{"id":43749,"date":"2024-05-08T19:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=43749"},"modified":"2024-05-08T19:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T23:38:42","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bowery-bugs-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/08\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bowery-bugs-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bowery Bugs (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bowery Bugs (1949)
\n<\/strong>Directed by Arthur Davis
\nWritten by Lloyd Turner
\nAnimation by Emery Hawkins
\nMusic by Peter Burness<\/p>\n

Steve Brody is one of the more forgettable of Bugs Bunny\u2019s foils as he feels a lot like a carry over from Tex Avery and his MGM stint. In fact, the majority of \u201cBowery Bugs\u201d feels a lot like it brings the formula over, relying on a short that is so much less about the chase, and more about various skits involving Steve Brody in search of good luck. He\u2019s constantly set off his path by the prankster Bugs, who makes it his mission to drive him crazy. The set up is pretty bizarre, as Bugs seeks to sell the Brooklyn Bridge to a potential buyer, and tells the story of Steve Brody and why he jumped off the bridge in 1886.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Flashback to Steve Brody a man who is blessed with a lot of luck involving gambling who one day runs out of it. There are a lot of weird cuts to stills of Steve looking for his good luck which feel like big attempts at goofy cutaways but never quite land, sadly. The whole choice to feature stills rather than full motion gags I guess is good for time, but sadly loses the intended comedic effect of Steve Brody literally looking for his good luck in the oddest places. He thinks of getting a rabbits foot to increase his luck and finds Bugs Bunny who convinces him instead to seek his fortune elsewhere. He ends up meeting Swami Rabbitima, who will help him and should he fail, he could come back for Bugs\u2019 foot.<\/p>\n

Of course this leads to insanity as Bugs leads Brody down a lot of wrong paths for luck, including reading his palms which involves a funny gag involving red paint (Getting his palm Read\u2014get it?), reading the bumps on his head, and then directs him in to another dead end involving a man who will be his \u201cmascot\u201d for good luck. The biggest quality that \u201cBowery Bugs\u201d has going for it is the sound direction which really helps punctuate an otherwise hit or miss comedy short. The gags land well when they do, and then kind of fall by the wayside when they flop and that\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n

I just didn\u2019t care enough about Brody to really care about his whole mission or confrontation with Bugs. And his motivation for wanting good luck just makes him feel a lot more tragic than an actual bad guy. Despite his rough exterior he\u2019s only really going by superstition which Bugs seems to punish him thoroughly for. Of course there is the old reliable as after Brody fails at every turn, Bugs encourages him to find a woman to date. Bugs then appears in drag berating poor Steve Brody. This all comes full circle in the finale, but never actually presents a good enough reason for the prologue. We all know that Brody jumped off the bridge, but the writers never fully give a reasonable justification for the big set up involving the bridge.<\/p>\n

Despite the somewhat hackneyed framing device, and lackluster foil, \u201cBowery Bugs\u201d is fine enough, even if it\u2019s not big on laughs or creative gags.<\/p>\n

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

Bowery Bugs (1949) Directed by Arthur Davis Written by Lloyd Turner Animation by Emery Hawkins Music by Peter Burness Steve Brody is one of the more forgettable of Bugs Bunny\u2019s foils as he feels a lot like a carry over from Tex Avery and his MGM stint. In fact, the majority of \u201cBowery Bugs\u201d feels […]<\/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-43749","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\/43749","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=43749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43751,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43749\/revisions\/43751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}