Bewitched Bunny

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Bewitched Bunny
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • July 24, 1954 (1954-07-24)
Running time
6:56
LanguageEnglish

Bewitched Bunny is a 1954 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese.[2] The short was released on July 24, 1954, and stars Bugs Bunny.[3] Jones created the character Witch Hazel who debuted in this cartoon.

Witch Hazel later appeared in Broom-Stick Bunny (1956), A Witch's Tangled Hare (1959), and in A-Haunting We Will Go (1966). She also has a brief cameo appearance in Transylvania 6-5000 (1963).

Plot

The story begins with Bugs Bunny reading the classic fairy tale

your mother rides a vacuum cleaner
!"

However, once Hazel realizes that Bugs is a rabbit, she tries to cook him instead, using a carrot (hollowed out and filled with a sleeping potion) as a lure. Bugs eats the carrot and falls asleep and Witch Hazel puts him into a roasting pan to make rabbit stew.

After the witch goes down into the basement to get something else, a character resembling Prince Charming enters the house and kisses Bugs' hand. Bugs wakes up and says: "You're looking for Snow White. This here's the story of HAHHN-sel and Gretel", and the Prince takes his leave, confused about how Hansel is pronounced. Then Hazel emerges from the basement and Bugs races down a nearby hallway to escape, but is trapped by Hazel. As she approaches, Bugs quickly finds a grenade full of her magic powder (in a case marked with the message "In case of emergency break glass") and uses it to transform her into a gorgeous female rabbit who has a feminine voice but still has Hazel's laugh.

As he gets ready to leave with the bunny beauty, Bugs looks at the audience, breaking the fourth wall, and comments: "Ah sure, I know. But aren't they all witches inside?".

Cast

Controversy

This cartoon caused some controversy in Canada due to Bugs' ending line about Witch Hazel being turned into a rabbit being perceived as misogynistic.[4] And Bugs' closing line, "Ah sure, I know, but aren't they all witches inside?" was edited out of commercial broadcasts in the 1980s, and was replaced in later versions with "Sure uh, I know, but after all, who wants to be alone on Halloween?", which was the re-dubbed line for the ending of Bewitched Bunny after it was repurposed in 1977's Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special. This controversy was briefly mentioned by Eric Goldberg[5] on the DVD commentary of the fifth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set. However, the original version has been aired in Canada (as recently as 2015) on the Canadian cable channel Teletoon Retro.

Home media

Bewitched Bunny is available on the second disc of

Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection
: Volume 5.

On

HBO Max
it appears as Season 19 Episode 20.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Animation Breakdowns #10". Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  2. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
    .
  3. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ Saunders, Doug. "The Bureaucrats and Bugs Bunny, The Toronto Globe and Mail, Aug 19 1999". Archived from the original on March 2, 2000.
  5. ^ Lambert, David. "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - Complete Disc-by-Disc Details of Golden Collection Vol. 5 Cartoons, Extras". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved August 5, 2007.

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