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Post by snsurone on May 11, 2020 18:36:26 GMT
IMHO, this is one of Bugs Bunny's best cartoon shorts. Bugs is tunneling underground on his way to visit his cousin, when he bumps hid head on a huge rock (maybe he should have taken that left turn in Albuquerque,  ). Upon discovering the rock to be solid gold, Bugs is ecstatic, but is soon tricked out of his treasure by an outlaw named Nasty Canasta. Six months later, Canasta has turned his ill-gotten gains into a (crooked) gambling casino in San Francisco. Bugs appears, disguised as a naive country boy, and with his shrewd intelligence (and a little dumb luck), manages to completely ruin Canasta's business, and the latter shoots himself in the belief that the revolver would yield gold coins (as it did for Bugs). Ant the end, Bugs breaks the fourth wall and speaks the last line: "The moral of the story is: 'Don't try to take no 18 karats from no rabbit!' ". I generally favor Bugs Bunny cartoons where his adversaries are other than the dim-witted Elmer Fudd, the hot-headed Yosemite Sam, or the smugly supercilious Daffy Duck.
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Post by marianne48 on May 12, 2020 6:05:51 GMT
I've never see this one. I love most of the Bugs and Daffy Duck shorts, but I've always felt that Bugs was micast in 8 Ball Bunny (in which he tries to return a lost penguin to the South Pole and keeps running into Humphrey Bogart from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). This should have featured Daffy in the Bugs role; even the lines sound more like Daffy's style and personality.
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Post by Prime etc. on May 12, 2020 6:21:52 GMT
I've never see this one. I love most of the Bugs and Daffy Duck shorts, but I've always felt that Bugs was micast in 8 Ball Bunny (in which he tries to return a lost penguin to the South Pole and keeps running into Humphrey Bogart from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre). This should have featured Daffy in the Bugs role; even the lines sound more like Daffy's style and personality. I never thought of that but you're right-it does sound more like Daffy Duck (from the 50s). That was before Chuck Jones finalized his version I guess.
Also there's another one where Elmer Fudd wins--he seems to have cracked up and thinks he is Bugs Bunny and Bugs Bunny gets hypnotized into thinking he is Elmer Fudd--but then the former gets arrested by the IRS.
Elmer Fudd says at the end: "I may be a screwy rabbit, but I'm not going to Alcatraz."
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Post by snsurone on May 12, 2020 11:29:08 GMT
That one was called "Hare Brush". That and "Rabbit Rampage" (a weak remake of the classic "Duck Amuck") may be the only two cartoons where Elmer outwits Bugs.
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Post by petrolino on May 12, 2020 15:49:41 GMT
Great thread. You really know your Looney Tunes.
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Post by snsurone on May 12, 2020 18:17:30 GMT
Great thread. You really know your Looney Tunes. Well, I'm kinda "Looney" myself!
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Post by teleadm on May 12, 2020 18:37:37 GMT
I had to look at a picture to see if I could remember this, but it's not one of those I've seen. 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on May 12, 2020 22:11:58 GMT
Love it. The "Draw Poker" bit is a howl. "CUT IT OUT, CAN'T CHA?"
It was a change of pace for nasty Canasta. He appeared in two Daffy shorty, Drip Along Daffy and My Little Duckaroo. He was just a silent menace to Daffy and Porky, but kind of clown to Bugs. Some of Bugs better moments came from antagonists who weren't the regulars. Black Jacques Shellac, Nasty Canasta, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Worth it for the song alone. I ran across a poster on the old board, "MinervaUlch". Is it insane that i know he words, even Porky's Stutters?
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Post by divtal on May 12, 2020 22:58:36 GMT
Among my favorite Looney Tunes "toons," is One Froggy Evening. It doesn't feature any of our notable furry, or feathered friends. But, it's great. vimeo.com/21117324
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