Person to Bunny

Person to Bunny
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Directed by	Friz Freleng
Produced by	John W. Burton, Sr.
Animation by	Arthur Davis Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by	Tom O'Loughlin
Color process	Technicolor
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Running time	7:00

Person to Bunny is a Bugs Bunny cartoon released on April 1, 1960. It stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd.

Plot

In his Hollywood home Bugs is being interviewed on the TV show "People to People" with Cedric R. Burrows (a knock-off of the Edward R. Murrow series, Person to Person). As Bugs is interviewed, he is greeted with a knock on the door and Daffy Duck shows up. Knowing that Bugs is being interviewed, Daffy decides to get in on the action, but an angry Bugs doesn't want Daffy in on it, making Daffy mad. Burrows now is asking how Bugs has outsmarted Elmer Fudd over the years and Bugs says questionably "Elmer Fudd clever?" and says that he is stupid and his I.Q. was P.U. Elmer is watching at home and when he hears Bugs saying that he was stupid, he is enraged and decides to come over to settle the score with Bugs. Meanwhile, Daffy is singing an Al Jolson song as Bugs is watching.

Bugs decides to show Daffy a TV camera and then a rifle comes out and shoots Daffy leaving him with a bent beak. Just then, Elmer comes over, and Bugs stops the interview and decides to settle with Elmer. Elmer tells Bugs that he has 5 seconds to apologize to him for calling him stupid or he will shoot, and when Elmer begins to shoot, Bugs puts a carrot in the gun and it backfires on him. Daffy is now jealous of Bugs and starts imitating Bugs with a rabbit suit eating a carrot and mocking Bugs, saying that anyone can do what he does. Then Elmer comes back and when Daffy starts to walk out, he is shot by Elmer thinking that it was Bugs and then Daffy points to Bugs and Elmer chases Bugs outside. Back at Bugs' home and noticing that Bugs is gone, Daffy decides to go all out for Mr. Burrows and decides to do a song and dance number.

Outside, Bugs outsmarts Elmer by spinning him around in a log near a cliff and Elmer has no way out. Daffy is still doing his song and dance number when Bugs returns and Bugs decides to let Daffy be on TV. Bugs mentions to Daffy that there will be 40 million people watching the show. When Daffy hears this, he gets stage fright and faints. In the end, Bugs is fanning Daffy and tells Burrows "Good Night, Everybody."

Production details

• This would be the final cartoon where Bugs and Elmer starred together in the same cartoon, until the Looney Tunes revival shorts of the 1990s. This is also the final cartoon where Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd. Bryan had died in November 1959, a number of months before Person To Bunny's release.
• Burrows voice was provided by Daws Butler.

Censorship

• Two scenes were cut on the ABC version of this cartoon:
  • The scene where, after Elmer gives Bugs five seconds to apologize for having called the hunter stupid during the TV interview, Bugs uses his carrot to block Elmer's gun when he fires the gun, causing the weapon to backfire in Elmer's face.
  • The scene where Bugs convinces Daffy (who is trying to get on TV to upstage Bugs) that Elmer's rifle is a TV camera and Daffy gets shot by it.

• The FOX "Merrie Melodies Show" version of this cartoon just cuts the scene of Daffy getting shot by the "TV camera" (Elmer's gun) by replacing it with a frozen shot of Bugs looking offscreen.

External links

• See this Short at Dailymotion [1]