Rabbit Transit is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by I. Freleng.
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The title is a play on the phrase "rapid transit."
Plot[]
While relaxing in a steam bath, Bugs reads about the original fable and becomes incensed at the idea of a turtle outrunning a rabbit. Cecil, also in the steam bath, claims that he could outrun Bugs, prompting Bugs to challenge him to a race. This time, Bugs and Cecil agree to no cheating. Cecil, however, quickly reveals that his shell is now rocket propelled, allowing him to go a surprising combination between fast and slow. Bugs does his best to steal, dismantle, and destroy the device, but all to little effect. However, Bugs tops the turtle and crosses the finish line first. Nevertheless, it is Cecil who has the last laugh when he rooks the rabbit into confessing to "doing a hundred easy" in a thirty-miles-per-hour zone. Bugs is taken away by the police. Cecil says, "Ain't I a...um...stinker?"
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- When Bugs agrees with Cecil to not cheat while saying "Okay, mac. It ain't that I don't trust you, BUT-" before tipping Cecil upside-down, his mouth does not move properly in sync to what he is saying.
- Bugs' front and back views do not match up when he smashes into the tree, as when Bugs smashes into the tree, he hits it face first. Yet when he slides to the ground, his back is facing the tree instead of his front.
Notes[]
- This is the final cartoon to use both the 1946–47 color rings in the opening and closing titles. Starting with the next cartoon, only the ending rings would be used for Merrie Melodies.
- The painted tunnel gag in this cartoon would become a recurring gag by Chuck Jones in his Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote shorts, starting two years later in 1949.
- Cecil Turtle and Bugs Bunny had previously raced each other in "Tortoise Beats Hare" (1941) and "Tortoise Wins by a Hare" (1943). This cartoon was their final encounter. Unlike "Tortoise Wins by a Hare", this cartoon presumes that Bugs and Cecil have never met before.
- This is the second time Cecil is seen without his shell, the first time being in "Tortoise Beats Hare". Unlike that cartoon, where Cecil is seen wearing underwear underneath his shell, here Cecil is seen wearing a bathing suit underneath his shell.
- Vitaphone release number: 1538[2]
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- ↑ https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3281213li/page/81/mode/1up?view=theater
- ↑ Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. McFarland, page 291. ISBN 978-0786412792.
External Links[]
- "Rabbit Transit" at SuperCartoons.net
- "Rabbit Transit" at B98.TV