Rabbit's Kin

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Rabbits Kin is a Merrie Melodies short released on November 15, 1952.

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A little bunny with a warp-speed high pitched voice (named Buster Rabbit by some fans) is running from Pete Puma, until he stumbles down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. The little guy tells Bugs his problem, and Bugs agrees to help him out. Bugs then proceeds to play tricks on Pete, (voiced by Stan Freberg). When he asks Pete to stay for tea and asks how many 'lumps' of sugar he wants, he replies "Oh, three or four". Bugs mallets him and gives him four lumps on his head. Pete had also offered Bugs an exploding cigar, and while Pete is dazed Bugs puts the cigar in Pete's mouth and lights it. BOOM!

Pete next tries to disguise himself as the little rabbit's mother. Once again, Bugs wants to have him for tea, but this time Pete declines the offer. He says, "But I don't want no TEA! It gives me a HEADACHE!" Instead, Pete provides coffee. The "lumps" gag repeats itself, only this time the puma has protection in the form of an "Acme Stove Lid" on his head. Bugs removes it with his "Acme Stovelid Lifter", revealing more knots on Pete's cranium.

Pete grabs the little bunny and runs home to his cave, but Bugs shows up in a costume disguised as Pete's second cousin, Paul Puma. He asks how many lumps of coal Pete wants for the stove, and after he says "You better give me a lotta lumps, a whooole lotta lumps", he catches himself. "Oh no ya don't", he says. "I'll help myself!" the cartoon ends with Pete beating himself on the head with a wooden mallet as Bugs takes the little bunny home ("We'd better get outta here, Shorty--he's much too smart for us! Huuuuuuugh!") (representing Pete's inhaled chortling sound).