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6 July 1957 (USA)
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Plot:
Ekmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery. Full summary » | Add synopsis »
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1 win
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Kill the Wabbit... Kill the Wabbit...
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Cast
(in credits order) (complete, awaiting verification) | Mel Blanc | ... | Bugs Bunny as Brunhilde (voice) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Arthur Q. Bryan | ... | Elmer Fudd as Siegfried (voice) (uncredited) |
Directed by | |||
| Chuck Jones | |||
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| Michael Maltese | (story) | |
| Richard Wagner | (opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen) uncredited | |
Produced by | |||
| Edward Selzer | .... | producer (uncredited) | |
Film Editing by | |||
| Treg Brown | |||
Sound Department | |||
| Treg Brown | .... | sound effects editor (uncredited) | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Corny Cole | .... | effects animator (uncredited) | |
| Harry Love | .... | effects animator (uncredited) | |
Animation Department | |||
| Philip DeGuard | .... | background artist | |
| Ken Harris | .... | animator | |
| Abe Levitow | .... | animator | |
| Maurice Noble | .... | layout artist | |
| Richard Thompson | .... | animator | |
| Willie Ito | .... | assistant animator (uncredited) | |
Music Department | |||
| Milt Franklyn | .... | music arranger | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1957) (USA) (theatrical)
- Warner Home Video (1992) (USA) (video) (laserdisc)
- Warner Home Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)
- Warner Home Vídeo (????) (Brazil) (VHS) (on "As Aventuras de Hortelino Troca Letras")
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7 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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The first cartoon selected for the National Film Registry.See more »
Quotes:
Elmer Fudd:I will do it with my spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny:Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd:Spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny:Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd:Magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny:[aside to audience, cynical] Magic helmet.
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Bugs Bunny:Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd:Spear and magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny:Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd:Magic helmet!
Bugs Bunny:[aside to audience, cynical] Magic helmet.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "The Nostalgia Critic: Top 11 Saddest Nostalgic Moments (#1.35)" (2008)See more »
Soundtrack:
Die Walküre: Ride of the ValkyriesSee more »
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List: "I killed the wabbit!"List: Bugs Bunny dresses in drag
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There's a tender Bugs-Elmer duet, set to Wagner, that goes like so:
Elmer: Oh, Bwunhilde. You're so wuvwy.
Bugs (in drag): Yes, I know it. I can't help it.
Elmer: Oh, Bwunhilde, be my WUV...
Scholars may detect actual commentary in this seven-minute masterpiece on the seeds of Nazism as sown by Wagner, the absurdity of the opera music-theater construct, or the multiple ironies of anthropomorphic cross-dressing. The rest of us just find it deadpan-knockout funny, musically glorious, and enacted on the greatest Wagnerian set ever built. Bravo tutti, and a deep, grateful bow to the late, great Chuck Jones; we shall never see his like again.