Taz, the Tasmanian Devil, debuted in the 1954 Looney Tunes short Devil May Hare as a ravenous, spinning foil for Bugs Bunny. Voiced in the classic era by Mel Blanc with growls, rasps and nonsense speech, the character became one of the most recognisable figures in the Warner Bros. cartoon lineup through later shorts, television series and films. Clips of his frantic vocal outbursts now circulate online as a shorthand for uncontrolled energy, hunger and comic destruction, which keeps the sound popular with editors decades after the original cartoons.