Chuck Jones cuts from pose to pose, holding the drawings on screen for different lengths of time. Here are a dozen of them.
Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris and Phil Monroe are the credited animators. There’s some really great colour work on some of the opening backgrounds by Pete Alvarado.
This cartoon is the first to feature the tiny Martian and his dog.
Mike Maltese pulls out the Bugs-switches-dialogue routine in this one (best remembered as “Rabbit Season/Duck Season”) when the rabbit manages to switch “Oh, no, I won’t/Oh, yes, you will.”
Trade magazines of the period will tell you this cartoon was released on this date in 1948. As we’ve mentioned before, if a Warners exchange got a cartoon before the official release date, a theatre could book it and screen it. That’s what happened to this short. A theatre in Atlanta advertised it was showing the cartoon on July 22, 1948.
As you undoubtedly know, Bugs, already having appeared with a caricatured Jack Carson in "Two Guys from Texas," would do a cameo with him and Doris Day a year later in "My Dream is Yours."
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