Spaced Out Bunny

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Spaced-Out-Bunny
series = Merrie Melodies


caption = Screen title of Spaced-Out-Bunny
director = Chuck Jones
Phil Monroe
story_artist =
animator =
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician =
producer = Chuck Jones
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = May 21, 1980
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 6 Minutes
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0081543

"Spaced Out Bunny" is a Warner Bros. cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian. The cartoon was part of the television special "Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over", which aired May 21, 1980.

"Spaced Out Bunny" is one of four Bugs Bunny cartoons produced during 1979-1980, the first new shorts since 1964's "False Hare".

Plot

While walking in a forest, Bugs Bunny wonders aloud how everyone is out to get everyone else; this is illustrated by hostile behavior as Bugs' interacts with, among other things, a rock and a butterfly. He then sees a carrot and begins to eat it, unaware that it is a trap set by Marvin the Martian.

Marvin's purpose for capturing Bugs (with what Marvin explains is an "ACME Rack and Pinion Super Tranquilizing Carrot) is to provide a playmate for Hugo, the Abominable Snowman (from 1961's "The Abominable Snow Rabbit"). After Bugs awakens and realizes where he is, Marvin explains his rationale before turning Hugo loose on Bugs ("Oh no, not again!" cries Bugs, remembering his earlier encounter with Hugo). Hugo reprises his lines from "Snow Rabbit", including his intention to "hug him and squeeze him and name him George." Bugs regains the upper hand on his captors by suggesting to Hugo that he needs a robot; Marvin attempts to make a getaway but Hugo reaches into the spaceship and repeats his "I will call him George" lines. When an agitated Marvin demands that Hugo cease his behavior, an angry Hugo spanks Marvin.

Bugs then whispers in Hugo's ear, suggesting something that he would be good at. The scene cuts to Hugo's wrist, where he proudly displays his new "Mickey Marvin" wristwatch. Bugs then climbs into the spacecraft and gets Hugo to practice his Frisbee toss by hurling the ship toward the Earth.

ources

* Beck, Jerry and Will Friedwald, "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons," Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1989. (ISBN 0-8050-0894-2).

External links

*imdb title|0081543