That Rascally Rabbit

It was on this day in 1940 that Bugs Bunny made his debut in a short animated film called "A Wild Hare". Bugs Bunny's first line in the cartoon, when he meets Elmer Fudd, is, "What's up, doc?" It was a phrase that one of the writers remembered people saying where he grew up in Texas.
(Writer's Almanac)

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I love Bugs Bunny, I always thought it was because the writing was a bit subversive, so you felt like you were getting away with something as a child. Perhaps it was just because it had a Texas edge.....