Rabbit's Feat is an animated 1960 Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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 cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny

Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...

 and Wile E. Coyote

Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner

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, directed by Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

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 and written by Michael Maltese

Michael Maltese

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. As Maltese had left for Hanna-Barbera

Hanna-Barbera

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, his name was removed from the credits (although his name remained on the credits for The Mouse on 57th Street a year later).

Synopsis

Bugs is pursued by Wile E. Coyote, who fancies himself as a "genius" who can easily capture Bugs for dinner. Bugs is able to easily foil Coyote's plans, including a gag where Bugs acts goony considering Coyote to be his "father" joyfully greeting him after he comes "back from Peru" Bugs thought he had been run over by an elevator. When Bugs greets him with a kiss, Coyote throws him down, and Bugs starts to cry. Bugs ducks when Coyote charges him and falls into the boiling water. Bugs again thinks he is drunk and Bugs gets away after he plans to go and tell on Coyote. Bugs finally stops his hungry rival by blowing him up with a hand grenade

Hand grenade

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 that Coyote tried to use on him. In the end, a dazed Coyote emerges from the rabbit hole saying "How do you do? I am a vegetarian. My name is Mud. Is there a doctor in the house?" Bugs says to the audience "Well, like the man says, don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."

Censorship

• On CBS, the part where Wile lunges for Bugs and falls into the cauldron of water intended for the rabbit is cut.
• On the now-defunct WB channel, the part where Wile's gun discharges its bullets and blasts him in the face after Bugs moves the pin at the end of the gun nozzle to the other side of said nozzle was removed.

External Links

• Rabbit's Feat at Internet Movie Database
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