Journalist Ryan Broderick has an excellent rundown of the MAGA response to the new design in his newsletter Garbage Day, noting that conservative radio host Jesse Kelly essentially called the less-curvaceous Lola a “Karen,” and that former Daily Caller editor Scott Greer evoked a Holocaust-era poem in his virile disapproval of her new look. As far as they’re concerned, the Lola Bunny overhaul is the latest effort by progressives to destroy down-home American values. Naturally, conservative media didn’t take this pivot lying down.
Ideally, when fathers arrive for Space Jam 2, they will not have to explain to their children why all the other characters on the court are so horny for Lola.
Lee in that Entertainment Weekly interview. “We reworked a lot of things, not only her look, like making sure she had an appropriate length on her shorts and was feminine without being objectified, but gave her a real voice,” said director Malcolm D. In other words, Lola Bunny-one of the most infamously sexualized female anthropomorphized figures in recent animation history-has been rendered as a normal cartoon character, rather than the strange manifestation of subliminal interspecies horniness that she previously embodied. Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time. Her buxomness has been sanded down, and (we assume) she no longer walks around the court with a hip-swinging sashay that she used flirtatiously in the original film. Twenty-five years later, in her return to the big screen, Lola dons a normal basketball jersey, the same one that all the other members of the Tune Squad wear, as well as a trusty pair of thigh guards. She sauntered onto the basketball court shrouded in a burlesque silhouette, evoking a confused, hot shiver in 8 year olds around the country. When we first met her, Lola was dressed in a pair of tight, thigh-hugging athletic shorts and a spunky crop top that accentuated her insane curves.
The updated design was unveiled by an Entertainment Weekly cover story on Friday, and the discourse has been in total free fall ever since. The Looney Tunes character, who made her series debut in 1996’s Space Jam as both a competent point guard and the romantic foil for Bugs Bunny, has been thoroughly desexualized in the forthcoming sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy. Hell hath frozen over: Lola Bunny no longer bares her midriff.
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