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Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk is a 1943 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title[]

The title is both a play on the story "Jack and the Beanstalk," which the film is a parody of, and "jack-rabbit," a desert hare. In the case of the latter, it is written like how Elmer Fudd would pronounce it.

Plot[]

Bugs is in a giant's lofty realm, chopping down gigantic carrots. It turns out they belong to a dim-witted giant. "Well, don’t try nuttin’ funny, ‘cause I got ya covered”, pointing an enormous pistol at Bugs.

The giant is incensed at Bugs invading his "Victory garden", and Bugs spends most of the rest of the film trying to elude the giant. At one point he challenges him to a duel, and the giant starts pacing off into the distance and is soon over the horizon. Bugs says to the audience, "Ya know, I'm so smart, sometimes it almost frightens me!" Bugs' self-congratulation is short-lived, as the giant is then seen coming toward him from the other horizon.

Finally, as in the classic story, the giant accidentally falls from his sky-borne realm and crashes into the ground, making a huge giant-shaped hole. The giant survives the fall though, sits up dizzily and says, "Duh, watch out for dat foist step - it's a lulu!"

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Goofs[]

  • The giant is mostly drawn with four fingers; during the part where he catches and has Bugs in his palm, he suddenly has five.
  • When Bugs notices the grey hair, his dialogue is off sync to his mouth.
  • In a very brief long-shot, right before the elevator scene, The beanstalk isn't visible.
  • The scene with Bugs and the Giant at the elevator (animated by Gil Turner[5]) The Giant is suddenly much smaller.

Notes[]

  • "Victory gardens" were a wartime civilian program in which civilians were encouraged to replace their gardens with vegetable crops to make up for wartime food shortages. They appear and are mentioned in several wartime-era cartoons, such as this one.
  • During the opening credits, a staked sign identifies the garden vegetable: Marvel Brand (Inc.) Early Climber Beans Julian & Co. Packers. Julian is a reference to background artist Paul Julian.
  • Both the American and European Turner "dubbed" versions replace the original 1941-55 Merrie Melodies ending music cue with the 1938-41 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.
    • The restored version shown on HBO Max and the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray, like most pre-1948 restorations, uses the Turner print as the source of its soundtrack, hence the error persists in the restored print as well.
  • The giant from this cartoon went on to appear in a few episodes of New Looney Tunes.[citation needed]
  • The idea of Bugs in the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk would return in Beanstalk Bunny.
  • This short's Vitaphone release number 993[6]

Music-Cues[7][]

  • Suppé: The Jolly Robbers - Overture (by Franz von Suppé)
    • Played during the opening credits
  • Long, Long Ago (by Thomas Haynes Bayley)
    • Played during the opening scene with the narrator (Mel Blanc)
  • Says Who? Says You, Says I! (by Harold Arlen)
    • Plays when Bugs says "So long, Jerky. Send me a postcard from Albuquerque."
  • Sobre las olas [Over the Waves] (by Juventino Rosas)
    • Plays when Bugs cuts out the glass.
  • My Grandfather's Clock (by Henry Clay Work)
    • Plays when the Giant looks at his watch.
  • It Can't Be Wrong (by Max Steiner)
    • Plays when Bugs is standing on the Giant's hand and when Bugs finds the Giant's eardrum.
  • Congo (by M.K. Jerome)
  • Twilight in Turkey (by Raymond Scott)
    • Plays when the Giant is chasing Bugs and when Bugs and the Giant are at the elevator.
  • Indian Dawn (by J.S. Zamecnik)
    • Plays very briefly near the end when the Giant rises from the crater he created.

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Bugs Bunny Shorts
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1939 Prest-O Change-OHare-um Scare-um
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1941 Elmer's Pet RabbitTortoise Beats HareHiawatha's Rabbit HuntThe Heckling HareAll This and Rabbit StewWabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to SupperAny Bonds Today?The Wacky WabbitHold the Lion, PleaseBugs Bunny Gets the BoidFresh HareThe Hare-Brained HypnotistCase of the Missing Hare
1943 Tortoise Wins by a HareSuper-RabbitJack-Wabbit and the BeanstalkWackiki WabbitFalling Hare
1944 Little Red Riding RabbitWhat's Cookin' Doc?Bugs Bunny and the Three BearsBugs Bunny Nips the NipsHare Ribbin'Hare ForceBuckaroo BugsThe Old Grey HareStage Door Cartoon
1945 Herr Meets HareThe Unruly HareHare TriggerHare ConditionedHare Tonic
1946 Baseball BugsHare RemoverHair-Raising HareAcrobatty BunnyRacketeer RabbitThe Big SnoozeRhapsody Rabbit
1947 Rabbit TransitA Hare Grows in ManhattanEaster YeggsSlick Hare
1948 Gorilla My DreamsA Feather in His HareRabbit PunchBuccaneer BunnyBugs Bunny Rides AgainHaredevil HareHot Cross BunnyHare SplitterA-Lad-In His LampMy Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949 Hare DoMississippi HareRebel RabbitHigh Diving HareBowery BugsLong-Haired HareKnights Must FallThe Grey Hounded HareThe Windblown HareFrigid HareWhich Is WitchRabbit Hood
1950 Hurdy-Gurdy HareMutiny on the BunnyHomeless HareBig House BunnyWhat's Up Doc?8 Ball BunnyHillbilly HareBunker Hill BunnyBushy HareRabbit of Seville
1951 Hare We GoRabbit Every MondayBunny HuggedThe Fair Haired HareRabbit FireFrench RarebitHis Hare Raising TaleBallot Box BunnyBig Top Bunny
1952 Operation: RabbitFoxy by Proxy14 Carrot RabbitWater, Water Every HareThe Hasty HareOily HareRabbit SeasoningRabbit's KinHare Lift
1953 Forward March HareUpswept HareSouthern Fried RabbitHare TrimmedBully for BugsLumber Jack-RabbitDuck! Rabbit, Duck!Robot Rabbit
1954 Captain HareblowerBugs and ThugsNo Parking HareDevil May HareBewitched BunnyYankee Doodle BugsBaby Buggy Bunny
1955 Beanstalk BunnySahara HareHare BrushRabbit RampageThis Is a Life?Hyde and HareKnight-Mare HareRoman Legion-Hare
1956 Bugs' BonnetsBroom-Stick BunnyRabbitson CrusoeNapoleon Bunny-PartBarbary-Coast BunnyHalf-Fare HareA Star Is BoredWideo WabbitTo Hare Is Human
1957 Ali Baba BunnyBedevilled RabbitPiker's PeakWhat's Opera, Doc?Bugsy and MugsyShow Biz BugsRabbit Romeo
1958 Hare-Less WolfHare-Way to the StarsNow, Hare ThisKnighty Knight BugsPre-Hysterical Hare
1959 Baton BunnyHare-abian NightsApes of WrathBackwoods BunnyWild and Woolly HareBonanza BunnyA Witch's Tangled HarePeople Are Bunny
1960 Horse HarePerson to BunnyRabbit's FeatFrom Hare to HeirLighter Than Hare
1961 The Abominable Snow RabbitCompressed HarePrince Violent
1962 Wet HareBill of HareShishkabugs
1963 Devil's Feud CakeThe Million HareHare-Breadth HurryThe UnmentionablesMad as a Mars HareTransylvania 6-5000
1964 Dumb PatrolDr. Devil and Mr. HareThe Iceman DuckethFalse Hare
1979 Bugs Bunny's Christmas CarolFright Before Christmas
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young BunnySpaced Out Bunny
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 From Hare to Eternity
2004 Hare and Loathing in Las VegasDaffy Duck for President
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