Spaced Out Bunny

Spaced-Out-Bunny
Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny) series

Directed by	Chuck Jones Phil Monroe
Produced by	Chuck Jones
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	May 21, 1980
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	6 Minutes

Spaced Out Bunny is a Warner Bros. cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian. The cartoon was part of the television special Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over on CBS, which aired May 21, 1980.

Spaced Out Bunny is one of four Bugs Bunny cartoons produced during 1979-1980, the first new shorts since 1964's False Hare. Spaced Out Bunny would also be the last Warner Brothers-released short to have Mel Blanc voicing Bugs.

Plot

While walking in a forest, Bugs Bunny wonders aloud how everyone is out to get everyone else; this is illustrated by hostile behavior as Bugs' interacts with, among other things, a rock and a butterfly. He then sees a carrot and begins to eat it, unaware that it is a trap set by Marvin the Martian.

Marvin's purpose for capturing Bugs (with what Marvin explains is an "ACME Super Rack and Pinion Tranquilizer Carrot") is to provide a playmate for Hugo the Abominable Snowman (from 1961's The Abominable Snow Rabbit). After Bugs awakens and realizes where he is, Marvin explains his rationale before turning Hugo loose on Bugs ("Oh no, not again!" cries Bugs, remembering his earlier encounter with Hugo). Hugo reprises his lines from Snow Rabbit, including his intention to "hug him and squeeze him and name him George." Bugs regains the upper hand on his captors by suggesting to Hugo that he needs a robot; Marvin attempts to make a getaway but Hugo reaches into the spaceship and repeats his "I will call him George" lines. When an agitated Marvin demands that Hugo cease his behavior, an angry Hugo spanks Marvin.

Bugs then whispers in Hugo's ear, suggesting something that he would be good at. The scene cuts to Hugo's wrist, where he proudly displays his new "Mickey Martian" wristwatch. Bugs then climbs into the spacecraft and gets Hugo to practice his Frisbee toss by hurling the ship toward the Earth.

Sources

Beck, Jerry and Will Friedwald, "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons," Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1989. (ISBN 0-8050-0894-2).

External links

Spaced Out Bunny at the Internet Movie Database

Preceded by Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1980	Succeeded by Box Office Bunny

Chuck Jones

Short subjects	The Night Watchman (1938) Prest-O Change-O (1939) Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939) Naughty but Mice (1939) Elmer's Candid Camera (1940) Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941) Conrad the Sailor (1942) The Draft Horse (1942) The Dover Boys at Pimento University, or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (1942) Fin n' Catty (1943) The Weakly Reporter (1944) Angel Puss (1944) Hell-Bent for Election (1944) Fresh Airedale (1945) Fair and Worm-er (1946) A Pest in the House (1947) Little Orphan Airedale (1947) Scaredy Cat (1948) Long-Haired Hare (1949) For Scent-imental Reasons (1949) Fast and Furry-ous (1949) So Much for So Little (1949) Awful Orphan (1949) Bear Feat (1949) Rabbit Hood (1949) Often an Orphan (1949) The Ducksters (1950) Dog Gone South (1950) 8 Ball Bunny (1950) The Hypo-Chondri-Cat (1950) Homeless Hare (1950) The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950) Caveman Inki (1950) Rabbit of Seville (1950) The "Hunting Trilogy": Rabbit Fire (1951), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953) Bunny Hugged (1951) Feed the Kitty (1952) Duck Amuck (1953) Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953) Bully for Bugs (1953) Punch Trunk (1953) No Barking (1954) Sheep Ahoy (1954) Feline Frame-Up (1954) One Froggy Evening (1955) Double or Mutton (1955) Heaven Scent (1955) Rocket-bye Baby (1956) Ali Baba Bunny (1956) What's Opera, Doc? (1957) Scrambled Aches (1957) Robin Hood Daffy (1958) Hook, Line and Stinker (1958) Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958) Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959) Wild About Hurry (1959) Fastest with the Mostest (1960) Hopalong Casualty (1960) Who Scent You? {1960) Rabbit's Feat (1960) High Note (1960) Ready, Woolen and Able (1960) Compressed Hare (1961) Zip 'N Snort (1961) Lickety-Splat (1961) Beep Prepared (1961) Now Hear This (1962) Zoom at the Top (1962) A Sheep in the Deep (1962) Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963) Tom and Jerry (cartoon shorts, 1963–1967) War and Pieces (1964) The Dot and the Line (1965) The Bear That Wasn't (1967) Freeze Frame (1979) Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny (1980) Spaced Out Bunny (1980) Soup or Sonic (1980) Chariots of Fur (1994) Another Froggy Evening (1995) Superior Duck (1996) From Hare to Eternity (1996)

Television specials	Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) The Pogo Special Birthday Special (1969) Horton Hears a Who! (1970) The Cat in the Hat (1971, producer) The Cricket in Times Square (1973) A Very Merry Cricket (1973) Yankee Doodle Cricket (1975) The White Seal (1975) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975) Mowgli's Brothers (1976) Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976) Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper (1978) Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile (1979) Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979) A Chipmunk Christmas (1981)

Feature films	Sleeping Beauty (1959, layout artist, uncredited) Gay Purr-ee (1962, screenplay) The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, animation consultant) Stay Tuned (1992, animation supervisor) Mrs. Doubtfire (1993, animation supervisor)

Television series (full and partial)	Off to See the Wizard (1967, Executive Producer) Sesame Street (1969, various cartoon segments) Curiosity Shop (1971, Executive Producer) The Electric Company (1971, unique Road Runner segments)

Books	Daffy Duck for President (1997)

Compilations	The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979) Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980)

Comics	Crawford (1977–1978)

Characters	Bugs Bunny Charlie Dog Claude Cat Daffy Duck Elmer Fudd Hubie and Bertie Marc Antony and Pussyfoot Marvin the Martian Michigan J. Frog Pepé Le Pew Porky Pig Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog Sniffles The Three Bears Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner

Other works	Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991, directed by John Needham)

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