Bedeviled Rabbit

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Bedeviled Rabbit Looney Tunes/Bugs Bunny series
Image:Bedeviled Hare.jpg
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Eddie Selzer
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Milt Franklyn
Animation by	Ted Bonnicksen Keith Darling George Grandpré
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	April 13, 1957 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 min (one reel)
IMDb profile

Bedevilled Rabbit is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short featuring Bugs Bunny, directed by Robert McKimson and released in 1957. Bugs is lost in Tasmania, and has to deal with the Tasmanian Devil.

[edit] Synopsis

After a box of carrots is dropped into the middle of a jungle in Tasmania, Bugs pops out, wondering how he went from sleeping in a carrot patch to the middle of Tasmania. Suddenly, a group of animals (both wild and domesticated) come running through the woods, scared for their lives. A crocodile (who turns himself inside out into a bag for a disguise) hands Bugs a booklet talking about the Tasmanian Devil and the many things it eats.

While Bugs is going through the list, the Tasmanian Devil comes roaring in and greedily says that it 'especially' eats rabbits. Bugs is able to temporarily fool Taz into thinking he's a monkey, which Tasmanian Devils don't eat (though one of the animals seen running for its life was a monkey). However, Taz soon starts chasing Bugs again. Bugs tricks Taz into getting crushed under a tree but Taz manages to exit through a knothole in the tree. Bugs jokes around wondering what Tasmanian Devil pancakes would taste like, but he lets his guard down and Taz grabs Bugs by his ears and questions him. "How come you say you monkey, when you got little powder puff tail like rabbit, Rabbit?" Bugs ends up on a spit, trussed like a roast pig, as Taz puts salt and pepper on Bugs. Bugs is really nervous, because he is about to be eaten for lunch and has no escape plan, but luckily he sees Taz making a large salad to go with him. Bugs compliments Taz on the salad but says that the best thing to have with a salad is "wild turkey surprise," not rabbit. Taz, wanting to try it, unties Bugs. Bugs throws some sticks of dynamite together, lights the fuses and dresses the 'legs' up to look like they're from a turkey. Taz gobbles the dish, but doesn't seem too harmed from the explosion in his stomach.

When Taz starts chasing Bugs again, Bugs runs into a store owned by a "Trader Mac" and pulls some items off the shelf to dress himself up as a Tasmanian She-Devil. Bugs 'makes out' with Taz and, with a bear trap for lips, gives him a big kiss. This causes the real she-devil (whom Taz married at the end of Devil May Hare) to come in and smack him across the head with her rolling pin. Bugs comments "She's a nice lady. Yeesh!"

[edit] Censorship

When this cartoon aired on ABC, the part where Bugs constructs a "wild turkey surprise" out of explosives was cut; incidentally, the part where Taz eats the "surprise" and the resulting explosion was not cut.^{[citation needed]}