In the mid-1970s, as The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour returned on the CBS television network and was, after a few seasons, expanded into the 90-minute Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, between-cartoon stage scenes from the 1960-2 Bugs Bunny Show and between-cartoon desert vignettes from the 1966-8 Road Runner Show continued to be used as filler so that all installments were of consistent length, no matter what the varying duration of the cartoon shorts in the installments. CBS decided also to insert momentary cartoon clips between its full, and later edited, cartoon features. Many of the cartoons from which CBS extracted the clips were not themselves ever shown in any Bugs Bunny/Road Runner season. Often, if the next cartoon in an episode featured Sylvester and Tweety, a clip from another cartoon with these two characters would be seen immediately before it. The use of clips increased when cartoons became subject to edits for violence. The resultant shortness of several of the affected cartoons meant that a cartoon clip was needed to fill the time left by the edited scenes, so that each Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show's length remained consistent with that of the others.
This practice of utilizing excerpts from cartoons to fill time continued into the 1980s, long after the stage scenes from The Bugs Bunny Show had ceased to appear. ABC used cartoon clips in its Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show until 1990. The weekday Merrie Melodies, That's Warner Bros.!, and Bugs N' Daffy Show of the 1990s have all employed cartoon clips for precisely the same purpose.
Below are all of the cartoon clips that were seen between cartoon features on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show.
In a scene from "Boobs in the Woods", Daffy sings, "Some people call me Daffy".
In an excerpt from "Fool Coverage", Daffy rigs a rocking chair to tip backwards through a hole and asks Porky to try rocking in the chair.
In a scene from "Thumb Fun", Porky gives to Daffy a wrapped gift but will not let Daffy open it. Porky places the gift in the overstuffed trunk of his car, and Daffy, not bearing the suspense at not knowing what the gift is, tries to peek at the gift in the box, and when he opens the trunk, he is bombarded by luggage.
In a clip from "Tom-Tom Tomcat", one of the Indian cats shoots a plunger-tipped arrow through a hole in the fort and hits Tweety's behind. When the cat tries to pull the canary through the hole, he finds that the arrow has been attached to a black-ball bomb that explodes in his face.
An excerpt from "What's Up, Doc?" starts with Bugs saying, "Hey, look out! Stop!" Bugs and Elmer perform the song, "What's Up, Doc?".
In a scene from "Bunker Hill Bunny", Sam comes out of his fort, hollars, "Charge!", and runs straight into Bugs' cannon, which fires Sam back into his own fort.
In a clip from "Goldimouse and the Three Cats", Sylvester tries to teach to Sylvester Jr. how to build a mouse trap: a mallet contraption that strikes Sylvester on his head when he tries to chase Goldimouse.
In a scene from "Room and Bird", Tweety wonders what Sylvester is "up to" while the putty tat is stacking pieces of furniture. Sylvester climbs the furniture to reach Tweety's cage hung on a ceiling. He leaps on top of the cage, which falls to the floor.
In the first of two separate clips from "Bad Ol' Putty Tat", Sylvester tries to saw down Tweety's bird house and finds a rocket tied to his teeth. Tweety ignites the rocket, which pulls the teeth out of Sylvester's mouth. The other clip is Sylvester's scheme to paint his finger yellow and disguise it as a female canary to lure Tweety to a decoy nest.
In an excerpt from "Greedy For Tweety", Sylvester chases Tweety and is himself chased by a bulldog. This dual chase in a street results in the trio being hit by a car and ambulanced to hospital. The clip ends with Tweety in his hospital cage saying, "Bad ol' putty tat," to Sylvester.
In a clip from "Pappy's Puppy", Sylvester tries to rid himself of Butch J. Bulldog's scrappy little son, but Butch will not allow Sylvester to hurt the puppy.
In a scene from "Bell Hoppy", Sylvester chases Hippety Hopper in a junkyard in an attempt to put a bell around the neck of the "giant mouse".
In a clip from "Cat's Paw", bird-stalking Sylvester climbs a mountain to reach the nest of a dwarf eagle. The high-pitched cry of the eagle causes Sylvester to fall to the mountain ledge where Sylvester Jr. notes that his father is "down again". Sylvester suggests that they chase a big, slow, lethargic bird instead.
In an excerpt from "Too Hop to Handle", Sylvester Jr. pressures Sylvester to fight Hippety Hopper. Sylvester grabs the baby kangaroo by the neck, and the baby kangaroo throws Sylvester out a window. Sylvester is catapulted off of a piece of wood and into a barn, out of which he is the unwilling rider of a running, panic-stricken pig.