This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.
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- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
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- Director
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- Michael Maltese
- Tedd Pierce
- Aesop(uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAfter the police arrest Bugs Bunny, Cecil Turtle says one of Bugs' trademark lines: "Gee, ain't I a stinker?".
- GoofsWhen Bugs smashes into the tree, he hits it face first. Yet when he slides to the ground, his back is facing the tree.
- Quotes
Bugs Bunny: [at the start line] One for the money...
[takes a few steps forward]
Bugs Bunny: ...two for the show...
[Cecil does likewise]
Bugs Bunny: ...three to make ready...
[Bugs steps ahead a little more]
Bugs Bunny: ...and four to...
[takes off. A scooter drives up to Cecil]
Deliveryman: Telegram.
Cecil Turtle: [after Telegram Deliveryman drove off, Cecil verbally read it] Western Bunions Mr. Turtle 10 1/2 Ave. E Wyoming *GO!* Bugs Bunny
Cecil Turtle: [to the audience] Er, uh, mmm, uh, you still have time to place a wager. Uh, confidentially, it's in the ag-bay.
[Cecil shows a hidden motor engine in his carapace]
- ConnectionsFeatured in Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery (2004)
The writers go on the assumption apparently that few people are familiar with the first two of these Bugs Bunny-Cecil races because they begin the story with Bugs shocked by reading the famous Aesop Fable story about the tortoise beating the hare (even though he had done this twice before!)
At the sauna bath, where the two are lounging, Bugs makes the bet again, this time telling Cecil, "Listen, snail, I'll give you the post position and spot you 100 yards and I'll run backwards with my hands tied behind my back." He exaggerates but Cecil takes the bet, because he has secret advantage.
There are some very funny remarks, sight-gag jokes and asides-to-the-audience at the beginning of this race, which is to Grant's Tomb. The race itself is very strange, is all I can say. How these guys were in New York one minute, Chicago the next and Miami Beach is all quite a mystery. Only in the cartoons, I suppose.
The "jet age" angle was entertaining, but the ending was a bit lame.
- ccthemovieman-1
- Apr 23, 2007
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- El conejo veloz
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1