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== Controversy ==
 
== Controversy ==
This was one of the 12 [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoons banned from [[Cartoon Network]]'s 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner because it showed a clip from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt". However, much like "Any Bonds Today?", this cartoon's problematic content is light compared to the more controversial animated pieces that never made it to air—such as [[Friz Freleng]]'s ''[[Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips]]'' and [[Tex Avery]]'s ''[[All This and Rabbit Stew]]''. "What's Cookin' Doc?" has aired on ''Bugs and Daffy'', ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (the 2002 compilation show, not the 2010 sitcom), and on ''[[The Bob Clampett Show]]''.
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This was one of the 12 [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoons deleted from [[Cartoon Network]]'s 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, due to comic stereotyping resulting from the inclusion of the ''[[Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt]]'' clip. However, this cartoon's stereotypes are light compared to the more controversial animated pieces that never made it to air—such as [[Friz Freleng]]'s ''[[Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips]]'' and [[Tex Avery]]'s ''[[All This and Rabbit Stew]]''—and has aired on ''Bugs and Daffy'', ''The Looney Tunes Show'' (the 2002 compilation show, not the 2010 sitcom), and on ''[[The Bob Clampett Show]]''.
   
 
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{{Citation needed|date=October 2017}}

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What's Cookin' Doc?
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Directed By: Robert Clampett
Friz Freleng (uncredited)
Produced By: Leon Schlesinger
Released: January 8, 1944
Series: Merrie Melodies
Story: Michael Sasanoff
Michael Maltese (uncredited)
Animation: Bob McKimson
Rod Scribner (uncredited)
Manuel Perez (uncredited)
Gerry Chiniquy (uncredited)
Gil Turner (uncredited)
Layouts:
Backgrounds:
Film Editor: Treg Brown (uncredited)
Voiced By: Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Robert C. Bruce (uncredited)
Music: Carl W. Stalling
Starring: Bugs Bunny
Emcee
Hiawatha
Hollywood Wolf
Oscar
Preceded By: Little Red Riding Rabbit
Succeeded By: Meatless Flyday
Bugs_Bunny_What's_Cookin'_Doc

Bugs Bunny What's Cookin' Doc

What's_Cookin'_Doc?_(USA_Turner_print)

What's Cookin' Doc? (USA Turner print)

What's Cookin' Doc? is a 1944 Merrie Melodies short directed by Bob Clampett.

Title

The title is a variant of Bugs' catch-phrase "What's up Doc?" It also hints at one of the scenes in the picture.

Plot

At the Academy Awards presentation, color film footage of various Hollywood scenes (edited from A Star Is Born) lead up to the Big Question of the evening: Who will win "the" Oscar? The film shows the stereotypical red carpet arrivals of stars, as well as a human emcee starting to introduce the Oscar show.

With the shadow of a now-animated emcee (and now voiced by Mel Blanc) continuing to introduce the Oscar, and Bugs (also Mel Blanc's voice, as usual) assuring the viewer that "it's in da bag; I'm a cinch to win". Bugs is stunned when the award goes instead to James Cagney (who had actually won in the previous year's ceremony, for Warner's Yankee Doodle Dandy). Shock turns to anger as Bugs declares the results to be "sa-bo-TAH-gee" ("sabotage") and demands a recount.

Bugs then tries to make his case by showing clips from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (which includes clip of Hiawatha attempting to "cook" the rabbit) as proof of his allegedly superior acting (an inside joke, as the cartoon had actually been nominated for an Oscar and lost). He hurls a set of film cans off-screen and tells someone named "Smokey" to "roll 'em!" Bugs tells the audience that these are some of his "best scenes". Immediately a "stag reel" (the title card depicts a grinning stag) starts to roll, and the startled Bugs quickly stops it and switches to the right film.

Finally, he pleads, "What do you say, folks? Do I get it? Or do I get it?" (echoing Fredric March's drunken appeal to the Academy Award banquet audience in A Star Is Born). The emcee asks the audience (in an effected nasal voice), "Shall we give it to him, folks?" and they yell, "Yeh, let's give it to him!" whereupon they shower Bugs with fruits and vegetables (enabling him to briefly do a Carmen Miranda impression)... and an ersatz Oscar labeled "booby prize", which is actually a gold-plated rabbit statue. Bugs is so pleased at winning it, he remarks, "I'll even take youse to bed wit' me every night!" The statue suddenly comes alive, asks in a voice like that of radio character, Bert "The Mad Russian" Gordon, "Do you mean it?", smooches the startled bunny, and takes on an effeminate, hip-swiveling pose.

Availability

Note: All the USA dubbed version releases have minor split cuts.

Controversy

This was one of the 12 Bugs Bunny cartoons deleted from Cartoon Network's 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, due to comic stereotyping resulting from the inclusion of the Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt clip. However, this cartoon's stereotypes are light compared to the more controversial animated pieces that never made it to air—such as Friz Freleng's Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips and Tex Avery's All This and Rabbit Stew—and has aired on Bugs and DaffyThe Looney Tunes Show (the 2002 compilation show, not the 2010 sitcom), and on The Bob Clampett Show.

[citation needed] (October 2017)

Notes

  • While the USA Turner 1995 dubbed print retains the original Merrie Melodies ending music cue, the EU Turner 1995 dubbed print replaces the original Merrie Melodies ending music cue with the 1938-41 Merrie Melodies ending music cue.[2]
  • This cartoon was used in the documentary, Bugs Bunny: Superstar.
  • This is the final cartoon to use the 1942-43 Red Color Rings.

Caricatures

  • Buster Keaton
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Ernst Lubitsch
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Laurel and Hardy
  • The Three Stooges

Gallery

References

External Links

Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938 Porky's Hare Hunt
1939 Prest-O Change-OHare-um Scare-um
1940 Elmer's Candid CameraA Wild Hare
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