
Where Daffy threw unrestrained tantrums in Duck Amuck, Bugs attempts desperately to keep his composure as the animator prods his buttons. Throughout the short, Bugs values his dignity before anything, flat out refusing to be in a cartoon where he's not a Born Winner, only to be goaded into it when the director makes jabs at his ego and image.
Internal Deconstruction: Not only of the first Duck Amuck but also Jones seemingly taking a light hearted jab at his own more suave take on Bugs. Of course, since it's Elmer Fudd, and this time he's in complete control of things, this makes plenty of sense. I Don't Like You And You Don't Like Me: Invoked by Bugs when he sees who the animator is. The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Bugs Bunny, the original animator for Duck Amuck, is paid out with his own coin by Elmer. Genre Savvy: In stark contrast to Daffy, Bugs knows from the start that a cartoon animated by Elmer Fudd will only mean torture for him, and attempts in vain to either reason with him or escape. This is before the audience finds out the animator is Elmer Fudd. Foreshadowing: Early on, Bugs is shown to have an animosity with the cartoonist for unspecified reasons. Unlike in Duck Amuck, this is actually the end of the short. But there's still one way out, and you can't stop me!" He proceeds to pull down a "The End" card from the top of the screen. The End: Bugs tells the artist "Well, okay.
I finally got even with that screwy wabbit! Bugs is redrawn as a horse.Įlmer Fudd: Well, anyway.
Adaptation Species Change: In-Universe. Was given a video game adaptation for the SNES in 1993 by Sunsoft. On the whole, 1955 was a very strange year for Bugs. One of the very few cartoons in the Looney Tunes canon where Bugs is the butt of the joke in fact, the previous cartoon, " Hare Brush", had Elmer Fudd making a fool of Bugs. Over the course of the cartoon the animator continues to screw with Bugs in various surreal ways, like in Duck Amuck, as Bugs grows angrier and more frustrated. The animator erases Bugs' rabbit hole as he tries to dive back into it, causing Bugs to slam right into the ground. cartoons ever made, Duck Amuck, though this time the protagonist/victim is Bugs Bunny: Bugs comes out of his rabbit hole, sees who the animator is (although the audience doesn't, like in Duck Amuck), and refuses to participate any further. It's a successor to one of the most famous Warner Bros. "Rabbit Rampage" is a 1955 Looney Tunes short film, directed by Chuck Jones.