Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit

Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit

Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit were a pair of Warner Bros. cartoon characters, created by Robert 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 with Rapid T. Rabbit), is every bit as fast as his name implies; a pantomime character, he never says a word, but uses a bicycle horn to express himself. Quick Brown Fox, another pantomime character, is a fox 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 popular pangram, "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 Bonnicksen
Jim 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 by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts). It was a "chase" cartoon along the same lines as the Wile 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 a cannon and a sign that says "Free trip to the moon," 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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