{"id":51250,"date":"2026-01-07T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=51250"},"modified":"2026-01-04T18:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T23:12:49","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-backwoods-bunny-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-backwoods-bunny-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: Backwoods Bunny (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Backwoods Bunny <\/strong>(1959)<br \/>\nDirected by Robert McKimson<br \/>\nStory by Tedd Pierce<br \/>\nAnimation by Warren Batchelder, Tom Ray, George Grandpr\u00e9, Ted Bonnicksen<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>Bugs Bunny accidentally burrows his way into the Ozarks and decides it would be a fine place for a vacation. His arrival is detected by Pappy and Elvis, a father-and-son pair of buzzards. Pappy is a lazy, obese thing with flies swarming around him, while Elvis is a cheerful dimwit. Elvis volunteers to shoot the \u201ceating rabbit\u201d that turned up, but he is too stupid for the task and Bugs repeatedly humiliates him, to the point of tricking Elvis to repeatedly shoot Pappy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A cartoon that is as dull and indolent as its buzzard antagonists, \u201cBackwoods Bunny\u201d relies too heavily on the stereotype of Southerners as stupid hillbillies for its comedy. An uncredited Daws Butler creates effectively silly voices for the buzzards and some fun is plumbed when Bugs does his drag act again as a hillbilly maiden who turns Elvis into a bashful beau. But the animation is flat and dreary and Robert McKimson\u2019s direction is woefully uninspired. Compared to the 1950 gem \u201cHillbilly Hare\u201d (1950), this film offered sad evidence about how steeply the Warner Bros. output declined over the decade.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, this is the third cartoon in a row to use the name \u201cElvis\u201d as a joke, following \u201cHare-abian Nights\u201d with \u201cEl-Viz Preslii\u201d singing \u201cYou Ain\u2019t Nothin\u2019 but a Hound Camel\u201d and \u201cApes of Wrath\u201d with the gorilla formerly known as Gruesome suddenly renamed Elvis. Did the Warner Bros. animation team really believe the name \u201cElvis\u201d was that funny?<\/p>\n<p>Elvis and Pappy would turn up for one final appearance in 1960 with \u201cThe Dixie Fryer,\u201d a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon that was more spirited than \u201cBackwoods Bunny.\u201d But, then again, anything is funnier than \u201cBackwoods Bunny.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backwoods Bunny (1959) Directed by Robert McKimson Story by Tedd Pierce Animation by Warren Batchelder, Tom Ray, George Grandpr\u00e9, Ted Bonnicksen Music by Milt Franklyn Bugs Bunny accidentally burrows his way into the Ozarks and decides it would be a fine place for a vacation. His arrival is detected by Pappy and Elvis, a father-and-son [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,167,2078,3668,1175],"class_list":["post-51250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-robert-mckimson","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250","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=51250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51253,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51250\/revisions\/51253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}