{"id":38403,"date":"2023-01-09T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38403"},"modified":"2023-01-09T07:33:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T12:33:52","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-prest-o-change-o-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/09\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-prest-o-change-o-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Prest-O Change-O (1939)"},"content":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 85th<\/sup> Anniversary of Bug Bunny\u2019s first animated appearance in 1938’s \u201cPorky\u2019s Hare Hunt.\u201d Debuting originally as Happy Rabbit, Bugs eventually became one of the most iconic animated characters of all time. In honor of the landmark anniversary, we\u2019re discussing every animated appearance by Bugs Bunny. We\u2019re big fans of Bugsy and we hope that you are, too. <\/em><\/p>\n

Follow us on this massive journey where we discover and re-discover Every Bugs Bunny Ever.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Prest-O Change-O (1939)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Charles Jones
\nProduced by Leon Schlesinger
\nMusic by Carl W. Stalling
\nAnimation by\u00a0 Rudy Larriva\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Two Curious Puppies is easily my least favorite series of Merrie Melodies shorts, as it\u2019s basically more of a series derived on being cute. I\u2019m not against cute, but the Two Curious Puppies are almost too saccharine for me. Sure, the animation from Rudy Larriva is fantastic, but there\u2019s only so much you can do with two mischievous puppies that get in to all sorts of misadventures. They\u2019re thankfully not the sole stars of \u201cPrest-O Change-O\u201d as they\u2019re complimented by one naughty rabbit. Yes, Happy Rabbit is back! But this time he\u2019s in Technicolor! It\u2019s the wave of the future!<\/p>\n

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The set up for the short includes the Two Curious Puppies who stow away on a dark and stormy night, on a truck headed to a weird house owned by magician Sham-Fu. They\u2019re trapped in what is a house of virtual gags and bizarre magic rooms that drive them crazy. Sham-Fu never makes an actual appearance. They\u2019re also taunted by Happy Rabbit who makes a point of driving the pair crazy. This is one of the few times in Bugs\u2019 career where he\u2019s basically the bad guy and loses. In this instance he\u2019s more of a mischievous magician\u2019s bunny than the personality we saw in \u201cPorky\u2019s Hare Hunt.\u201d<\/p>\n

He does include his early Woody Woodpecker laugh, but beyond that his role is virtually silent and he doesn\u2019t have an arc at all. Despite my reservations for the Two Curious Puppies, the short is saved by Mel Blanc\u2019s ace voice work and timing. There\u2019s a great opening gag with a sinister cuckoo popping out of the clock proclaiming \u201cIt\u2019s tw-elve o\u2019clock! Muahahahaha!\u201d Beyond much of the short is the house screwing with the puppies as they have to contend with their own obstacles that includes warping doors, sentient furniture, and various other Magician\u2019s gags. Small Puppy fights off a sentient magician\u2019s Hindu rope (and wand), while Big Puppy has to fight off Happy Rabbit time and time again.<\/p>\n

He doesn\u2019t show off a lot of the familiar aspects of Bugs Bunny, but spends a lot of time using the house as a means of driving the pair of dogs crazy. In the end he loses, as most of these shorts would have the villain do, as the short dissolves to a close on Happy Rabbit lying battered by the Big Puppy. One of the only shorts from the Curious Puppies in public domain, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d consider this an essential Pro-Bugs\/Bugs Bunny short to view. It\u2019s at least interesting to see how they were gauging Happy Rabbit as a face or a heel, and what he could bring to the table when sharing the screen with established Merrie Melodies characters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Find out what we think are the BEST<\/a> and WORST<\/a> Bugs Bunny shorts of all time!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2023 marks the 85th Anniversary of Bug Bunny\u2019s first animated appearance in 1938’s \u201cPorky\u2019s Hare Hunt.\u201d Debuting originally as Happy Rabbit, Bugs eventually became one of the most iconic animated characters of all time. In honor of the landmark anniversary, we\u2019re discussing every animated appearance by Bugs Bunny. We\u2019re big fans of Bugsy and we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[71,99,167,219,610,3069,1175],"class_list":["post-38403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-comedy","tag-looney-tunes","tag-merrie-melodies","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38406,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38403\/revisions\/38406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}