

Bugs, unscathed, pops up out of a hole, walks up to him, and asks him, "Eh, what's up, Doc?", to which Elmer replies, "I just put a cwazy wabbit out of his misewy." Bugs tells the audience, "It's murder, he says! How gruesome." As he peeks down the tree stump with Elmer, he whispers, "Don't look now, Doc, but you missed me." Elmer realizes his mistake, becomes enraged, literally turning red, and Bugs honks his nose, and runs back to the hole, and shouts " Geronimo!" before jumping down the hole. Elmer chases Bugs, on the warpath against him, as the cigars and the blackface disintegrate.īugs jumps into his tree stump.

Bugs congratulates him for winning ("You win, Doc!"), then puts six cigars in his mouth, then runs away before they explode. Elmer shoots, and his bullets hit each of the two targets Bugs is holding. Bugs laughs, telling the audience, "What a dope! Imagine! Asking for it!" Elmer suddenly appears behind him, all soaked and wet, and Bugs deliberately flicks his nose, then bends the barrels of his gun so that they each shoot the bullet behind him. Bugs then, dressed up as a fireman, goes up a turntable ladder, slides down a fireman's pole, and deliberately squirts water from a seltzer bottle into his mouth, causing him to blow up into a bowling pin. Elmer remarks, "I hate wittle, gway wabbits."īugs lights a match, making him see a forest fire through his surveying telescope, causing Elmer to panic.

Elmer realizes that he has been tricked, and Bugs runs to another hole in the ground and dives in. Elmer kisses him, and in response, Bugs asks, " Is you is or is you ain't my baby?". Bugs comments, "Hey! That sounds like Frankey Sinatra, or an unreasonable facsimile", then, after holding up a " P-U" sign, plays tricks on Elmer by making him see lovely ladies from an " Eksquire" magazine. Elmer disturbs Bugs from reading "Hare Raising Stories" by singing " I've Been Wowking on the Waiwwoad". Elmer is a surveyor for a railroad company, and the path of the new railroad goes directly over Bugs' current residence, as indicated by the signs. The cartoon opens up on some railroad workers, in silhouette, who are singing " I've Been Working on the Railroad". The film was one of only two Bugs Bunny cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin at Warner Bros., the other being 1946's Hare Remover. The cartoon was released on Februand stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.

cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series directed by Frank Tashlin and written by Melvin Millar.
