Mutiny on the Bunny

Mutiny on the Bunny
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	February 11, 1950
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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Mutiny on the Bunny is a two-hundred and sixty-sixth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 11, 1950. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

In 18th Century England, when his old crew abandons ship, Shanghai Sam decides to find a new crew. When he tricks Bugs into taking a cruise only for him to be shanghaied instead, Bugs decides to scuttle with Sam's ambitions.

Memorable quotes

Old crewmate: I was a human being once...

Mouse: He's not long for this world...

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Old crewmate	Mel Blanc
Shanghai Sam	Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Mouse	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • England
    • Shipyard

Objects

• Cannon
• Rope
• White flag
• Beach umbrella

Vehicles

• Sad Sack
• Rowboat

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of Mutiny on the Bounty, a 1789 historical event in which the crew of Lieutenant Fletcher Christian seized control of the HMS Bounty from captain William Bligh. It is also a play on the 1935 film Mutiny on the Bounty, which adapted the event.
• It is one of several nautical-themed shorts with Sam as a pirate, along with Buccaneer Bunny (1948), Captain Hareblower (1954), This Is a Life? (1955) and From Hare to Eternity (1997).
• In this cartoon, Bugs fools himself by reverse psychology when he argues with Sam about swabbing the deck.
• The footage and music where Sam rebuilds his ship on the docks is reused twice, with the latter half (Sam putting boards over the hole) being reused once more before Bugs' final ploy; the scene where is repaired ship is launched into the water is reused once.

Errors

• When Sam reads the clue "...and five paces to the right and dig at spot marked X" and follows the directions, he is actually going to his left, but the directions refer to the right side of the movie screen.

Legacy

• Despite not being included in Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, the beginning from this cartoon where one of Yosemite Sam's former crew escapes in terror while admitting his insanity to the audience is an homage in that film; Sultan Sam's previous royal storyteller runs out on him looking haggard, traumatized, disheveled, and half-insane because of Prince Abadaba's antics.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • August 10, 2010: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire on DVD.