Bugs Bunny Rides Again
| Bugs Bunny Rides Again | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam) series | |
Bugs Bunny is about to give Yosemite Sam the "shaft" in more ways than one. Animation by Gerry Chiniquy
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| Directed by | Friz Freleng |
| Produced by | Edward Selzer |
| Story by |
Tedd Pierce Michael Maltese |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by |
Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross |
| Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
| Backgrounds by | Paul Julian |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | June 12, 1948 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes 11 seconds |
| Language | English |
Bugs Bunny Rides Again is a 1948 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short, released in 1948, directed by Friz Freleng, and written by Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese. The short is both part of the Western and a parody of the genre's conventions.
Voice characterizations are performed by Mel Blanc. The cartoon features Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. It is the second cartoon to pair them, after their first encounter in 1945's Hare Trigger. The title is a typical Western reference, as in "The Lone Ranger rides again", and also suggests a reference to the 1940 Jack Benny comedy, Buck Benny Rides Again. In the scene where Yosemite Sam states "...the roughest, toughest he-man hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande, and I don't mean Mahatma Gandhi" is changed to where he says "And I ain't no namby pamby" instead of "Mahatma Gandhi" in the reissue prints.
A hail of bullets flies down one street until a traffic light turns red and the bullets hover in mid-air while a second hail of bullets shoot by on the perpendicular street. Afterwards, Yosemite Sam walks into the saloon. All of the patrons are afraid of Sam, yelling his name in terror while the score plays Der Erlkönig (as is often the case for villains in Looney Tunes). No one dares to challenge Sam except Bugs Bunny. Sam says that the town isn't big for both of them; after Bugs tries to accommodate him by then instantly building an entire city skyline, bur Sam is not appeased. Bugs and Sam draws out increasingly bigger guns; Bugs shoots Sam's nose with a pea shooter, and, after performing a soft shoe routine, tricks him into falling into a mine shaft. When Sam returns to the surface, Bugs dares him to cross lines drawn with his foot Sam does so until he falls off the cliff.
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