Person To Bunny

Person to Bunny is a 1959 Merrie Melodies Bugs Bunny cartoon released on April 2, 1960. It stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. The cartoon is posthumous because Arthur Q. Bryan died before the release of the cartoon.

Plot

In his Hollywood home Bugs Bunny is being interviewed on the TV show "People to People" with Cedric R. Burrows (a knock-off of the Edward R. Murrow series, Person to Person). As Bugs is interviewed, there is a knock on the door and Daffy Duck shows up. Seeing that Bugs is being interviewed, Daffy decides to get in on the action, but Bugs doesn't want Daffy in on it (as he is ruining the interview), making Daffy mad. Burrows asks how Bugs has outsmarted Elmer Fudd over the years and Bugs answers by "Elmer Fudd clever ?" Bugs says that he is stupid and his I.Q. is P.U. Elmer is watching the program at home but when he hears Bugs saying that he is stupid, he is enraged and decides to come to the interview. Just then, Elmer comes over. Bugs stops the interview and decides to settle with Elmer while Daffy sings a Ted Lewis song. Elmer tells Bugs that he has 5 seconds to apologize to him for calling him stupid or he will shoot, but Bugs puts a carrot in the gun and it backfires on him. Elmer puts his rifle through a crack in the door and Bugs tricks Daffy by telling him it is a TV camera. Elmer shoots Daffy leaving him with a bent beak. Daffy is now jealous of Bugs and thinking that being a rabbit was what Bugs did to be famous, starts mocking Bugs with a rabbit suit eating a carrot and says that anyone can do what he does. Then Elmer comes back and when Daffy starts to walk out, he is shot by Elmer thinking that it was Bugs. Daffy points to Bugs and Elmer chases Bugs outside. Now that Bugs is gone, Daffy decides to do a song and dance number for Mr. Burrows.

Outside, Bugs outsmarts Elmer by spinning him around in a log near a cliff so Elmer always comes out the cliff end of the log. Elmer gets confused and stays in the log panting while Bugs to go back to his interview ("It'll take him all day to figure out this one"). when Bugs returns Daffy is still doing his song and dance number when and Bugs decides to get rid of Daffy by letting him be on TV. Bugs mentions to Daffy that there will be 40 million people watching the show. When Daffy hears this, he gets stage fright and faints. In the end, Bugs is fanning Daffy and tells Burrows, "Good Night, Mr. Burrows.

Production details

• This would be the final cartoon where Bugs and Elmer starred together in the same cartoon, until the Looney Tunes revival shorts of the 1990s. This is also the final cartoon where Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd. Bryan had died in November 1959, a number of months before Person to Bunny's release.
• Burrows voice was provided by Daws Butler.
• The cartoon was slightly out of date even when it debuted in 1960, as Edward R. Murrow had already left "Person to Person" by 1959 and was replaced with Charles Collingwood. This was partially unavoidable, due to the long lead time between start time and completion of a theatrical cartoon (in some cases, over a year).