{"id":42718,"date":"2024-02-20T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42718"},"modified":"2024-02-20T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T08:04:14","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-buccaneer-bunny-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/20\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-buccaneer-bunny-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Buccaneer Bunny (1948)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Friz Freleng
\nWritten by Michael Maltese
\nMusic by Carl W. Stalling
\nAnimation by Manuel Perez\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of–Ma\u2019s old fa-shioned ci-der! Ma\u2019s old fa-shioned ci-der!<\/p>\n

I have great sentimental value for \u201cBuccaneer Bunny\u201d as it\u2019s one of the array of Bugs Bunny shorts that were often played during the Bugs and Daffy Show every Saturday morning when I was a kid. \u201cBuccaneer Bunny\u201d is edgy enough to still be hilarious but never crosses any lines. And we also get Yosemite Sam once again! That\u2019s always a plus. Watching this short takes me back to when I was a child winding down from Saturday morning cartoons and greeting the early afternoon with the hour block on ABC Network. \u201cBuccaneer Bunny\u201d is still utterly hilarious and stands as one of the shorts from Bugs that hasn\u2019t aged a bit.<\/p>\n

Even with its stripped-down premise, the short is a masterclass in the excellent dynamic that Bugs and Yosemite Sam have together.<\/p>\n

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Not to mention Sam demonstrates his ability to be fit in to any setting, despite mainly being established as a violent cowboy and bandit from the old west. I\u2019m happy that Sam evolves over time from the Western bandit to just an angry, ornery, and vicious villain who always lets his short temper get the best of him. He\u2019s also driven virtually insane by the end of almost every confrontation that he has with Bugs, which is a plus. I\u2019m disappointed that we haven\u2019t seen Yosemite Sam since his 1945 debut in \u201cHare Trigger\u201d as the character has a ton of potential that the writers hadn\u2019t quite figured out.<\/p>\n

For this short Sam is now a pirate, or more matter of factly, he\u2019s \u201cSea-Goin’ Sam, the blood-thirstiest, shoot-’em-first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that ever sailed the Spanish main!” He is struggling to bury his chest of treasure in a hole. After it keeps being ejected much to his horror, he comes across Bugs who emerges from the hole draped in his gold and jewels. A chase ensues as Bugs hijacks his war ship, and Sam trying to re-claim it while also trying to kill him in the process. It\u2019s a fun set up with a surprising amount of great gags crammed in. One of my all time favorites involves Sam jumping on a boat to get to Bugs, swimming to the deck of his boat to get his oars, swimming back to the boat, and then rowing to the boat to get on deck.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a great gag involving a squealing parrot, and the classic door gags Bugs is prone to stage when running from his enemies. Bugs also does a great Charles Laughton impersonation playing Captain Bligh from \u201cMutiny on the Bounty;\u201d it\u2019s a great bit of Hollywood satire that the Looney Tunes truly excel at. The animation and direction is absolutely top notch with a lot of the visual gags and comic timing really hitting well. The amount of material Bugs is able to derive from the cannons is hysterical, and I\u2019ve always enjoyed how much the writers are able to derive from the whole Pirate and sea faring set up in the long run.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too bad Sam has been gone for such a long time, but I am happy he returns to yet another gem with Bugs Bunny.<\/p>\n

Be Sure to Purchase Some Classic Bugs Bunny<\/a>! Also, <\/strong><\/em>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":"

Buccaneer Bunny (1948) Directed by Friz Freleng Written by Michael Maltese Music by Carl W. Stalling Animation by Manuel Perez\u00a0 Yo, ho, ho, and a bottle of–Ma\u2019s old fa-shioned ci-der! Ma\u2019s old fa-shioned ci-der! I have great sentimental value for \u201cBuccaneer Bunny\u201d as it\u2019s one of the array of Bugs Bunny shorts that were often […]<\/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-42718","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\/42718","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=42718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42725,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42718\/revisions\/42725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}