Favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon

[LynneSin]

I've started going thru the complete list of Bugs Bunny Cartoons

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bugs_Bunny_cartoons

My favorite is Wackiki Rabbit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackiki_Wabbit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS6ksEyO_l8

It's interesting to watch the evolution of Bugs Bunny.

[HopeHoops]

1. My wife's a Pink Panther fan.

Cool thing about that. I got her a bunch of Pink Panther tank tops on eBay for one of her birthdays and she wears them frequently. :evilgrin: (She's not a "bra" sort of person)

[hifiguy]

2. Not an easy decision

"The Rabbit of Seville," "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Bully for Bugs" would definitely be at the top of my list though.

[CaliforniaHiker]

8. The Rabbit of Seville

is probably my favorite as well.

[Bunny]

3. Hillbilly Hare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXf1A1erX4

[LynneSin]

5. Is that the one with the Square Dancing - I love that cartoon

Probably my second favorite one mainly for that catchy square dance tune

Promenade across the floor,
sashay right on out the door;
out the door and into the glade,
and everybody promenade.

Step right up you're doin' fine,
I'll pull your beard you pull mine;
yank it again like you did before,
break it up with a tug of war.

Now into the creek and fish for the trout,
dive right in and splash about;
trout trout pretty little trout,
one more splash and come right out.

Shake like a hound dog shake again,
wallow around in the old pig pen;
wallow some more you all know how,
roll around like an old fat sow.

Allemande left with your left hand,
follow through with a right and left grand;
now lead your partner the dirty old thing,
follow through with an elbow swing.

Grab a fencepost hold it tight,
whomp your partner with all your might;
hit him in the shin hit him in the head,
hit him again the critter ain't dead.

Whop him low and whop him high,
stick your finger in his eye;
purty little rhythm purty little sound,
bang your heads against the ground.

Promenade all around the room,
promenade like a bride and groom;
open up the door and step right in,
close the door and into a spin.

Whirl whirl twist and twirl,
jump all around like a flying squirrel;
now don't you cuss and don't you swear,
just come right out and form a square.

Now right hand over and left hand under,
both join hands and run like thunder;
over the hill and over the dale,
duck your head and lift your tail.

Don't you stray and don't you roam,
turn around and promenade home;
corn in the crib and wheat in the sack,
turn your partner promenade back.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

35. LOL

I can see it like yesterday :yourock:

[Richardo]

4. "Rabbit of Seville", "What's Opera Doc?" and "Long-Haired Hare"

[nolabear]

7. Mine as well. I attended a Seattle Symphony performance of the best Looney Tunes work.

It was fabulous! They played along with the cartoons and we all had a blast. And going to the Opera House in a Viking helmet was fun, too! (I did remove it for the folks behind)

[Richardo]

11. "One and two and three and four she dances all day long"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4SZo9ur_PEY/TB-CYrL9gXI/AAAAAAAAA70/uqBk3hDFziw/s400/Bugs+Bunny.jpg

[hifiguy]

12. That may be the one with the all time best Bugs song

Peekin' through the knothole in Grandpa's wooden leg
Who will wind the clock when I am gone?

Daddy get the axe, there's a fly on baby's head
A boy's best friend is his Mother...

Apparently this is a real song and these are the complete lyrics: http://alt.nntp2http.com/animation/warner-bros/2006/09/0d1b780058640b0c5d3571c7fdc8168b.html

They don't write 'em like that any more. :rofl:

[mikeytherat]

14. Long Haired Hare just for the opera singer's kick-ass mid-century modern house!

I want his house something bad!

mikey_the_rat

[Aristus]

42. "Long-Haired Hare" is seven of the funniest minutes in cartoon history.

Bugs as Leopold Stokowski hand-conducting Giovanni Jones. I die laughing every time...

[mikeytherat]

44. They got the Stokowski looks down perfectly.

mikey_the_rat

[hifiguy]

46. And the whispers of the orchestra's members

"Leopold!" "It's Leopold!!"

[swimboy]

48. Saw Fantasia in re-release years ago at the Byrd

At the exact same moment near the beginning, just about every person present turned to her/his seatmate and whispered:

Leopold!! LEOPOLD!!!

[Richardo]

49. That's hilarious

:rofl:

[deutsey]

15. I love these, too. What was the name of the one where Bugs gives the story

of how he got into show biz? The one where he's in the chorus for all these Broadway shows?

Oh, we're the boys of the chorus
We hope you like the show
We know you're rootin' for us
But now we have to gooooooooooo!

And then there's the big "What's Up, Doc" number with Elmer Fudd:

"Hey, look out, stop! (KABOOM!) You're gonna hurt someone with that ol' shotgun...eh, what's up, doc?"

I like that one a lot, too, but can't remember the title.

:-)

[LynneSin]

16. What's up Doc

that's the toon you're talking about

[deutsey]

18. That makes sense, considering the big finale

Thanks!

[sakabatou]

6. What's Opera, Doc?

[MicaelS]

9. Rabbit Seasoning - "So shoot me now!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Seasoning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e1hZGDaqIw

Bugs: It's true, Doc. I'm a rabbit, alright. Would you like to shoot me now or wait 'til you get home?
Daffy: Shoot him now!!!! Shoot him now!!!!
Bugs: You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now!
Daffy: He does so have to shoot me now! (to Elmer) I demand that you shoot me now!
Daffy: (to Bugs) Let's run through that again.
Bugs: Okay. (deadpan) Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home.
Daffy: (similarly) Shoot him now; shoot him now.
Bugs: (as before) You keep outta this, he doesn't have to shoot you now.
Daffy: (re-animated) Hah! That’s it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble.
(to Bugs) It's not "He doesn't have to shoot you now". It's "He doesn't have to shoot me now."
(Pause)
Daffy: (angrily) Well, I say he does have to shoot me now!! (to Elmer) So shoot me now!!!
Bugs: Yes?
(Daffy looks at the camera and forcibly pulls his arm back and closes his beak.)
Daffy: (shakes his head) Oh no you don't. (shakes head again) Not again. Sorry.
(Daffy walks over to Elmer.)
Daffy: This time we'll try it from the other end. Look, you're a hunter, right?
Elmer: Wight!
Daffy: And this is rabbit season, right?
Elmer: Wight!
Bugs: (interrupting, pointing at Daffy) And if he was a rabbit, what would you do?
Daffy: Yeah, you're so smart! If I was a rabbit what would you do?
Elmer: Well, I'd... (Points gun at Daffy)
Daffy: (Looks at the camera in horror) Not again! (gets shot)
(Daffy puts his beak back and walks over to Bugs with a deadpan expression.)
Daffy: (re-animated) Ha-ha-ha, very funny, ha-ha-ha! (resumes deadpan expression)

[Richardo]

10. "Pronoun trouble"

One of my favorite lines of all time.

[hifiguy]

13. Oh yes, one of the great "Hunting Trilogy"

by Chuck Jones, the others being "Duck, Rabbit, Duck!" and "Rabbit Fire." Jones said those were his personal favorites among his many Bugs cartoons.

[hobbit709]

17. Herr Meets Hare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uek-W0t61c

[LynneSin]

20. That's actually banned but not one of the famous 'Censored Eleven"

This is the list of the Censored Eleven - the only Bugs Bunny cartoon on it is "All This and Rabbit Stew". You can get this on google - essentially it's a typical Elmer Fudd vs. Bugs cartoon except Elmer Fudd is now a very slow, blackfaced character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven


Hare meets Herr was also banned but that happened later on. Today most Bugs Bunny shows won't show it because of how it involves Adolph Hitler (it's suppose to be funny but well, nothing really funny about Adolph Hilter).

There was another later Bugs cartoon that got censured - this one was with Yosemite Sam and it involves Bugs trying to cross over the Mason-Dixon line (where the north ironically looks like an Arizona desert and the south is all lush and green). There they have Bugs in black-faced doing a slave impersonation while Sam brings out a whip to punish him. I think when they finally showed it they chopped about half of that cartoon out with the clean copy.

Edit note: It's Southern Fried Rabbit - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Fried_Rabbit

[hobbit709]

21. I have all those and more

They may not be PC but they are classics of animation history.

[LynneSin]

24. They aren't banned in the sense they can't be found anywhere on the internet

it's just that they won't be shown on TV because of how racist they come across.

I mean it's tough to hold judgement against something that was pretty norm back 70 years ago. I highly doubt that these people were members of the KKK or anything. What they created was the comedy norm for that time period. And to be honest, most of those cartoons it's the violence that is really bad. I couldn't watch a saturday morning bugs bunny hour if you paid me - all the cartoons would be sliced and diced beyond recognition.

I perfect example of how badly they are edited is "What's Opera Doc". The first 3 scenes shows Bugs Bunny playing an instrument and singing - and it's annoying his neighbor, a very large opera singer. Each time Bugs plays an interstrument, the opera singer tracks down Bugs, destroys the instrument and then uses the instrument to hurt bug - like smasmhing a banjo over bugs head or slamming the harp shut like a vice over Bugs' head. But in the edited version that would be shown today - it only shows bugs playing the instrument and the Opera singer being annoyed - not once does the Opera singer does anything violent towards bugs or his intrustments. So based on those poor cuts - you would have no idea why Bugs Bunny is so upset with the Opera singer to the point of wanting revenge on him.

When it comes to Bugs Bunny - you tube is your friend!

[hifiguy]

26. That's not "What's Opera, Doc?"

which was entirely set to Wagner with Bugs as Brunnhilde and Elmer as Siegfried.

I do know well the cartoon you're talking about - Bugs gets the best of the grumpy opera singer, who is identified as one "Carlo Jonzi," by making him hold a note until the entire Hollywood Bowl crashes down around him. And that's also the cartoon with "Peekin' through the knothole in Grandpa's wooden leg..."

For sheer concentrated insanity, "Daffy Doodles" is my all time favorite WB cartoon. Daffy the moustache-painter and Porky the cop put on, IMO, the funniest eight minutes of animation in history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy_Doodles

[LynneSin]

29. You are right - that's "Long Haired Hare"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Haired_Hare

And here's about the censorship in the cartoon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Haired_Hare#Censorship

[Richardo]

27. That's "Long-Haired Hair"

Here's one of the scenes you mentioned:







"What's Opera Doc?" is the Wagner.

[LynneSin]

30. It's like watching "Birth of a Nation"

I mean in a nutshell it's a fricking racist film.

But technically it's a masterpiece of cinema because it is one of the first great epic films ever created.

[hifiguy]

22. Those are actually pretty tame compared to

Bob Clampett's "Snow White" parody, which I don't think is available anywhere any longer. I had it on a collection of banned WB cartoons back in the days of VHS. And yes, it was very funny but somewhat appalling at the same time. It also is regarded as one of the great cartoons of all time and Clampett's masterpiece.

[MicaelS]

25. You mean "Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs"????

Easily found on You Tube, and in HD no less. 240MB in 1080P. Best print I've ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXFSsKFrCgY

[hifiguy]

28. Yep, that's the one.

Apparently Clampett brainstormed the cartoon after receiving a suggestion, believe it or not, from Duke Ellington!

[hobbit709]

31. Bob Clampett's own words on that one from wiki

Bob Clampett himself explained the evolution of "Coal Black" during his public appearances in the 70s and 80s, and during taped interviews:
“ In 1942, during the height of anti-Japanese sentiment during World War II, I was approached in Hollywood by the cast of an all-black musical off-broadway production called Jump For Joy while they were doing some special performances in Los Angeles. They asked me why there weren't any Warner's cartoons with black characters and I didn't have any good answer for that question. So we sat down together and came up with a parody of Disney's "Snow White" and "Coal Black" was the result. They did all the voices for that cartoon, even though Mel Blanc's contract with Warners gave him sole voice credit for all Warners cartoons by then. There was nothing racist or disrespectful toward blacks intended in that film at all, nor in Tin Pan Alley Cats which is just a parody of jazz piano great Fats Waller, who was always hamming into the camera during his musical films. Everybody, including blacks had a good time when these cartoons first came out. All the controversy about these two cartoons has developed in later years merely because of changing attitudes toward black civil rights that have happened since then. Hopefully, someday all this overreaction to these innocently-intended cartoons, which we finished in 1943, will settle down and people will be able to see them in their proper historical context.

“ . . . some even look at Clampett's Jazz cartoons and cry racism when Clampett was incredibly ahead of his time and was a friend to many of the greats of the LA jazz scene. All of the faces you see in Tin Pan Alley Cats and Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs are caricatures of real musicians he hung out with at the Central Avenue jazz and blues clubs of the '40s. He insisted that some of these musicians be in on the recording of the soundtracks for these two cartoons.<3>

[jmowreader]

43. You can tell that's a World War II period piece early on

The camera panning across the Wicked Witch's possessions stops on a cache of sugar and tires.

[geardaddy]

19. Shishkabugs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishkabugs

"Cook! Cook! Where's my hassenpfeffer!"

[Taverner]

23. Oh, I can't choose

Although "Duck Season!/Wabbit Season!" is one of my faves

So is the Wagner one aka "My spear and magic HELMET!"

[swimboy]

47. Oh, Bwoon-hil-dah! Yuah so wuv-wy!

I know it! I can't help it!

[mikeytherat]

50. Arise storm! North winds blow! South winds blow! Typhoons! Hurricanes! Earthquakes!

Smog!

mikey_the_rat

[Gidney N Cloyd]

32. "Slick Hare." I like the ones where they work in a movie star or two.

The 'hollywood canteen' cartoons, with or without Bugs are all lots of fun.

[hifiguy]

33. Bugs as Groucho in "Slick Hare"

is perfect.

[pintobean]

34. The only Bugs Bunny cartoon to win an Academy Award

Knighty Knight Bugs

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcb3zl_bugs-bunny-knighty-knight-bugs_fun

[Danmel]

36. Bugs the Beautician

Monsters are such interesting people.......

[u4ic]

38. Mine, too

:thumbsup:

[hobbit709]

37. Bully For Bugs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy_s-GfDxA

In his biography Chuck Amuck Chuck Jones claims that he made this cartoon after producer Eddie Selzer burst into Jones' workspace one day and announced, for no readily apparent reason, that bullfights were not funny, and they were not to make a cartoon about them. Since Selzer had, in Jones' opinion, consistently proven himself to be wrong about absolutely everything (having once barred Jones from doing any cartoons featuring Pepe Le Pew, on the grounds that he perceived them as not being funny, which led to Jones and Maltese to do "For Scent-imental Reasons," which won an Oscar, which Selzer accepted), the only possible option was to make the cartoon.

[Angleae]

39. Hare Way to the Stars

"Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering Kaboom."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXYgtqsTCU

[Bombero1956]

40. Rabbit's Kin and Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

Pete Puma is a take off of Mortimer Snerd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hkmBroSL7c



Beaky Buzzard's voice was provided by Kent Rogers who died in a training flight during WW II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ygJ8Z0jfI

[RSillsbee]

41. Don't remember the name

It was Bugs , Elmer and Yosemite Sam in in the very end bugs is running around in a Superman suit while the other two are chasing him. He stops outside a phone booth and says something about "This is a job for a REAL superhero" then he jumps in the booth and comes out dressed in Marine Dress Blues and Elmer and Sam snap to

ETA Super Rabbit
Bugs runs out of power, but when he tries to "recharge" again his carrots fall to the ground. When Bugs lands, he opens his eyes to see a line of eaten carrots. Smith and his horse are now both superheroes. Bugs turns to the camera and says "This looks like a job for a REAL Superman!" He ducks into a phone booth, and both Smith and the horse are ready to attack - until the booth opens and they both snap to attention and salute. Bugs marches out in a Marine uniform, singing The Marines Hymn. "Sorry, fellas, I can't play with you anymore. I got some important woik to do!" Still singing, he marches off past a sign pointing to 'Berlin, Tokyo and points East.'

[annonymous]

45. My favorites are "Hillbilly Hare" and "Rabbit of Seville"

Those two always make me laugh.