Rabbit Every Monday

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Rabbit Every Monday
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"What's Up? Your Time's Up Rabbit!"
Directed by I. Freleng
Story byFriz Freleng (uncredited) [1]
Produced by Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Starring Mel Blanc (all voices)
Music by Carl Stalling
Animation by Manuel Perez
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Art Davis
Layouts by Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by Paul Julian
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date
February 10, 1951
Running time
7:23
LanguageEnglish

Rabbit Every Monday is a 1951 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on February 10, 1951, and stars Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. [2] The title is a play on Chicken Every Sunday .

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It is the last short to feature Sam's mouth below his mustache; his design changes midway through the film.

Rabbit Every Monday has the distinction of being the first Looney Tunes cartoon to appear on the first episode of The Bugs Bunny Show , on October 11, 1960.

Plot

Bugs is cooking carrots on a rotisserie and singing a parody of the song "It's Magic" (from the 1948 Warner Bros. film Romance on the High Seas ). Yosemite Sam is hunting and, when he smells carrots cooking, knows he must be close to a rabbit. In a breaking the fourth wall moment, a patron in the movie theater leaves his seat and passes in front of the screen. Sam points his shotgun at him and orders him back to his seat. Sam then issues a warning to the rest of the audience. He reaches Bugs' hole and Bugs, thinking that Sam's nose is a carrot, flavours it, yanks it, and Sam, into his hole and bites the nose.

Sam jumps above ground, sticks the gun down the hole and commands Bugs to come out. Bugs emerges from Sam's gun and says, "What's up Doc?", to which Sam replies, "Your time is up, rabbit!" and demands he remove himself from the gun. Bugs refuses so Sam releases a gun shell, which Bugs is inside of. He says to Bugs, "Now start prayin', cuz I'm a-blowin' ya to smithereenies at the count of ten!" Bugs quickly chews bubble gum and sticks it into the gun. The gun backfires, surrounds Sam with a bubble and Bugs blows him down a cliff. As Sam is blowing his way back up, Bugs bursts the bubble with a pin. After a very "sticky" situation, Sam digs around the hole with Bugs in it, puts him in a sieve and proceeds to filter Bugs out. He then takes Bugs, by gunpoint, to his cabin - "Now, ya carrot-chewin' coyote, git a-goin'!".

Bugs is hanging on a wall while Sam puts wood in the oven. After Bugs manages a few annoyances for Sam concerning his hat, he is obliged to go into the oven. He exits it several times and takes back in some items: a fan, a pitcher of water ("Hot in there"), chairs, and party favors. He empties ashtrays into Sam's hat and asks him to see if he can 'scare up a few more'. Sam gets mad. The next time Bugs pops from the stove (covered with lipstick), he tells Sam there is a party going on and invites him in. Sam spruces himself up a bit and enters the oven. Bugs comes out and starts putting more wood in the fire, but begins having regrets about having fooled Sam. When he takes a look inside, however, Bugs suddenly realizes that the oven is actually hosting a real party (a live-action clip from Romance on the High Seas ), hears Sam wildly celebrating, and dives in himself. As the cartoon ends, he pokes his head from the oven door (now wearing a hat and waving party favors) and exclaims, "I don't ask questions, I just have fun!"

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References

  1. ↑ "Cartoon Logic: Cartoon Logic Episode 08: Friz Freleng (Rabbit Every Monday)". cartoonlogic.libsyn.com. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . Checkmark Books. pp.  60-61. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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