Bugs Bunny is chased by Elmer Fudd throughout a TV studio and its various productions.Bugs Bunny is chased by Elmer Fudd throughout a TV studio and its various productions.Bugs Bunny is chased by Elmer Fudd throughout a TV studio and its various productions.
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Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- …
Arthur Q. Bryan
- Elmer Fudd
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Daws Butler
- Bugs as Groucho
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- …
- Directors
- Robert McKimson
- Friz Freleng(Rhapsody Rabbit sequences) (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAmong the television programs parodied are You Bet Your Life (1950) starring Groucho Marx, You Are There (1953) with Walter Cronkite, and The Liberace Show (1952), starring Liberace.
- Quotes
Bugs Bunny: [referring to Elmer] Gee, what a sorehead. I've hoid about professional jealousy among actors, but that dope has got it real bad.
Elmer Fudd: [chasing Bugs] Hey, you come back here!
Bugs Bunny: Oh, no. You huwt my feelings.
- ConnectionsEdited into Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television (1982)
- SoundtracksLucky Day
(uncredited)
Music by Ray Henderson
Lyrics by Lew Brown and Buddy G. DeSylva
Sung by Bugs Bunny
Featured review
A fine late effort by McKimson
Bob McKimson's late-50s TV show spoofs, written by Tedd Pierce, generally have not weathered time too well. Scarcely anyone living today can recall the sources of such cartoons as "China Jones," "People Are Bunny" (unless you can remember Art Linkletter's House Party), or "Boston Quackie." But if you're old enough to remember when Groucho Marx, Art Carney and Liberace were still alive, the present cartoon can be a nifty laugh riot.
Elmer is host of QTTV's "The Sportsman's Hour"; how his speech impediment could allow him to become famous as a TV host really isn't supposed to bother us. Bugs answers the channel's want-ad for a rabbit, soon realizing he's being taken for a ride. The hunter chases him all through sets for other programs, like the fondly remembered Walter Cronkite show "You Are There," as well as Groucho's "You Bet Your Life," and Liberace.
Director McKimson allows voice artist Daws Bulter to do imitations of some of the celebrities under whose guise Bugs appears; and I'm not all that certain I approve of anyone other than Blanc having this privilege.
But "Wideo Wabbit" stands comfortably alongside McKimson's "Honey-Mousers" trilogy as Warner TV spoofs that can delight and withstand repeated viewings. McKimson's almost at the end of his last fertile period, and the first two "Honeymousers" films really show the creative energy burning off him and his new animation unit.
Elmer is host of QTTV's "The Sportsman's Hour"; how his speech impediment could allow him to become famous as a TV host really isn't supposed to bother us. Bugs answers the channel's want-ad for a rabbit, soon realizing he's being taken for a ride. The hunter chases him all through sets for other programs, like the fondly remembered Walter Cronkite show "You Are There," as well as Groucho's "You Bet Your Life," and Liberace.
Director McKimson allows voice artist Daws Bulter to do imitations of some of the celebrities under whose guise Bugs appears; and I'm not all that certain I approve of anyone other than Blanc having this privilege.
But "Wideo Wabbit" stands comfortably alongside McKimson's "Honey-Mousers" trilogy as Warner TV spoofs that can delight and withstand repeated viewings. McKimson's almost at the end of his last fertile period, and the first two "Honeymousers" films really show the creative energy burning off him and his new animation unit.
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- nnwahler
- Apr 15, 2017
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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