Bugs Bunny gets Rocky to crawl inside, then Muggsy comes into the scene, crying and demanding to be saved from the cops, too. Here are some random frames. The animator has to take Muggsy’s small feet and girth into account to make him move.
There's a cut to Bugs looking at us and remarking: "I must be dreaming. It couldn't be THIS easy."
Bugs gets some help to hide Muggsy. Note the quickness is enhanced by brushwork and multiples in the second frame.
Ken Champin, Art Davis, Virgil Ross and Manny Perez are the animators for this Friz Freleng cartoon, copyrighted in the shutdown year of 1953.
"Okay, Clancy, take the boys and surround the house!" One of the funniest scenes in one of Friz Freleng's greatest Bugs Bunny cartoons, and that's saying a lot. However, starting in the 1980s, the scene immediately prior to this one, where Rocky gives Muggsy a gun and tells him to take the rabbit out and "let him have it," was cut from television screenings in the United States. So the getaway car would pull up to the hideout, then suddenly Rocky and Muggsy would be inside the house while Bugs was inexplicably outside imitating a police siren. Of all the cuts ever made to Warner Bros. cartoons, this one annoyed me the most.
ReplyDeleteWhen I moved to Australia, which unlike the U.S. has strict gun laws, I was gratified to see this cartoon once again shown in full on free-to-air TV. Even "Bushy Hare", with Bugs's Aboriginal foil Nature Boy, is still in regular rotation.