Monday, 18 July 2022

360 Bugs

Bugs Bunny divests a South Seas island of all the enemy soldiers, and rhapsodises that it’s so peaceful and quiet.



Bugs’ mood changes. He’s angry because he can’t stand peace and quiet. Animator Virgil Ross (I think) has him do a 360 degree turn, then follows up with some smear drawings.



Gerry Chiniquy got the screen credit for animation in Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944). By the 1960s, it wasn’t on TV screens, certainly not where I lived. We could still boo the Nazis, though.

6 comments:

  1. I had to go back and find this. Nope, didn't play where I grew up in the 1960s, either. Our local television *Did* run a number of Warner Brothers wartime Bugs and Daffy shorts pitting them against Hitler, or the Japanese, but not this one.

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  2. Who voiced the female rabbit in that cartoon?

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  3. I saw this at fifteen in 1976..

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  4. I think how these things work is that a new network or channel will show the cartoons until someone complains. You could have seen cartoons like "BB Ns the Ns" (along with Popeye titles like "Pop Pie a la Mode") in the late '80s on still-fledgling SuperStations TBS and TNT, although they were cancelled by the advent of Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

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