Any Bonds Today?

Bugs Bunny appears alongside Porky Pig and a chubbier Elmer Fudd.

Any Bonds Today? is a 1942 one and a half minute propaganda film distributed by Warner Bros. during World War II. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger's Termite Terrace studio and directed by Bob Clampett for the U.S. Treasury Department. (The song for the short had been written by none other than Irving Berlin.) The short had Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Porky Pig encouraging theater audiences to buy bonds for the war effort. An already short cartoon, even by the standards of film cartoon shorts (which rarely exceeded ten minutes in length), the film has been shortened in most releases today even further to excise a sequence where Bugs Bunny parodies a blackfaced Al Jolson.

Bugs Bunny parodies Al Jolson in blackface.

[edit] Trivia

This is one of the last of four cartoons in which Elmer Fudd appeared as a chubbier version than his earlier and later appearances. The chubby Elmer was made to parody the physique of Elmer's voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan. Bob Clampett made these shorts with a fat Elmer because he could not make Porky fatter, as Porky had been in his first cartoon, I Haven't Got a Hat.

Schneider, Steve (1990). That's All Folks!: The Art of Warner Bros. Animation. Henry Holt & Co.