Clyde Rabbit is a Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 character who appeared in two shorts. He is the nephew of Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...

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Appearances

Clyde Rabbit made his first appearance in His Hare-Raising Tale

His Hare-Raising Tale

His Hare-Raising Tale is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster. This cartoon consists primarily of clips from five previous cartoons: Baseball Bugs ; Stage Door Cartoon ; Rabbit Punch ; Falling Hare ; and Haredevil Hare .All five cartoons...

. Clyde visits his Uncle Bugs and Bugs narrates about playing baseball (Baseball Bugs

Baseball Bugs

Baseball Bugs is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on February 2, 1946 starring Bugs Bunny. It had a similar theme to MGM's 1944 Batty Baseball, which was directed by former WB cartoon director Tex Avery.-Overview:...

), going to the moon (Haredevil Hare

Haredevil Hare

Haredevil Hare is a 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. It stars Bugs Bunny and it is the debut for Marvin the Martian — although he is unnamed in this film — along with his Martian dog, K-9. All the voices are done by Mel Blanc...

), and being in the military

Forward March Hare

Forward March Hare is a 1952-animated Looney Tunes cartoon released in 1953 featuring Bugs Bunny. Bugs is accidentally drafted in the army, and causes havoc with his sergeant at basic training. The title relates to the March Hare. This cartoon was released during the final months of the Korean...

. Clyde does not believe Bugs. His second appearance was in Yankee Doodle Bugs

Yankee Doodle Bugs

Yankee Doodle Bugs is a Looney Tunes cartoon short, released in 1954, which was written by Warren Foster and directed by Friz Freleng. Bugs Bunny's nephew, Clyde, has trouble remembering important dates and events in history in preparation for an exam, so Bugs offers to help.-Story:Clyde is lying...

, where he has difficulty trying to remember information for a test. Bugs narrates about history, but he places himself in all of the events. Of course, when Clyde returns from school after taking the test, he has failed (as evidenced by a dunce cap

Dunce cap

A dunce cap, also variously known as a dunce hat, dunce's cap, or dunce's hat, is a pointed hat. In popular culture, it is typically made of paper and often marked with a D or the word "dunce", and given to schoolchildren to wear as punishment by public humiliation for misbehavior and, as the name...

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Clyde also appeared for the third time in the 1979 Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

-themed short, Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales is an animated Christmas television special featuring Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes characters, in three newly-created cartoon shorts with seasonal themes.The special originally aired on CBS on November 27, 1979....

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In recent years he's been voiced by Joe Alaskey

Joe Alaskey

Joseph "Joe" Alaskey is an American actor, comedian, and voice artist, credited as one of the successors of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons. He was born in Watervliet, New York.-Other work:Alaskey has also done voices...

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