Rabbit Every Monday
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| Rabbit Every Monday | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | February 24, 1951 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Carl Stalling |
| Story by | Friz Freleng (uncredited) |
| Animation | Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis |
| Director(s) | I. Freleng |
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Rabbit Every Monday is the two hundred and eighty-fourth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 24, 1951. It was produced by Edward Selzer, and both written and directed by Friz Freleng.
While cooking carrots ala rotisserie, Bugs is invited by Yosemite Sam over to dinner. As it turns out, Bugs IS the dinner.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Bugs: I don't ask questions, I just have fun!
Characters
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Locations
Objects
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Songs
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: February 24, 1951 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on the 1949 film by 20th Century Fox Studios, Chicken Every Sunday.
- This cartoon and Stooge for a Mouse were written by Friz Freleng, while he was trying to get Warren Foster as his writer for his unit. Warren would then help Friz in his cartoon, Putty Tat Trouble.
- The audience member gag is recycled from Little Red Walking Hood and Daffy Duck & Egghead, with rotoscoped animation of Tedd Pierce being recycled from the former. Additionally, the dialogue of the man reacting to Sam's threat was also taken from Bacall to Arms.
- The live-action footage seen within the cast iron stove is taken from the 1948 film Romance on the High Seas.
- This is one of a few Bugs and Sam cartoons where they both win at the end.
- This cartoon, alongside Hare We Go and The Fair Haired Hare are the only cartoons from 1951 to not get a Blue Ribbon reissue. Coincidentally, all of these cartoons star Bugs Bunny.
- This cartoon was originally slated to be included on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire DVD, but was replaced early in development due to executive backlash from Warner Home Video. However, it later got an official release via the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray set.
- The cement bags have "HP" in giant letters, which is a reference to layout artist, Hawley Pratt.
Legacy
- This cartoon was the first cartoon to be featured in the first episode of The Bugs Bunny Show in 1960. Also featured were A Mouse Divided and Tree for Two. Coincidentally, all three cartoons in the first episode are directed by Friz Freleng.
- This cartoon would be used in the Thanksgiving TV special Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet. But the scenes where Bugs is throwing a party in the oven were changed to Bugs being in a late 1970s disco. in addition to having reddubed dialogue.
- Additionally, the song "It's Magic" would be used in another TV special Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars.
- Yosemite Sam's hunter persona would be used in Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem.
Home availability
- In the United States:
- December 1, 2020: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment releases Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection on Blu-ray.
