![]() ![]() I been tol’ I can’ shoot wittle gway wabbits no more, but I wike this scythe. You’ll never get out alive!”ĭon’t say: “My wight to bear arms has be viowated. Last year, Disney put warnings on some of its older films, that they “may contain outdated cultural depictions”.ĭo say (as Bugs Bunny did): “Don’t take life too seriously. Dr Jacqeuline Antonovich tweeted: “I can’t believe this needs to be said, but Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd were never responsible gun owners anyway.”Īny other examples of franchises making adjustments ? Either as recognition that times have changed or political correctness gone mad, depending on which pole you happen to be standing on ? As it happens yes. Some praise for Warner Bros for taking a stance. What has the reaction been like? Like all reactions these days – polarised. Also, if they are making it more acceptable for a 21st-century audience, could they have maybe changed the name? Or at least corrected the spelling ? They couldn’t spell its sister series Merrie Melodies either, remember? Not yet! But if that happens Looney Tunes will have a lot to answer for. Scythe culture isn’t a thing in America, nor has scythe crime ravaged the country. That’s pretty violent! Also arguably scarier, with its Grim Reaper associations, than the gun. So there’s dynamite and explosions, while Elmer’s shotgun has been replaced with a scythe. If they are not doing guns, what are they doing? There is still plenty of “cartoon violence”, Browngardt says reassuringly, acknowledging that the whole thing is based on conflict. “We’re not doing guns,” the executive producer of the new series, Peter Browngardt, told the New York Times. Pictures 2 This is the first of several Bugs Bunny cartoon titles that refer to Elmer Fudd 's speech impediment, with the names of Bob Clampett, Sidney Sutherland. ![]() They have been disarmed? Who by? Warner Bros, which has just relaunched Looney Tunes, the cartoon series in which they appeared, with a new collection of shorts streaming on HBO Max.Īnd have Elmer and Sam been stripped of their weapons in response to out-of-control US gun violence? Exactly. Wabbit Twouble ('Rabbit Trouble') 1 is a Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Bugs Bunny, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and released on Decemby Warner Bros. ![]() Not going on holiday? Because of Covid-19? No, they are no long totin’ guns. What is? What’s up, doc ? Sam and Elmer are no longer packing. What was the name of BB’s other gun-totin’ adversary, with the big droopy orange moustache? Yosemite Sam. Got it! The hunter in Bugs Bunny, right? Right. Permanently frustrated, frequently injured. It’s hard to imagine any will be as woefully easy to trick, and as lovable, as the hapless Fudd, but, like peace, we’re always willing to give Bugs a chance.įeatured image: Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny in 1940's 'A Wild Hare.' Courtesy Warner Bros.Appearance: Hunting gear, brown and red hat, double-barrelled shotgun. In a new series of cartoons coming to the Boomerang Network entitled Wabbit - A Looney Toons Production, Bugs’ grace under pressure will be tested by a new cast of antagonists. Now word comes that Elmer Fudd is set to retire. As the Times noted, it’s so impossible to imagine one without the other that Warner even explored the meaninglessness of Fudd’s life without his pursuit of Bugs in The Old Grey Hare. They are the perfect pair, trickster and foil, a sort of animated Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (only if one of those elegant people were constantly tripping and being humiliated). ![]() The full length A Wild Hare is eight-minutes long, and showcases a large amount of Bugs’ trademarks-the white gloves, the cotton-tail, the endlessly inventive ways he embarrasses Fudd. See Elmer Fudd in various poses, scenes and settings, from vintage posters to modern illustrations. cartoon character who hunts Bugs Bunny and other enemies. released A Wild Hare, introducing the irrepressible Bugs Bunny (and the utterly repressible Elmer Fudd) to the world in his first official animated short.Īs the New York Times reported earlier today, primitive versions of Bugs had appeared in earlier Warner cartoons, but A Wild Hare brought a fully realized, wise-cracking, street-smart Bugs to viewers for the first time. Browse 70 high-quality stock photos of Elmer Fudd, the iconic Warner Bros. It was seventy-five years ago today that Warner Bros. ![]()
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