Bugs Bunny Kool-Aid Commercial

Time for a 1960s commercial for Pre-Sweetened Kool-Aid with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

This TV advertisement was directed by Tex Avery and animated by Rod Scribner and Ben Washam.

No Carrots Inside This Box

Here's an early-1960s box of Post Top 3, which had corn flakes, wheat flakes, and rice.

But no carrots.

Yes, kids, that's Bugs Bunny on the box.

Be Sure To Watch The Bugs Bunny Show On ABC!

1960 ABC Network promo for The Bugs Bunny Show.

Thirsty?

From the mid-1960s, here's a commercial for Pre-Sweetened Kool Aid, starring Bugs Bunny (voiced by Mel Blanc) and Elmer Fudd (voiced by Hal Smith) plus additional voice characterization by Paul Frees, directed by Tex Avery and animated by Rod Scribner.

Let's Head To The Outback With Bugs, Mate!

From 1949, as part of Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes series, we present Bugs Bunny starring in "Bushy Hare."  In this one, that wascally wabbit matches wits in the Australian Outback with an Australian Aborigine who looks like Chuck Barris with a beard. 

Story:  Warren Foster

Animation:  Phil De Lara
                         J. C. (Bill) Melendez
                         Charles McKimson
                         Rod Scribner
                         John Carey

Layouts:       Cornett Wood

Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas

Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc

Music Direction:  Carl Stalling

This cartoon was directed by Robert McKimson

Enjoy!

Thirsty?

Here's Bugs Bunny starring in a 1966 commercial for Kool-Aid.

Is Bugs After Peter's Job?

A late 1960s Kool-Aid commercial with Bugs Bunny (voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc) and three of the Monkees (Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, and Mike Naismith).

It's All In The Wrist, Doc

From 1960-61, here's a commercial for Post Toasties Cereal, starring Warner Brothers cartoon legends Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck (both voice, or course, by the incomperable Mel Blanc).  This probably aired during an ABC Network prime-time telecast of The Bugs Bunny Show.

Drink Tang, Gang!

From the early 1960s, back when The Bugs Bunny Show aired in prime time on ABC, here are Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam hawking Tang orange breakfast drink mix from General Foods, which sponsored Bugs' ABC Network show back then.

A Warner Brothers Television Production

Here's another ABC promo from 1960 for The Bugs Bunny Show.

Don't Forget To Watch Bugs, Folks!

Here's a promo from around 1960 for The Bugs Bunny Show on ABC.





Bugs and his pals were on ABC's prime time schedule for two years before moving to that network's Saturday daytime lineup in 1962.