They ran out of gas in “Falling Hare” with the gramlin, I just watched it to make sure. I can’t recall which cartoon had bugs use the air brakes but I think it had a dog in it.
Oops, And I put the wrong Cecil Turtle cartoon. It’s “Rabbit Transit.”
They ran out of gas in “Falling Hare” with the gramlin, I just watched it to make sure. I can’t recall which cartoon had bugs use the air brakes but I think it had a dog in it.
Oops, And I put the wrong Cecil Turtle cartoon. It’s “Rabbit Transit.”
Found it. It’s from “Hare Lift”
Some of my favorites (posted previously):
“Hair-Raising Hare”
“Falling Hare”
“Hare Remover” (With Bugs’ great aside, “I think Spencer Tracy did it much better, don’t you, folks?”)
“Rabbit of Seville” (better than “What’s Opera, Doc?” because it follows the music more closely, making it tighter and better-paced. Also, WOD recycles the Bugs/Brunhilde gag from “Herr Meets Hare”.)
Rabbit Hood. My all time favorite. Even better than, “Duck, you have desecrated the spirit of the lamp!!!”
Is that the one with “Rise, Sir Lion of Beef!”?
You know how it is with these A cards! (For those of you unfamiliar with wartime rationing, an A card was the lowest on the ration scale and entitled the holder to four gallons of gas a week. Obiviously, most people got A cards. This has been another installment of “Learning Through Cartoons.” Next week: Anvils: Blacksmith’s Tool or More?)
Okay, I have to ask - which is the Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd one where they end up with “Elmer Season?”
I know it’s thoroughly recursive. I can think of at least three levels of recursive humor involved in the short, and I still giggle madly thinking about the final punchline:
“Be wewwy qwiet, wewe hunting Ewmews. hehehehehehe.”
A close second, though, is the one where Daffy is being tormented by his animator, and finally, at the close he asks something along the lines of who could possibly be this sick and cruel! Camera pans out and Bugs is at the easel and wisecracking to the audience.
ETA: I do wonder just how many people of my approximate generation, those of us for whome these old cartoons were ubiquitous on UHF TV have gotten, like me, most of their appreciation of classical music through the lampooning of it by Bugs and Daffy, or Tom and Jerry?
jayjay, thank you very much for the links. Alas, on dial-up, I normally don’t try to watch YouTube.
For those… I may change my mind. 
I’ve never liked “What’s Opera, Doc?” as much as most people. Sure, it’s nice art, but, except for a few bits, I just never found it very funny. “Rabbit of Seville” was always the superior opera cartoon, in my opinion.
As for my favorites, I think most of 'em have already been mentioned. The only one that hasn’t, at least by name, is “Duck! Rabbit! Duck!” The parts where Bugs casually holds up the signs tailor-made to get Daffy shot (“Me, a dirty skunk? ME, a dirty skunk?!?” [Dirty Skunk Season] BLAM!) always puts me on the floor.
We take our preschool kids to Kiddie Concerts evert year, and they play snippets from various pieces.
I can’t hear ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ without hearing "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…’
I know, most people think of that scene in ‘Apocalypse Now,’ but I’m thinking Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny. :smack:
“Be vewy quiet! I’m hunting WAAAAABITS!”
Then there are those who think of both:
I wove the smell of napawm in the mowning. Huh-huh-HUH-huh!
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but in Bully for Bugs, he was trying to find the Coachella Valley, and the big carrot festival, therein. And on the way to Pismo Beach, Bugs and Daffy wound up in the Himalayas
Actually, when Bugs and Daffy were on their way to Pismo Beach, and all the clams they could eat, I believe they found themselves in Ali Baba’s (he of the amusing camel SFX) treasure cave. Unless that happened twice.
PS: HASSAN CHOP!
Yes, it is.
“Arise Essence of Myrrh!”
I like Duck Amuck a lot as well as Rabbit of Saville
But the Bugs/Daffy/Elmer trifecta - Rabbit Fire, Wabbit Season (or Rabbit Seasonings, I’m not sure) and (I think it’s) Duck, Rabbit, Duck are at the top of my list
One ends “we’re hunting Ewmews”, one “Wait til you get home” and the third ends “Please Mr Game Warden. Tell me what season it is” “Why, it’s baseball season! (tosses ball) Go get it, boy!” as Elmer runs off shooting the baseball. (But I don’t think I have the endings in the same order as the titles)
The “Hunter’s Trilogy” was, in order, Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! Fire ends with the “Elmer Season” gag- as already mentioned- Seasoning has “shoot him when you get home” (a callback to the very funny “pronoun trouble” thing earlier in the cartoon), and Duck has “baseball season.” Duck also has poor Daffy at his most despondent after being shot so many times: “I’m an elk! Shoot me, it’s elk season! I’m a fiddler crab! Shoot me, it’s fiddler crab season!” Of all the directors who ever worked with Bugs, I think Chuck Jones is the one who gave him his most memorable roles- and the majority of Jones cartoons in this thread seems to prove this.
Word. Mine is probably “Little Red Riding Rabbit.” It’s got Bea Benaderet (as the voice of Red) singing "The Five O’Clock Whistle. It’s got Bugs and the wolf singing “Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet.” And Grandma’s not home because she’s working the swing shift at Lockheed!
Love that Bobby-Soxer Red!
Gramma, what big eyes for you---- ta HAVE!