- Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit
Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit were a pair of
Warner Bros. cartoon characters, created byRobert McKimson , who appeared in only one cartoon, "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!"The characters
Rapid Rabbit, a small brown
rabbit (who's not to be confused withRapid T. Rabbit ), is every bit as fast as his name implies; apantomime character, he never says a word, but uses abicycle horn to express himself. Quick Brown Fox, another pantomime character, is afox who wants to eat the fast-running rabbit, but consistently fails to catch him despite using a variety of traps and devices. The fox's name is derived from the popularpangram , "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ."The cartoon
Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!
series =Merrie Melodies
caption =
director =Robert McKimson
story_artist =
animator = Ted BonnicksenJim Davis LaVerne Harding Norm McCabe Ed Solomon
layout_artist = Jaime Diaz
Robert Givens
background_artist = Bob McIntosh
narrator =
voice_actor =
musician =William Lava
producer = William L. Hendricks
studio =Warner Bros. Animation
distributor =Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
release_date =June 7 1969 (United States )
color_process =Technicolor
runtime = 7 minutes
preceded_by =
followed_by =
movie_language =
imdb_id = 0064872"Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!" is a
1969 theatrically-released cartoon, one of the last few cartoons of the "Merrie Melodies " series (which, at that time, was owned byWarner Bros.-Seven Arts ). It was a "chase" cartoon along the same lines as theWile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons; a predator tries and fails to catch his intended prey, despite using a number of ingenious or comically absurd traps. It was intended to be the first of a series of Rapid Rabbit cartoons which had been planned, but no more were produced as the studio folded soon after its release.ynopsis
Quick Brown Fox wants to make rabbit
stew , with the elusive Rapid Rabbit as the main ingredient. To this end, he tries several different traps — simple ones at first, but they gradually become ridiculously elaborate — and all of them fail to ensnare Rapid, and some of them end up hurting Quick. Finally, Quick sets up a trap that involves acannon and a sign that says "Free trip to themoon ," among other elements; not only does this trap fail to catch Rapid, but Quick winds up being shot to the moon!References
* [http://www.toonopedia.com/rapidrab.htm Rapid Rabbit] at
Don Markstein's Toonopedia
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