4/16/2024 0 Comments Elmer fudd picturesBugs enjoys watching the male wolves hit on Elmer, who exclaims "Gwacious!" before fleeing from the pursuing wolves he briefly stops to ask the viewer, "Have any of you giwls evew had an expewience wike this?"īugs intercepts Elmer and proceeds to engage in the old " run 'this way'!" gag, putting Elmer through a bizarre series of steps which include flipping upside down to run on his hair (which reveals Elmer's panties and how complete the makeover was), hopping on all fours, and dancing a hopak.Īs Bugs and Elmer fall off a cliff, Bugs drinks some " Hare Tonic ( Stops Falling Hare)" and screeches to a halt in mid-air, while the dream Elmer continues to careen toward earth, finally crash-landing into the real Elmer's snoozing body. When the trio notice "Elmer", one wolf howls, "How-ooooooold is she?" while another begins flirting with the gender confused Elmer. Bugs inspects his handiwork, then lifts the backdrop to reveal a trio of literal wolves in Zoot suits, lounging by the sign at Hollywood and Vine. Looking for another way to torment Elmer, Bugs consults the book A Thousand and One Arabian Nightmares, exclaiming, "Oh, no! It's too gruesome!" before peeking over the book to cheerfully tell the audience, "But I'll do it!" Elmer realizes what Bugs has in mind, pleading, "No, no! No, not that! Not that, please!" as Bugs ties him to railroad tracks, just as "the Super Chief" (Bugs in an Indian chief's war bonnet, leading a conga line of baby rabbits) crosses over Elmer's head.Įlmer talks to the viewers in The Big Snooze, scene animated by Manny GouldĮlmer's anger about a failed pursuit through the surreal landscape is promptly used against him by Bugs who inquires, "What's the matter doc, ya cold? Here, I'll fix dat." Before Elmer can react, Bugs dresses him in drag, (dress, wig, lipstick) transforming the inept hunter into a woman with an hourglass figure who resembles Rita Hayworth. Hooray! Hooray!" When Elmer asks where they are all coming from, Bugs replies, "From me, Doc." Then we see him literally multiplying them from an adding machine. Next, in a musical parody of " The Campbells Are Coming", and a visual parody of the Pink Elephants on Parade sequence from the Disney film Dumbo (1941), Bugs creates a situation where "Ziwwions and twiwwions of wabbits" are dancing over Elmer while Bugs' voice is heard singing, "The rabbits are coming. Despite the unexpected formula, he covers his body instantly. Within Elmer's dreamland, Bugs creates unsettling situations: Elmer appears nearly nude, wearing only his derby hat and a strategically placed "loincloth" consisting of a laurel wreath. He decides to use Nightmare Paint to disrupt the "serene scene". He dreams he is inside Elmer's dream, in a boat crooning " Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat". Then, Bugs decides he had "better look into this", and downs a sleeping pill ("Take deez and doze"). During a relaxing fishing trip, Elmer falls asleep.īugs observes Elmer's nap, sings a little of " Beautiful Dreamer" and remarks that the dream he notices Elmer is having - that of a classic log and saw, representing snoring - is "a heavenly dream". cartoon contract and walks off the set to devote his life to fishing, stunning Bugs, who piteously protests and unabashedly, ultimately fruitlessly, begs him to reconsider. Elmer becomes enraged and frustrated that the writers never let him catch the rabbit in the pictures from which they both appear. After Bugs tricks Elmer into running through a hollow log and off a cliff three times (a comic triple of sorts originally used in An earlier Bugs Bunny Cartoon All This and Rabbit Stew in fact, the same animation sequence was recycled for "The Big Snooze", with the stereotypical black hunter being redrawn into Elmer Fudd). Plot īugs and Elmer are in the midst of their usual hunting-chasing scenario. The Big Snooze features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, voiced by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Its title was inspired by the 1939 book The Big Sleep, and its 1946 film adaptation, also a Warner release. Looney Tunes cartoon planned by Bob Clampett and was written by him, but was ultimately completed by Arthur Davis, both being uncredited as directors.
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