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TIL that Bugs Bunny got his name by accident in 1940 when a model sheet was hand-labelled “Bugs’ Bunny” to indicate it was for animator Ben “Buggsy” Hardaway to work on. The possessive apostrophe was dropped when staff thought that was the rabbit’s actual name – and it stuck.
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Wasn’t the creator really unhappy with the name change? I remember a quote of him saying “He’s not a bunny, he’s a *rabbit”*
That’s great.
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