I am really afraid that I am crazy because I cannot find ANYONE else who remembers this, so maybe I made it up in my head… but what a bizarre thing to make up in one’s head!
What I dimly recall from my childhood, mid-late 70’s Saturday morning cartoon-watching days, on the Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner show…
I seem to think there was an episode where Bugs Bunny kept transforming into some sort of evil/witch/zombie/crazy version of himself whenever he was walking and Aerosmith’s Walk This Way was played, or maybe it was something by the Rolling Stones? and then he would turn back into himself when the song wasn’t playing anymore. Or something like that.
However, my memory is really vague about it, I can’t find any mention of it anywhere, so now I am really wondering if I have lost too much sleep over my lifetime. LOL Does this ring a bell with ANYONE?
Bugs Bunny and Aerosmith???
Sounds extremely unlikely. Unless you saw the results of someone mixing an old Bugs Buny cartoon* with more modern music, I think you’re misremembering. The Warners Bothers cartoons sadly stopped production before things like Aerosmith could be incorporated. And even when people like Chuck Jones started turning out new things, they seemed to avoid direct “current” pop culture. And when they didn’t it was awful – Daffy Duck’s “Quackbusters” (Ghostbusters) or Daffy and Speedy’s “Fantasy Island”. It wasn’t until after “Space Jam” that they started getting good at it.
Yeah, I think all the cartoons on the Bugs Bunny and Roadrunner Show were from the 40s and 50s, maybe the 60s. Don’t see how Aerosmith could have been incorporated.
The 1952 Daffy Duck cartoon “The Super Snooper” had a “walk this way” gag, i.e. the butler says “walk this way” when leading Daffy to his boss, and Daffy imitates the butler’s distinctive gait (“T’ain’t easy!”), and he had his turn in a different cartoon a “schizophreniac” (in the “multiple-personality” version that is commonly mistaken for schizophrenia) when trying to scam Porky.
I suspect the OP has conflated God knows what from God knows where.
Here’s a site about a Bugs Bunny Howl-O-Ween special made in 1978 that is a compilation of old cartoons one of which has Bugs turning into a big green monster ala Jekyll and Hyde. It’s down the page a little ways.
I fear that Bryan is right and I did indeed mix a bunch of memories in my head… and also I think this one may have been particularly mixed with the Jekyll/Hyde one…
Of course, Steve Miller’s Abracadabra is not quite the same as this, nor is it the same as “Aerosmith” but maybe I mixed all of that up together in my head. LOL Who knows. Thanks for helping!
It sounds like something Cartoon Network might have mixed together as a promo. They commissioned a few pieces mixing cartoons and music, like Todd Eaton’s Pork Jam.