Bedevilled Rabbit
| Bedevilled Rabbit | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny/Tasmanian Devil) series | |
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| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Produced by | Eddie Selzer |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Milt Franklyn |
| Animation by | Ted Bonnicksen Keith Darling George Grandpré |
| Layouts by | Robert Gribbroek |
| Backgrounds by | Richard H. Thomas |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | April 13, 1957 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
Bedevilled Rabbit is a 1957 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short featuring Bugs Bunny. Bugs is lost in Tasmania, and has to deal with the Tasmanian Devil.
After a box of carrots is dropped into the middle of a jungle in Tasmania, Bugs pops out, wondering how he went from sleeping in a carrot patch to the middle of Tasmania. Suddenly, a group of animals (both wild and domesticated) come running through the woods, scared for their lives (Bugs mistakes it for "chow time at the zoo"). A crocodile (who turns himself inside out into a bag for a disguise) hands Bugs a booklet talking about the Tasmanian devil and the many things it eats. Bugs reads: "Eats aardvarks, anteaters, bears, wild boars, cats, bats, dogs, pigs, elephants, antelopes, pheasants, ferrets, giraffes, gazelles — a likely story but there ain't no such animal."
While Bugs is going through the list from stoats, goats, pigs, ostrich, etc., the Tasmanian devil comes roaring in and spots Bugs Bunny still reading the booklet as he completes the list from octopuses, penguins, people, warthogs, yaks, newts, walruses, wildebeest and then states "What?! No Rabbits?!" The Tasmanian devil greedily says that it 'especially' eats rabbits as it turns to the page that says "...And Especially Rabbits" and eats the booklet. Bugs is able to temporarily fool Taz into thinking he's a monkey, which Tasmanian devils do not eat (though one of the animals seen running for its life was a monkey — ostensibly because all animals are scared of Taz). However, Taz soon starts chasing Bugs again. Bugs tricks "Baggy Eyes" into getting crushed under a tree but Taz manages to exit through a knothole in the tree. Bugs jokes around wondering what Tasmanian devil pancakes would taste like, but he lets his guard down and Taz grabs Bugs by his ears and asks him: "What for you say you monkey, when you got little powder puff tail like rabbit, Rabbit?"
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