Russian Rhapsody 6.2
1944 directed by Bob Clampett
Featuring Adolf Hitler and Caricatures of the Looney Tunes Staff

German Bombers are failing to make it to Moscow in World War II, so Adolf Hitler decides to personally fly a bomber to attack the Russians. On the way there however, the Gremlins sneak onto the plane, and without Hitler's knowledge, begin to dismantle it. Hitler eventually finds out about the gremlins, and tries to retaliate.

Trivia

• Many of the Gremlins are parodies of the Warner Brothers cartoon staff. The style of caricature is reminiscent of a 1936 Christmas Card from the staff, as drawn by T. Hee. Among the recognizable gremlins are Chuck Jones, Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng, Melvin Millar, Michael Sasanoff, Leon Schlesinger, Michael Maltese, Henry Binder and Ray Katz. Freleng and Binder are also referenced during the fake German rant at the beginning of the cartoon.
• The song the gremlins sing "We Are Gremlins from the Kremlin" is to the tune of the popular Russian song "Ochi Chyornye".

 

Beanstalk Bunny DVD2
1954 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd

Daffy and Bugs find themselves in a Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale. Daffy reaches the top of the beanstalk all excited about stealing the fortune that the giant's castle holds, until he meets the giant himself (Elmer). Daffy's excitement turns into fear and he runs from the giant just as Bugs reaches the top. Elmer decides to capture both of them and takes them to his castle to grind their bones.

Trivia

• Broadcast versions cut the scene of Bugs and Daffy stuck inside Elmer's head and Elmer using cigarettes and champagne corks (as earplugs) to smoke them out.

 

Buccaneer Bunny 5.1
1947 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam

Sam digs a hole to bury his treasure on a beach, singing the stereotypical pirate shanty Fifteen men on a dead man's chest. Sam disturbs Bugs, who spends the rest of the picture tormenting Sam in the usual way, taking advantage of Sam's short temper and blustery personality. At various times, Sam gets blasted by cannon fire, and then Bugs tricks Sam into playing a dare game with matches and the powder room.

Trivia

• The instrumental over the titles is The Sailor's Hornpipe, which is also one of the theme songs to the Popeye cartoon series.
• When Sam switches to "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of... Ma's old fashioned ci-der" with a conga kick on the last syllable it's a parody of "Dad's Old-Fashioned Root Beer", a well-known radio advertising jingle at that time.
• When Bugs disguises himself as Captain Bligh he uses the voice and thick-lipped appearance of Charles Laughton who played Bligh in Mutiny on The Bounty
• Sam's various unsuccessful attempts to get Bugs when he is in the crow's nest foreshadows the Road Runner and Coyote formula.
• When Bugs responds to Sam’s Surrender with "I had not even begun to fight," he’s referencing John Paul Jones, a Revolutionary War Naval fighter who said those words in response to being asked to consider surrendering to the British.

 

The Abominable Snow Rabbit 5.1
1961 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Bugs and Daffy tunnel through the Himalayan Mountains. Realizing they are not in Palm Springs, Daffy gets back in the tunnel, and heads back. The Abominable Snowman grabs Daffy, names him George, and gives him crippling hugs, believing Daffy is a rabbit. Daffy imparts to him where he can find a real rabbit. Bugs and Daffy continue to redirect his attention to the other.

Trivia

• The title is taken from the mythic creature and the 1957 horror film The Abominable Snowman
• Hugo is based on Lennie from Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. His mental ineptitude, his desire for a pet rabbit, and naming everyone George are all elements found in the book.
• This is a rare occasion where Bugs does not blame his failure to arrive at his destination on missing a turn at Albuquerque, although as Bugs tries to figure out where he did go wrong, he notes that he and Daffy stopped there for lunch during their trip.
• When he first sets out on his own, Daffy's intended destination is Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In a rare bit of inter-cartoon continuity, the later cartoon Transylvania 6-5000 reveals that Perth Amboy is the location of Bugs' travel agent.

 

For Scent-imental Reasons 1.3
1949 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Pepe LePew

Awards

• Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film

A happy man riding his bicycle through Paris arrives athis perfume store. After peering into the store, he immediately runs up to a musketeer for assistance. The musketeer looks into the shop and sees a skunk. The perfume store owner cries out that he will now be bankrupt, his black female cat consoles him by winding around his legs. The shop owner picks up the cat and orders her to remove the skunk from the premises, and then throws her into the store. She slides across the floor and bumps into the leg of a table, knocking a bottle of white hair dye over. The hair dye drips down onto Penelope's tail and runs in a straight line down to her head, resulting in a white stripe down her back. Pepe Le Pew immediately sees her and mistakes her for a skunk. Love is in the air.

Trivia

• This cartoon silenced producer Eddie Selzer's claims that Pepe Le Pew wasn't a funny cartoon character. When this cartoon was announced as the winner for Best Cartoon Short, Selzer himself came up to accept the award.
• This was the first time the white stripe was an accidental occurrence and the cat was female, and it set the formula for future shorts.

 

What’s Opera Doc 2.4
1957 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny, and Elmer Fudd

Awards

• #1 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time as chosen by members of the animation field.
  
• US Library of Congress deems it culturally significant and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. It was the first cartoon short they ever selected. Chuck Jones is the only animator to have three films selected.

Elmer Fudd chases Bugs Bunny through a 6:11 operatic parody of 19th century classical composer Richard Wagner's operas, particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) and Tannhäuser. It is sometimes characterized as a condensed version of Wagner's Ring, and its music borrows heavily from the second opera Die Walküre, woven around the standard Bugs-Elmer conflict. The short lampoons the contemporary style of ballet, Wagner's perceived ponderous operatic style, and even the by-then clichéd Bugs-and-Elmer formula.

Music used in the film

• Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)
  
• Siegfried
  
• the overture from The Flying Dutchman
  
• the overture and "Pilgrims’ Chorus" from Tannhäuser
  
• the Bacchanal from Tannhäuser
  

Trivia

• The title is a play on the catch phrase What's Up Doc? It is sometimes informally referred to as Kill the Wabbit after the line sung by Fudd to the tune of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", the opening passage from Act Three of Die Walküre (which is also the leitmotif of the Valkyries).

• This is the only Bugs Bunny film in the National Film Registry
  
• Required 6 times the work and expense as standard shorts of the day. Cartoons were scheduled for a five-week production. Jones did this cartoon in seven weeks instead. To cover up for the extra time spent, he had his entire unit doctor their time cards to make it appear as if they were working on the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner short Zoom and Bored (1957) for two weeks before production of that cartoon actually started, subsequently they rushed the production of the Road Runner cartoon.
  
• One of only three shorts where Elmer triumphs over Bugs

Earworms

• Kill da wabbit.
• Speah and magic hewmut

 

Claws for Alarm 3.3
1954 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Porky Pig and Sylvester

Porky and Sylvester are driving to Albuquerque, New Mexico when Porky decides to stop for the night at the hotel in Dry Gulch; actually a ghost town, a fact which sends Sylvester to trembling, but which Porky seems oblivious to. Sylvester alone is alert to the danger from murderous mice that have taken up residence in the hotel. The mice are mostly unseen, except for tiny, malevolent pairs of eyes in dark corners and the moose heads over the main desk and Porky's bed.

Trivia

• This was the second of three cartoons teaming Porky Pig and Sylvester the cat (continuing his non-speaking role as Porky's cat) in a spooky setting where only Sylvester is aware of the danger they are in.
  
• Some cartoon buffs view Claws for Alarm as the creepier of the trio of cartoons, noting the simpler drawings and the almost never-seen mice. Claws for Alarm brings the sense of fear and dread from the very first frame and ends in true horror-movie fashion with the monster not completely vanquished.
  
• At about 4 minutes into the cartoon, a mouse resembling a miniature Wile E. Coyote can
  be seen with a knife, about to swing down at Porky.

 

Hair-Raising Hare 1.3
1946 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny, Gossamer, and Peter Lorre.

An evil scientist is planning to catch a rabbit to provide dinner for his large, hairy, orange, sneaker-wearing monster. The scientist lures Bugs to his castle. Once Bugs gets to the castle the scientist persuades him to stay and meet the ferocious beast. An extended chase between Bugs and Gossamer ensues.

Trivia

• This is the first appearance of Gossamer though he is unnamed in this short.
  
• "Oh, You Beautiful Doll,‖ a ragtime love song by Seymour Brown and Nat D. Ayer, always accompanies the shapely robotic female rabbit in the underscore.
  The line "And don't think this hasn't been a little slice of heaven...'cause it hasn't!" comes from Groucho Marx in Duck Soup.
  
• The character of Peter Lorre is actually voiced by Mel Blanc

Earworms

• I bet you Monstahs lead interesting lives.
  
• Did you ever have the feeling you was being watched? People! AHHHAHAHHAAAaaaaaahhh!
  
• Don’t go up there, it’s dark.
  
• Having re-redisposed of the monstah, exit our hero stage right.

 

Water, Water Every Hare 1.1
1950 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny, Gossamer, and Vincent Price

Bugs finds himself trapped in the castle of an evil scientist, who this time is a caricature of Vincent Price and needs the rabbit's brain to complete an experiment. When Bugs makes a run for it, a big orange monster wearing a pair of sneakers (Gossamer, but here called Rudolph) is sent out to retrieve him. Bugs does everything he can to avoid being caught.

Trivia

• The title is a reference to "Water Water Everywhere," a line from The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.
  
• The Vincent Price character is actually voiced by John T. Smith

Earworms

• If an interesting monstah can’t have an interesting hairdo, then I don’t know what the world is coming to.

 

Bugs Bunny gets the Boid 1.3
1942 directed by Bob Clampett
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Killer

A mother buzzard instructs her children to go out and catch something for dinner. Three out of four agree to their mom's food choices and take off right away. Then Mother notices one of her kids remaining with his back turned. Killer is painfully shy and a little on the slow side. Against his will, his mother kicks him out of the nest with instructions to at least catch a rabbit. Killer spots Bugs Bunny and soars down to catch him.

Trivia

• The part where Bugs and Killer are temporarily fooled into thinking that the bones are theirs is a reference to a Harold Lloyd film, called The Freshman.
  
• When Bugs comes out of his hole as an air traffic controller, NBC's jingle can be heard.

 

Bully for Bugs 1.1
1952 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Toro

On his way to the Coachella Valley for the big carrot festival, Bugs Bunny gets lost in a bullring in the middle of a bullfight between Toro the bull and a very nervous matador. As he asks the matador for directions, the matador escapes into the stands, leaving Bugs to fend for himself against Toro. Toro rams the rabbit out of the bullring, Bugs returns as a matador to vanquish the raging bull.

Chuck Jones says that he made this cartoon after producer Eddie Selzer burst into Jones' workspace one day and announced (for no apparent reason) that bullfights were not funny, and they were not to make a cartoon about them. Since Selzer had consistently proven himself to be wrong about absolutely everything, Jones made the cartoon.

Trivia

• The sounds of the crowd are recorded from a genuine bull-fighting crowd in Barcelona, Spain.
  
• Bugs performs the Slap Dance to the tune of Las Chiapanecas

Earworms

• Stop steaming up my tail!

 

Rabbit's Kin 1.1
1952 directed by Robert McKimson
Featuring, Bugs Bunny, Pete Puma, and Shorty

A little bunny named Shorty with a barely discernible warp-speed high pitched voice is running from Pete Puma, until he stumbles down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. The little guy tells Bugs his problem and Bugs agrees to help him out. Bugs then proceeds to play tricks on Pete.

Earworms

• How many lumps do you want?
  A whole lotta lumps, a whole latta lumps!....Eeegghhhhha!

 

Knighty Knight Bugs 4.1
1958 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam

Awards

• Academy Award For Best Animated Short Film (the only Oscar for Bugs Bunny)

Bugs Bunny plays the court jester of King Arthur while Yosemite Sam plays the Black Knight in a story that parodies the legend of King Arthur and the comic strip Prince Valiant. Arthur complains that hard times that have befallen the kingdom ever since the Black Knight has stolen the Singing Sword. He asks his knights for a volunteer to get the sword back. The knights refuse saying that the Black Knight is invincible and has a fire-breathing dragon guarding the sword. Bugs as the court jester, tells the King that only a fool would be crazy enough to go after the Black Knight. The King agrees telling Bugs that he has to get the singing sword, or else face beheading.

 

Hare Trigger 6.1
1945 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam

In his first appearance Yosemite Sam plays a train robber. Bugs is riding in the mail car of a train when Sam attempts to rob the train. Each of them vies for the upper hand.

Trivia

• The title is a play on the phrase Hair Trigger.
  
• Bugs’ oft used line of "He don't know me vewy well, do he?" was a popular radio catch-phrase from Red Skelton's Mean Widdle Kid character.
  
• At one point, Bugs thinks he has vanquished Sam, and yells "So long, screwy, see ya in Saint Louie!" in a line that will be echoed in Bugs Bunny Rides Again and A Feather in His Hare.
  
• When Sam emerges banged up from the bar fight there is a racial gag that was subtle enough that it was usually unedited in network showings.

 

Bugs Bunny Rides Again 2.1
1947 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.

This is a sequel to the pair's first encounter in Hare Trigger. The title is a typical Western reference, as in "The Lone Ranger rides again", and also suggests a reference to the 1940 Jack Benny comedy, Buck Benny Rides Again. The town of Rising Gorge is riddled with gunfire. But
even the toughest of the tough fear Sam. No one dares to challenge Yosemite Sam except Bugs. They square off in a variety of conflicts each trying to one up the other. The two decide to settle their differences by playing cards, with the loser being forced to leave town.

Trivia

• The title is a reference to The Lone Ranger Rides Again, from TV, radio, and movies.
  
• When Sam first introduces himself, he originally described himself as "the roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Gran-dee -- and I don't mean Mahatma Gan-dee!" Because Gandhi was assassinated later in 1948, for subsequent reissue prints, Blanc redubbed the last line to "And I ain't no namby-pamby!" Even though the original "Mahatma Gandhi" version still exists, even unedited collections show this edit.
  
• The gag Where Sam tells Bugs to cut the cards and he does using a meat cleaver, is an old vaudeville joke previously seen in a Harpo Marx gag in the 1932 film Horse Feathers, and a Curly Howard gag in 1936's Ants in the Pantry.
  
• As a nod to the first film with Sam (Hare Trigger), bugs says "So long Sammy, see you in Miami" reminiscent of "So long screwy, see you in St. Louie."

Earworms

• I’m a thinkin’…and my head hurts

 

Bugs and Thugs 1.4
1953 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny, Rocky, and Mugsy

Bugs emerges from his hole in a city park, reading the newspaper on his way to the nearest bank, for a withdrawal from his personal depository of carrots. He reads that rabbit season is opening and comments on his pleasure of living in a more secure urban environment. Mugsy drives up to the bank and Rocky goes in and robs it. When Bugs mistakes Rocky and Mugsy's getaway car for a taxi, Rocky determines that Bugs knows too much and he must be delt with.

Earworms

• Shaddup shuttin up!

 

One Froggy Evening 2.4
1955 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Michigan J. Frog

Awards

• #5 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time as chosen by members of the animation field.
  
• #4 on IMDB's list of Best Short Movies Ever
  
• US Library of Congress deems it culturally significant and selected it for preservation in
  the National Film Registry. Chuck Jones is the only animator to have three films selected.
  A construction worker unearths a time capsule and discovers a singing frog. All attempts to capitalize on it fail.

Music used in the film

• Hello! Ma Baby - Words and Music by Ida Emerson and Joseph E. Howard (1899)
• The Michigan Rag - Words and Music by Milt Franklyn, Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones
• Come Back to Erin - Words and Music by Claribel (pseudonym of Charlotte Alington Barnard) (1866)
• I'm Just Wild About Harry - Words and Music by Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle (1921)
• Throw Him Down, McCloskey - Words and Music by John W. Kelly (1890)
• Won't You Come Over To My House - Words by Harry Williams Music by Egbert Van Alstyne (1906)
• Largo al factotum from "The Barber of Seville - Composed by Gioacchino Rossini (1816)
• Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - Words and Music by Sidney Clare, Sam H.
• Stept and Bee Palmer (1930)

Trivia

• No words other than the frog singing are used in this film
  
• The singer was uncredited and unknown for years, but recently credited to baritone Bill Roberts, a nightclub entertainer in Los Angeles in the 1950s.
  
• The frog had no name when the cartoon was made, but Chuck Jones later named him Michigan J. Frog after the only original song in the film, Michigan Rag, a parody of pop-rag songs of the era. The character became the mascot of The WB television network in the 1990s.
  
• The story may have been inspired by the real-life tale of Ol' Rip, a horned toad who apparently survived 31 years sealed in the cornerstone of the courthouse in Eastland, Texas. The cornerstones in both cases had been laid in the 1890s.
  
• The performing style of the frog is at least in part a tribute to ragtime era greats such as Bert Williams, who was known for sporting a top hat and cane, and performing the type of flamboyant, high-kick dance steps demonstrated by the frog in Hello! Ma Baby.
  
• Spielberg calls this the Citizen Kane of animation

 

Southern Fried Rabbit 4.1
1953 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam

Bugs Bunny flees to Alabama to escape a carrot famine. His attempt to cross the Mason-Dixon
line is stopped by Yosemite Sam, a zealous soldier of the Confederate Army. Sam was ordered by General Robert E. Lee to guard the borders between the Confederate States and the United States during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). He is oblivious to the fact that the war ended almost ninety years prior to the setting of this film. He refuses to allow any Yankee to cross the line. Attempting to fool him, Bugs disguises himself as an African-American slave, Abraham Lincoln, Stonewall Jackson and Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind.

Trivia

• The gag of Bugs placing a whip in Yosemite Sam's hand and begging for Sam not to beat him, then Bugs coming in as Abraham Lincoln and reprimanding Sam for what he supposedly had done was used earlier in the 1949 Daffy/Elmer cartoon Wise Quackers.

Earworms

• I wonder why they put the south so far south?
  
• He’s not in here, he’s not in here!...I’ll take you word for it mam.

 

Easter Yeggs 3.1
1946 directed by Robert McKimson
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd

Bugs Bunny finds the Easter Bunny sitting on a rock, crying. The Easter Bunny tells Bugs that his feet are sore, so he cannot deliver the Easter eggs. Bugs takes up the job, not knowing that every year, the Easter Bunny gets some dumb bunny to do his work for him. Bugs visits two houses where he encounters a mean little red-haired kid who throws the egg at Bugs' face, bites him and beats Bugs up before body slamming him on the floor. The second house has Elmer the hunter lying in wait for the Easter bunny.

Trivia

• The main titles are set to the old pop-tune Some Sunday Morning referencing the setting on Easter Sunday. Despite the Easter theme, the cartoon was released in June.
  
• The Easter Rabbit's despondent voice and his therefore ironic catch phrase, "Keep Smiling!" are a takeoff of a character called The Happy Postman, created by Mel Blanc for George Burns and Gracie Allen's radio show during the 1940s.
  
• The funny little snicker used first by the Easter Rabbit, and then by Bugs at the end of the cartoon, "A-heh-heh!" is borrowed directly from Blanc's other employer, Jack Benny.
  
• Dead End Kid and his complaint, "He bwoke my widdow awm!!" is a takeoff of Red Skelton's Mean Widdle Kid character. Blanc would use a similar line with Tweety Bird in A Tale of Two Kitties: "Aw, da poor putty tat - he cwushed his widdow head!"
  
• Yegg a slang term for a burglar or safecracker.
  
• This was the 500th cartoon short released by Warner Bros. They would release exactly 500 more after this.

Earworms

• Keep smiling…Aheh!
  
• Iwannaeastaegg, iwannaeastaegg, iwannaeastaegg

 

Waikiki Rabbit 3.1
1943 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny

Two castaways adrift on a small raft in the middle of the ocean are overcome with hunger, to the point where they start imagining each other as food. They spot an island in the distance and rush ashore where they find Bugs. Having had nothing to eat for quite some time, rabbit sounds better than they could imagine, but Bugs runs circles around them.

Trivia

• The appearances of the two men are rough caricatures of the actual men who provided their voices, Tedd Pierce (the tall thin man), and Michael Maltese (the short fat man). Both me were writers for the cartoon studio.
  
• The underscore for the raft scene is a song written by Arthur J. Lamb and Henry W. Petrie in 1897 called Asleep in the Deep. It refers to sailors who have drowned at sea.
  
• This cartoon short is notable because of its use of experimental abstract backgrounds. The cartoon uses wavy purple and green patterns create the tropical atmosphere. Some people find this modern technique to be distracting. These critics argue that it separates the characters from the background, and consequentially, the viewer feels disconnected from the film. Other people find that the abstract background effectively depicts the tropical atmosphere and the castaways' delusional mindset.

 

The Case of the Missing Hare 3.1
1942 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny

A magician named Ala Bahma is nailing self-promoting posters on every conceivable surface, including a tree in which Bugs is living. He protests having his home encroached. The magician apologizes and asks Bugs if he likes blackberry pie, and hits him in the face with a pie. The rabbit spends the rest of the movie at the theater where Ala Bahma is performing, wreaking havoc during his prestidigitations

Trivia

• The line "If I dood it, I dit a whippin'... I DOOD IT!" comes from Red Skelton's character Mean Widdle Kid.
  
• Of course you know this means war, was originally said by Groucho Marx in Duck Soup.
  
• This is one of the few cartoons where Bugs doesn't say "Eh, what's up, Doc?"
  
• The theatrical setting gave the artists more freedom to play with backgrounds. Colors change at random from cut to cut.

 

Ali Baba Bunny 5.1
1957 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

Awards

• #35 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time as chosen by members of the animation field.

In the middle of the Arabian Desert, a rich Sultan has stored all his treasure in a cave.. He leaves a burly guard named Hassan to watch the cave, ordering him to let nobody enter. As the Sultan leaves on his tiny camel, the trail of a burrowing rabbit crosses the desert towards the cave. Hassan spots the burrow tunneling under the entrance of the cave and attempts to chase out the intruders. Inside the cave, Bugs Bunny and his travelling companion Daffy Duck emerge from the burrow, believing they have arrived at Pismo Beach. Daffy spots the mound of treasure and is determined to keep it all for himself.

Trivia

• The film is a very loose parody of the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
  
• When daffy swims through the treasure, a song from the film Gold Diggers of 1933 plays in the underscore. The Gold Diggers Song (We're in the Money) was used repeatedly in cartoon shorts and films as a standard for success and riches.

Earworms

• Mine mine mine!
  
• I can't help it, I'm a greedy slob—it's my hobby
  
• I'm rich—I'm a happy miser!
  
• Hassan Chop
  
• Consequences Smonsequences as long as I'm rich

 

 

Little Red Riding Rabbit 2.1
1944 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Bugs Bunny

Awards

• #39 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time as chosen by members of the animation field

Little Red Riding Hood is going to bring a little bunny rabbit to her grandma's. The wolf dresses like grandma, and plays the part you'd expect from the fairy tale, but he isn't interested in eating Red, but rather the rabbit she brought with her.

Trivia

• Grandma's note stating she's working the swing shift at Lockheed is a Rosie the Riveter reference, referring to the labor force of housewives and older women who went to work in wartime factories.
  
• Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as a typical 1940s teen-aged girl, a bobby soxer with an extremely loud and grating voice.
  
• Red sings a song called The Five O'Clock Whistle written by Kim Gannon, Gene Irwin, Josef Myrow and made popular by Glen Miller and Duke Ellinton and their respective orchestras. Coincidentally, Glenn Miller died later that year while aboard a plane enroute to entertain troops overseas when the plane dissappeared. The film was released in Jan. and the plane was lost in Dec.

Earworms

• Hey Grandma! That's an awfully big nose for you…Ta HAVE!

 

Rabbit Hood 4.1
1949 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Bugs Bunny

The Sheriff of Nottingham catches Bugs eating the King's carrots and tries to arrest him. Bugs works the sheriff over by playing on his loyalties to the king among other things.

Trivia

• The title is a reference to Robin Hood.
  
• The cartoon ends with the appearance of Robin Hood in the form of a clip from the 1938 movie, which starred Errol Flynn.

Earworms

• Arise, Sir Loin of Beef! Arise, Earl of Cloves! Arise, Duke of Brittingham! Arise, Baron of Münchhausen! Arise, Essence of Myrrh! Milk of Magnesia, Quarter of Ten.

 

Robin Hood Daffy 3.3
1958 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig

Daffy Duck plays legendary outlaw Robin Hood. Porky Pig is Friar Tuck, who does not believe Daffy is Robin Hood. The annoyed Daffy tries to prove his skill with his buck and a quarterstaff, and other feats, but fails again and again.

Trivia

• The title references the Robin Hood of popular film and stories.
  
• Daffy's song is set to the traditional tune of a 17th-century broadside ballad, Come, Lasses and Lads, upon the first verse of which Daffy's lyrics are rather loosely based, but retaining the second verse nearly unchanged.
  
• "Yoinks and away!" was test screened with the staff of the studio and was so well received it became the office catch phrase, continuing to evoke laughter years later.

 

Chow Hound 6.4
1951 directed by Chuck Jones

A large bulldog bullies two unwilling parties — a frightened cat and a tough-talking mouse — into various scams to obtain dinner from various residences. The scheme involves the dog, who forever complains that he is starving, using the cat to pose as the pet for three residents and a municipal zoo. The cat is instructed to gather juicy steaks and then surrender them to the bulldog. Each time, however, the cat forgets the gravy and is beaten for his mistake. The dog devises bigger and bigger schemes for bigger payoffs. But can you have too much of a good thing?

Earworms

• This time we didn't forget the gravy.