Back when Brach's was the #3 candy maker behind Hershey's & Nestle, they landed a licensing deal for the Looney Tunes characters to promote some special Easter candy. With the holiday right around the corner......
This was a couple of years since Mel Blanc had passed. IIRC, Joe Alaskey was already starting to take some of the characters, beginning with "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". The Watervliet native was already known to audiences from "Out of This World" & "Couch Potatoes".
Indeed. Oddly enough, I don't think they started using Joe as Bugs until after 1996. And even then the role went back and forth between Joe and Billy West before Joe essentially became the full-time Bugs for a while after "Bah Humduck".
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For those wondering, Greg Burson voiced Bugs and Joe Alaskey voiced Daffy. I think the announcer is Greg too, but I'm not one hundred percent sure.
This was a couple of years since Mel Blanc had passed. IIRC, Joe Alaskey was already starting to take some of the characters, beginning with "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". The Watervliet native was already known to audiences from "Out of This World" & "Couch Potatoes".
Indeed. Oddly enough, I don't think they started using Joe as Bugs until after 1996. And even then the role went back and forth between Joe and Billy West before Joe essentially became the full-time Bugs for a while after "Bah Humduck".
Joe's 1st credited role as Bugs was in 2000's "Tweety's High Flying Adventure", and it was off and on after that.
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