Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
| Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny | |
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| Production company | Chuck Jones Productions |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
| Release date | May 21, 1980 |
| Run time | 7:00 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Chuck Jones Marian Dern Mary Roscoe Don Arioli |
| Music composed by | Dean Elliot |
| Story by | Chuck Jones |
| Animation | Phil Monroe Virgil Ross Manny Perez Ken Champin Irv Anderson Dick Thompson Lloyd Vaughman Tom Ray Terry Lennon Bob Shellhorn Sammie Lanham Bob Treat Grace Stanzell Bob Tyler Carole Beers Bill Wolf George Scribner Retta Davidson |
| Director(s) | Chuck Jones Phil Monroe (co-direction) |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny is the five hundred and thirty-second short of the Merrie Melodies theatrical series, which originally came as the first segment in the Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over television special. It aired on May 21, 1980 on CBS. It was written, produced and directed by Chuck Jones.
Bugs reminisces about the time he and Elmer were young kids who had gotten out of school for spring break.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Young Elmer: Oh, boy! No mo' cwasses, no mo' books, no mo' teacher's dirty wooks! And awso, it's wabbit season. And I'm hunting wabbits. So be vewy, vewy qwiet!
Young Elmer: Oh, uh... Pardon me, Mr. Coyote. I didn't mean to pause the means of pwogwess.
Bugs: I'm glad that I'm not young anymore. But ya know, I bet Elmer and I would be the youngest people to ever start chasin' each other.
(a baby coyote is seen chasing an egg that beeps like the Road Runner)
Bugs: Er... I could be wrong y'know.
Characters
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Organizations
- Acme (mentioned)
Locations
Objects
- Pop gun rifle
- Pop gun cannon
- Gravity for Beginners by I.Q. Lowe
- Springcoil
- Bucket
- Acme Little-Giant Pop Gun Repeater
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Dean Elliot.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: May 21, 1980 on CBS
Behind the scenes
- Wile E. Coyote makes a cameo in this short, when he was falling alongside Elmer.
Legacy
- Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner would later be depicted as babies in the 2000 Looney Tunes short, Little Go Beep.
