{"id":46139,"date":"2025-01-22T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46139"},"modified":"2025-01-19T20:29:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:29:37","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-rabbit-seasoning-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/22\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-rabbit-seasoning-1952\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Rabbit Seasoning (1952)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rabbit Seasoning<\/strong> (1952)<br \/>\nDirected by\tCharles M. Jones<br \/>\nStory by\tMichael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by\tKen Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam, Richard Thompson, Abe Levitow, Harry Love<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl W. Stalling<\/p>\n<p>The second of the \u201cHunting Trilogy\u201d featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd in a triangular adversarial relationship, \u201cRabbit Seasoning\u201d has been viewed by some prominent animation scholars as the best film of the trio. I respectfully disagree and view \u201cRabbit Seasoning\u201d as a verbose retread of the more effective first entry in the series, \u201cRabbit Fire\u201d from 1951.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The genius of \u201cRabbit Fire\u201d was the new concept of pitting Elmer against Bugs, who was suddenly in a new rivalry against a reimagined Daffy \u2013 the one-time screwball character underwent a significant personality shift into a dim, neurotic, self-important being. Michael Maltese\u2019s dialogue in \u201cRabbit Fire\u201d was crisp with its staccato \u201cRabbit Season\/Duck Season\u201d routines, while the film was rich with wild gags including the hostile elephant hammering Elmer into the ground and the surprise revelation that it was actually Elmer Season, thus reversing the roles of grim predator and beleaguered prey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRabbit Seasoning\u201d covers most of the same territory as \u201cRabbit Fire,\u201d including Bugs\u2019 drag disguise to infatuate the easily aroused Elmer. Yes, the jokes are still funny, but it is a case of been-there-done-that barely one year after the original entry was released. Unfortunately, the cartoon is also weighed down with excessive talk, and the final gag with Daffy getting his comeuppance takes too much long to reach its conclusion. In retrospect, \u201cRabbit Seasoning\u201d heralded a shift in Warner Bros. animation to the point where dialogue began to burden the free-spirited zaniness that made the films so popular.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbit Seasoning (1952) Directed by Charles M. Jones Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam, Richard Thompson, Abe Levitow, Harry Love Music by Carl W. Stalling The second of the \u201cHunting Trilogy\u201d featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd in a triangular adversarial relationship, \u201cRabbit Seasoning\u201d has been viewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,2523,2158,1175],"class_list":["post-46139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-daffy-duck","tag-elmer-fudd","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46139","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=46139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46142,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46139\/revisions\/46142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}