![]() She values her love for Bugs greatly, and will go at any length to see he feels the same for her. Lola talks a mile-a-minute, can be absent-minded on occasion, and has a way of getting what she wants. In The Looney Tunes Show, Lola Bunny is Bugs Bunny's beautiful, bubbly girlfriend. Compared to her "trophy girl" personality in Space Jam, her personality differs greatly in this show. Lola also has a main role in The Looney Tunes Show, voiced by Kristen Wiig. Acting on these feelings, she kisses him and near the film's end, becomes his girlfriend. She is the second best player on the Tune Squad team, the first being Jordan himself.Īlthough she initially turns down Bugs' advances, her feelings shifts to affection after he saves her from a belly-flopping Pound, getting himself painfully squashed in the process (showing that he is willing to put himself in harm's way for her). Lola's basketball skills get her a spot on the Tune Squad, in which the Looney Tunes characters battle the villainous Monstars for their freedom, with help from Michael Jordan. Lola is voiced by Kath Soucie in the film. She is shown with tan fur, blonde bangs, and wears a white tank-top, blue shorts and a matching blue rubber band on both ears like a ponytail. Lola first appeared in the 1996 film Space Jam. “If Bugs Bunny appearing along with female counterpart would remain the same crazy and intriguing character, then there would be no problem.”įor more on Lola Bunny's creation and design, see Production Art. Freleng was speaking about a girl that would change Bugs Bunny's personality or "domesticate" him. ![]() In the meantime, however, Freleng created a few sericels in which we see Bugs Bunny showing his emotions to Honey Bunny. In one of interviews he gave in middle 1980's, when asked about why Bugs Bunny doesn't have a girlfriend, he stated that Bugs "wouldn't be the same troublemaker". ![]() His opinion was shared by Maurice Noble, an artist who created visual backgrounds for many animated shorts directed by Jones.Īlthough another of famous animators working on animated shorts with Bugs Bunny and his friends, Isadore "Friz" Freleng, didn't get to see the "Space Jam" (Freleng died in 1995), though he did give his opinion about pairing Bugs Bunny with women. He didn't like Lola or the idea and comedy of "Space Jam" at all. In one of later interviews he stated that, in his opinion, Lola Bunny is a character with no future, she's a totally worthless character with no personality. However, all his suggestions were rejected. McDonalds’s had refused to sell Lola Rabbit toys and happy meal items if that was to be her final appearance to be used in the film on the grounds that it would be wrong to have Bugs Bunny paired up with what resembled a teenage girl.Ĭhuck Jones, a famous animator and director of many well-known animated Looney Tunes shorts, helped (or rather tried to help) artists working on "Space Jam". on selling Happy Meals with characters from Space Jam. This caused a negative reaction from McDonald's, who had signed a contract with Warner Bros. because of her visual appearance resembling that of a teenager. Lola Rabbit, as she was named at that time made problems for Warner Bros. They rejected Honey Bunny in version from 1990's whose appearance was almost exactly like Bugs’ and started working on a new character.Īfter "four months of hard work" the character was ready. started working on a visual appearance of Bugs Bunny's female counterpart whom they wanted to put in the film. Controversies arose when artists in Warner Bros.
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