Bedeviled Rabbit

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Bedeviled Rabbit
series = Looney Tunes/Bugs Bunny


caption =
director = Robert McKimson
story_artist = Tedd Pierce
animator = Ted Bonnicksen
Keith Darling
George Grandpré
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician = Milt Franklyn
producer = Eddie Selzer
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = April 13, 1957 (USA)
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 min (one reel)
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0050176

"Bedevilled Rabbit" is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short featuring Bugs Bunny, directed by Robert McKimson and released in 1957. Bugs is lost in Tasmania, and has to deal with the Tasmanian Devil.

ynopsis

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, Ants, Elephants, Antelopes, Cats, Bats, Dogs, Hogs, Crocs, Gators, Eagles, Fish, Deer, Wolves, Chickens, Giraffes, Gazelles, Octopuses, Wildebeests, People, etc. — but there's no such animal.”

While Bugs is going through the list, the Tasmanian Devil comes roaring in and greedily says that it 'especially' eats rabbits. Bugs is able to temporarily fool Taz into thinking he's a monkey, which Tasmanian Devils don't 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?"

Bugs ends up on a spit, trussed like a roast pig, as Taz puts salt and pepper on Bugs. Bugs is really nervous, because he is about to be eaten for lunch and has no escape plan, but luckily he sees Taz making a large salad to go with him. Bugs compliments Taz on the salad but says that the best thing to have with a salad is "wild turkey surprise," not rabbit. Taz, wanting to try it, unties Bugs. Bugs throws some sticks of dynamite together, lights the fuses and dresses the 'legs' up to look like they're from a turkey. Taz gobbles the dish, but doesn't seem too harmed from the explosion in his stomach.

When Taz starts chasing Bugs again, Bugs runs into a store owned by a "Trader Mac" and pulls some items off the shelf to dress himself up as a Tasmanian She-Devil. Bugs 'makes out' with Taz and, with a bear trap for lips, gives him a big kiss. This causes the real she-devil (whom Taz married at the end of "Devil May Hare") to come in and smack him across the head with her rolling pin. Bugs comments "She's a "nice" lady. Yeesh!"

Censorship

*When this cartoon aired on ABC, the part where Taz eats the explosive "Wild Turkey Surprise" and the resulting explosion was cut; Bugs' construction of it, however, was not. [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ltcutsb.html]

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