{"id":33467,"date":"2020-07-10T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=33467"},"modified":"2020-07-12T04:29:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T08:29:17","slug":"the-ten-10-worst-bugs-bunny-cartoons-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/10\/the-ten-10-worst-bugs-bunny-cartoons-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ten Worst Bugs Bunny Cartoons of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the arrival of Bugs Bunny on the big screen. And while Cinema Crazed has already celebrated the 10 best Bugs Bunny cartoons of all time<\/a>, this admittedly subjective article goes in the opposite direction to consider the 10 worst cartoons from the iconic character\u2019s output.<\/p>\n

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10. The Unmentionables (1963)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Friz Freleng<\/strong>
\n\"The
\nA spoof on \u201cThe Untouchables\u201d with Bugs as the detective Elegant Mess (a riff on Elliot Ness), this is the last time the gangsters Rocky and Mugsy turned up. Sadly, the cartoon is dismally paced, with none of the fresh sight gags that made the earlier appearances of Rocky and Mugsy so amusing. The twist ending, with Bugs getting a harsh comeuppance, is strangely unfunny.<\/p>\n

9. Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble<\/strong>
\n\"Hare
\nThe concept of this short is amusing: Bugs Bunny substitutes for the Road Runner, who supposedly sprained a giblet and could not participate in the animated chase antics with Wile E. Coyote. Sadly, the verbosity that weighed down \u201cDumb Patrol\u201d also burdens this, with Bugs constantly talking to the camera while the mute Wile E. Coyote goes through the usual shtick of elaborate traps that always backfire on him.<\/p>\n

8. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Friz Freleng<\/strong>
\n\"Bugs
\nA typical anvil comedy from World War II, with outlandishly stereotyped Japanese getting a kick in the Axis from America\u2019s favorite rabbit. The racial humor wears thin quickly \u2013 the Japanese are called \u201cmonkey face\u201d and \u201cslant eyes\u201d \u2013 and Bugs\u2019 drag act as a geisha to entice an oversized sumo wrestler is more bizarre than funny.<\/p>\n

7. Robot Rabbit (1953)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Friz Freleng<\/strong>
\n\"Robot
\nFarmer Elmer Fudd is sick and tired of having his carrot crop ravaged by Bugs, so he creates a clumsy robot to eliminate his long-eared foe. The robot isn\u2019t particularly effective as an adversary \u2013 he mistakes a mule for Bugs, then rusts immediately during a chase under a water sprinkler and is easily fooled by Bugs\u2019 atrocious metallic robot drag disguise. There is also some sloppy animation when Bugs addresses the viewer but his mouth doesn\u2019t move.<\/p>\n

6. Mississippi Hare (1949)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Chuck Jones<\/strong>
\n\"Mississippi
\nBugs accidentally gets plucked out of a cotton field by African-American laborers and packed into a bushel loaded on a riverboat heading down the antebellum Mississippi River. Bugs\u2019 adversary here is one-shot character Col. Shuffle, a violent gambler who bears more than a casual resemblance to Yosemite Sam. The slapstick is repetitious, with Shuffle repeatedly falling off the riverboat thanks to Bugs\u2019 trickery, and Bugs\u2019 vamping as a Southern belle isn\u2019t particularly funny. A brief blackface song-and-dance to \u201cCamptown Races\u201d will not endear the short to the BLM-supportive crowd.<\/p>\n

5. A Witch\u2019s Tangled Hare (1959)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Abe Levitow<\/strong>
\n\"A
\nThe most tiresome of the Witch Hazel encounters, the film has labored slapstick and a villain is just too clumsy to be an effective foe. A running gag has a William Shakespeare lookalike watching the knockabout while taking notes \u2013 it turns out that it\u2019s not Shakespeare, but Witch Hazel\u2019s ex-boyfriend Sam Crubish who failed to show up on a date over confusion regarding her residence in Apartment 2B. And you don\u2019t need a B.A. in English to know how that 2B reference is used by Bugs.<\/p>\n

4. Baton Bunny (1959)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow<\/strong>
\n\"Baton
\nNothing goes better together than Bugs Bunny and classical music \u2013 except in this dull offering, where Bugs\u2019 inept attempt to conduct an orchestra offers little imaginative use to the music and a lot of predictable sight gags, culminating in a near-fatal pursuit of a pesky fly. The one good element: Bugs has no dialogue, a relief from the too-talky shorts of the late 1950s and early 1960s.<\/p>\n

3. Half-Fare Hare (1956)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Robert McKimson<\/strong>
\n\"Half-Fare
\nBugs is on a train where a pair of hoboes resembling Jackie Gleason\u2019s Ralph Kramden and Art Carney\u2019s Ed Norton try to catch him for their dinner. Huh? Who thought that<\/em> was a good idea? Warner Bros. had better luck doing \u201cHoneymooners\u201d takeoffs with a pair of short using mice as Kramden and Norton \u2013 but this is just bad beyond belief.<\/p>\n

2. Dumb Patrol (1964)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Gerry Chiniquy<\/strong>
\n\"Dumb\"Dumb
\n A riff on World War I aerial epics, this was the last and least of the Yosemite Sam duels. The laugh-free verbosity of the short is truly grating \u2013 you want to yell at the screen for the characters to just shut up \u2013 and Porky Pig is wasted in a tiny cameo at the start of the short.<\/p>\n

1. Rabbit Rampage (1955)<\/strong>
\nDirected by Chuck Jones<\/strong>
\n\"Rabbit
\nJones followed up his brilliant \u201cDuck Amuck\u201d with this decidedly non-brilliant sequel that placed Bugs as the victim of surreal sight gags created by an unseen animator. While \u201cDuck Amuck\u201d worked because Daffy Duck\u2019s neurotic personality and oversized sense of talent played wonderfully against the zany assaults on his body, Bugs comes across as shrill and irritating. And the gag ending with Elmer Fudd getting his revenge as the naughty animator is just nowhere near as funny as the mischievous Bugs revealing himself as Daffy\u2019s tormentor in the classic original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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