Bugs Bunny tries to escape from Hiawatha’s arrow to the head by hopping sideways. Hiawatha keeps up with him. The annoyed Bugs blurts out “Well, try this one!” That’s where the dry brush and multiples come in as Bugs hopes to a nearby cliff. These are random drawings. Freleng, or his layout artist, has Bugs hopping to and from the foreground.
Hiawatha follows.
Yes, it’s that fine old cartoon gag. Gravity takes effect after a character next to a cliff realises he’s in mid-air. Joe Barbera and Charlie Shows were still employing it in 1958 on poor Yowp in the Yogi Bear cartoon Foxy Hound-Dog.
We get the sucker-transformation gag seen in All This and Rabbit Stew (Avery, 1941). Does anyone know when it was first used in a cartoon?
Down he goes.
Mike Maltese wrote the story for this, with Gil Turner handed the animation credit.
To the best of my knowledge, the first time that visual sucker gag was the 1941 short of the "Censored 11" camp, "All This And Rabbit Stew".
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