There are days when I get nostalgic for the corrosive edge of the Bugs Bunny cartoons (that said, when I actually re-watched them not long ago I was alarmed to find the characters shooting one another in the face).

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The Earl of Hines (as Bugs Bunny referred to him in a 1955 cartoon) is a much more proactive pianist-leader than his fellow royals Duke Ellington and Count Basie.

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The animated pre-credit sequence, featuring Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, was written and directed by Chuck Jones, who made some of the greatest Warners cartoons.

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Artists like the late Mel Blanc, the "Man of a Thousand Voices" -- who brought Bugs Bunny, Tweety Bird and Daffy Duck to life -- made successful careers out of their ability to voice multiple characters, often in the same film.

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In any case, it was just as easy to enjoy it as a grown-up, in the same way that when you now look at Looney Tunes starring a knowing Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck, you realize that their creators wrote them as much for their own amusement, chock full of double entendres, as for children's.

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