{"id":45297,"date":"2024-10-23T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=45297"},"modified":"2024-10-21T15:01:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T19:01:31","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bunny-hugged-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/23\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bunny-hugged-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bunny Hugged (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bunny Hugged <\/strong>(1951)<br \/>\nDirected by\tChuck Jones<br \/>\nStory by\tMichael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by\tPhil Monroe, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>During the early 1950s, professional wrestling enjoyed a flurry of popularity thanks to television. The Termite Terrace gang took advantage of this new wave of attention by dusting off the 1948 boxing cartoon \u201cRabbit Punch\u201d and reimagining the action in a wrestling ring \u2013 with the musclebound pugilist Battling McGook brought back under the name Crusher.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In \u201cBunny Hugged,\u201d Crusher is the wrestling champion whose reign is challenged by Ravishing Ronald, an obvious spoof of then-popular wrestler Gorgeous George. Bugs Bunny is Ronald\u2019s mascot, and he watches in horror as Crusher ties up Ronald in his hairnet and uses him as a punching bag. Bugs gets the referee to stop the match and allow him to take over for Ronald as the \u201cMasked Terror.\u201d But Bugs is even worse at wrestling than Ronald and winds up trapped in Crusher\u2019s painful leg scissors.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing he lacks the brawn to outmuscle Crusher, Bugs decides it is time to \u201cemploy a little stragety.\u201d He tricks Crusher into thinking his trunks are torn, and then he presents himself to Crusher as \u201cStychen Time,\u201d a traveling tailor. Rather than sew up the supposed torn trunks, Bugs jabs Crusher in his backside with an oversized needle, which sends him sailing out of the ring in pain. When Crusher returns, Bugs has a giant bank vault door waiting for him. Bugs opens the door and Crusher runs through it and into the ring ropes \u2013 but he\u2019s going so fast that the ropes stretch out like a rubber band and then contract, sending Crusher into a now-closed steel door. When Bugs opens the door, Crusher is disoriented to the point that Bugs can slip a jacket over him and pin him to the mat \u2013 with safety pins! Crusher snaps out of his daze when he realizes Bugs is the new wrestling championship and tries to get revenge, but Bugs literally has a trick up his sleeve for the wrestler.<\/p>\n<p>Under Chuck Jones\u2019 direction, \u201cBunny Hugged\u201d moves at a rapid pace and is rich with inventive sight gags including the Ali Baba-worthy entourage for Ronald, Crusher\u2019s excessive display of muscle flexing and the vault door moment with its appropriately zany sound effects. Crusher was a fun villain and it\u2019s a shame he never turned up again the Golden Age cartoons \u2013 and it is also a shame that John T. Smith didn\u2019t receive screen credit for giving Crusher his memorably dizzy voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bunny Hugged (1951) Directed by Chuck Jones Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Phil Monroe, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam Music by Carl Stalling During the early 1950s, professional wrestling enjoyed a flurry of popularity thanks to television. 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