People are Bunny

People are Bunny
Lobby card.
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	December 19, 1959
Starring	Mel Blanc Daws Butler June Foray
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Ted Bonnicksen Warren Batchelder Tom Ray George Grandpré
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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People are Bunny is the four hundred and fifty-fourth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 19, 1959. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Robert McKimson.

When Daffy learns that the host of a hunting show is offering $1K for the first rabbit to be brought on the QTTV TV station, the greedy duck tries to bring Bugs over here.

Memorable quotes

Bugs: Eh... they always shoot blanks on TV.
Daffy: Blanks, he says... (spits out bullets) Here, have a handful of blanks... SHEESH!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Host of QTTV Sportsman Hour	Mel Blanc
Host of People are Phony	Daws Butler
Old lady	June Foray

Organizations

• QTTV TV

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • Forest
    • Daffy's residence
    • Bugs's residence

Objects

• Dynamite stick
• Pile of buckshot

Production

Second lobby card.

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: December 19, 1959 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the TV series People are Funny.
• This is the first of the only two cartoons directed by Robert McKimson to pair Bugs and Daffy; the other is the 1963 Looney Tunes short, The Million Hare.
• This is the last Merrie Melodies cartoon of 1959, and last Warner Bros. cartoon to be released in the 1950s.
• The scene involving Bugs tricking Daffy to set involving Native Americans as an usher shares similarities with Wideo Wabbit, where he does the same trick to send Elmer Fudd into a show.

Errors

• When this cartoon was first released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, it had been cropped to a 16:9 widescreen format. It was later restored with its original aspect ration on the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray set.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
  • Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection