Show Biz Bugs

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Bugs and Daffy perform a dance number to entertain the audience.

Show Biz Bugs is a Warner Bros. animated short originally aired in theaters on November 2, 1957. It is billed as a Looney Tunes and it has Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as its main characters.

1 Credits
2 Summary
3 Edits
4 On DVD

[edit] Credits

Directed by: Friz Freleng
Story: Warren Foster
Animation: Gerry Chiniquy, Arthur Davis, Virgil Ross
Layout: Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds: Boris Gorelick
Film Editor: Treg Brown
Voice Characterizations: Mel Blanc
Musical Direction: Milt Franklyn

[edit] Summary

Bugs and Daffy are performing an on-stage number. Daffy, tired of Bugs hogging up all the cheering, decides to try numerous numbers on his own in order to impress the audience. After tons of failed attempts, Daffy is willing to risk everything in order to upstage Bugs, including sabotage Bugs' own acts and try a number that can only be done once.

[edit] Edits

Almost every TV airing of this cartoon edits the same scene, but in different ways. This involves the final scene where Daffy performs his ultimate act by drinking dangerous chemicals. Some networks removed him drinking gasoline, other networks shorten it so that way he doesn't ingest that many chemicals (often the gasoline drinking is edited out), one network showed Daffy ingesting all the chemicals, but not swallowing the match, one network cut all the chemicals out and made Daffy just swallow the match (this is perhaps the one edit that would confuse viewers the most), and other networks end the cartoon with Daffy shown black and smoldering after the xylophone explosion. The Boomerang UK TV airings of this episode contains the whole of the final scene. Cartoon Network did all the edits.