what's up, doc? | bugs bunny

Bugs Bunny has spent decades making chaos look effortless. On camera, he always lands on his feet and gets the last word. Off camera, his charm is simply another well-rehearsed routine; one polished enough to keep anyone from noticing how much of him is still performing.

Then an auditioning fox comes crashing into his set on a defective ACME rocket.

Vera Voss has spent years being cast as everything except funny. When she turns the accident into the best performance Looney Tunes Studios has seen all day, she earns a trial contract with the Road Runner unit-and catches the attention of an audience already eager to see her beside its most famous rabbit.

Bugs tells himself his interest is professional.

He is a creative consultant.

She is promising new talent.

The fact that he keeps visiting her set, interfering with her rehearsals, and resenting how easily she fits beside Wile E. and Rhodes is entirely beside the point.

But as Vera fights to become more than any studio's poorly written femme fatale, Bugs finds himself working with someone he cannot charm, manage, or predict. Sharing the spotlight may prove harder than surviving any anvil-especially once he begins to suspect that the part of him Vera is getting to know off camera may not exist without an audience.

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