#Bugs bunny series#
Ehh, it happens.Bugs Bunny is this funny rabbit appearing in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, and is one of the most recognizable characters, real or imaginary, in the world. I knew I should’ve taken that left turn at Albuquerque.”īugs is actually in Scotland, where he is soon wrestling what he believes to be “a monster attacking an old lady” - but actually is a man in a kilt playing a bagpipe. Hmm…this don’t look like Los Angeles to me. In “My Bunny Lies Over the Sea” (1948), Bugs Bunny pops up from a burrow with map in hand and says, “Let’s see now: through Azusa, turn left at Cucamonga, ‘til you hit Los Angeles, then straight out Wilshire Boulevard ‘til you hit the La Brea Tar Pits. Sure enough, I discovered an eighth example. Impressed, I decided to Google “Bugs Bunny” and “Cucamonga” to see what might turn up, the internet being a far vaster place in 2021 than it was in 2012. So that made seven Cucamonga references in Looney Tunes. These were, of course, some of my childhood favorites!” He reports: “On Saturday mornings station KAZA has begun playing the old ‘Bugs Bunny and Friends’ cartoons. That’s courtesy of reader John Atwater, who sent a screenshot. In “Mutiny on the Bunny” (1950), Bugs sails away on a luxury lifeboat, on which travel stickers are pasted for such exotic places as Pongo Pongo, Bali Bali, Java - and Cuca Monga. I always assumed there were further Cucamonga cameos that hadn’t come to light, especially in cartoons not on home video and thus not readily accessible.Īnd nine years after that 2012 column, by golly if another example didn’t surface. In “Carrotblanca” (1995), a “Casablanca” takeoff with Bugs in the Bogart role, the closing scene at the airfield starts with an announcement: “Attention, Flight 428 to Toronto, New York City and Cuuuucamonga, all aboard!” In one of the modern attempts to revive the Looney Tunes shorts, there was a sixth. Foghorn Leghorn, Cucamonga, Calif.” Foghorn Leghorn! So there’s, I say, there’s one character who actually lived here - resided, you know.Īgain, those are the five Cucamonga references I’d found in the classic period. In “Raw! Raw! Rooster” (1956), a telegram is addressed to “Mr. In “Curtain Razor” (1949), Porky Pig is working for a talent agency, Goode and Korny, when a talking cricket auditions, bragging: “I wowed ’em in Waukegan. In “Mississippi Hare” (1949), Bugs is baled along with some cotton and wakes up on a departing steamboat, where a drawling voice calls out: “All aboard! The steamer Southern Star, now sailing for Memphis, Vicksburg, Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Cuuuucamonga!” In “Daffy Duck Slept Here” (1948), Daffy, as a train conductor, announces, “Train leaving on Track 5 for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuuuuucamonga.”
#Bugs bunny plus#
We came up with a mere five examples from the classic period (1930-1969), plus a sixth from the modern era. (This was long before the unincorporated community became Rancho Cucamonga, by the way.)Īs a fan, I compiled what felt like an exhaustive list of Cucamonga references in Looney Tunes cartoons, in consultation with two experts, for a column in 2012. Classic Warner Brothers cartoons - Bugs Bunny and the like - mentioned Cucamonga now and then, if perhaps not as often as casual fans like to think.
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