All This and Rabbit Stew

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All This and Rabbit Stew
Merrie Melodies/Bugs Bunny series

All this and Rabbit Stew title card.
Directed by Fred Avery (uncredited)
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Story by Dave Monahan
Voices by Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Music by Carl W. Stalling
Animation by Virgil Ross
Robert McKimson (uncredited)
Rod Scribner (uncredited)
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s) September 20, 1941 (USA)
Color process Technicolor
Running time 6 minutes 39 seconds
Language English

All This and Rabbit Stew is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on September 20, 1941 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by an uncredited Tex Avery, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling and voices by Mel Blanc.

The cartoon was the final Avery-directed Bugs Bunny short to be released. Although it was produced before The Heckling Hare (after the production of which Avery was suspended from the Schlesinger studio and defected to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), it was released afterwards. The title is a parody of that of All This and Heaven Too. Because the cartoon was released after Avery left Schlesinger, Avery's name does not appear in the credits.

All This and Rabbit Stew is now in the public domain, after the copyright expired in 1969, one year after being banned from television.

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[edit] Synopsis

Bugs Bunny and the hunter.

All This and Rabbit Stew features Bugs Bunny being hunted by a slow-witted Black hunter, very similar in speech pattern and mannerism to Stepin Fetchit. After Bugs outwits the hunter several times, Bugs wins all of his clothing through a dice game.

The cartoon's central gag sequence, involving the hunter constantly ending up on the wrong side of a rolling log hanging over a cliff, was repurposed for Bob Clampett's 1946 Looney Tunes short The Big Snooze. For that film, the animation of the Black hunter was redrawn into animation of Elmer Fudd.

[edit] Appearances

This is the second appearance of the black hunter, who had appeared in a slightly different design in Confederate Honey, and would reappear in Angel Puss.

[edit] Censorship

  • Due to the film's racial stereotyping, All This and Rabbit Stew has not been seen on television since 1968 (despite its being in the public domain since 1969), and was put under the "Censored Eleven" group of banned Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts. It is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon in the Censored Eleven.
  • This was one of the 12 cartoons to be pulled from Cartoon Network's "June Bugs" 2001 marathon by order of AOL Time Warner due to its offensive material (specifically the depiction of an African-American)
  • After winning a dice game, Bugs wins the black man's clothes and then walks off wearing them, leaving the man with nothing but a leaf covering his crotch. In the course of the iris out, Bugs is seen reaching in and grabbing the leaf. This bit is edited from some versions of the cartoon.

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Preceded by
The Heckling Hare		 Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1941		 Succeeded by
Wabbit Twouble
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