Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are rival salesmen for the publishing house Rambling House. Bugs secures the prime assignment of selling books in the resort town of Pismo Beach while Daffy gets stuck with the Wyoming market of Thermopolis. Both of them somehow wind up in an Arabian cave, with Daffy encountering a hostile warrior guarding a treasure while Bugs gets hooked into reading stories to Prince Abba-Dabba, the spoiled son of the Sultan Yosemite Sam.
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There is trouble brewing at QTTV – up on the top floor of the network’s skyscraper headquarters, the latest president was fired for failing to turn around dismal ratings. His dismissal was a tad extreme – he was thrown head-first out of a window and into a street-level fountain, with his desk thrown after him! The network then hires Bugs Bunny as the new president. While Bugs is reviewing the new shows that brought to the network, Yosemite Sam keeps pestering him for a job. After Porky Pig buys QTTV, Bugs steps aside and Sam becomes president – only to have Porky immediately fire him and toss him out of the window and into the street-level fountain.
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Following the critical and commercial success of “The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie,” Warner Bros. commissioned a second feature film that mixed its classic cartoons with new animation. Whereas the first film was helmed by Chuck Jones and only included clips from the post-1948 films that he directed, “The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie” was handed to Friz Freleng and he followed Jones’ lead by focusing entirely on his output.
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This 1981 production might be the best of the primetime television specials that sliced and diced classic cartoons with not-so-special new animation – if only because there is relatively little new animation.
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In this primetime television special, dimwitted law enforcement agent Elmer Fudd arrests Bugs Bunny for being the notorious bank robber known as the Tall Dark Stranger. Bugs goes to prison but aggravates corrections officer Yosemite Sam to the point that Sam kicks him out of the facility. Bugs is eager to clear his name, although he faces distracting detours from Wile E. Coyote (who attempts to capture and eat him) and Tweety and Sylvester (who engage in violent knockabout during a train ride where Bugs is a passenger).
The less said about “Bugs Bunny’s Bustin’ Out All Over,” the better. This CBS-aired special was another Chuck Jones mess, with two of the worst Bugs Bunny shorts ever conceived plus a Road Runner romp that was strictly okay.
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The 1979 television special “Bugs Bunny’s Looney Christmas Tales” marked the first time since the end of the Golden Age that the Warner Bros. animators created a genuine classic. Consisting of three new shorts with brief bridging sections, this holiday offering was rich with inventive laugh-out-loud comedy.
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