Devil's Feud Cake
| Devil's Feud Cake | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date | February 9, 1963 |
| Run time | 7:50 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | David H. DePatie |
| Music composed by | Bill Lava |
| Story by | Friz Freleng Warren Foster (original stories) |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Bob Matz Art Leonardi Lee Halpern Arthur Davis (archived animations) |
| Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Devil's Feud Cake is the four-hundred and eighty ninth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 19, 1963. It is a cheater short that consists of clips with stories originally written by Warren Foster, and produced by David H. DePatie. The cartoon itself was written and directed by Friz Freleng.
Yosemite Sam winds up in Hell after attempting to escape from an airplane crash, and makes a deal that if he can get Bugs to take his place, he can go back to the surface.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Devil: No rabbit?
Sam: No... No Rabbit!?
Devil: Oooh... I'm terribly disappointed in you. However, I'm giving you just one more chance.
Sam: Oh no, yer not! If you want 'im, you can get him yerself! Ah'm stayin'! Mwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Last National Bank
- Airport
- Civic auditorium
- Roman Legion movie set
- Africa
- Sahara Desert
- Foreign Legion fortress
- United States
- Hell
Objects
- Money bag
- Robot pilot
- Parachutes
- Roman Legion outfit
- Camp Pack
- Alarm clock on a string
- Rifle
- Cannon
- Devil costume
Vehicles
- Sam's jalopy
- War plane
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Bill Lava.
Crew credits
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 9, 1963 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun of "devil's food cake".
- This short is a retelling of the 1954 cartoon Satan's Waitin'.
- This short also reuses clips from previous Bugs Bunny cartoons:
Errors
- While this was a Bugs Bunny short, the intro sequence lacks both Bugs Bunny's head fading in on the opening rings and a "Bugs Bunny in" card.
Everlasting Influence
- The plot of this short, a short clip and some audio would be used in the first act of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
