Devil's Feud Cake
| Devil's Feud Cake | |
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| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam) series | |
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| Directed by | Friz Freleng |
| Story by |
Friz Freleng Warren Foster |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Bill Lava |
| Animation by |
Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Bob Matz Art Leonardi Lee Halpern |
| Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
| Backgrounds by | Tom O'Loughlin Irv Wyner |
| Studio | Warner Brothers Pictures |
| Release date(s) | February 9, 1963 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:40 |
| Preceded by | Shishkabugs |
| Followed by | The Million Hare |
Devil's Feud Cake is a 1963 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. This is one of the few Bugs Bunny cartoons to use footage from previous shorts, and the first to do so since 1959's Hare-Abian Nights.
This marks the final time Friz Freleng directs a Yosemite Sam cartoon, as well as the latter's final appearance in the Merrie Melodies series.
Beginning with footage from Hare Lift, Yosemite Sam robs the Last National Bank in town and erases the assets (leaving only 8 cents). The bank manager presses the button which sets off the alarm and alerts the police. Sam jumps into his car and drives off to the airport with plans to hijack a plane to another country, where the police won't find him.
The airport happens to be having an aircraft surplus sale and Bugs Bunny is taking a look at the biggest airplane on the lot. Bugs gets into the cockpit and starts pretending to be a pilot. Sam boards the plane and, orders Bugs, at gunpoint, to take off. Before Bugs can protest that he is not a pilot, Sam threatens to blow his head off. Bugs finds the starter right away, and as the plane goes down the highway, Bugs makes the plane go straight up to avoid a collision with a skyscraper, and straight down to avoid a collision with the moon, causing Sam, at both times, to fall to the tail and the nose.
In the cockpit, Bugs is reading a "Learn To Fly" book. Then a "robot pilot" is activated, but the robot grabs one of the two parachutes on board and jumps out of the plane. With just one parachute left, Bugs decides that they will have to draw straws to see who gets the parachute, but Sam cheats by telling Bugs to draw the straws so he (Sam) can grab the parachute. Sam jumps out of the plane and once a safe distance away, he lifts up the back flap, but camping goods fly out, revealing what Sam grabbed was a knapsack instead of the parachute. Sam then crashes down into the ground and is killed instantly instead of landing in a police car. Meanwhile, Bugs manages to stop the plane in midair by pulling an "air brake" lever.
Now mimicking footage from another Frieling short, "Satan's Waitin'", Sam goes down a spiral escalator to Hell, where he is greeted by the Head Devil, Satan. Sam introduces himself, to which the Head Devil discovers in the book of life that Sam has been a bad boy, although Sam protests that it was Bugs that made him go to Hell. The Head Devil tells Sam that he's after Bugs as well, and since Sam has a connection with Bugs, the Head Devil makes a deal; if Sam brings Bugs to Hell, he will be set free, but if he fails, he will remain in Hell forever. Sam gladly accepts the deal and the Head Devil sends him back to the world of the living.
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