# What's Opera, Doc? turns 50. What's your favorite Bugs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 8, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970 "2007-07-08T16:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/1 "2007-07-08T16:19:27Z")
[According to Wiki, it was released July 6, 1957.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Opera,_Doc%3F) One of the all time great Loonie Tunes, if you ask me. But my very favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon hardly ever gets mentioned as a greatest hit. I don’t even know the name of it. Bugs is sleeping and floats into a haunted mansion, finds a witch, does a monster’s hair and says, “Nighty night” as he floats back to his rabbit hole. [Watch What’s Opera, Doc? here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxPxpSvXQ8) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/2 "2007-07-08T16:32:43Z")
A little googling turns up Water, Water Every Hare as the cartoon I love but I couldn’t name. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/3 "2007-07-08T16:40:31Z")
The one where he made the wrong turn in Albuquerque and ends up bullfighting in Mexico or someplace. I especially loved it as a kid when the bull swallowed the rifle and could shoot from his horns. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/4 "2007-07-08T16:43:58Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] The one where he made the wrong turn in Albuquerque and ends up bullfighting in Mexico or someplace. I especially loved it as a kid when the bull swallowed the rifle and could shoot from his horns. [/QUOTE] Was he trying to get to Pismo Beach? Alburquerque pronounced “Albakoikee”. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/5 "2007-07-08T16:48:39Z")
I cannot pin it down to a specific episode, but it would definitely be one of the WWII-vintage ones. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/6 "2007-07-08T16:52:05Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] [According to Wiki, it was released July 6, 1957.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What's_Opera,_Doc%3F) One of the all time great Loonie Tunes, if you ask me. But my very favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon hardly ever gets mentioned as a greatest hit. I don’t even know the name of it. Bugs is sleeping and floats into a haunted mansion, finds a witch, does a monster’s hair and says, “Nighty night” as he floats back to his rabbit hole. [Watch What’s Opera, Doc? here.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyxPxpSvXQ8) [/QUOTE] I think you’re conflating a couple of different cartoons…the one where he does the monster’s hair is _[Water, Water Every Hare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%2C_Water_Every_Hare)_. Witch Hazel has appeared in several Bugs Bunny cartoons: _Bewitched Bunny_, which is a retelling of _Hansel and Gretel_ and takes place in a tiny little house, _Broom-stick Bunny_, which is the one where Bugs is trick-or-treating as a witch and knocks on Hazel’s door, and _A Witch’s Twisted Hare_, which has Macbeth as its setting. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/7 "2007-07-08T16:57:31Z")
In his book, _The Encyclopedia of Movie Awards_, former AOL Movie Guy Michael Gebert ends each year’s worth of Oscars, Golden Globes, and Palm D’Ors with his own opinions of that year’s best cinematic offerings. Mostly, his opinions are quite sober, erudite, and cosmopolitan. For 1957, the Gebert Golden Armchair award for Best Picture goes to _What’s Opera, Doc?_ He refers to it as “the greatest cartoon ever made”. I am hard-pressed to find a point of disagreement ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/8 "2007-07-08T17:03:57Z")
It has to be _The Rabbit of Seville_ for me. _Yes, you’re next! You’re…so next!_ ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/9 "2007-07-08T17:22:01Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] It has to be _The Rabbit of Seville_ for me. _Yes, you’re next! You’re…so next!_ [/QUOTE] “Whaaaat would you waaant with a wabbit? Caaaan’t you see that I’m much sweeter? I’m your little senoriter…” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/10 "2007-07-08T17:28:07Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] “Whaaaat would you waaant with a wabbit? Caaaan’t you see that I’m much sweeter? I’m your little senoriter…” [/QUOTE] Actually, that’s from What’s Opera Doc?, not Rabbit of Seville ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/11 "2007-07-08T17:39:21Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] Actually, that’s from What’s Opera Doc?, not Rabbit of Seville [/QUOTE] No, it’s from _[Rabbit of Seville](http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTydGEYdVbE)_. Why would a cartoon about a Wagner opera talk about a “senoriter”? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/12 "2007-07-08T17:51:52Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] No, it’s from _[Rabbit of Seville](http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTydGEYdVbE)_. Why would a cartoon about a Wagner opera talk about a “senoriter”? [/QUOTE] My bad. I remembered Bugs singing that with a horned helmet on. ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/13 "2007-07-08T17:55:19Z")
[QUOTE=scotandrsn] Actually, that’s from What’s Opera Doc?, not Rabbit of Seville [/QUOTE] Correct. I’ve got the soundtrack to “Bug Bunny on Broadway”. There is not a whole lot of singing in _Rabbit of Seville_, but the “senoriter” lines is one of the few. The lines goes on to: "You are my type of guy, let me straighten your tie and I shall dance for you… " \ ---
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I had a Looney Tunes special on tape. It was Bugs walking through his mansion, talking about various characters, each accompanied by a cartoon of that character. It’s cheating, but that special is the best one ever. It’s got every great Looney Tunes cartoon all wrapped up in one. Ah. Found it. It’s called [The Great American Chase](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078915/). Edited again to add: Wow, that was released two years before I was born. All you…feel old now. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/15 "2007-07-08T18:53:35Z")
While I love “What’s Opera Doc?” I do think I love “Tortoise Wins by a Hare,” “Cheese Chasers” and “Scared Cat” a little bit more. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/16 "2007-07-08T19:31:00Z")
_What’s Opera Doc?_ is one of only four Warner Bros. cartoons preserved for all time in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress- the other three are _Duck Amuck_, _One Froggy Evening_, and _Porky in Wackyland_. Bugs Bunny’s birthday is considered to be July 27, the date on which _A Wild Hare_, considered to be the first “true” Bugs Bunny cartoon, was released in 1940. (A prototypical Bugs had appeared in a few cartoons before then, evolving from a goofy cross between Daffy Duck and Woody Woodpecker to a more laid-back, smart-alecy type before becoming the Bugs we all know and love.) So even though we’re jumping the gun a bit, this is a good time for a Bugs Bunny thread. As a music buff, I think my favorite would have to be _Rhapsody Rabbit_. Yes, the plot is very similar to MGM’s _The Cat Concerto_ (which it lost the Oscar to that year), but each cartoon has its own unique plays on the “frustrated pianist” idea, which show how different Bugs’s personality is from Tom and Jerry’s. ---
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[QUOTE=Siam Sam] I cannot pin it down to a specific episode, but it would definitely be one of the WWII-vintage ones. [/QUOTE] Another one of my all time favorites is the one with the gremlin. \*HEE HAA HOO! HEE HAA HOO! Well, whattdoyaknow. Air brakes!\* ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970/18 "2007-07-08T22:20:12Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] Another one of my all time favorites is the one with the gremlin. \*HEE HAA HOO! HEE HAA HOO! Well, whattdoyaknow. Air brakes!\* [/QUOTE] Ooh, that reminded me of the first Mavin Martian one. Another for the top 10. Crunchy Munchies are the best. Look delicious on your vest. Feed them to unwanted guests. Stuff the mattress with the rest. ---
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[QUOTE=Biggirl] Another one of my all time favorites is the one with the gremlin. \*HEE HAA HOO! HEE HAA HOO! Well, whattdoyaknow. Air brakes!\* [/QUOTE] I like him. He’s silly. If memory serves, there were two versions of that gremlin one (or two cartoons that were very similar). In the other version, the final punchline was, “We ran out of gas.” ---
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I’d pick “Ali Baba Bunny” as my all time favorite. But “Bully for Bugs”, “Hare Brush”, “Rabbit of Seville”, the two Tortoise shorts and the Hunting trilogy are all great. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-opera-doc-turns-50-whats-your-favorite-bugs/410970.md?page=2)