Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!
| Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Bob McKimson |
| Story by | Cal Howard |
| Produced by | Bill L. Hendricks |
| Edited by | Hal Geer |
| Music by | William Lava |
| Animation by | Laverne Harding Norm McCabe Ted Bonnicksen Jim Davis Ed Solomon |
| Layouts by | Bob Givens Jaime Diaz |
| Backgrounds by | Bob McIntosh |
| Color process | Technicolor[1] |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros.-Seven Arts The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 6 minutes[1] |
Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! is a 1969 American animated comedy short film directed by Robert McKimson.[2] It is part of the Looney Tunes series.[3] It was the only cartoon to feature the Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit.
Plot
[edit]Quick Brown Fox wants to make rabbit stew, with the elusive Rapid Rabbit as the main ingredient. To this end, he tries several different traps — simple ones at first, but they gradually become ridiculously elaborate — and all of them fail to ensnare Rapid, and some of them end up hurting Quick - some including a spring-loaded hammer set to whack Rapid when he grabs a carrot tied to the trap (Rapid struggles to grab the carrot, resulting in an impatient Quick unintentionally setting the trap off), and a "Free Trip to the Moon" via a cannon, that is also unintentionally set off by Quick - which results in him getting shot into the air and then hit on the head with a cannonball. Ultimately, Quick sets up the most elaborate trap of them all, a large Rube Goldberg-style contraption that will land Rapid into a heated frying pan, positioned next to a dining table for convenience. However, Rapid uses his horn to startle Quick, who takes a short leap backwards in surprise, lands into the contraption's trigger, and ends up suffering everything his trap has to offer, finally landing flat onto the table, breaking it apart. Rapid finishes the job by bundling Quick in the tablecloth and tying a helium balloon to the cloth’s corners, lifting Quick into the sky.
References
[edit]- 1 2 Webb, Graham (2011). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999). McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-7864-4985-9.
- ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 367. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ↑ "Warner Bros Animation - The Seven Arts Years". Anime Superhero Forum. May 12, 2012. Retrieved September 12, 2019.
