The Wacky Wabbit

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Airdate:
2 May 1942

Series:

Merrie Melodies

Production Number:
603

Starring:

Bugs Bunny
Elmer Fudd

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

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

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

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Commentary

The Wacky Wabbit is a 1942 Merrie Melodies short directed by Bob Clampett.

Plot

A fat Elmer Fudd is singing "Oh! Susanna" while prospecting for gold to donate to the war effort: "Oh, Susanna, don't you cwy for me, I'm gonna get me wots of gold, "V for Victowy!", not to mention a "Buy US Savings Bonds and Stamps" sign.

Bugs Bunny appears during the second verse and finishes it with Elmer, singing harmony. From that point on, Bugs pesters Elmer without apparent provocation, from burying Elmer in the hole he was digging, to cutting off Elmer's suspenders and revealing the girdle he's wearing: "Don't waugh. I'll bet pwenty of you men wear one of these."

Instead of fleeing, Elmer turns toward revenge, especially when he observes that Bugs has a gold-filled tooth: "I'm came hewe for gold, and I'm gonna get it!" A fight ensues, and Elmer comes up the apparent "winner", holding up a gold tooth, saying, "Euweka! Gold at wast! Heh-heh-heh-heh!" Elmer grins and laughs his usual laugh, and at the same time Bugs mocks Elmer with the same words, dropped-"r" and laugh, revealing that his tooth is intact and that Elmer is holding his own knocked-out gold tooth.

Notes

Much like "Wabbit Twouble" directed by Bob Clampett the previous year, this short features Bugs as the aggressor provoking Elmer for no apparent reason.
Fat Elmer would wear a girdle with his underwear again in "Fresh Hare".
A short clip from this cartoon appears in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "Love's Labour Lost in Space".
This is one of the pre-1948 shorts to fall into the public domain as United Artists, the copyright holder of the pre-1948 shorts at the time, failed to renew the copyright in time.
- Additionally, since the short has fallen into the public domain, it can be found on various unauthorized VHS tapes and DVDs in varying quality. It can also be found on video streaming websites.
This short with "Peck Up Your Troubles", and the reissues of "The Merry Old Soul", "Booby Hatched", "Tick Tock Tuckered", and "Trap Happy Porky" all have a special 1941-55 MM ending cue. Both USA and EU dubbed versions keep the original end cue, unlike most special ending cues.
According to one of Cartoon Network's 2001 June Bugs marathon bumpers, after this cartoon's release, animation director Chuck Jones explicitly established a rule in future Bugs Bunny cartoons that Bugs Bunny must always be provoked in order to give the rabbit a valid reason to torment his enemies, as opposed to Bugs tormenting them for no reason whatsoever like in this one.^[1]

Availability

Streaming

Gallery

References

↑ https://archive.org/details/junebugs632001/4.+June+Bugs+(6-3-2001%2C+3%3B00AM).mp4

External Links

The Wacky Wabbit at SuperCartoons.net
The Wacky Wabbit at B99.TV

Preceded by Any Bonds Today?	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1942	Succeeded by Hold the Lion, Please

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 • Any Bonds Today? • 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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