Carrotblanca

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Carrotblanca Looney Tunes series
Directed by	Douglas McCarthy
Produced by	Timothy Cahill & Julie McNally
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	August 25, 1995
Running time	8 min.

Carrotblanca is a 1995 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon. It was originally shown in cinemas alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure and The Pebble and the Penguin. It was subsequently released on video packaged with older Looney Tunes cartoons and was included in the special edition DVD release of Casablanca, the film to which it is both a parody and a homage.

The short involves nearly all the major Looney Tunes characters in roles from the film, including Bugs Bunny as Rick, Daffy Duck as Sam and Pepe Le Pew as Captain Renault. Some characters use their real names, others the names of the characters in the original film, or parodic versions. Several minor Looney Tunes characters can be seen in the background (such as Pete Puma as a waiter wearing a kaftan and kufi, and The Crusher as a doorman).

A German secret document is stolen and Usmarte (Tweety Bird as Ugarte, depicted unnervingly like Peter Lorre), the actual thief, lures Bugs Bunny into taking it. General Pandemonium (Yosemite Sam as Major Strasser) gets a frantic call from Foghorn Leghorn saying the secret document might be in the CarrotBlanca hotel.

Meanwhile Sylvester (as Victor Lazlo) and his wife Kitty Ketty (Penelope Pussycat as Ilsa) arrive at the hotel. Ketty attracts the attention of Louis (Pepe le Pew). Ketty also happens to be an old crush of Bugs. General Pandemonium suspects Sylvester may know about the document and binds him in his office. Ketty pleads with Bugs to help Sylvester out of this. Though Bugs initially refuses, he goes to the General's office nevertheless and confuses the General himself into jail.

The story climaxes, like the original, with Sylvester and Ketty escaping on a plane as Bugs watches them go. . .except Ketty finds Louis on the plane and jumps off using a parachute, landing right in front of Bugs, while Sylvester still is on the plane to New York City. The parachute cloth closes on them and the film ends.