Tuesday 5 November 2019

Whose Rabbit is it Anyway?

Francois (Mel Blanc) tells rival chef Louis that the Bugs Bunny is HIS in French Rarebit, a 1951 Bob McKimson cartoon.

Note the positions of the fingers in this scene.



Then the emphasis.



Rod Scribner, Emery Hawkins, Chuck McKimson and Phil De Lara are the credited animators.

4 comments:

  1. Kind of a follow-up to McKimson's "Hillbilly Hare", in that Bugs gets the two characters to both be managed and to mangle each other by the end of the cartoon, which were actions tailor-made for Rod Scribner.

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  2. With all due respect, Tedd Pierce plays the non-Mel Blanc cook. Sacre bleu!

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  3. Hello, Steve. Thanks. Several people have made this correction. I don't recall where I got Freberg's name.

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  4. BTW,an interesting alternate ending to the Bugs Bunny short "Mad as a Mars Hare" would have Marvin the Martian have his time projector (an evolution ray) set the right direction but at too high a level, turning Bugs Bunny into not an "After Man" rabbuck, but a lagomorph (rabbit) descended version of a wild boar; perhaps a "killer rabbuck).

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