The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

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Airdate:
28 March 1942

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:
7592	573

Starring:

Bugs Bunny
Elmer Fudd

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)

Animated By:

Richard Bickenbach
Gil Turner (uncredited)
Cal Dalton (uncredited)
Manuel Perez (uncredited)
Gerry Chiniquy (uncredited)^[1]^[2]
Ken Champin (uncredited)^[3]^[4]

Layout Artist:

Owen Fitzgerald (uncredited)

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

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The Wabbit Who Came to Supper is a 1942 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title

The title is a reference to the 1942 Warner Brothers film version of the 1939 George S. Kaufman Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an overbearing house-guest threatens to take over the lives of a small-town family.

Plot

While out on the hunt for rabbits, Elmer receives a telegram from "Eastern Union" saying his Uncle Louie will leave him three million dollars in his will, as long as he doesn't harm any animals, especially rabbits. "We're in the Money" plays in the underscore. Elmer, with his rounded-L's-and-R's speech impediment, of course cannot pronounce "Uncle Louie" correctly; it sounds more like "Uncoh Wooie". Bugs takes full advantage of the situation by moving in with Elmer.

As he showers and shaves, Bugs sings "Angel in Disguise". Elmer tries to coax Bugs into leaving, gently patting him on the head, which Bugs claims is terribly hurting him. When Elmer does get Bugs out the door, Bugs fakes a sickness, forcing Elmer to take him *back* in, fearing that any chance of him receiving the three-million-dollar inheritance may have gone down the drain.

After fulfilling the stipulations of the will, and suffering all manner of hijinks from Bugs, Elmer gets a special delivery letter from his uncle's lawyers showing that, after taxes and fees, he has no money left to spend and keep for himself; in fact, he owes them $1.98 on the inheritance ("pwease wemit"). Realizing that even if he fulfills the will's conditions he will not receive any spending money anyway, Elmer is then free to vent his anger on Bugs, and a chase ensues. Bugs escapes, but Elmer is given a large, garish Easter egg containing several baby Bugses who simultaneously ask 'Eh, what's up Doc?' and start leaping around the house.

Availability

Streaming

Goofs

Elmer Fudd misreads the postscript to the telegram, as he reads "harm" instead of "hurt."
Telegrams do not have postscripts.
The numbers on the inheritance letter do not add up correctly, as Elmer ends up owing $1.98; however, by right the final balance Elmer would be receiving including the tax deductions should be $902,932.04.

Notes

This cartoon was one of only four shorts to feature the fat Elmer design. However, two lobby cards show him in his regular design.
The song "Angel in Disguise" is from the 1940 Warner Brothers film It All Came True which, like The Man Who Came to Dinner, starred Ann Sheridan.
Bugs references a running gag from the radio show Fibber McGee and Molly when he threatens to call Uncle Louie: "Operator, give me Walnut three three fifty… Ohhh, that you, Myrt? How's every little thing?" Arthur Q. Bryan, the voice of Elmer Fudd, also played "Doc Gamble" on the Fibber McGee show.
This is the first cartoon where Bugs cross-dresses; at one scene Bugs disguises as a woman in lingerie, when entering one of the rooms in Elmer's house, and Bugs (in drag) screams when Elmer opens, causing Elmer to close the door, only to realize that he has been tricked (This gag would later be re-used in "Hare Trigger" (1945)).
Bugs fakes catching pneumonia when getting thrown out of the house in one scene, which he remarks that scene will win him the Academy Award. Despite this comment made by Bugs, this cartoon was neither nominated for nor did it win an Academy Award. Bugs would repeat this gag again in "Hare Force" (1944) when Sylvester the Dog throws him out from the house and into the cold.
This is the only cartoon where Elmer doesn't hunt Bugs in his usual hunting clothes.
This short is one of several pre-August 1948 WB cartoon shorts that lapsed into the public domain due to United Artists failing to renew the copyright in time.
A Tom and Jerry cartoon short entitled "The Million Dollar Cat" (1944) from rival studio MGM shares a similar premise as this short.
The USA Dubbed Print replaces 1941-55 with 1938-41 MWRA
The EU Dubbed Print retain 1941-55
The gag involving Bugs using Elmer's piano to get his singing in tune was later reused in "Upswept Hare".

Gallery

References

External Links

"The Wabbit Who Came to Supper" at SuperCartoons.net
"The Wabbit Who Came to Supper" at B99.TV

Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938	Porky's Hare Hunt
1939	Prest-O Change-O • Hare-um Scare-um
1940	Elmer's Candid Camera • A Wild Hare
1941	Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Tortoise Beats Hare • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt • The Heckling Hare • All This and Rabbit Stew • Wabbit Twouble
1942	The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • The Wacky Wabbit • Hold the Lion, Please • Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist • Case of the Missing Hare
1943	Tortoise Wins by a Hare • Super-Rabbit • Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk • Wackiki Wabbit • Falling Hare
1944	Little Red Riding Rabbit • What's Cookin' Doc? • Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears • Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips • Hare Ribbin' • Hare Force • Buckaroo Bugs • The Old Grey Hare • Stage Door Cartoon
1945	Herr Meets Hare • The Unruly Hare • Hare Trigger • Hare Conditioned • Hare Tonic
1946	Baseball Bugs • Hare Remover • Hair-Raising Hare • Acrobatty Bunny • Racketeer Rabbit • The Big Snooze • Rhapsody Rabbit
1947	Rabbit Transit • A Hare Grows in Manhattan • Easter Yeggs • Slick Hare
1948	Gorilla My Dreams • A Feather in His Hare • Rabbit Punch • Buccaneer Bunny • Bugs Bunny Rides Again • Haredevil Hare • Hot Cross Bunny • Hare Splitter • A-Lad-In His Lamp • My Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949	Hare Do • Mississippi Hare • Rebel Rabbit • High Diving Hare • Bowery Bugs • Long-Haired Hare • Knights Must Fall • The Grey Hounded Hare • The Windblown Hare • Frigid Hare • Which Is Witch • Rabbit Hood
1950	Hurdy-Gurdy Hare • Mutiny on the Bunny • Homeless Hare • Big House Bunny • What's Up Doc? • 8 Ball Bunny • Hillbilly Hare • Bunker Hill Bunny • Bushy Hare • Rabbit of Seville
1951	Hare We Go • Rabbit Every Monday • Bunny Hugged • The Fair Haired Hare • Rabbit Fire • French Rarebit • His Hare Raising Tale • Ballot Box Bunny • Big Top Bunny
1952	Operation: Rabbit • Foxy by Proxy • 14 Carrot Rabbit • Water, Water Every Hare • The Hasty Hare • Oily Hare • Rabbit Seasoning • Rabbit's Kin • Hare Lift
1953	Forward March Hare • Upswept Hare • Southern Fried Rabbit • Hare Trimmed • Bully for Bugs • Lumber Jack-Rabbit • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954	Captain Hareblower • Bugs and Thugs • No Parking Hare • Devil May Hare • Bewitched Bunny • Yankee Doodle Bugs • Baby Buggy Bunny
1955	Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Hyde and Hare • Knight-Mare Hare • Roman Legion-Hare
1956	Bugs' Bonnets • Broom-Stick Bunny • Rabbitson Crusoe • Napoleon Bunny-Part • Barbary-Coast Bunny • Half-Fare Hare • A Star Is Bored • Wideo Wabbit • To Hare Is Human
1957	Ali Baba Bunny • Bedevilled Rabbit • Piker's Peak • What's Opera, Doc? • Bugsy and Mugsy • Show Biz Bugs • Rabbit Romeo
1958	Hare-Less Wolf • Hare-Way to the Stars • Now, Hare This • Knighty Knight Bugs • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959	Baton Bunny • Hare-abian Nights • Apes of Wrath • Backwoods Bunny • Wild and Woolly Hare • Bonanza Bunny • A Witch's Tangled Hare • People Are Bunny
1960	Horse Hare • Person to Bunny • Rabbit's Feat • From Hare to Heir • Lighter Than Hare
1961	The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Compressed Hare • Prince Violent
1962	Wet Hare • Bill of Hare • Shishkabugs
1963	Devil's Feud Cake • The Million Hare • Hare-Breadth Hurry • The Unmentionables • Mad as a Mars Hare • Transylvania 6-5000
1964	Dumb Patrol • Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare • The Iceman Ducketh • False Hare
1979	Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol • Fright Before Christmas
1980	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny • Spaced 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 Vegas • Daffy Duck for President

Elmer Fudd Cartoons
1940	Elmer's Candid Camera • Confederate Honey • The Hardship of Miles Standish • A Wild Hare • Good Night Elmer
1941	Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Wabbit Twouble
1942	The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Nutty News • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1943	To Duck .... or Not to Duck • A Corny Concerto • An Itch in Time
1944	The Old Grey Hare • The Stupid Cupid • Stage Door Cartoon
1945	The Unruly Hare • Hare Tonic
1946	Hare Remover • The Big Snooze
1947	Easter Yeggs • A Pest in the House • Slick Hare
1948	What Makes Daffy Duck • Back Alley Op-Roar • Kit for Cat
1949	Wise Quackers • Hare Do • Each Dawn I Crow
1950	What's Up Doc? • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • Rabbit of Seville
1951	Rabbit Fire
1952	Rabbit Seasoning
1953	Upswept Hare • Ant Pasted • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954	Design for Leaving • Quack Shot
1955	Pests for Guests • Beanstalk Bunny • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Heir-Conditioned
1956	Bugs' Bonnets • A Star Is Bored • Yankee Dood It • Wideo Wabbit
1957	What's Opera, Doc? • Rabbit Romeo
1958	Don't Axe Me • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959	A Mutt in a Rut
1960	Person to Bunny • Dog Gone People
1961	What's My Lion?
1962	Crows' Feat
1980	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
1990	Box Office Bunny
1991	(Blooper) Bunny
1992	Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
2012	Daffy's Rhapsody

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