{"id":48706,"date":"2025-07-23T06:58:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=48706"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:58:18","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugs-bonnets-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/23\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugs-bonnets-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bugs&#8217; Bonnets (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bugs\u2019 Bonnets <\/strong>(1956)<br \/>\nDirected by Chuck Jones<br \/>\nStory by Tedd Pierce<br \/>\nAnimation by Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Ben Washam, Richard Thompson<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>The impact of clothing \u2013 specifically, headgear \u2013 on one\u2019s personality is the focus of this Chuck Jones offering, which involves the contents of a truck carrying theatrical hats falling from the vehicle and on the unsuspecting noggins of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. With each new hat that lands on their head, Bugs and Elmer take on a variety of aggressive and passive personalities.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBugs\u2019 Bonnets\u201d feels like an acting class improvisational exercise with the performers abruptly changing personas at moment\u2019s notice. Some of the changes are funny, most notably when an Army helmet turns Bugs into a hostile drill sergeant while Elmer takes on the trappings of Douglas MacArthur when the general\u2019s iconic cap lands on his head.<\/p>\n<p>But, for the most part, the short wears out its welcome quickly as the two characters go through a multitude of different hat-defined identities, and the happily-ever-after same-sex marriage ending as the closing gag is far less amusing than the similar conclusion of \u201cRabbit of Seville\u201d with Bugs dumping his unlikely \u201cbride\u201d into a giant wedding cake.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the best reason to seek this short is for the chance to watch it uncut \u2013 television broadcasts over the year edited out Bugs\u2019 reference to blood, a stereotypical American Indian joke and the sight of Bugs blowing cigar smoke into Elmer\u2019s face. In retrospect, it would seem that those edits did not contribute to the creation of a more holistic and sensitive society. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bugs\u2019 Bonnets (1956) Directed by Chuck Jones Story by Tedd Pierce Animation by Ken Harris, Abe Levitow, Ben Washam, Richard Thompson Music by Milt Franklyn The impact of clothing \u2013 specifically, headgear \u2013 on one\u2019s personality is the focus of this Chuck Jones offering, which involves the contents of a truck carrying theatrical hats falling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":48707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,1317,2158,1175],"class_list":["post-48706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-chuck-jones","tag-elmer-fudd","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706","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=48706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48709,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48706\/revisions\/48709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}