14 Carrot Rabbit
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14 Carrot Rabbit is a Looney Tunes cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny first shown March 15, 1953, directed by Isadore Freleng
[edit] Production
The story for the short was written by Warren Foster. It was animated by Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, and Arthur Davis. Hawley Pratt created the layout, while Iry Wyner developed the backgrounds. Voice Characterizations were done by Mel Blanc. Carl Stalling guided Musical Direction. 14 Carrot Rabbit was directed by Friz Freleng.
[edit] Plot
The basic plot of 14 Carrot Rabbit takes place during the gold rush in America, it centers on Yosemite Sam's attempts to steal other people’s gold. The story begins with an old man slouching over by a river to clean the gold he found in a pan. Sam suddenly appears, uses his gun and reputation of “Chilico Sam” to scare him away, and claims the gold. When he sees how little he has stolen from the old man, he says “Hardly no reward for a day’s work,” even though he did not work for it. Sam later takes the gold to a shop called “Next to Last Chance to Saloon” to trade them for money. He places the gold on the counter and orders, “Here Pierre, weigh this up, and don’t put your thumb on the scale.” After the weigh, Sam is furious to find out that Pierre can offer only $10 for the gold.
While Sam complains about the result, Bugs Bunny wobbles into the shop with a gigantic piece of gold to trade for a couple roots of carrots. When Bugs leaves, Sam asks Pierre the origin of Bugs' finding, and he tells him that Bugs finds gold because he gets a "fonny" ("funny" in mock French accent) feeling when he’s near gold. With this information, Sam decides to ask Bugs to be his partner, a 50/50 deal. Bugs stares back at the camera and wiggles his eyebrows with trickery smirk, knowing that Sam cannot be trusted and he will have to play some tricks on him. They stroll along together when Bugs randomly starts to act “fonny”, which is the sign that indicates he’s found gold. When Sam sees this, he pushes Bugs over to start digging for gold and rejects the partnership with Bugs, then says “That’s what I get for trusting a rabbit.” He starts to dig deeper and deeper, but it turns out he is in a dump truck full of rock and soil. The truck driver happens to be Bugs, who drives the truck to a cliff and empties the truck over the edge. But Sam keeps digging and finds himself on the bottom of the soil pile and imagines that he has dug through the globe, “Great horny toadies! I must'a dug clean to Chiny!” and falls into a hard ground.
An angry Sam chases Bugs through every state in Union. When he finally caught up with Bugs, he has another “fonny" moment. Sam tries to resist the gold digging infatuation but ends up caving in and starts to dig. This time Bugs was right and he finds tons of gold, but finds out that he is digging at the United States Gold Reserve in Fort Knox. He ends up getting taken away by US soldiers and charged with a felony. Another soldier finds Bugs and asks him what he is doing there; he wittily replies, “Who, me? I’m waiting for a street car.” But instead of a car, a ship glides in front of Bugs and he gets on and leaves the scene.
