Perspective animation.
Crafty Bugs uses a disguise. I like how he briefly takes it off when the saucer isn’t looking, then puts it back on when the saucer turns to face him.
Bugs is a few steps ahead of the “Super Genius.”
More perspective animation.
Jones waits 24 frames after the saucer disappears into Wile’s cave before showing the explosion.
End of gag.
This is from Operation: Rabbit, released at the end of 1951.
The irony of these latter Bugs outings that pit him against a predator is that by then he had ceased to be a rabbit (UPA had made animal characters passe) and become a tall, rather smug man in a rabbit suit who lived in a hole. But Wile E. was probably a man in a coyote suit, so it kind of evens out after all.
ReplyDeleteI suppose the 'bird' setting on the saucer was just in case he decided to try and use it against the Road Runner. The Ralph Wolf version of the saucer would probably have had a sheep dog setting.
ReplyDeleteA true Jones classic - WGN-9 here in Chicago had this short in their post-48 package of WB cartoons and this one was played a lot!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd don't forget: MUD spelled backwards is DUM!
ReplyDelete"Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius."
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