Merrie Melodies - Bugs Bunny - Hot Cross Bunny (1948)

Hot Cross Bunny is a 1948 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical animated short. The short was released on August 21, 1948, and features Bugs Bunny. The title is a play on the nursery rhyme Hot Cross Buns as well as a punny allusion to the basic plot premise.
Caricatures:
Lionel Barrymore as Dr. Gillespie
Danny Kaye
Notes:
Bugs' dance from this short would later be reused in the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Prom-ise Her Anything".

Also when the doctor was going to get Bugs for an experiment notice the doctor's uniform turns blue, then turns blue again.
The scientist would later appear, minus the German accent, in the Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode, "The Tail End?"

Before the cartoon starts, the Warner Bros. Entertainment logo is shown in both the Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny video tape and modern airings on CN and Boomerang.
The working title was "The Rabid Rabbit"
This was the first Bugs Bunny cartoon in the WB-owned TV packages (released August 1, 1948 or later) to be released.

The cartoon was reissued in the 1959-60 season, around the same time that the short "Unnatural History" was released, with the original closing replaced. It is the oldest released post-1948 cartoon to be reissued. Most cartoons from 1948 were reissued in the 1957-59 season.

The original "Bugs Bunny In" title to the cartoon was replaced when it was reissued in the 1959-64 season, due to the Merrie Melodies title being shorter than its normal length. The same thing also happened to the Blue Ribbon reissue titles of "Knights Must Fall", "Rabbit Hood", and "Homeless Hare".

This cartoon was supposed to be in the pre-1948 cartoon package due to production numbers, being before "Haredevil Hare", but since the cartoon was released after July of 1948, the cartoon somehow remained in the hands of Warner Bros.
The cartoon has been restored on HBO Max with its original opening and closing rings, along with the "Bugs Bunny In" title.