Now with his ears back, Bugs walks away again, only to have his tail erased. 2. When Bugs realizes who is in charge of the picture, he makes his desire to not fall victim to an animator who plans on making him look bad known all the while preparing to dive back into his hole, giving the animator ample time to erase it, causing Bugs to jump headfirst into the ground. The tree instantly falls over. Sandwiched between Bugs' comeuppances of "Rabbit Rampage" and "Hyde and Hare", "This is a Life?" There are significant diminishing returns once the Golden and Super Stars Collections are owned. A Witch's Tangled Hare (LT, Levitow) - Starring Hazel. The Golden Collection contains 369 of the available 548 episodes (67%) as well as numerous commentaries and bonus features. Mechanic: >134. everything else: >203. Rabbit Romeo (MM, McKimson) - Starring Elmer. The short revolves around another Bugs, Daffy, and Elmer team-up in which Daffy is trying to save his skin again only to be foiled by Elmer's typical incompetence . [a horse's tail is painted in place of Bugs Bunny's tail]. Jekyll and Hyde, being opposite sides of a bipolar personality, constitute an ambivalent antagonist for Bugs, and if anyone is the antagonist in "Hare Brush", it is Bugs/"Elmer", the creation of which is Bugs' own fault. Bugs was shown as vulnerable- and maybe not only so in looks. The new Bugs Bunny script is in production, but Bugs finds that the animator on the picture is a difficult sort; he threatens to walk off the picture. as an experimental and cognitive period analogous to childhood and adolescence. So, if you don't want to get yourself in a peck of trouble, just", allowing the animator to pretend to comply with what Bugs is telling him by erasing Bugs' horse body and drawing him as a more abstract, simplified rabbit with big cheeks and feet. The Abominable Snow Rabbit (LT, Jones; co-dir. Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (Freleng) - Starring Sam and Porky. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. With that said, Bugs is about to get back into his rabbit hole, but the animator erases it, causing Bugs to jump headfirst into the ground. It is done once again with Daffy tormenting Bugs in the New Looney Tunes episode "One Carroter in Search of an Artist", with the technology updated and the pencil and paintbrush replaced by a digital pen. One cannot resist noting that the "tables" do "turn" for Bugs while the rabbit becomes the victim of what he perpetrated against Daffy. One of six Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts to use a stock music soundtrack (due to a then-ongoing musician's strike), and the only classic Bugs Bunny short to have Elmer Fudd voiced by someone other than Arthur Q. Bryan, with Dave Barry instead voicing him. (MM, Freleng) - Starring Sam, Elmer, and Daffy. Quotes.net. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Piker's Peak (LT, Freleng) - Starring Sam. Chuck Jones later made him more sympathetic by giving Bugs that iconic attitude of live-and-let-live, right up until he's just that]] one step too far, and then it's war "at which point [he] retaliates in every way he can imagine, and he is a very imaginative rabbit.". web pages Fortunately, Wikipedia editors have built episode lists! The horse immediately stands on its hind legs and starts munching on a carrot]. childfree by choice. When Bugs sees the sign, he throws it on the ground, off screen. English Wikipedia. Only time Sam appears in a Chuck Jones short, this was Jones' tribute to Friz Freleng, who had then recently died. As he researched and burrowed into internet rabbit holes, he discovered that the bear's death was just a small strand in a nefarious web. Bugs asks if the animator is trying to get him fired, before explaining that he has become a valuable asset to the studio, which gives the animator time to draw another picket sign saying "I REFUSE TO LIVE UP TO MY CONTRACT", which once again has Bugs fearing for his long-term future with the studio. Bucking a trend and maybe ironic. Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare (MM, McKimson) - Starring Taz. A sleepy Bugs climbs out and falls to the ground. Baby Face Finster. In "Falling Hare", the bomber that Bugs and the gremlin are in goes into a steep dive, during which the wings tear off, but it stops in midair right before hitting the ground: This is revisited in "Hare Lift": when the huge plane goes into a dive (after Bugs pulls out the control column and throws it out the window) and Yosemite Sam bails out with the only parachute available (not forgetting to shout at the rabbit, ", In "A Star is Bored", Bugs puts a jet into a steep dive as part of a movie stunt, but halts it mere feet above the ground. More directly, shy, timid prey unexpectedly turning on the pursuer was a common theme at the Warner Bros. animation studios in the early days Daffy Duck made his debut in the same way. Bugs was never not in control in the animated cartoon spectacle, and Elmer has again failed to rid himself and the world of the "screwy wabbit". in: 1955, Looney Tunes Shorts, Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng, and 13 more Roman Legion-Hare View source Roman Legion-Hare Airdate: 12 November 1955 Series: Looney Tunes Copyright Renewed: 1 March 1983 Starring: Bugs Bunny Yosemite Sam Crew Roman Legion-Hare is a 1955 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng . That proves to be the last straw as Bugs states that he will not leave his spot until the animator "gets the big boss", the animator paints Bugs on a railroad track with a train coming through a tunnel behind it. Naturally, he has spawned several imitators over the years, notably direct descendant Buster Bunny of Tiny Toon Adventures and Yakko, Wakko and Dot of Animaniacs although these last three skew more heavily toward The Prankster. The complete short was released on the Volume 6 set of the series as a "bonus" cartoon. Bugs, while standing on two hind legs and eating a carrot, points out to the artist that this misinterpretation will not make his employers happy, "Look. Elmer lures Bugs into taking his place for a carrot, where he is examined by a psychiatrist who convinces Bugs that he is Elmer J. Fudd, millioniare who owns a mansion and a yacht. Broom-Stick Bunny (LT, Jones) - Starring Hazel. does have a question mark in its title. Prest-O Change-O (MM, Jones): Second sighting of the prototype, who has taken up residence in the house of the magician Sham-Fu, and heckles the poor pups who he encounters for no discernible motive. While in the sanitarium, Elmer is in a bed and being fed carrots- exactly what will be Bugs' desire in his "pet" adoption by Dr. Jekyll in "Hyde and Hare". It then turns out that Taz's "baby" is actually, In the 1944 short "What's Cookin' Doc? Baby Looney Tunes Baby Looney Tunes S01 E014 Flower Power / Lightning Bugs Sylvester. Bugs is mortified- and by the character whom he has abashed for the longest time. In "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" (1964), an exploding cigar and a Frankenstein monster inflict some bodily damage upon Bugs, but most of that cartoon's violence befalls Bugs' enemy, the Tasmanian Devil. In issue #94 of the Looney Tunes comic (November 2002), Bugs Bunny gets back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie roles, from Duck Twacy in Who Killed Daffy Duck," a video game character, and a talk show host, and they always wind up with Daffy starring in Moby Dick (the story's running gag). In Rabbit Rampage, Bugs is similarly teased by another off-screen animator who is revealed at the end to be Elmer Fudd. Ben 10's Adventures of Rampage A research space station, Athena-1, owned by gene manipulation company Energyne, is destroyed after a laboratory rat mutates and wrecks havoc. Bugs' trademark ability to have objects come out of nowhere is presented here for the first time, although in the context of him being a magician's rabbit. But although the crowd in the outdoor theatre deserts him, he does not lose the conflict against his tiny foe, because in his effort to destroy the insect, he renders a delightfully frenetic performance of Franz Von Suppe's master work, and at cartoon's end, the winged, buzzing enemy capitulates, with a solitary standing ovation to Bugs' talent. instance of. In the early hours of September 11, 1985, Fred Myers, a. After Bugs stands up, he restates his desire to not work with the animator, "Look, Buster. From the unnerving ending of "Hyde and Hare", Bugs had nowhere to go but up, but to do so he would have to fight the archetypal "battle for deliverance" against a dragon in his next cartoon, "Knight-Mare Hare". In Rabbit Rampage, Bugs is similarly teased by another off-screen animator, who is revealed at the end to be Elmer Fudd. However, there are perhaps indications in these Bugs Bunny films that this was to be a different year for him. In 2020, a back-to-their-roots series, Looney Tunes Cartoons, debuted on HBO Max. To add an article to this category, put [[Category:Sonic X transcripts]] in that article. Still, there are some amusing bits here and there. What a novel idea. It would seem that Bugs' rapport with the virtuous order of the universe is restored, and it is again his enemies who are the humiliated failures. Plot. The animator then draws a pumpkin head on Bugs' body. There are dozens of Looney Tunes DVDs and Blu-Rays for sale. drivers license ANATOMY RABBIT Chordza " . His name derives either from Hardaway's model sheets were said to have been tagged with "Bugs' Bunny" or the contemporary Brooklyn slang "bugs", meaning "crazy". Kalagren. "Piker's Peak" nevertheless emphasises a danger that one faces when concentrating on a cartoon or number of cartoons within a large series and attempting to arrive at credible conclusions from observations of those particular cartoons. The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (MM, Freleng) - Starring Elmer. So, what's the best way to acquire all of the Looney Tunes episodes available on DVD today? Bugs Bunny's Hachamecha Daibken (Japanese) 0 references. The short opens to Bugs Bunny's hole being drawn by the animator in the ground; the animator abruptly erases and redraws the hole in the sky. He puts yellow paint on Bugs' back, implying that Bugs is a coward. Might he not be fallible in some major way? The Hasty Hare (LT, Jones) - Starring Marvin. Bugs has fallen from grace and in the next cartoon appears to dream a successful "battle for deliverance" from the consequences of his unseemly conduct, in Middle Ages combat against the symbol for forces of darkness and regression, and hereafter is back to normal, winning his cartoon clashes and not being too much affected by temptation or circumstance. The second of three cartoons featuring Sam as a pirate. "That settles it! Stuffing his basket with another $6.4M, the blue-jacketed rascal. It is a spiritual successor to Duck Amuck, in which Daffy Duck was teased by an off-screen animator, revealed at the end to be Bugs Bunny. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! for my classic "Rabbit Ranpage" picture, I enjoy a Godzilla-size walk in dis here furry anthro town. Bugs bravely challenges the imposing armoured man to a duel but finds that he cannot lift the sword given to him by his opposition. 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