Fudd comes back and seeing the bear with the carrot, also assumes the stuff worked. The bear takes a bite out of Bug’s carrot to remove the taste in his mouth. The bear walks to the lab, and when Bugs sees the ursine wearing Fudd’s hat he assumes the potion did it. Elmer freaks out, so does it only work on people? He runs to join his dog in grass eating but on the way he runs into a bear, leaving his hat behind. (Scientists have to be used to failure, so I guess it’s true when he says he’s a horrible scientist.) To calm him down (or maybe to give him a taste of his own medicine,) Bugs gives him a drink of the concoction. (Notice Elmer seems to have buck teeth in this short?) Back at the lab, the formula seems to have no effect on Bugs. Taking pity, he decides to play along and gets in. He sets up a trap, and Bugs comes out, amazed such obvious traps still exist. (I only assume it does not work, you don’t need to invent something that makes dogs eat grass.) Since that was his last “guinea pig,” Fudd decides to trap a lagomorph. He gives some to his lab dog, who rushes out to eat grass. He never says what he is working on, but I assume it’s a standard Jekyll/Hyde formula. So now if I can’t find a clip, I’ll still try to find a picture for the short. So now that the site is two years old, I’m trying to improve it anyway I can. They are real crowd pleasers.“All out of expewamentew animaws. Despite what Maltese said I will wager they brought the house down when originally shown. I have shown both those films to paying audiences in packed theaters so often I have lost count. Writer Mike Maltese later claimed it died in theaters because the rabbit needed to be "put-upon" by an adversary in order to be lovable. Incidentally, Clampett's next Bugs, THE WACKY WABBIT, also had him harrassing fat Elmer for no good reason. Although it has elements that make it a fan favorite ("Oh, we're the boys of the chorus."), I've always found its whole to be far less than the sum of its parts, mainly because Bugs-as-patsy doesn't much work. Hayde said.Īnother cartoon that makes Bugs the butt of the joke is McKimson's WHAT'S UP DOC? (1950). I never minded the nihilist Bugs, or any of the other mindlessly vicious character (even early Woody Woodpecker), so long as they were clever in their destruction. ![]() Bugs doesn't even put up a fight - he just registers annoyance. The same principle is applied - less successfully - in "Rabbit Rampage", a mild "Duck Amuck" clone that pits Bugs against an unseen artist. The fun is seeing Bugs reduced to sputtering fury by the small, laid-back turtle ("Uhhhh. There are three cartoons - each by a different director - where Bugs Bunny is defeated by Cecil Turtle: 6:09 PM John McElwee said.ĭonald Benson cites some occasions where Bugs ate humble pie: That fat Elmer was designed to look like the man who did his voice, Arthur Q. That guy makes the early Bugs Bunny look like Mary Pickford. I take it, then, you're no fan of Tex Avery's Screw Squirrel at Metro. From that dire beginning, Bugs and I could ![]() Once, at ageįour, I asked my mother for a raw carrot so as to emulate the Bunny's eating Bugs hadĬonfidence we needed to win a war ( Wabbit Twouble released right after Pearl Harbor), but I always found him smug. Runner, Sylvester, Hubie/Bertie, and all time favorite, Daffy Duck. I don't come to the debate fairly for lifelongĪntipathy toward Bugs, him way down my list of likes behind Porky, Road Bob Clampett had anything-goesĪttitude regarding Bugs, not like Chuck Jones later on who insisted the rabbitīe provoked into mischief. So than BB, does their uncalled-for stuff. Rabbit, putting our sympathy square with him as obnoxious wildlife, none more Makes Bugs' aggression the more off-putting). Merely trying to enjoy his camp-out in peace (no gun with Fudd this time, which ![]() Is it Pfudd, Phudd, or the correct Fudd? (had to confirm yet again today) Here is Elmer, portlier than customaryĪnd therefore less mobile, being victimized by Bugs Bunny where the man is I can never remember how you spell Elmer Fudd.
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