Person To Bunny

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Person to Bunny
series = Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck


caption = Title Card for Person to Bunny
director = Friz Freleng
story_artist = Michael Maltese
animator = Arthur Davis
Virgil Ross
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan (uncredited)
musician =
producer = Eddie Selzer
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = April 1, 1960
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 minutes
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0054174 "Person to Bunny" is a Bugs Bunny cartoon released on April 1, 1960. It stars Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd.

Plot

In his Hollywood home Bugs is being interviewed on the TV show "People to People" (a knock-off of the Edward R. Murrow series, "Person to Person"). As Bugs is interviewed, he is greeted with a knock on the door and it is Daffy Duck who shows up. Knowing that Bugs is being interviewed, Daffy decides to get in on the action, but Bugs doesn't want Daffy in on it making Daffy mad. Murrow now is asking how Bugs has outsmarted Elmer Fudd over the years and Bugs says questionably "Elmer Fudd smart?" and says that he is stupid and his I.Q. was P.U. Elmer is watching "People to People" at home and when he hears Bugs saying that he was stupid, he is now very angry and blows his top and decides to come over to settle the score with Bugs. Meanwhile, Daffy is singing an Al Jolson song as Bugs is watching. Bugs decides to show Daffy a TV camera and then a rifle comes out and shoots Daffy leaving him with a bent beak. Just then, Elmer comes over, and Bugs stops the interview and decides to settle with Elmer. Elmer tells Bugs that he has 5 seconds to apologize to him for calling him stupid or he will shoot, and when Elmer begins to shoot, Bugs puts a carrot in the gun and it backfires on him. Daffy is now jealous of Bugs and starts imitating Bugs with a rabbit suit eating a carrot and mocking Bugs and says that anyone can do what he does. Then Elmer comes back and when Daffy starts to walk out, he is shot by Elmer thinking that it was Bugs and then Daffy points to Bugs and Elmer chases Bugs outside. Back at Bugs's home and noticing that Bugs is gone, Daffy decides to go all out for Mr. Murrow and decides to do a song and dance number. Outside, Bugs outsmarts Elmer by spinning him around in a log near a cliff and Elmer has no way out. Daffy is still doing his song and dance number when Bugs returns and Bugs decides to let Daffy be on TV. Bugs mentions to Daffy that there will be 40 million people watching the show. When Daffy hears this, he gets stage fright and faints. In the end, Bugs is fanning Daffy and tells Murrow "Good Night, Everybody."

Production details

*This would be the final cartoon where Bugs and Elmer starred together in the same cartoon, until the "Looney Tunes" revival shorts of the 1990s. This is also the final cartoon where Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd. Bryan had died in December 1959, a number of months before "Person To Bunny"'s release.

Censorship

*Two scenes were cut on the ABC version of this cartoon:
**The scene where, after Elmer gives Bugs five seconds to apologize for having called the hunter stupid during the TV interview, Bugs uses his carrot to block Elmer's gun when he fires the gun, causing the weapon to backfire in Elmer's face.
**The scene where Bugs convinces Daffy (who is trying to get on TV to upstage Bugs) that Elmer's rifle is a TV camera and Daffy gets shot by it.

*The FOX "Merrie Melodies Show" version of this cartoon just cuts the scene of Daffy getting shot by the "TV camera" (Elmer's gun) by replacing it with a frozen shot of Bugs looking offscreen.

Links

See this Short at Dailymotion [http://www.dailymotion.com/us/tag/show/video/x43ekv [1]