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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
- (1986) VHS - Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals' The Best of Bugs Bunny and Friends (with blue borders)
- (1990) VHS - Bugs Bunny Collection The Very Best of Bugs (VHS, MGM/UA), (with red borders)
- (1990) VHS - Bugs Bunny: Superstar
- (1991) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 1, Side 9: "Hooray for Hollywood" (with red borders)
- (1991) VHS - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 9: Hooray for Hollywood (with red borders)
- (2006) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc 1 (through Bugs Bunny: Superstar 1995 USA and EU Turner print)
- (2007) DVD - Captains of the Clouds (1995 USA Turner print)[1]
- (2008) DVD - Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection (1995 USA Turner print)
- (2012) DVD - Bugs Bunny: Superstar (Warner Archive print)
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 Daffy, The Looney Tunes Show (the 2002 compilation show, not the 2010 sitcom), and on The Bob Clampett Show.
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
- "What's Cookin' Doc?" at SuperCartoons.net