{"id":43448,"date":"2024-04-02T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T04:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43448"},"modified":"2024-04-01T08:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:27:18","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-my-bunny-lies-over-the-sea-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/02\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-my-bunny-lies-over-the-sea-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Chuck Jones
\nWritten by Michael Maltese
\nAnimation by Ken Harris
\nMusic by Carl W. Stalling<\/p>\n

The only thing more annoying than recycling the same gags is essentially recycling the same old villains. That is especially when they were so good in the previous shorts. And I don\u2019t mean just featuring dogs over and over, as they\u2019re a common predator, so it makes considerable sense. But more in the unnecessary recycling of one of Bugs\u2019 banner villains is what kind of grinds my gears. \u201cMy Bunny Lies Over the Sea\u201d is a pretty good Bugs Bunny short, and one that has a good time lampooning the Scottish culture. But once we meet his nemesis, it becomes apparent that the writers are basically just giving it the bare minimum.<\/p>\n

So, Bugs meets a red haired, short, angry man with a hot temper, a funny accent, and who is prone to lashing out at Bugs quite often. You might think I\u2019m discussing Yosemite Sam, but no. I\u2019m talking about Angus MacRory.<\/p>\n

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Angus MacRory is only a Scottish version of Yosemite Sam and one that I don\u2019t know what they intended to do with, if anything. Did they think we wouldn\u2019t notice? Were they trying to have various region Yosemite Sams? Was this their attempt to appeal to the Scottish culture less by appropriating it and just having a new character turn up? Were we going to get a middle Eastern and or Asian variation of Yosemite Sam, too? Angus MacRory is a very funny villain at the end of the day, but only really because he reminds me so much of Yosemite Sam.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s hot tempered and loud, and violent, and he\u2019s also prone to getting tricked by Bugs so easily. This is blatantly a remake of \u201cHerr Meets Hare\u201d sans all of the Nazi and Hitler symbolism, with even the mention of one of Bugs\u2019s signature opening lines about meaning to go to Albuquerque. The aforementioned short included the signature catchphrase for the first time, while this is the second time and used with much better reasoning, all things considered. Jones and the animators opt more for broader less offensive goofs on the Scottish this time, and the whole premise works a lot better here than it did in the previous short.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s mainly because the writers have to actually make up gags this time, rather than just feed us sloppy propaganda. The set up involves Bugs tunnelling through the ground and ending up in the middle of Scotland. He meant to take a left turn at Albuquerque all to get to the La Brea Tar pits. While there he comes across MacRory playing his bad pipes and mistaking the scene for a woman being attacked by a monster proceeds to destroy the bag pipes. This sets off McRory who challenges Bugs to a game of golf, because\u2014again–this short dives head first in to the Scottish stereotypes. Thankfully the result is a pretty funny and raucous short, even if McRory isn\u2019t the most entertaining or creative villain. He just feels so painfully derivative and doesn\u2019t have a lot of motivation beyond Bugs stomping on his bag pipes.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not a euphemism. Hiyo!<\/p>\n

Yosemite Sam is just so much more well developed, especially considering he\u2019d been in almost ten shorts with Bugs by the time \u201cMy Bunny Lies Over Sea\u201d premiered in theaters. Chuck Jones\u2019 signature humor is here, though, and the animation is top notch. Along with the hilarity of Bugs confusing MacRory for a woman, the golf match is funny, and I like the clever ending with Bugs challenging MacRory to a bag pipes contest, only to appear with a huge bang strapped to his body and ears. They should have just cut the middle man and featured Sam as a Scottish man, rather than inventing a clumsy facsimile. MacRory is not a one and done villain I want more of, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

All things said, \u201cMy Bunny Lies Over the Sea\u201d suffers from huge flaws, but it is a perfectly fine entry.<\/p>\n

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