{"id":45803,"date":"2024-12-18T08:30:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=45803"},"modified":"2024-12-15T17:52:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T22:52:21","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-foxy-by-proxy-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/18\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-foxy-by-proxy-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Foxy by Proxy (1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Foxy by Proxy<\/strong> (1952)<br \/>\nDirected by\tFriz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by\tWarren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by\tVirgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl Stalling<\/p>\n<p>This minor, mild cartoon is a rough remake of the 1940 Tex Avery-directed \u201cOf Fox and Hounds,\u201d with a dimwitted dog participating in a fox hunt. In that film, the poor dumb dog has trouble comprehending that his sly new friend is a fox. In this 1952 go-round, Bugs Bunny plays tricks on the dense canine by dressing up as a fox and leading him into frustration.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The dog is a slow-moving and overweight character whose simplemindedness is a riff on Lon Chaney Jr.\u2019s Lennie from \u201cOf Mice and Men\u201d (an unbilled Stan Freberg voiced the character). The problem here is that the dog is a likeable bumbler, which makes Bugs\u2019 devious tricks seem obnoxious rather than funny. Still, Bugs\u2019 denouement comeuppance when the dog snips off his tail feels like an appropriate kick in the rear for his nasty trickery.<\/p>\n<p>The best part of \u201cFoxy by Proxy\u201d is the dog pack, which moves as a single force with the happy hounds jumping all over each in mindless pursuit of their prey. However, the film recycles the rolling log-over-the-cliff gag from \u201cAll This and Rabbit Stew\u201d and \u201cThe Big Snooze\u201d and the very brief moment when the dogs defy gravity and race out of the log into the abyss, only to cling to each while whimpering in terror before their inevitable descent, is unfunny. The sense of crying canine fear for their painful plummet, even though it is exaggerated within an impossible scenario, points to a fate that is too harsh (after all, Bugs provoked them into chasing him while he was dressed like a fox) and it spoils whatever little fun popped out of this cartoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxy by Proxy (1952) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Virgil Ross, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin Music by Carl Stalling This minor, mild cartoon is a rough remake of the 1940 Tex Avery-directed \u201cOf Fox and Hounds,\u201d with a dimwitted dog participating in a fox hunt. In that film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[167,3565,3490,2729],"class_list":["post-45803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-foxy-by-proxy","tag-friz-freleng","tag-tex-avery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803","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=45803"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45810,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45803\/revisions\/45810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}