seasons were uncomfortably wedged into ''Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids One Saturday Morning]]'' after WB's greatest animation rival purchased the network; block idents during the program did not have Disney branding. It was only cancelled when Creator/CartoonNetwork (and its sister channel, Boomerang) gained the sole rights for broadcasting the ''Looney Tunes'' shorts.

''That's Sam in the hat ("It's Sam, you varmint!")''

* ThemeTuneRollCall: "Cartoon Gold" from the final season on CBS (1984-5) lists off several characters, each delivering their respective CatchPhrase (save for WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam, the latter of whom never really had a catchphrase):