Robot Rabbit

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


caption =
director = Friz Freleng
story_artist = Warren Foster
animator = Ken Champin
Manuel Perez
Arthur Davis
Virgil Ross
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan (unc.)
layout = Hawley Pratt
backgrounds = Irv Wyner
musical_direction = Milt Franklyn
studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = December 12, 1953 (USA premiere)
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 min (one reel)
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0046249

"Robot Rabbit" is a Warner Bros. animated short of the "Looney Tunes" series. Originally released to theaters on December 12, 1953, it stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd as its main characters.

ummary

Elmer Fudd is shown as a carrot farmer who spots Bugs' rabbit hole. After shooting into an empty hole (Bugs had conveniently left the hole, then does his "fake dying" act), Elmer exclaims "The rabbit kicked the bucket"; then he and Bugs start dancing as a result until Elmer begins to realize Bugs is still very much alive.

This prompts Fudd to call "ACME Pest Control" ("Hewwo? ACME Pest Contwol? Weww, I've got a pest I want to contwow.") for a robot with the express purpose of evicting Bugs. At different points, Bugs runs into a water fountain; which caused it to rust. Later, Bugs disguises himself as a female robot and finally causes the robot to follow him through a construction site. Inside, Elmer starts wondering how the robot fared before Bugs greets him by dumping the robot — or what is left of it — onto the floor.

Goofs

*The audio when Bugs remarks that the robot was going to cause him no end of trouble is out of sync.

Censorship

*On ABC, the two times that the robot mistakes a mule and Elmer for rabbits and shoots them with his laser gun were cut.
*The two scenes that were edited on ABC were also cut on CBS, along with two more scenes:
**The part where Elmer shoots the rabbit hole where Bugs (presumably) is and Bugs feigning that he's near death (leading to the famous "Wabbit Kicked the Bucket" part) was cut.
**The part where Bugs and the robot chase each other back and forth under an active pile driver at a construction site was cut (but not the end where Bugs stops by Elmer's house to dump the pounded remains of his robot).
*The syndicated Merrie Melodies Show only edited the part where the robot shoots Elmer after Elmer imitates a rabbit by replacing it with a still shot of the mule after it's been blasted in the face.