2/17/2024 0 Comments Pictures of elmer fudd fat![]() ![]() This prompts a display of Elmer-as-Siegfried's "mighty powers". ![]() Bugs sticks his head out of another rabbit hole and converses with Elmer about his spear and magic helmet. Elmer jams his spear into the hole while singing "Kill the wabbit!" repeatedly to the tune of Ride of the Valkyries. In 1992, the Library of Congress deemed it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant", and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry, the first cartoon short film to receive such honors.ĭressed as the demigod Siegfried (and cutting a less than impressive figure as such), Elmer Fudd is pursuing Bugs Bunny when he finds rabbit tracks and arrives at Bugs' hole. ever released, and has been ranked as such in the top 50 animated cartoons of all time. It has been widely praised by many in the animation industry as the greatest animated cartoon that Warner Bros. The short marks the final appearance of Elmer Fudd in a Chuck Jones cartoon. Most of the dialogue is performed in recitative. It borrows heavily from the second opera in the "Ring Cycle" Die Walküre, woven around the typical Bugs–Elmer feud. The story features Elmer chasing Bugs through a parody of 19th-century classical composer Richard Wagner's operas, particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung), Der Fliegende Holländer ( The Flying Dutchman), and Tannhäuser. The short was released on July 6, 1957, and stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. They are real crowd pleasers.What's Opera, Doc? is a 1957 American Warner Bros. Despite what Maltese said I will wager they brought the house down when originally shown. I have shown both those films to paying audiences in packed theaters so often I have lost count. Writer Mike Maltese later claimed it died in theaters because the rabbit needed to be "put-upon" by an adversary in order to be lovable. Incidentally, Clampett's next Bugs, THE WACKY WABBIT, also had him harrassing fat Elmer for no good reason. Although it has elements that make it a fan favorite ("Oh, we're the boys of the chorus."), I've always found its whole to be far less than the sum of its parts, mainly because Bugs-as-patsy doesn't much work. Hayde said.Īnother cartoon that makes Bugs the butt of the joke is McKimson's WHAT'S UP DOC? (1950). I never minded the nihilist Bugs, or any of the other mindlessly vicious character (even early Woody Woodpecker), so long as they were clever in their destruction. Bugs doesn't even put up a fight - he just registers annoyance. The same principle is applied - less successfully - in "Rabbit Rampage", a mild "Duck Amuck" clone that pits Bugs against an unseen artist. The fun is seeing Bugs reduced to sputtering fury by the small, laid-back turtle ("Uhhhh. There are three cartoons - each by a different director - where Bugs Bunny is defeated by Cecil Turtle: 6:09 PM John McElwee said.ĭonald Benson cites some occasions where Bugs ate humble pie: That fat Elmer was designed to look like the man who did his voice, Arthur Q. That guy makes the early Bugs Bunny look like Mary Pickford. I take it, then, you're no fan of Tex Avery's Screw Squirrel at Metro. From that dire beginning, Bugs and I could Once, at ageįour, I asked my mother for a raw carrot so as to emulate the Bunny's eating ![]() Bugs hadĬonfidence we needed to win a war ( Wabbit Twouble released right after Pearl Harbor), but I always found him smug. ![]() Runner, Sylvester, Hubie/Bertie, and all time favorite, Daffy Duck. I don't come to the debate fairly for lifelongĪntipathy toward Bugs, him way down my list of likes behind Porky, Road Bob Clampett had anything-goesĪttitude regarding Bugs, not like Chuck Jones later on who insisted the rabbitīe provoked into mischief. So than BB, does their uncalled-for stuff. Rabbit, putting our sympathy square with him as obnoxious wildlife, none more Makes Bugs' aggression the more off-putting). Merely trying to enjoy his camp-out in peace (no gun with Fudd this time, which Is it Pfudd, Phudd, or the correct Fudd? (had to confirm yet again today) Here is Elmer, portlier than customaryĪnd therefore less mobile, being victimized by Bugs Bunny where the man is I can never remember how you spell Elmer Fudd. ![]()
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