The Wacky Wabbit

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The Wacky Wabbit Merrie Melodies/Bugs Bunny series
Title Card to The Wacky Wabbit
Directed by	Robert Clampett
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Story by	Warren Foster
Voices by	Mel Blanc Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
Animation by	Sid Sutherland Bob McKimson Rod Scribner Virgil Ross
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	May 2, 1942 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8 min (one reel)
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The Wacky Wabbit is a Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was released on May 2,1942. It was directed by Robert Clampett. It stars Bugs Bunny (voiced by Mel Blanc) and Elmer Fudd (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan).

[edit] Plot summary

The cartoon begins with the fattened version of Elmer Fudd prospecting for gold, singing "Oh! Susanna", except that instead of 1849, the cartoon is set during World War II, with the implication that Elmer hopes to donate the gold to the war effort: "Oh, Susanna, don't you cwy for me, I'm gonna get me wots of gold, "V for Victowy!"

Bugs Bunny appears during the second verse and finishes it with Elmer, singing harmony. From that point on, in a role change from the usual, Bugs pesters Elmer without apparent provocation, as he did in Wabbit Twouble, from burying Elmer in the hole he was digging to cutting off Elmer's suspenders and revelaing the girdle he's wearing: "Don't waugh. I'll bet pwenty of you men wear one of these."

Instead of fleeing, this time Elmer turns toward revenge, especially when he observes that Bugs has a gold-filled tooth: "I'm came hewe for gold, and I'm gonna get it!" A furious fight ensues, and Elmer comes up the apparent winner, holding up a gold tooth, saying, "Euweka! Gold at wast! Heh-heh-heh-heh!" Elmer grins and laughs his usual laugh, and at the same time Bugs mocks Elmer with the same words, dropped-"r" and laugh, revealing that his tooth is intact and that Elmer is holding his own knocked-out gold tooth. Iris out.

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