8 Ball Bunny
| 8 Ball Bunny | |
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| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series | |
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| Directed by | Charles M. Jones |
| Produced by |
Edward Selzer (uncredited) |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Voices by |
Mel Blanc Dave Barry (uncredited) |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by |
Phil Monroe Ben Washam Lloyd Vaughan Ken Harris Emery Hawkins |
| Layouts by | Peter Alvarado |
| Backgrounds by | Peter Alvarado |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 8, 1950 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
8 Ball Bunny is a Looney Tunes cartoon (reissued as a 1961 Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies cartoon) directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. It was shot in 1949 and released theatrically on July 8, 1950.
The Brooklyn Ice Palace shuts down after the Ice Frolics pack up to go to another show somewhere else, but during their departure, the Ice Frolics crew forget their star performer, "Playboy" Penguin. Playboy is found by Bugs Bunny, who vows to take him home. But, upon discovering penguins come from the South Pole, exclaims "Ooh, I'm dyin'!"
To go down south, Bugs and Playboy hitch a ride on a freight train to New Orleans.
Once in New Orleans, Bugs puts Playboy aboard a ship named Admiral Byrd, which he believes is going to the South Pole. Afterwards, Bugs orders a carrot martini at La Bouche Cafe and stays for Mardi Gras. After hearing that the ship is actually headed for Brooklyn, Bugs swims out to it to rescue Playboy and finds him hanging upside down in the ship's kitchen among uncooked chickens, but rather than swimming back to New Orleans, they end up on a tropical island.
While Bugs strums a guitar and composes a calypso ballad (six years before the style was popularized by "The Banana Boat Song"), Playboy is forced to build a dugout boat. As Bugs is playing, Humphrey Bogart, straight out of the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, appears and asks him if he can "help out a fellow American who's down on his luck". Bugs reaches into his pocket, digs around, and pulls out a coin and flips it at him and tells him to "hit the road".
After ten days at sea, Bugs is beginning to feel hungry, having not taken any food with them. Upon looking at Playboy, Bugs remembers a hobo on the train saying that penguins are practically chickens, and decides to eat Playboy, but immediately snaps out of his daze and apologizes to Playboy, just as he spots land. The land, however, is the Panama Canal and when the guard at the first lock demands a quarter for passage through, Bugs refuses to pay it and decides he and Playboy will continue the journey on foot.
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