The Tweet's already been deleted, but the general consensus seems to be the animator was unaware of the Big Chungus meme, but not necessarily the writer. I will say Big Chungus is "off model", though.
If the guy was familiar with the original short, Wabbit Twouble, he was probably wondering why Bugs was the one who was fat. The irony of that moment in Bugs' career getting the meme treatment is that he is mocking Elmer Fudd, who was actually redesigned as a big fat guy for a couple shorts before thankfully reverting to his, well, not thin, but certainly not that big, self.
The Tweet's already been deleted, but the general consensus seems to be the animator was unaware of the Big Chungus meme, but not necessarily the writer. I will say Big Chungus is "off model", though.
If the guy was familiar with the original short, Wabbit Twouble, he was probably wondering why Bugs was the one who was fat. The irony of that moment in Bugs' career getting the meme treatment is that he is mocking Elmer Fudd, who was actually redesigned as a big fat guy for a couple shorts before thankfully reverting to his, well, not thin, but certainly not that big, self.