The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979
G
1h 38m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

4.5K

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Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.Bugs Bunny reflects on his past cartoon exploits.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

4.5K

YOUR RATING

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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The Bugs Bunny/Road-Runner Movie

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Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny
(voice)
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Arthur Q. Bryan

Elmer Fudd
(archive footage)
(voice)

Paul Julian

Road Runner
(archive sound)

Nicolai Shutorev

Giovanni Jones
(archive footage)
(singing voice)

Joan Gerber

Cavewoman
(uncredited)

Storyline

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Trivia
The scene in which Bugs discusses his "several fathers" was written byChuck Jonesas a way to debunk fellow animation directorRobert Clampett's claims throughout the 1970s that he alone created Bugs. Clampett's name is notably missing from Bugs's list. Also missing isBen Hardaway,who created the earliest prototype of Bugs and was in fact the originator of the name "Bugs Bunny" (Bugs being Hardaway's own nickname), though in this case Jones later confirmed that the omission had simply been an oversight, and that he would have had no qualms about including Hardaway in the gallery.

Goofs
During the space text-crawl, a space appeared in the word "ago" (i.e. a long [...] time a go).

Quotes
Daffy Duck:[demanding the unseen animator to show himself]All Right! I've had enough of this. This is the final, final Straw-WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS! I DEMAND THAT YOU SHOW YOURSELF! WHO ARE YOU? HUH?
[the animator draws a door in front of Daffy and shuts it, then he reveals himself as BUGS BUNNY!]
Bugs Bunny:Heh!Heh! Ain't I a stinker?

Crazy credits
The "That's All Folks" card keeps appearing at the beginning and end. In the beginning, after they show the Warner Communications logo, they show the traditional "That's All Folks" card that is usually shown at the end. Bugs Bunny appears in front of it and sniffs and gets rid of the background and sniffs again then he pushes the words "That's" and "All Folks" separately and down comes the word "NOT" in red capital letters underlined. Then it reads, "That's NOT All Folks!" Then Bugs pulls the traditional opening Warner Bros. logo shown at the beginning.

Alternate versions
Later cut to 78 minutes for Cable TV and 48 minutes for network TV.

Connections
Edited fromLong-Haired Hare(1949)

Soundtracks
Minute Waltz
(uncredited)
Music byFrédéric Chopin

Yes, the gags are somewhat repetitive: Wile E. Coyote plunges to the ground 15 times, is crushed with rocks 11 times and baits the roadrunner three times with "Free Bird Seed." In all, 10 Acme products appear in this movie, in which Bugs Bunny and other characters sport clever disguises no fewer than 12 times. There are five "wabbit season" / "duck season" face-offs. Daffy Duck gets shot 10 times.

But it never gets old. I have loved this movie since I was a little boy, and have viewed it, literally, hundreds of times. That's the genius of Chuck Jones (animator) and Mel Blanc (voices).

The many shorts featured in this compilation include Daffy's battle with an off-screen animator, Bugs fighting a bull and getting revenge on a grumpy opera singer, two intergalactic run-ins with Marvin the Martian, "What's Opera, Doc?" (which is, as Bugs describes it, "the entire 18 hours of Richard Wagner's 'Ring of Nibaloone--Nibalane--Nibalu--Nibalung'... squashed... down to seven minutes" ) and a 20-minute segment of classic roadrunner gags.