{"id":45585,"date":"2024-11-27T07:06:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=45585"},"modified":"2024-11-27T07:06:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T12:06:33","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-ballot-box-bunny-1951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/27\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-ballot-box-bunny-1951\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Ballot Box Bunny (1951)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ballot Box Bunny<\/strong> (1951)<br \/>\nDirected by\tFriz Freleng<br \/>\nAnimation by\tKen Champin, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis,Manuel Perez<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>Yosemite Sam is running for mayor of an unnamed town, and part of his platform is the promise \u201cto rid this country of every last rabbit.\u201d Needless to say, this doesn\u2019t sit well with Bugs Bunny, who starts a rival campaign. Sam repeatedly tries to sabotage Bugs\u2019 electioneering, but his tricks inevitably backfire badly on him. However, neither candidate prevails as the race goes to a dark horse candidate, literally \u2013 a car carrying a sign that reads \u201cOur New Mare\u201d features a large horse as its passenger that is cheered as the election victor by off-screen crowds. Shocked by their respective loses, Bugs and Sam opt to extinguish their disappointment with a game of Russian roulette.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBallot Box Bunny\u201d wisely eschews topical political humor for old-school slapstick, although there is funny history gag with Bugs dressing up as Theodore Roosevelt to declare, \u201cI speak softly but I carry a big stick.\u201d This triggers one of Sam\u2019s most hilarious lines: \u201cWell I speak loud, and I carry a bigger stick, and I use it, too\u201d \u2013 with the bigger stick crashed down on Bugs\u2019 noggin.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of Sam\u2019s repeated comeuppance is tied to his volcanic temper and infantile need for revenge \u2013 his behavior is so wildly atrocious that the viewer gets a rich guilty pleasure in witnessing him as victim of a dynamite-packed watermelon or in his stupid rush into the booby-trapped door and piano that he engineered for Bugs\u2019 annihilation.<\/p>\n<p>While the mare\/mayor punny resolution of the election is a weak joke, the Russian roulette denouement offers a jolting reminder that these classic cartoons were not designed for a kiddie audience. And the vibrant execution of that potentially tasteless gag is a testament to the imagination of writer Warren Foster and director Friz Freleng to create such an original cartoon concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Directed by Friz Freleng Animation by Ken Champin, Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis,Manuel Perez Music by Carl Stalling Yosemite Sam is running for mayor of an unnamed town, and part of his platform is the promise \u201cto rid this country of every last rabbit.\u201d Needless to say, this doesn\u2019t sit well with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3543,2077],"class_list":["post-45585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-political-humor","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585","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=45585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45588,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45585\/revisions\/45588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}