American television networks and has been since. This was one of the 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons that were pulled out of Cartoon Network's June Bugs 2001 marathon by order of AOL Time Warner due to stereotypes of Japanese people. However, in a promo for this event, the scene where Bugs does a double-take on noticing the female rabbit was used. This cartoon was shown, albeit in clips, on a special episode of the Cartoon Network show ToonHeads about cartoons from the World War II era, while a voiceover explained how Japanese stereotypes in World War II cartoons tended to be very cruel (as shown in Norm MacCabe's Tokio Jokio, this cartoon and clips of World War II-era Popeye cartoons). See also Anti-Japanese propaganda Tokio Jokio List of World War II short films List of American films of 1944 Lola Bunny, a later female character Further reading References External links 1944 films 1944 short films 1944 animated films 1940s animated short films Merrie Melodies short films American World War II propaganda shorts Film controversies Race-related controversies in animation Stereotypes of East Asian people Ethnic humour Short films directed by Friz Freleng Films set in Oceania Films set on islands Pacific War films Anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States Cultural depictions of Hideki Tojo Films scored by Carl Stalling Films produced by Leon Schlesinger Bugs Bunny films Japan in non-Japanese culture 1940s Warner Bros. animated short films Cross-dressing in American films World War II films made in wartime