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Fri 10 Oct 2010Why this pesky wabbit still pulls the strings
An amusing pop-culture product or a generation’s most reliable source of high art?
TARA BRADYexplains how Bugs
Bunny has inspired a symphony
THERE’S A MOMENT in Seinfeld, in a fourth season episode called The Opera to be precise, when an exasperated Elaine turns to Jerry and laments: “You know, it is so sad. All your knowledge of high culture comes from Bugs Bunny cartoons.” Fans of said jackrabbit will undoubtedly be amused by the misplaced scepticism of this remark. There is, in fact, a very fine education to be gleamed from repeated viewings of the Looney Tunes back catalogue.
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