{"id":46453,"date":"2025-02-26T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=46453"},"modified":"2025-02-23T18:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T23:55:28","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-southern-fried-rabbit-1953","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/26\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-southern-fried-rabbit-1953\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Southern Fried Rabbit<\/strong> (1953)<br \/>\nDirected by\tI. Freleng<br \/>\nStory by\tWarren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by\tKen Champin, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross<br \/>\nMusic by\tCarl W. Stalling<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouthern Fried Rabbit\u201d might have the most preposterous plot of any Bugs Bunny cartoon. When Bugs\u2019 carrot field in an unnamed Northern state is withered into nothingness by a drought, he finds a newspaper declaring Alabama is enjoying a record carrot crop harvest. Bugs walks to the South, but is stopped at the Mason-Dixon line by Confederate soldier Yosemite Sam, who declares that he\u2019s under orders from General Robert E. Lee to repel Yankees from setting foot on Southern soil. Bugs notes that the War Between the States ended some 90 years earlier, but Sam angrily responds \u201cI ain\u2019t no clock watcher\u201d and tries to keep Bugs out of Dixie.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From that starting point, \u201cSouthern Fried Rabbit\u201d is a hit-and-miss affair. The hits involve Bugs as \u201cGeneral Brickwall Jackson\u201d ordering Sam into a marching exercise that lands the pint-sized aggressor into a well, and later Bugs rips some pages out of Margaret Mitchell\u2019s epic as \u201cScarlett,\u201d the petticoated resident of a plantation with a cannon in the closet \u2013 of course, it fires on Sam, who was already blown up by Bugs in an earlier sequence involving a failed bomb attack. There is also a clever closing gag involving Sam and another set of Yankees \u2013 if you haven\u2019t seen the cartoon, I won\u2019t give away the joke.<\/p>\n<p>On the downside, Bugs tries to evade Sam by masquerading as a banjo-strumming Black slave. Bugs\u2019 Stepin Fetchit-style antics are disrupted when he starts singing \u201cYankee Doodle,\u201d which aggravates Sam. Bugs then puts a whip in Sam\u2019s hand and pleads to \u201cmassa\u201d not to be punished \u2013 he abruptly exits and returns dressed as Abraham Lincoln, who hands Sam a business card and tells him to \u201clook me up at my Gettysburg address.\u201d The slave joke was edited out of television broadcasts for decades \u2013 it shouldn\u2019t have been there in the first place, and it was actually recycled from the 1949 \u201cWise Quackers\u201d when Daffy Duck pretended to be an antebellum-era slave and Lincoln while a befuddled Elmer Fudd was victim to this double fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Directed by I. Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Ken Champin, Arthur Davis, Manuel Perez, Virgil Ross Music by Carl W. Stalling \u201cSouthern Fried Rabbit\u201d might have the most preposterous plot of any Bugs Bunny cartoon. When Bugs\u2019 carrot field in an unnamed Northern state is withered into nothingness by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[1811,167,205,1318,2077],"class_list":["post-46453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animated-short","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-civil-war","tag-slavery","tag-yosemite-sam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453","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=46453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46455,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46453\/revisions\/46455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}