{"id":42516,"date":"2024-02-01T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42516"},"modified":"2024-05-10T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T14:43:23","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-gorilla-my-dreams-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/01\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-gorilla-my-dreams-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Gorilla My Dreams (1948)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gorilla My Dreams (1948)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Bob McKimson
\nWritten by Warren Foster
\nMusic by Carl W. Stalling
\nAnimation by Charles McKimson<\/p>\n

It\u2019s interesting to review \u201cGorilla My Dreams\u201d as it\u2019s a fun introduction of the ape villain Gruesome. While Warren Foster does a good job of bringing us new Bugs Bunny foil, Gruesome and this whole premise was applied so much better in the 1959 remake \u201cApes of Wrath.\u201d I could swear I had seen this short before, but for a long time it was always the aforementioned. It goes without saying that set up for \u201cApes\u2026\u201d is so much cleverer than the one we get in \u201cGorilla My Dreams.\u201d That\u2019s not to say that this short doesn\u2019t bring with it its own merits. It\u2019s not a terrible short at all, all things considered.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not sure how he keeps getting himself in to these situations, but the set up involves Bugs Bunny once again drifting on the sea on a barrel. This scene features a bit of a raunchy gag as Bugs is reading \u201cEsquire\u201d which was once considered an adults only magazine. We then meet Mrs. Gruesome, a female ape who is anxious to have her own baby and discovers Bugs floating along the water. Deciding to adopt him and take him as her own child, she brings him to her home where her grouchy and ferocious husband Mr. Gruesome awaits.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gruesome is, of course, not a big fan of having children in their little nest but Mrs. Gruesome is adamant in keeping Bugs. Bugs being Bugs, he decides to humor Mrs. Gruesome by pretending to be her baby. No good deed going unpunished, she brings him home and Mr. Gruesome makes it his mission to take Bugs out of their picture. The interaction between Mr. Gruesome and Bugs is hilarious as Mr. Gruesome is beyond any empathy or self awareness. His greeting and treatment of Bugs is the source of a lot of laughter as he takes it upon himself to torment and physically abuse his ersatz newborn baby Once Bugs begins to retaliate, director McKimson deals up some great gags including a hilarious tussle that turns in to a mambo.<\/p>\n

Admittedly a lot of \u201cGorilla My Dreams\u201d is barebones by way of gags and narrative. Mrs. Gruesome doesn\u2019t really play a big role in the second half of the short, and there\u2019s not a ton of resolution to Bugs being the adopted child, save for using Mr. Gruesome\u2019s own energy against him. I wouldn\u2019t have minded if they took more out of this premise and squeezed in a few more sight gags or jokes. Save for some misdirection with Mr. Gruesome, the writers feel like they\u2019re stretching the whole shtick as far as they can to fit the seven minutes. That\u2019s not something you see much at all with Bugs Bunny shorts. Plus the whole set up of a female character wanting to be a mother is so overused in Looney Tunes even with Foghorn Leghorn\u2019s shorts.<\/p>\n

Adoption is a big, recurring theme in the Looney Tunes library. I just think they do a better job of this premise with \u201cApes of Wrath.\u201d It\u2019s too bad since Mr. Gruesome is a fun, if imposing Bugs Bunny foil, which we don\u2019t get too often. The only other is Tasmanian Devil, which Mr. Gruesome feels like he\u2019s a precursor to.<\/p>\n

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Gorilla My Dreams (1948) Directed by Bob McKimson Written by Warren Foster Music by Carl W. Stalling Animation by Charles McKimson It\u2019s interesting to review \u201cGorilla My Dreams\u201d as it\u2019s a fun introduction of the ape villain Gruesome. While Warren Foster does a good job of bringing us new Bugs Bunny foil, Gruesome and this […]<\/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-42516","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\/42516","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=42516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43780,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42516\/revisions\/43780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}