The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
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Directed by	Chuck Jones Phil Monroe
Produced by	Chuck Jones
Written by	Chuck Jones Michael Maltese
Starring	Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner Elmer Fudd
Music by	Dean Elliott Milt Franklyn (classic cartoons) Carl Stalling (classic cartoons) William Lava (classic cartoons) John Seely (classic cartoons)
Editing by	Treg Brown
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	September 28, 1979
Running time	98 min.
Country	United States
Language	English

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (originally was going to be titled The Great American Chase) is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. These cartoons, which also feature Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, and Pepé Le Pew, include (in order):

• Hare-Way to the Stars
• Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
• Robin Hood Daffy
• Duck Amuck
• Bully for Bugs
• Ali Baba Bunny
• Rabbit Fire
• For Scent-imental Reasons
• Long-Haired Hare
• What's Opera, Doc?
• Operation: Rabbit

The cartoons are followed by a 15-minute compilation featuring the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, with some 31 gags culled from 17 cartoons:

• To Beep or Not to Beep
• Zoom and Bored
• Hopalong Casualty
• Whoa, Be-Gone!
• Guided Muscle
• Scrambled Aches
• There They Go-Go-Go!
• Zipping Along
• Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
• Going! Going! Gosh!
• Stop! Look! And Hasten!
• Beep Prepared
• Hot-Rod and Reel!
• Wild About Hurry
• Zip 'N Snort
• Hip Hip-Hurry!
• Fast and Furry-ous

The cartoons and bridging scenes were directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The backgrounds and animation were contributed by Maurice Noble and Ben Washam.

A new gag was developed by Chuck Jones for the film. After the WB logo appears at the beginning, he put the "That's all, Folks!" card up being written in the wrong place. A frustrated Bugs Bunny sees it and pushes the ending iris away from the scene. He then pushes the words away and squeezes a giant, red, underlined "NOT" in the sentence. He then smiles and lets' the iris push itself back in. The same thing happens at the end of the film, but right as the title is being written, a frustrated Bugs prevents it from finishing by putting his nose in while it was writing. He then causes it to back-write and the quotes, who look like they are characters as well, are stunned and Bugs says, "well". The title is then rewritten to say "That's not quite all folks!" with the "not quite" being red and underlined. The title disappears as Bugs lowers the credits down to be played. After the credits, Bugs appears on top of a zooming in Warner Bros. logo shield out of the ending iris. He then says, "Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds!". He and the logo zoom back into the iris, and the "That's all, Folks!" card reappears already written as "That's really all, Folks!", with the "really" being underlined.

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie was dedicated to Dorothy Jones, the wife of Chuck Jones, who died not long before the film was released.

Notes

• The scene in which Bugs discusses his "several fathers" was written by Chuck Jones as a way to debunk fellow animation director Robert Clampett's claims throughout the 1970s that he alone created Bugs. Clampett's name is notably missing from Bugs's list, as a result of the conflict between Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett.^{[citation needed]}
• Bugs's house, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall, is modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania.^{[citation needed]}
• The 2003 Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo plasters over the 1979 Warner Bros. logo

External links

• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie at AllRovi