{"id":50204,"date":"2025-10-22T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=50204"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:28:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T11:28:34","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugsy-and-mugsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/22\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-bugsy-and-mugsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Bugsy and Mugsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bugsy and Mugsy <\/strong>(1957)<br \/>\nDirected by Friz Freleng<br \/>\nStory by Warren Foster<br \/>\nAnimation by Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis<br \/>\nMusic by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny is forced to relocate from his hole-in-the-ground residence after it gets flooded during a rainstorm. He takes shelter in a condemned tenement, only to discover the building is the hideout of the bank robbers Rocky and Mugsy. The gangsters are unaware of Bugs\u2019 presence, and the mischievous rabbit uses trickery to convince Rocky that Mugsy is trying to kill him and claim the stolen loot for himself.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The diminutive Rocky and his oversized comrade Mugsy were first paired against Bugs in the 1954 gem \u201cBugs and Thugs.\u201d But rather than create a new adventure for these characters, director Friz Freleng and writer Warren Foster dusted off the less-than-stellar 1950 Sylvester cartoon \u201cStooge for a Mouse\u201d and repeated most of the earlier short\u2019s shenanigans in this effort. <\/p>\n<p>The resulting work was a dull thud of a cartoon, with an obnoxious Bugs aggravating the too-dumb crooks with very obvious gags \u2013 including the perennial dynamite stick in the mouth routine. The cheap-looking background animation gives the impression that this was a toss-away effort. All told, this mediocrity was among the weakest in the Bugs Bunny series.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xeVEfX-Hp_w?si=DECMRl9NISHPXBts\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Directed by Friz Freleng Story by Warren Foster Animation by Virgil Ross, Gerry Chiniquy, Art Davis Music by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn Bugs Bunny is forced to relocate from his hole-in-the-ground residence after it gets flooded during a rainstorm. He takes shelter in a condemned tenement, only to discover the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3490],"class_list":["post-50204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-friz-freleng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50204","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=50204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50207,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50204\/revisions\/50207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}