Person to Bunny

Person to Bunny
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	April 1, 1960
Starring	Mel Blanc Daws Butler Arthur Q. Bryan
Producer(s)	John W. Burton
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Michael Maltese
Animation	Gerry Chiniquy Virgil Ross Art Davis
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Person to Bunny is the four hundred and fifty-seventh Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was published by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on April 1, 1960. It was written by Michael Maltese, produced by John W. Burton, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Bugs appears on Cedric R. Burrows' show, People to People, but Daffy, who wants to be on the show, and Elmer, whom Bugs had insulted on TV, interrupts him.

Memorable Quotes

Bugs: Good night, Mr. Burrows.
Mr. Burrows: (laughs) Good night, Bugs.

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
Elmer Fudd	Arthur Q. Bryan
Cedric R. Burrows	Daws Butler

Locations

• Earth
  • America
  • People to People set
  • Hollywood, California
  • Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole
  • Elmer Fudd's home
  • Forest

Objects

• Carrots
• Elmer's shotgun

Production

Second Lobby Card

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: April 1, 1960 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a parody of the television series Person to Person.
• It was the last theatrical cartoon in which Arthur Q. Bryan provided the voice of Elmer Fudd, and the last cartoon to pair Elmer with both Bugs and Daffy.
• Due to the long production time for all of the theatrical cartoons, the cartoon's pop culture references had become outdated by 1960. In real life, Edward R. Murrow had already left Person to Person and was replaced by Charles Collingwood.
  • A similar problem had previously occurred with the short Wild Wild World; the Wide Wide World TV series (of which that short was a parody of) was already cancelled in 1958 by the time that was released.
• When this cartoon got restored for the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, it was cropped to a widescreen format. It was later restored to fullscreen format in both the Daffy Duck DVD release of Stars of Space Jam, and on the Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray set.

Errors

• This cartoon had no MPAA number during the credits sequence.

Home availibity

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (cropped to widescreen)
  • Stars of Space Jam: Daffy Duck (DVD)
  • Stars of Space Jam (DVD)
  • Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection