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''Easter Yeggs'' ( 1947 ) is a 1946 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. Arthur Q. Bryan plays Elmer; all other voices are by Mel Blanc .

The title is a play on " Easter Egg s" and on "yegg", a slang term for a burglar or safecracker.


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 Stupid 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. Bugs' parting shot: "And remember, Doc, keep smiling!"


Annotations and subreferences

  • 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 George Burns and Gracie Allen 's radio show during the 1940s; Mel's character was called "The Happy Postman".


  • The funny little snicker used first by the Easter Rabbit, and then by Bugs at the end of the cartoon, "A-heh-heh!" is borrowed directly from Blanc's other employer, Jack Benny .



  • 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. Blanc would use a similar line with Tweety Bird in '' A Tale Of Two Kitties '': "Aw, da poor putty tat - he cwushed his widdow head!"


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





SONG

The song Bugsy sings was a tune previously sung by Happy Rabbit in '' Hare-um Scare-um ''. Partial lyrics in ''Easter Yeggs'':

:Here's the Easter Rabbit, hooray!
:The happy Easter Rabbit, hooray!
:I am getting Looney Tuney, touched in the head
:This whole thing is gooney, I should-a stood in bed.
:etc.
Bugs again sings a song familiar to these in The Big Snooze.

:The Rabbit's are'a comin Horray Horray
:You see um comin horray Horray
:etc
Partial lyrics in ''Hare-um Scare-um''
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:I'm going cuckoo, woo-woo!
:Here comes the choo-choo, woo-woo!
:I'm so gooney Looney Tuney, touched in the head
:Please pass the ketchup, I think I'll go to bed
:etc.


SEE ALSO

  Before A Hare Grows In Manhattan
  Title Bugs Bunny Cartoons