This Is a Life?

This Is a Life?
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 9, 1955
Starring	Mel Blanc Stan Freberg Arthur Q. Bryan
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Manuel Perez Ken Champin
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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This Is a Life? is the three hundred and twenty-sixth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 9, 1955. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Elmer Fudd is a host of a TV show where he and Yosemite Sam try to get revenge on Bugs Bunny. Meanwhile, Daffy laments that the show is not about him.

Memorable quotes

Daffy: You're... you're... YOU'RE DESPICABLE!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc
Elmer Fudd	Arthur Q. Bryan
Yosemite Sam	Mel Blanc
Granny	June Foray

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • TV station

Objects

• Gift wrapped bomb

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn. It uses a special rendition of the "Merrily We Roll Along" intro theme, although it goes back to using the outro theme from Hare Brush. Beginning with Jumpin' Jupiter to Hawaiian Aye Aye, the Merrie Melodies series would use newly made renditions of these themes from 1955 to 1964.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 9, 1955 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The short's title and premise are a spoof of This is Your Life.
• It uses clips from the following cartoons:
  • A Hare Grows in Manhattan
  • Buccaneer Bunny
  • Hare Do
• This is one of the few Bugs Bunny shorts not to feature Bugs' head icon in the color rings, or the Bugs Bunny introductionary card before the opening credits; and for the very first time since Tokyo Jokio, the credits come before the title.
• When the short was released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, it was cropped down to widescreen. It was later restored to its original fullscreen format when it was released on the Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection Blu-ray set.

Legacy

• This cartoon would be used in the TV Special, Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television but the clip from Hare Do of Elmer using an Army Surplus radar tracker to hunt for Bugs has been replaced with a scene of Bugs and Elmer's vaudeville act from What's Up Doc?

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
• Bugs Bunny's 80th Anniversary Collection