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JUN 15, 2009
The Cartoons of Bugs Bunny FILM
The Cartoons of Bugs Bunny

You know who's one of the funniest movie stars of all time? Bugs fucking Bunny, that's who! If you haven't watched the crossdressing, duck-taunting wiseass since you were a kid, you'll be blown away by this program of 12 cartoon classics. It's shocking how funny—and how nasty—Bugs can be as he pricks at his foes' inflated egos, revealing them as the simpering, blubbering fools they really are. Bonus points to the Grand Illusion for including two of the best cartoons of all time: "What's Opera, Doc?" and "Rabbit of Seville." (Grand Illusion, 1403 NE 50th St, 523-3935. 7 and 9 pm, $8.) by It's Paul Constant's Birthday, Everybody!!!

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Geni 1
Hillbilly Hare is also one of the all-time best. I have a bunch of the classic Looney Tunes on laserdisc still; I haven't replicated them on DVD because you have to buy like 5,000 DVDs to get what I have on two laserdiscs, and you get a metric buttload of crap along with the 10 brilliant cartoons.
Posted by Geni on June 15, 2009 at 11:22 AM · Report
Will in Seattle 2
One of the best parts of SIFF showing archival prints from TCM was that they showed Bugs Bunny as Robin Hood before they showed Errol Flynn as Robin Hood.

That was fun!
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on June 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM · Report
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Welcome to my shop, let me cut your mop, let me shave your crop! Daiiiintily, daiiiintily...
Posted by SuperSquishee on June 15, 2009 at 12:45 PM · Report
michael strangeways 4
Bugs and the rest of the Warner Brothers classic Termite Terrace cartoons are miles above the bland crap that Disney put out in the same time frame...Mickey Mouse was a bland, asswipe.
Posted by michael strangeways http://www.seattlegayscene.com/ on June 15, 2009 at 1:15 PM · Report
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http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/tex-a…

watched it last night. i recommend you do the same
Posted by hell yeah on June 15, 2009 at 3:39 PM · Report
Bauhaus I 6
...and even if you dig Bugs Bunny enough to review every Bugs cartoon ever made, it's hard to find those which have not been sanitized (made "kid-friendly"). You know, devoid of explosions and guns going off in faces. Maybe that's harmful to children? All I know is that many of us grew up on the unadulterated stuff, and we came out fine; there weren't any Columbines in my day.

Oh wait, there was Charles Whitman - but he had a brain tumor, and did he watch Bugs Bunny?
Posted by Bauhaus I on June 15, 2009 at 4:06 PM · Report
Bauhaus I 7
".....what's more, I'm pining for a yellow moon that shines (wah-wah-wah-wah)
On a little red barn on a farm down in Indiana way (I said a-Indiana way-hay-hay-hay)"
Posted by Bauhaus I on June 15, 2009 at 4:10 PM · Report
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Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!
Posted by Amelia on June 15, 2009 at 6:17 PM · Report
RainMan 9
The end of the Rabbit of Seville is rather interesting. After brandishing weapons of ever increasing size including large cannons, Bugs calls a truce by offering Elmer Fudd an engagement ring. Elmer immediately changes into a wedding gown (this isn't the only time he cross dresses) and the two take their vows before a country parson as the music briefly changes from Rossini's overture to Mendelssohn's Wedding March. They rush up countless flights of stairs to a catwalk high above the stage where Bugs opens a door to cary his "bride" over the threshold and promptly drops him over the side. Elmer tumbles down, still in his bridal dress, and lands face first in a wedding cake decorated for the Marriage of Figaro, apparently a prop for another opera.

They don't make cartoons like that any more. A same sex wedding 50 years ago? James Dobson and Jerry Falwell must have missed that one.
Posted by RainMan on June 15, 2009 at 8:39 PM · Report

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