{"id":45011,"date":"2024-09-17T08:30:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T12:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=45011"},"modified":"2024-09-16T19:29:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T23:29:43","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bunker-hill-bunny-1950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/17\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bunker-hill-bunny-1950\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bunker Hill Bunny (1950)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u2019s Note: Cinema Crazed founder Felix Vasquez Jr. began the \u201cEvery Bugs Bunny Ever\u201d series on January 3, 2023, with the goal of reviewing the cinematic output of the most popular star from the Warner Bros. animation studio.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/16\/felix-vasquez-jr-1983-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Felix passed away yesterday<\/a>, and I will be inheriting the series and continuing with this weekly output in tribute to Felix\u2019s legacy and his love for animated films.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bunker Hill Bunny<\/strong> (1950)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nWritten by Tedd Pierce<br \/>\nAnimation by Ken Champin, Virgil Ross and Arthur Davis<br \/>\nMusic by Carl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBunker Hill Bunny\u201d takes place during the American Revolution \u2013 specifically, the Battle of Bagle Heights. As battles go, this was on the small side, with the red-coated Hessian mercenary Sam von Scham (our old pal Yosemite Sam) taking on patriot Bugs Bunny. The rivals are in adjacent forts, with Sam firing multiple cannons at once from a might stone structure while Bugs shoots off a single cannon by reaching out of his hole-in-the-ground residence and pulling a string attached to the weapon.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, \u201cBunker Hill Bunny\u201d never plumbs the potential for history-related humor tied to the American Revolution, but instead provides a silly serving of sight gags with Sam getting blown up repeatedly \u2013 three times with point-blank cannon fire, once by catching a bomb, once by tunneling into an explosives supply shack and lighting a match, and once by having his gunpowder-filled pants detonated by a tossed match from Bugs. Aside from a couple of amusing sight gags \u2013 including musket-bearing Sam and Bugs charging past each other in combat and a closing image riffing on the classic \u201cSpirit of \u201876\u201d painting \u2013 \u201cBunker Hill Bunny\u201d is strictly a mild and minor endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>The Termite Terrace team would give the American Revolution a proper spoof four years later with \u201cYankee Doodle Bugs.\u201d But \u201cBunker Hill Bunny\u201d would gain its own warped immortality in 2004 when one of Sam\u2019s lines \u2013 \u201cVarmint, I&#8217;ma gonna blow yah t&#8217;smithereenies\u201d \u2013 was used by a mysterious shortwave radio station operating in the American Southwest. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yosemite_Sam_(shortwave)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">You can read about that bizarre incident here.<\/a>  <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: Cinema Crazed founder Felix Vasquez Jr. began the \u201cEvery Bugs Bunny Ever\u201d series on January 3, 2023, with the goal of reviewing the cinematic output of the most popular star from the Warner Bros. animation studio. Felix passed away yesterday, and I will be inheriting the series and continuing with this weekly output [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[3458,99,167,2078,219,2077],"class_list":["post-45011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-american-revolution","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-comedy","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45014,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions\/45014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}