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''Easter Yeggs'' is a Looney Tunes Animated short originally released theatrically on June 28 , 1947 . Story by Warren Foster, with Layouts by Cornett Wood, and Backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas. Animation by Charles McKimson, Dick Bickenbach, and I. Ellis. Directed by Robert McKimson . It is that director's second Bugs Bunny effort (following the previous year's '' Acrobatty Bunny ''), and his first Bugs & Elmer cartoon.


PLOT


Bugs Bunny finds the Easter Bunny sitting on a rock, crying. The Easter Bunny tells Bugs that his feet are sore, so he cannot deliver the Easter Eggs . Bugs takes up the job, not knowing that, every year, the Easter Bunny gets some Gullible rabbit to do his work for him.
confronting the Easter Bunny .]]

The first house the "joyous bunny" visits bears a name by the door: "Dead End Kid", and the mean little red-haired kid who lives inside throws the egg at Bugs' face, bites him and beats Bugs up. When Bugs rushes back to the Easter Bunny telling him he quits, the Easter Bunny gets him to "try once more".

Unfortunately, the next house is that of painted like an easter egg and leaves it for the Easter Bunny. When he picks it up to finish his job, Bugs lights the fuse, and the bomb explodes on the Easter Bunny, leaving the hapless hen-fruit handler hanging high up in a tree. The stinker's parting shot: "And remember, keep smiling!"


Annotations and subreferences


  • A "yegg" is a slang term for a burglar or safecracker.


  • The main titles are set to the quaint old pop-tune "Some Sunday Morning".


  • The Easter Rabbit, and his catch phrase, "Keep Smiling!", are a takeoff of a character actually created by Mel Blanc for a radio show starring George Burns and Gracie Allen during the 1940s; Mel's character was called "The Happy Postman".



  • The red-haired little kid, and his complaint, "He bwoke my widdow awm!!", is a takeoff of a character created by Red Skelton for old-time radio.


  • Fudd's " Dick Twacy hat" refers to the popular comic-strip character from mid-20th-century America.



QUOTES


  • Dead End Kid: "I want an Easter Egg! I want an Easter Egg! I want an Easter Egg! I want to break it." (as delivered: "Iwannaeastegg-Iwannaeastegg-Iwannaeastegg-Iwannabweakit.")

  • Bugs: "Cut it out, kid! Someone could get hurt! . . . Probably ''me''!"

  • Elmer: "Bang! Easter Wabbit Stew!"



AVAILABILITY


Online:
restored version at looneytunes.warnerbros.com

DVD: Part of Warner Bros.