Editing Bugs Bunny (section)

===Mel Blanc===
[[Image:Mel Blanc - 1959.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Mel Blanc was the original voice of Bugs and voiced the character for nearly five decades.]]
[[Mel Blanc]] voiced the character for 52 years, from Bugs' debut in the 1938 short ''[[Porky's Hare Hunt]]'' until Blanc's death in 1989. Blanc described the voice he created for Bugs in 1940's ''[[A Wild Hare]]'' as a combination of [[the Bronx|Bronx]] and [[Brooklyn]] accents; however, [[Tex Avery]] claimed that he asked Blanc to give the character not a New York accent ''per se'', but a voice like that of actor [[Frank McHugh]], who frequently appeared in supporting roles in the 1930s and whose voice might be described as [[Irish Americans|New York Irish]].<ref name="Barrier">{{Cite book|title=Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age|last=Barrier|first=Michael|date=November 6, 2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=United States|isbn=978-0-19-516729-0|page=672}}</ref> In Bugs' following cartoon, ''[[Elmer's Pet Rabbit]]'', Blanc created a completely new voice for Bugs, which sounded like a [[James Stewart|Jimmy Stewart]] impression, but the directors decided the previous ''Wild Hare'' voice was better. Though Blanc's best known character was the carrot-chomping rabbit, munching on the carrots interrupted the dialogue. Various substitutes, such as [[celery]], were tried, but none of them sounded like a carrot. So, for the sake of expedience, Blanc munched and then spit the carrot bits into a [[spittoon]], rather than swallowing them, and continued with the dialogue. One often-repeated story, which dates back to the 1940s,<ref>{{cite web|title=Warner Club News (1944)|url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/warner-club-news-1944/|website=cartoonresearch.com|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-date=July 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717113617/http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/warner-club-news-1944/|url-status=live}}</ref> is that Blanc was allergic to carrots and had to spit them out to minimize any allergic reaction, but his autobiography makes no such claim.<ref name="Blanc">{{Cite book|last1=Blanc|first1=Mel|first2=Philip|last2=Bashe|title=That's Not All, Folks!|location=Clayton South, VIC, Australia|publisher=Warner Books|year=1989|isbn=0-446-51244-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/thatsnotallfolks00blan}}</ref> In fact, in a 1984 interview with [[Tim Lawson (writer)|Tim Lawson]], co-author of ''The Magic Behind The Voices: A Who's Who of Voice Actors'', Blanc emphatically denied being allergic to carrots.