Baby Buggy Bunny

Baby Buggy Bunny
Lobby card.
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	December 18, 1954
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Abe Levitow Lloyd Vaughan Ken Harris Ben Washam
Director(s)	Charles M. Jones
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Baby Buggy Bunny is the three hundred and eighty-seventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on December 18, 1954. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Chuck Jones.

Ant Hill Harry, alias Baby-Faced Finster, disguises himself as a baby to avoid being caught by the cops. But when he leaves his stolen loot satchel in a stroller, it rolls away and launches the satchel right into Bugs' rabbit hole.

Memorable quotes

Bugs: Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk... Don't be such a crybaby. After all, 99 years isn’t forever.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Baby-Faced Finster	Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
News reporter	Mel Blanc
Police officer	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Last National Bank
    • City park
      • Bugs' residence
    • Police station
    • State prison

Objects

• Tommy gun
• Satchel of stolen money
• Baby stroller
• Bat
• Gun pistol
• Knife
• Bullets
• Grenade
• Hatchet
• Nightstick

Production

Second lobby card.

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Ernie Nordli
• Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 18, 1954 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the tongue twister "rubber baby buggy bumpers."
• Despite being first used in the Looney Tunes series, this is the first one to use of the 1954-1964 Bugs' mugshot in Merrie Melodies.

Legacy

• Finster's disguise at the beginning was used as the "Tall, Dark Stranger" character throughout The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, with footage of the bank robbery reused. At the end, it was revealed that Porky Pig was wearing the disguise to get the story going.
• Finister and his convict uniform are used as playable characters in Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem.

In popular culture

• The 2006 film Little Man employs a similar storyline from this short. It won a Golden Raspberry Award in 2007 for the "Worst Remake or Rip-off" award due to its plot similarities.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 2, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 on DVD.
  • December 1, 2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection on Blu-ray.