The Wascally Wabbit

July 27: Bugs Bunny was born on this day in 1940, in the Warner Bros. cartoon A Wild Hare. The debut of “the first real cartoon movie star” shows him greeting the befuddled Elmer (“Be wery, wery quiet — I’m hunting wabbits”) with the cheeky, carrot-chomping line that would enter cultural history: “What’s up, doc?”