Buccaneer Bunny
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Buccaneer Bunny is a 1948 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Friz Freleng. It features Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, the latter known in this picture as "Sea-Goin' Sam", a pirate. All voice characterizations in this cartoon are by Mel Blanc.
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The cartoon opens with Sam digging a hole to bury his treasure on a beach. In a comic triple, Sam twice sings the stereotypical pirate chanty "Fifteen men on a dead man's chest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum", and the third time sings "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of... Ma's old fashioned ci-der" with a conga kick on the last syllable, which is also a parody of "Dad's Old-Fashioned Root Beer", a well-known radio advertising jingle at that time.
In attempting to bury his treasure, Sam has encroached on Bugs' domain, as Bugs happens to have his rabbit hole there on the beach. When Bugs asks him who he is, he responds in his typical way: "I'm Sea-Goin' Sam, the blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em-first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that ever sailed the Spanish main!"
Bugs spends the rest of the picture tormenting Sam in the usual way, taking advantage of Sam's short temper and blustery personality. At one point he takes Sam through the famous lots-of-doors in-and-out routine. Another time, Bugs disguises himself as Captain Bligh (effecting the voice and thick-lipped appearance of Charles Laughton) and puts the gullible seaman through a whirlwind of shipboard chores.
In a side gag, Bugs is trying to hide, and a pesky parrot keeps crowing, "He's in there! He's in there! Awk!" Finally, Bugs asks the parrot, "Polly want a cracker?" The parrot changes his tune, "Polly want a cracker! Polly want a cracker! Awk!" Bugs hands him a huge, lit firecracker, which promptly explodes, reducing the bird to near-skeletal remains. His last words before he drops are, "Me and my big mouth! Awk!"
At various times, Sam gets blasted by cannon fire, bombs, and then a "dare" game that ends up exploding the pirate ship's powder magazine and reducing the ship to splinters. Finally, defeated, Sam raises the white flag. Bugsy turns to the audience, puts on an old-style ship captain's hat, and paraphrases John Paul Jones, "I had not even begun to fight!"
