Buckaroo Bugs
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| Buckaroo Bugs | |
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| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series | |
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| Directed by | Robert Clampett |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Story by | Lou Lilly |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc Robert C. Bruce (uncredited) |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | M. Gould Robert McKimson (uncredited) Rod Scribner (uncredited) |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 26, 1944 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 8:00 |
| Language | English |
Buckaroo Bugs is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in August 1944, introducing Bugs Bunny to Looney Tunes and directed by Robert Clampett.
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[edit] Plot
Unlike in most shorts, Bugs Bunny serves as an antagonist. In the cartoon, he plays a carrot thief called the Masked Marauder, whom Brooklyn's "Red Hot Ryder" (possibly a Yosemite Sam prototype (a parody of Red Ryder)) must bring to justice. The cartoon portrays Red Hot Ryder as a dimwit who cannot distinguish Bugs Bunny from the Masked Marauder, and his good-natured slowness is consistently mocked: When Bugs Bunny as the Masked Marauder threatens to shoot Red Hot Ryder, saying, "Stick 'em up, or I'll blow your brains out," the latter treats it like a choice, replying, "Well, now, that's mighty neighborly of you." In the end, Red Hot Ryder catches on, but is unable to catch the Masked Marauder, in the end he tricks him into jumping into the Grand Canyon, when underground Red Hot Ryder finally figures out that Bugs is the Masked Marauder. Bugs pops up from beneath the ground with a lit candle and says "That's right! That's right! You win the 64 dollar question!" (a reference to the "big prize" on the famous radio quiz show Take It or Leave It). He then kisses him and blows out the candle.
[edit] Availability
The cartoon has been released on VHS in anonymous 'Bugs Bunny' collections, and is also featured on the fifth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set, released on October 30, 2007.
[edit] Production details
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- This was Bugs Bunny's second appearance in the Looney Tunes series. His first was a short cameo in Porky Pig's Feat, but was not a starring role, therefore making Buckaroo Bugs Bugs' first starring role in a Looney Tunes short.
- This was the last cartoon release to bear Leon Schlesinger's name, as he sold his cartoon studio to Warner Bros. around the time of its release.[1]
- While only Manny Gould was credited as an animator, Robert McKimson and Rod Scribner also aided in the process.
- The older version of Bugs Bunny would be used again in the next Bugs short, The Old Grey Hare.
- At one point, Bugs's mask disappears when he is talking to the Red Hot Ryder.
- When this was shown on TV, they use the ending card that was shown in Hare Tonic and Baseball Bugs.
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| Preceded by Hare Ribbin' |
Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1944 |
Succeeded by The Old Grey Hare |
