{"id":51584,"date":"2026-02-04T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=51584"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:27:59","slug":"every-bugs-bunny-ever-people-are-bunny-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/04\/every-bugs-bunny-ever-people-are-bunny-1959\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Bugs Bunny Ever: People Are Bunny (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People Are Bunny<\/strong> (1959)<br \/>\nDirected by Robert McKimson<br \/>\nStory by Tedd Pierce<br \/>\nAnimation by Warren Batchelder, Tom Ray, Ted Bonnicksen, George Grandpr\u00e9, David R. Green<br \/>\nMusic by Milt Franklyn<\/p>\n<p>Daffy Duck is watching television and dials into &#8220;The QTTV Sportsman Hour&#8221; where the host promises $1,000 for the first viewer who brings a rabbit into the station. Daffy tries to lure Bugs with free tickets to a television show, but when Bugs declines Daffy grabs a rifle and forces him to travel to QTTV. Once at the station, Bugs and Daffy have separate experiences with game shows \u2013 Bugs enjoys a profitable outcome while Daffy\u2019s excursion ends painfully.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last Bugs Bunny cartoon of the 1950s, \u201cPeople Are Bunny\u201d is Robert McKimson\u2019s reworking of his 1956 \u201cWideo Wabbit.\u201d But this version is faster and funnier thanks to the substitution of the too-easily-tricked Elmer Fudd with Daffy Duck as Bugs\u2019 nemesis. Daffy\u2019s neuroticism, greed, and temper ultimately work against him, especially with violent sight gags involving a dynamite stick blowing up in his face and his getting shot on live television by a circle of hunters. The results are sadistically funny, marking some of the most invigorating comeuppance served on Daffy in the frenemy cartoons he made with Bugs.<\/p>\n<p>Some funny moments involve a spoof of the excessively generous grand prizes awarded by quiz shows (including a key to Fort Knox!) and Bugs winning a telephone prize for quickly answering a complex multiplication question \u2013 resulting in the pay phone pouring out a flood of coins, slot machine-style.<\/p>\n<p>This short recycles several gags from \u201cWideo Wabbit,\u201d but the gem of this cartoon is an original funny-nasty parody of Art Linkletter\u2019s show \u201cPeople Are Funny.\u201d In this version, the happily malevolent Art Lamplighter (voiced by an unbilled Daws Butler) delights in viciously pranking an unsuspecting Daffy, resulting in his being left unconscious in a street after being hit by a motor scooter. This type of spiked humor harkened back to the wild and wooly comedy from the mid-1940s Bugs Bunny cartoons rather than the more benign gags that weighed down too much of the late-1950s output.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=x5wj8f0\"style=\"width:100%; height:100%; position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; overflow:hidden; border:none;\"allowfullscreentitle=\"Dailymotion Video Player\"allow=\"web-share\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People Are Bunny (1959) Directed by Robert McKimson Story by Tedd Pierce Animation by Warren Batchelder, Tom Ray, Ted Bonnicksen, George Grandpr\u00e9, David R. Green Music by Milt Franklyn Daffy Duck is watching television and dials into &#8220;The QTTV Sportsman Hour&#8221; where the host promises $1,000 for the first viewer who brings a rabbit into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3068],"tags":[99,3955,167,2078,2523,3069,1175],"class_list":["post-51584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bugs-bunny-ever","tag-animation","tag-art-linkletter","tag-bugs-bunny","tag-cartoon","tag-daffy-duck","tag-merrie-melodies","tag-warner-bros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584","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=51584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51588,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51584\/revisions\/51588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}