Release Date:

September 13, 1941

Main Character(s):

Bugs Bunny

Summary:

A hunter who is unfortunately a black stereotype goes after Bugs Bunny.

That’s Not All, Folks:

This is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon in the Censored Eleven.

This is Avery’s last Bugs Bunny cartoon.

The cartoon is in the public domain.

Since Avery had already left the studio, he is uncredited.

The cartoon also uses a gag that involves Bugs’ pursuer chasing him through a hollow log which Bugs keeps pushing around so that the pursuer keeps finding himself in mid-air. This gag would later be reused in “The Big Snooze” (1946), “Foxy by Proxy” (1952), and “Person to Bunny” (1960).

The title is a play on words for the 1940 film “All This and Heaven Too”.

The cartoon contains somewhat of a nudity joke at the end where Bugs wins all of the hunter’s clothes in a dice game, resulting in the hunter being naked except for a fig leaf. He says, “Well, call me Adam!” (a reference to the man in the Bible). The iris out starts to close on him before Bugs grabs the leaf and pulls it into the black screen of the iris out to show it to the audience.

The cartoon is featured in the song “Everyone’s Afraid of Something” from an episode of “Shining Time Station” (the show that first brought the popular British show “Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends” to America) called “Mysterious Stranger”.

What I Like About This One:

Bugs accidentally eating the stem of a carrot offscreen and spitting it out of his hole before pulling the carrot back in and eating it properly (animated by Robert McKimson).

When Bugs hiccups, the hunter tells him “Gesundheit!” (animated by McKimson).

After the hunter destroys a tree Bugs is in, he finds Bugs leaning on his gun and asking “What’s up, doc?”. The hunter starts to explain he shot himself a rabbit before realizing that he didn’t actually do so. Bugs pulls the hunter’s hat in front of his face, dives off of his gun like a board, and “swims” into the ground.

Bugs giving the hunter his gun and misleading him to run off. When the hunter gets wise, he briefly morphs into a “Sucker” (animated by Rod Scribner).

The hunter plunging Bugs out of his hole with a plunger to which Bugs tickles him and then walks around on all fours with the plunger on his behind.

The hunter then attempts to pull Bugs out of the hole, thinking he’s still attached to the plunger but instead pulls out a skunk (animated by Scribner).

Bugs dancing into a cave to the tune of “Shuffle Off to Buffalo”.

When the hunter goes into the cave, only everyone’s eyes are shown. He shakes what he thinks is Bugs, only for Bugs to ask “What’s cookin’, doc?” behind him. The hunter lights a match and sees that what he actually shook was a bear. Bugs and the hunter both run back into the hole only to find the bear with them.

Bugs dodging the hunter’s bullets by diving into another hole. The bullets then form a hand and a brake and skid to a stop before forming into an arrow that chases Bugs throughout various holes. Bugs then accidentally dives into a golf hole which he labels with a “FAKE!” sign.

The bullets getting scared off by the same skunk from earlier.

The aforementioned log gag where Bugs keeps getting the hunter to exit in mid-air.

Bugs doing a fantastic scream take where his limbs leave his body when the angry, bandaged hunter confronts him (animated by McKimson).

Where Can I Watch It?

At toontales.net!

Carrot Rating:

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