Bugs Bunny To Become ‘Edgy’

There’s misguided. There’s very misguided. There’s ‘let’s liberate Iraq’ misguided. And then there’s this. Anyone with cherished childhood memories might want to look away now, for Bugs Bunny has had a makeover, and it ain’t pretty…

You see, Warner Brothers has decided that Bugs Bunny and his animated pals - Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and so forth - just aren’t hip enough for the ipod twiddling youth of today. So they’ve decided to re-imagine them as ’sleek new figures for a modern age’.

New Saturday morning show Loonatics - and Sweet Baby Jesus, hecklerspray is not making this up - will apparently transform the deeply, deeply uncool collective into a group of spaceship-based superheroes from the year 2772.

Head WB honcho David Janollari claimed that, upon hearing the idea: "We all flipped for it. We just said, `Wow, what a great way to take the classic Looney Tunes franchise that has been huge with audiences for decades and bring it into the new millennium.’"

We say: horseshit. We say: the thought of selling a shitload of action figures to easily-influenced children and their weary parents makes a lot of sense. Enjoy using that soul while it’s still yours, David…

Coming soon: Noddy and Big Ears eliminate crack-dealing scum in The ToyTown Vigilante Adventure.

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