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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bedevilled Rabbit (1957)

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Bedevilled Rabbit (1957)
Directed by Robert McKimson
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation by Ted Bonnicksen, Keith Darling, George Grandpré
Music by Milt Franklyn

When the Tasmanian Devil – or Taz, as his friends know him – debuted in the 1954 “Devil May Hare,” producer Edward Selzer took a dislike to the character and ordered director Robert McKimson not to use him again. However, studio chief Jack L. Warner later intervened by pointing to the surplus number of fan letters asking when Taz would be in another cartoon. Three years passed after “Devil May Hare” before he returned in “Bedevilled Rabbit,” which was the best of the Bugs-Taz pairings.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Ali Baba Bunny (1957)

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Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Michael Maltese
Music by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn
Animation by Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Ben Washam and Harry Love

The major problem with the Bugs Bunny-Daffy Duck frenemy cartoons is the surplus amount gags focused on Daffy, with Bugs serving mostly as a polite onlooker to the violent humiliation generated by his web-footed friend’s self-destructive greed, jealousy, and rudeness. “Ali Baba Bunny” is the best of these pairings because Bugs shares an equal load of generated laughs with Daffy, and the two work in unison in dealing with a memorable adversary. The result is one of the very best of the Bugs Bunny series, as well as one of the most comically satisfying cartoons ever made.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: To Hare is Human (1956)

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To Hare is Human (1956)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Michael Maltese
Animation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris, Ben Washam
Music by Milt Franklyn

Wile E. Coyote wants Bugs Bunny for breakfast – not as a guest, but as his meal – but the self-proclaimed genius quickly discovers capturing his prey is beyond his intellectual capacities. For this pursuit, the coyote installs a supersized Univac computer in his cave and consults the machine for strategies on catching Bugs. The computer offers several ideas, but all these seemingly ingenious efforts wildly backfire on the coyote.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Wideo Wabbit (1956)

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Wideo Wabbit (1956)
Directed by Robert McKimson
Story by Tedd Pierce
Music by Carl Stalling
Animation by Ted Bonnicksen, Keith Darling, Russ Dyson, George Grandpré

Bugs Bunny answers a newspaper advertisement seeking a rabbit to appear on-camera at QTTV-TV. Bugs shows up and is hired, unaware that his job is to be the prey in Elmer Fudd’s television program “The Sportsman’s Hour,” sponsored by The French Fried Fresh Frozen Rabbit Company. Bugs narrowly avoids being shot by Elmer on live television and escapes through the corridors of the television studio, disguising himself as various small-screen personalities before turning tables on his predator by tricking Elmer to dress as a rabbit. Bugs then dresses up like Elmer and shoots the rabbit-suited Elmer on television.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: A Star is Bored (1956)

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A Star is Bored (1956)
Directed by Friz Freleng
Story by Warren Foster
Animation by Art Davis, Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy
Music by Milt Franklyn

Daffy Duck is the malcontented janitor at a movie studio where Bugs Bunny is the reigning screen star. Annoyed at the attention Bugs is receiving, Daffy marches into the office of the casting director to demand a crack at stardom. Daffy is cast as Bugs’ stunt double in an ongoing production and is dressed in a rabbit suit but soon discovers to his frustration he is being assigned the most dangerous stunts.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Half-Fare Hare (1956)

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Half-Fare Hare (1956)
Directed by Robert McKimson
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation by George Grandpre, Russ Dyson, Keith Darling, Ted Bonnicksen
Music by Carl Stalling

Bugs Bunny picks up a newspaper at a railroad station and reads about wintry conditions that froze the local carrot crop, resulting in rabbits leaving the state “in droves” for Alabama, where carrots are plentiful. Bugs is confused and exclaims, “But I don’t have a drove!” Instead, Bugs climbs into a boxcar on the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and encounters a pair of hungry hoboes who resemble Jackie Gleason’s Ralph Kramden and Art Carney’s Ed Norton. The duo envisions Bugs as their long-overdue meal, but Bugs is not easily captured.
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Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956)

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Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Tedd Pierce
Animation by Abe Levitow, Richard Thompson, Ken Harris
Music by Carl Stalling

Bugs Bunny is burrowing underground to visit his cousin Herman in San Francisco when he bangs head-first into a giant gold nugget. The swindler Nasty Canasta tricks Bugs into believing he has a depository bank for storing the gold, and Bugs entrusts his new fortune with the miscreant. After Nasty violently waylays Bugs, the angry rabbit vows revenge. Six months later, he tracks down Nasty to the San Francisco casino that he built with Bugs’ gold. Bugs disguises himself as a naïve rural visitor, but this seemingly innocent façade enables him to casually drain the casino of its money by winning Nasty’s rigged games.
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