{"id":42069,"date":"2024-01-16T00:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42069"},"modified":"2024-01-07T23:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T04:20:06","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-easter-yeggs-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/16\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-easter-yeggs-1947\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Easter Yeggs (1947)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Easter Yeggs (1947)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Robert McKimson
\nWritten by Warren Foster
\nMusic by Carl W. Stalling
\nAnimation by Charles McKimson<\/p>\n

The 500th<\/sup> animated short released from Warner Bros., \u201cEaster Yeggs\u201d is so much funnier than I remember it being, as I always typically found it kind of obnoxious in the past. Recently it\u2019s earned a place in the tops list mainly for the fact that it\u2019s so chaotic, and delights in delivering so many funny gags. To make things more interesting, \u201cEaster Yeggs\u201d has three villains, all of whom are scheming to make Bugs\u2019 life difficult, and it amounts to a hilarious challenge for the character. One of the earliest holiday themed shorts from Bugs, it\u2019s only a drop in the bucket of a long line of Warner animated shorts that took myths, legends, and fairytales and distorted them for the sake of comedy and or chaos.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s not at all a new thing for animation to skew or satirize these famous stories, but Looney Tunes was always very good at it, that I\u2019m surprised there was never really a short co-starring Santa, or involving Halloween. For \u201cEaster Yeggs\u201d it\u2019s the Easter Rabbit, and his reluctance to fulfill his duties. After exhaustingly submitting his duties, he happens to come across Bugs who he talks in to fulfilling his duties as the Easter Rabbit. Although Bugs finds the whole task silly, he indulges the Easter Rabbit, who is mainly just lazy and anxious to put his work on someone else.<\/p>\n

From there Bug comes across a nightmarish child with a bowl cut who not only demands Easter Eggs from Bugs but proceeds to torment him by biting him. From there in a still hysterical sequence of events, they twirl around getting in to a wrestling match where the \u201cDead End Kid\u201d proceeds to massacre Bugs. I also can\u2019t help but crack up when the Dead End Kid frames Bugs screaming \u201che bwoke my widdle arm!\u201d Retreating, Bugs is unlucky enough to come to the door of Elmer Fudd who is there to trap and kill the Easter Rabbit. Bugs is in a rotten mood though and takes his anger out of Elmer who drops all his charade and gives chase to Bugs.<\/p>\n

The jokes are delivered almost rapid fire with some fun sight gags and some great wordplay. The short opens with Bugs reading the book \u201cHow to Multiply\u201d and he refers to Easter eggs as \u201cTechnicolor Hand Fruit.\u201d In Bugs\u2019 second encounter with the Easter Rabbit, the Easter Rabbit explains \u201cYou\u2019ll give the Easter Rabbit a bad name,\u201d prompting Bugs to angrily reply, \u201cI already have a bad name for the Easter Rabbit!\u201d Elmer\u2019s brief appearance and small set up amounts to some big laughs, and he helps balance out the menace of the Dead End Kid (he gives off a hilarious similar vibe to the \u201cDo the Roar!\u201d kid from \u201cShrek\u201d) and the Lazy Easter Rabbit working against Bugs at every turn.<\/p>\n

Elmer is just is so very funny in this short, making Bugs\u2019 life so much worse than it already is. It\u2019s bad enough he contends with a rotten kid, and the lazy Easter Rabbit, but Elmer is just relentless once he\u2019s inserted in to the short. It\u2019s too bad Elmer is the only villain who gets a return slip from \u201cEaster Yeggs.\u201d Despite being hilarious in his appearance, I think the Dead End Kid and the lazy Easter Rabbit had a ton of comeback potential. Oddly enough \u201cEaster Yeggs\u201d also includes a subtle re-design of Bugs by McKimson. McKimson gave Bugs some very small aesthetic changes that he\u2019d be using for his own Bugs Bunny shorts in the future.<\/p>\n

The changes are very subtle to where they\u2019re almost impossible to notice, but it\u2019s interesting how Bugs is still fully evolving, and never actually settles on one definitive design. Even this late in the game. Nevertheless everything pretty much wraps up with Bugs getting his revenge, and is just a classic bit of hilarity that gives a typically lovable holiday character a cynical, albeit clever, tint.<\/p>\n

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

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