{"id":44217,"date":"2024-06-25T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44217"},"modified":"2024-06-14T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:39:26","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-rabbit-hood-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/25\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-rabbit-hood-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Rabbit Hood (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rabbit Hood (1949)
\n<\/sup><\/strong>Directed by Chuck Jones
\nWritten by Michael Maltese
\nAnimation by Ken Harris
\nMusic by Carl Stalling<\/p>\n

After the nastiness that was last week\u2019s \u201cWhich is Witch\u201d it\u2019s nice to see Bugs Bunny return to the basics again. \u201cRabbit Hood\u201d is one of my top ten Bugs Bunny shorts of all time. It\u2019s a hilarious spoof of the Robin Hood tale that ranks up there with 1958\u2019s \u201cRobin Hood Daffy\u201d in terms of hilarity and clever jokes. Oddly Bugs isn\u2019t Robin Hood but he is falling prey to the fascism of the king who is desperate to snag Robin Hood at every turn. Now with the king\u2019s property guarded, Bugs comes under attack by the Sheriff of Nottingham. When Bugs seeks a few carrots from the king\u2019s garden, the two go at it, prompting a hysterical war between the pair.<\/p>\n

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All the while Little John keeps appearing at random intervals declaring \u201cDon\u2019t you worry, never fear, Robin Hood will soon be here!\u201d Chuck Jones really is on his A game with this short as it\u2019s consistently funny and filled with so many great one-liners and visual easter eggs. There are a ton of \u201cNo Poaching\u201d signs posted around the garden with one saying \u201cNo poaching. Not even Eggs.\u201d And it\u2019s hilarious how the garden is so protected but Little John marches in and out whenever he pleases to announce Robin Hood\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also a big fan of Bugs tricking the Sheriff in to thinking he\u2019s buying a house. Not only does he trick him but he\u2019s so far in to the trick we see him later building the home in suspenders only for him to finally come to the realization. It\u2019s just so fun and funny and Sheriff Nottingham is a great mark. Bugs is especially great here as someone who\u2019s merely trying to get out of the massive garden but can never seem to quite escape the Sheriff. Eventually it all comes full circle with one of my favorite bits as he convinces the sheriff the king is coming.<\/p>\n

Bugs then appears, smashing the sheriff\u2019s head over and over with the scepter declaring \u201cArise, Sir Loin of Beef! Arise, Earl of Cloves! Arise, Duke of Brittingham! Arise, Baron of M\u00fcnchhausen! Arise, Essence of Myrrh! Milk of Magnesia! Filet of Fish! Quarter of Ten!\u201d<\/em> Typical of Looney Tunes, the pay off to Robin Hood\u2019s entrance is pretty funny as Little John appears yet again to announce the coming of Robin Hood. Despite Bugs\u2019 anger at his constant declarations, Robin Hood appears in live action form.<\/p>\n

The producers opt to splice in edited footage of Errol Flynn from his iconic 1938 \u201cRobin Hood\u201d movie, with Bugs just outright refusing to believe his eyes. \u201cRabbit Hood\u201d is such a great skewering of the Robin Hood tale that benefits from rewatchability. That\u2019s thanks to the great animation from the collective of artists on this short, as well as the great one-liners that are delivered almost rapid fire. I emphatically recommend pairing with this \u201cRobin Hood Daffy.\u201d It\u2019s a comedy one two punch with Bugs and Daffy at their peak.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an easy top ten placer for me.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Rabbit Hood (1949) Directed by Chuck Jones Written by Michael Maltese Animation by Ken Harris Music by Carl Stalling After the nastiness that was last week\u2019s \u201cWhich is Witch\u201d it\u2019s nice to see Bugs Bunny return to the basics again. \u201cRabbit Hood\u201d is one of my top ten Bugs Bunny shorts of all time. It\u2019s […]<\/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-44217","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\/44217","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=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44227,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions\/44227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}