First, Johanna Draper Carlson unveils the new look for Josie and the Pussycats. And it was bad.
Now, CBS News picks up on a Wall Street Journal story unveiling Warner Brothers’ new look for Bugs Bunny. And it is so… much… worse. Seriously, it’s like “The Dark Bunny Returns” or… I don’t even know what it’s like. (If you have the intestinal fortitude, you can find the clip from last night’s Evening News linked on the page referenced above.)
Sander Schwartz, the Warner Brothers exec interviewed for the story, says they want to make Bugs “contemporary, hip and cool for today’s kids.” (Open mouth, insert scotch.) In another interview, a child on a playground looked at a rendering and said, “That’s the evil Bugs Bunny.” I think Bugs is now being voiced over by edited audio clips taken from Wolverine tracks from one of the cartoon versions.
File under “signs of the apocalypse.”