Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
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| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd) series | |
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| Directed by | Greg Ford Terry Lennon |
| Produced by | Greg Ford |
| Story by | Greg Ford Terry Lennon Ronnie Scheib (additional story dialogue) |
| Voices by | Jeff Bergman |
| Music by | Carl Stalling (archival) Milt Franklyn (archival) Virg Dzurinko (additional music) Nomi Rosen (additional music) |
| Animation by | Nancy Beiman Doug Compton Tom Decker Russel Calabrese Frank Gabriel Nelson Rhodes Larry Ruppel |
| Layouts by | Owen Fitzgerald Alan Bodner Kevin Brownie |
| Backgrounds by | Alan Bodner Kevin Brownie Larry Grossman Patricia Keppler Cotty Kilbanks Kimball Miskoe Bill Railley Don Watson |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Animation |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | August 25, 1992 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 11 minutes |
| Language | English |
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers is a Bugs Bunny short subject directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon and released in 1992. The cartoon was intended for a theatrical release but later debuted on television.
Plot
In a parody of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the short opens with a voice-over by Bugs explaining that strange carrots have traveled from outer space to Earth. In the first scene, Bugs wakes up in his rabbit hole and remarks that he is late for work. His "work" consists of performing routines with Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck. During the routines, Bugs takes notice of a strange pile of glowing carrots, but then he ignores them.
The next day, Bugs wakes up and returns to work, but Elmer, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck appear as poorly drawn versions of themselves (including a brief segment where Daffy Duck is animated with Synchro-Vox) with strangely friendly attitudes, and flat characterizations, which Bugs finds exasperating. In each of Bugs' routines, they offer him a carrot. Bugs gets tired of having two offers and accepts Daffy's carrot, but decides to eat it later. Back home, Bugs can't sleep, so he tries to figure out why Elmer, Sam, and Daffy appear so different, not noticing the carrot rip open and expel a poorly drawn version of Bugs. The impostor attempts to kill the real Bugs with an axe and Bugs runs off screaming (pausing briefly to add, "You know something, folks? This is the scariest part of the picture").
The typical "That's all Folks!" scene plays, but Bugs interrupts, claiming he must get to the bottom of the mystery. He finds tags reading "Made on Planet Nudnik" on the Elmer, Sam, and Daffy replacements, who have devolved into mindlessly spouting their catchphrases like a broken record, and realizes he must get rid of them to get the original characters back. Bugs catches the impostors in a bag labeled "pale stereotypes", ties the bag to a firework and sends it into outer space, where it gets swallowed by a black hole. The following morning, Bugs wakes up to find all of his enemies back to normal.
After the credits (which plays Mysterious Mose), a Monty Python-esque animated impostor Porky Pig (wearing pants) pops out of the Looney Tunes drum. As it tries to utter the line "That's all, Folks!", Bugs throws out the impostor and drags in the real Porky Pig, placing him inside the drum. Porky chuckles and then says his line.
Availability
The Cartoon was released as a part of the "Bugs Bunny Halloween Hijinks" VHS special. It was later released, albein in edited form on the Space Jam Two-Disc Special Edition DVD as a special feature. In the Space Jam version Yosemite Sam's scenes have been removed. They were taken out by Warner Bros. due to "time allotment". Sam can still be heard in the edited version when all of the Looney Tune "pods" are about to be launched into space. The uncut version was later released as part of The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set.
