Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!
Production company	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation
Distributor	Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
Release date	June 7, 1969
Run time	6:35
Producer(s)	William L. Hendricks
Music composed by	William Lava
Story by	Cal Howard
Animation	Ted Bonnicksen La Verne Harding Jim Davis Ed Solomon Norm McCabe
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! is the four hundred and seventy-eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts on June 7, 1969. It was written by Cal Howard, produced by William L. Hendricks, and directed by Robert McKimson.

Quick Brown Fox, hoping to make rabbit stew for dinner, tries to make a few attempts to get the main ingredient needed for his recipe.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Rapid Rabbit	N/A
Quick Brown Fox	N/A
Gas station attendant	N/A

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Countryside forest
    • Quick Browns's cave
    • Gas station

Objects

• Cook book
• Cauldron
• Binoculars
• Rope noose
• Car horn
• Old-fashioned rabbit trap
• Decoy dynamite rabbit
• Cannon
• Y-shaped branch
• Cannonball
• Spring-loaded mallet trap with pull-string key
• Medium-large rock
• Trick door with rock avalanche
• Free carrots" sign
• "Free trip to moon" stand
• Wooden stool
• Cannon with long fuse
• Iron glass wall
• Dinner table
• Stove with spring-loaded frying pan
• Trampoline
• Anvil
• Automatic boot kicker
• Spring-loaded mallet with pipes
• Grease can and brush
• Giant pink balloon

Music

The music was composed by William Lava.

Crew credits

• Backgrounds: Bob McIntosh
• Layouts: Bob Givens, Jaime R. Diaz
• Film editor: Hal Geer

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: June 7, 1969 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• This is the only short to feature Rapid Rabbit and Quick Brown Fox.
• It is also the last one-shot Warner Bros. cartoon in the Golden Age of American animation.
• This cartoon has similarities to that of the classic Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons:
  • Rapid uses a horn that resembles an off-key version of the Road Runner's "beep, beep" sound.
  • Quick Brown's many attempts to catch the rabbit, though lacking any Acme-related products, are somewhat similar to Wile E.'s schemes.
  • Unlike the Road Runner cartoons, Rapid can harm Quick Brown in this cartoon without making any noises.
• There is no voice actor credited, but Quick Brown audibly gasps when he thinks his rabbit trap failed and sighs in relief right before he is smashed by the boulder. These may have been archived stock sounds from Warner's sound effects library.
• The sound effects used to introduce Rabbit and Quick Brown uses trimmed versions of a portion from the credits of Now Hear This.

Errors

• When shown on television anthology programs like The Merrie Melodies Show, the title was changed to Rabbit Stew and Rabbits, Too, without an explanation point.
  • Additionally, in the title card for The Merrie Melodies Show, Quick Brown's hands and feet are colored similarly to his orange body, whereas his hands and feet are white and black, respectively, in the original short.