{"id":50421,"date":"2025-11-05T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=50421"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T12:50:39","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-rabbit-romeo-1957","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/05\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-rabbit-romeo-1957\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Rabbit Romeo (1957)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rabbit Romeo<\/strong> (1957)<br \/>\nDirected by Robert McKimson<br \/>\nStory by Michael Maltese<br \/>\nAnimation by Ted Bonnicksen and George Grandpre<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>Elmer Fudd\u2019s Uncle Judd ships him a Slobovian rabbit to watch until he returns from abroad, with the offer of $500 for his efforts. The rabbit is a large female named Millicent who behaves with unhappy destructiveness. A doctor is called to examine Millicent and Elmer is informed that Millicent is lonely and wants another rabbit as a companion. Elmer lures Bugs Bunny in from a cold winter night, and Millicent immediately falls in love with Bugs \u2013 indeed, she\u2019s ready to marry him after making his acquaintance for several seconds. Bugs tries to escape, but Elmer keeps blocking his exit by brandishing a rifle.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A forgettable mediocrity, \u201cRabbit Romeo\u201d has little going for it except for the uncredited June Foray giving Millicent an exaggerated comic Russian-style accent. Some of the gags are more violent than usual \u2013 Bugs has a goldfish kiss Millicent and the goldfish then takes out a gun the shoot himself, and later Bugs puts an electric fan directly on Millicent\u2019s lips when she demands another kiss. The closing gag, with Bugs slipping Elmer into a bunny costume and Millicent falling for him, brings in a weird sense of bestiality as the lovestruck Slobovian rabbit chases after Elmer with love (and, obviously, sex) on her mind.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing \u201cRabbit Romeo\u201d might spark is realizing how few of the Bugs Bunny cartoons involve the long-haired hero in the company of the opposite sex. There was a Mrs. Bugs Bunny whose seemingly benign presence terrified him (\u201cHold the Lion, Please\u201d), an amorous Mama Bear who falls madly for Bugs\u2019 flattery (\u201cBugs Bunny and the Three Bears\u201d), and the pretty Daisy Lou that Bugs tried to woo away from his neighbor Casbah (\u201cHare Splitter\u201d). Bugs also fell for a pair of mechanical rabbits in \u201cHair-Raising Hare\u201d and \u201cThe Grey Hounded Hare,\u201d and Bugs had the hots for Lauren Bacall in \u201cSlick Hare.\u201d He also turned Witch Hazel into a sexy lady rabbit in &#8220;Bewitched Bunny&#8221; and pretended he was a French aristocrat to woo Granny in \u201cHare Trimmed,\u201d but that was just an act to save her from an unscrupulous Yosemite Sam. Ultimately, the Golden Age version of Bugs was a confirmed bachelor, albeit one with a penchant for crossdressing to embarrass his dimwitted pursuers \u2013 but that\u2019s a subject for another article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbit Romeo (1957) Directed by Robert McKimson Story by Michael Maltese Animation by Ted Bonnicksen and George Grandpre Music by Milt Franklyn Elmer Fudd\u2019s Uncle Judd ships him a Slobovian rabbit to watch until he returns from abroad, with the offer of $500 for his efforts. The rabbit is a large female named Millicent who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":50422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3878],"class_list":["post-50421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-june-foray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50421","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=50421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50464,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50421\/revisions\/50464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}