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The (co-)Creator of Bugs Bunny, Tex Avery, once said:
We decided he was going to be a smart-aleck rabbit, but casual about it, and his opening line in the very first one was Eh, what's up, Doc? And, gee, it floored [the audience]!
They expected the rabbit to scream, or anything but make a casual remark--here's a guy with a gun in his face! It got ...
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The first time Bugs uses the phrase is in the cartoon Wild Hare
1940. The rabbit walks up to Elmer Fudd who is hunting for him
with a large gun and casually asks, “What’s up Doc?”
Its their original phrase. May be inspired from What's up Phrase
Which appears previously
The phrase appears in Jack London's The Sea Wolf (1904), chapter 25
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