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.

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!

Welcome to my shop, let me cut your mop, let me shave your crop! Daiiiintily, daiiiintily...

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.

...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?

".....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)"

Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!

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.