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* [[Ash Face]]: A regular gag whenever firearms or explosions are involved. Sometimes the basis for a blackface gag.
* [[Aside Glance]]
* [[As Long as It Sounds Foreign]]: Hitler's speech in "Russian Rhapsody," which includes bizarre references to Friz Freleng, Heinrich (German version of Henry) Binder (Henry Binder was one of the associate producers of WB cartoons when Leon Schlessinger was there), "What's Cooking, Doc?", someone named "Tim O'Shenko",<ref>A pun on the name of the Soviet general Semyon Timoshenko, who was the "People's CommisarCommissar for The Defense of the Soviet Union" at the time of Hitler's invasion in 1941 (he was replaced early on by [[JoesephJoseph Stalin]] himself taking over)</ref> ordering saurkrautsauerkraut from a delicatessen, and the chattanoogaChattanooga chooChoo-chooChoo (a shout out to the classic big band tune from [[The Forties|the 40's1940s]]).
* [[Ass in a Lion Skin]]: ''Very'' common, with rabbits as ducks (and vice-versa), cats as skunks, pigs as eagles, dogs as chickens, coyotes as roadrunners...
* [[Assumed Win]]:
** The whole premise of the 1943 short "What's Cookin', Doc?". Bugs assumes he's going to win an Oscar, but it ends up going to [[James Cagney]] instead. Bugs tries to convince the Academy to give him the Oscar instead.
** Also seen in the 1955 short "This is a Life?". Daffy assumes the program will be a retrospective about himself, when instead it's about Bugs.
* [[Ate the Spoon]]:
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: It's interesting to imagine what Milt Franklyn might've come up with for the remaining 3–4 minutes of "The Jet Cage" had he not died while scoring it.
* [[Backwards-Firing Gun]]: Bugs causes guns to do this in a variety of implausible ways, once (in "Hillbilly Hare") by simply moving the iron sightstock to the other end of the barrel....
* [[Bad Guy Bar]]: The bar from "Lady Play Your Mandolin". Keep in mind, this short was made and is obviously set during Prohibition, and the patrons of the bar proudly proclaim themselves as sinners.
* [[Bad Guys Play Pool]]: Dan Backslide in "[[The Dover Boys]]"
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|"What's Opera Doc?", [[My God, What Have I Done?|though granted Elmer is too remorseful to savour it]], and Bugs isn't really dead.}}
** {{spoiler|"Fresh Airdale", big time.}}
** "Little Red Riding Rabbit" sort of has one too, in which {{spoiler|by the end of the short, even Bugs is getting tired of Red Riding Hood's constant interruptions. He then switches the Big Bad Wolf, who was about to fall onto red hot coals because of all the furniture Bugs threw on him, with Red. Bugs and the Wolf, arms around each other and sharing a carrot, watch proudly as Red soon gets what she deserves.}}
** {{spoiler|"Tortoise Beats Hare", "Tortoise Wins by a Hare", and "Rabbit Transit". Though Bugs could also be considered the bad guy, considering how much of a jerk he was to Cecil Turtle in the first place.}}
* [[Balloonacy]]:
** ''Bushy Hare''
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