Bugs and Thugs

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Bugs and Thugs
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Production company Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date March 2, 1954
Run time 7:00
Starring Mel Blanc
Music composed by Milt Franklyn
Story by Warren Foster
Animation Manuel Perez
Ken Champin
Virgil Ross
Arthur Davis
Director(s) I. Freleng
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Bugs and Thugs is the three hundred and thirty-first Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on March 2, 1954. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Bugs takes the wrong vehicle for a cab and is instead held hostage in a hideaway with two gangsters, Rocky and Mugsy.

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Memorable quotes

Bugs: I don't mind sharin' da ride, but all this laundry... After all...
Rocky: Stop right there, rabbit. How much do you know?
Bugs: Who, me? Well, I know a lots of things! Two and two is four. Carson City is the capital of Nevada. George Washington was da foist President...
Rocky: Cut it! This guy knows too much, Mugsy... Take it for a ride...
Mugsy: Okay, boss!
Bugs: Rides? I just love rides, especially on a lovely spring day! There's nothin' like da motor ride to relax one. Through windin' roads past the green meadows and down shady lanes.
Rocky: (points gun at Bugs) Shut up.
Bugs: Shut up? Why soitenly! You don't think I'm da kind who would keep on blabbin'. Some people never know when to stop. When I'm told to shut up, I shut up...
Rocky: (points gun again) Shut up shuttin' up.


Rocky: Keep workin', rabbit.
Mugsy: Yeah, keep workin', rabbit!
Rocky: Shut up!
Mugsy: What'd I do, boss?
Rocky: I said button yer lip.
Mugsy: Oh okay, boss. (literally buttons his own lip) How's this, boss?


Cop: Alright, rabbit. Where's Rocky? Where is he hiding?
Bugs: He's not in this stove!
Cop: Oh-ho! He's hiding in the stove, eh?
Bugs: Would I turn on the gas if he was in there?
Cop: Hm, you might, rabbit. You might...
Bugs Well, uh, would I throw a light and match in there if he was in the-.
Rocky: OH NO, YA DON'T!


Bugs: Bugs Bunny, Private Eyeball speakin' – Thugs Thwarted, Arsonists Arrested, Bandits Booked, Forgers Found, Counterfeiters Caught, and Chiselers Chiseled.

Characters

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Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Bugs Bunny Mel Blanc
Rocky Mel Blanc
Mugsy Mel Blanc
Irish cop Mel Blanc


Organizations

Locations

  • Earth
    • United States
      • City bank
      • Nevada (mentioned)
        • Carson City (mentioned)
      • Rocky's hideout
      • Detective agency office

Objects

  • Stove

Vehicles

  • '52 Acme car

Production

Development

Filming

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Crew credits

Release

Dates are in order of release:

  • United States: March 2, 1954 in theatres

Behind the scenes

  • The MPAA certificate number is 16135.
  • The shorts is a reworking of Freleng's previous cartoon, Racketeer Rabbit (1946).

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