Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

[Stephen10528]

That fox is so stupid! At one point he has a chance to get the rabbit & doesn't notice it; that time the rabbit is trying to walk away w/ a carrot the fox has tied to a machine w/ a hammer-like device on it & the fox walks up & pushes him away.  When the fox walks up to the rabbit he could easily get him then.

[alex9920iasi]

Pretty cool this parody of Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner. In my opinion, that's the only good Looney Tunes cartoon from the LATE 60's. The backgrounds are way better than ones from other cartoons released at the same period, also the plot and the gags are funnier.

[NekoWallaby25]

@alex9920iasi To me it's more of a parody of the cartoons that had Wile E. Coyote chasing Bugs Bunny then anything.

[solesirching73]

4:53 - 4:57 (Rodin's "The Thinker")

[elabecedario1985]

ESTOFADO de conejo Y zorro ESTAFADO

[Addiskrilla]

hell yeah and if this was the sengoku period, then hanna-barberra was the

oda nobunaga of the late classical cartoon period (1968-199X) but if W7

was to contunue with what they were doing, then they would've been the

oda nobunaga of the late classical cartoon period

[Addiskrilla]

I guess 1970 was the "Meiji era" for warner

Bros. And 1969 was the last shogunate

For the samurai at W7

[RantingRedHead1988]

@Addiskrilla gotta love a rurouni kenshin example

[Addiskrilla]

I know.... It's sad very sad to see somethin

Like this go to waste. I hear each of yalls

Complaints. I never seen this short before

Til now I'm 18, they close the studio down

Due to corporately political bull-shit (if it was

Me, NO ONE tell me shit bout running my shit i be like fucka mil-deal) then they dont

Bother restoring the short. Then they lockit

Up til now. Question like flocka asked:

WHAT THE FUCK THESE N***AS THINKIN!?

[NekoWallaby25]

Wouldn't it be funny if the fox was Wile's pupil before Calamity Coyote in Tiny Toons? XD

[Stephen10528]

Why is he called Quick Brown Fox when he's red.

[wileyk209zback]

@Stephen10528 It's based off the old alphabet sentence "The Quick Brown Fox jumps over the lazy dog."

[Stephen10528]

@wileyk209zback Well, they should have made him brown so his name would make more sense.

[Stephen10528]

I think I like this better than Road Runner cartoons.

[Shadowhawk28]

Interesting cartoon that does not have Bugs Bunny

[jgbennie]

@Shadowhawk28 Bugs had been retired from theatrical work at that point. Considering the plot, he would have been wasted in this.

[KoRnelius]

3:40 to 3:52 is great animation and timing! great gag!

[ParamountCartoons]

Did you know that THIS was the 1000th theatrically relased WB short?

[Orochi2345678]

Now this is an OLD cartoon and takes me back to my childhood. It was one of the better ones of the Seven Arts label.

[SomeFluffer64]

I sometimes think Looney Tunes of the latre 60's are just Looney Tunes in name only.. I mean, they are NOT like the cartoons from the 40's-50's.

[tkwtube01]

This is an interesting tidbit I didn't realize until now. The guitar sound that they make when their names are introduced is sloppily cut out from the intro to "Now Hear This". That would credit the sound effect to Treg Brown, who was not credited in most cartoons he worked on.

[nnaw]

I saw this cartoon at the Bengies Drive In a few years ago and I told my Dad this was the only Rapid Rabbit cartoon Warner Bros. made and said "Yeah, I can see why!", then I told him it was because they closed their studio down!!

[MrStereo10]

Aaaah! have been watching youtube for this for ages. Haven't seen it since the late 70s when it was part of the original syndicated "Merrie Melodies" show (Featuring Daffy, Sylvester & Speedy). Teletoon Retro in Canada aired a number of these original syndicated shows last year, but they didn't have them all-sadly, this was not among them. I've NEVER seen this with the original title cards. Thanks for posting it. Hope we see it on DVD someday.

[SteveCarras]

This is Bill Lava's 99th birthday. Would have been. as he died in 1971.

Happy Birthday, Bill Lava

[wileyk209zback]

@SteveCarras That's right. Lava may have outlived Milt Franklyn, but Carl Stalling outlived both of them!

[GrievousAlucard]

wow this is an old cartoon!

[ma55aracin9]

@sygo7g

i've just went gaga when i saw it.....with "Digitally remastered" audio and image quality

ME: "NOW, that is a true cartoon classic!"

[ma55aracin9]

@sygo7g

do you think WB sitll has the original

-35 mm- print of this short?

[TheChill4u]

What A Cool Cartoon, I've never seen that cartoon before, is really good I like It!

[dinosworld2]

Very bad copy of bugs bunny

[431516020205]

the industry should save all these great toons! thanx bud!!

[springofpiesucks]

i would love to see how this cartoon would look if it was restored onto DVD! i'm sure it would look awesome!

[wileyk209zback]

Agreed! I'm sure it also would've had the Merrie Melodies logo at the beginning, as all official sources say this is a Merrie Melodie, but it seems they plastered the "LOONEY TUNES" logo onto the beginning of some of the Warner/7-Arts Merrie Melodies

[springofpiesucks]

plus there could (not saying there is) a syndicated version that has the original logo to it and in the same quality that was rarely shown on T.V and you can obviously tell from this print that it's from C.N

[gibbs615]

Catchy music!

[cmulwee001]

This cartoon is in BAD need of restoration.

The colors are so faded that the background in the opening and closing

W7 titles looks greenish brown, and i know that it's actually bright blue. Decent cartoon though, unarguably inspired by the Road Runner cartoons

[NewAndImprovedToons]

this is a 16mm print, these were pretty prone to fading

[tkwtube01]

Oh, I was going to ask if it was a two-strip print. I guess a fading blue strip is "better" than none at all.

[ma55aracin9]

@NewAndImprovedToons

my guess is that WB still has the original

-35mm- print of this short...deep in their vault(s)

[NewAndImprovedToons]

and PS, this was NOT taken from a Cartoon Network broadcast - if it were, then it wouldn't be so faded

[DaWalk]

I read a post in a thread on a forum at another site that all of the W-7 Arts era characters might have possibly had a better chance at lasting longer , if they'd each gotten their own t.v. series. Instead of using these later characters to fill in the late '60s WB animated featurettes as opposed to using the previous, established ones.

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Finally, Quick sets up a trap that involves a cannon and a sign that says "Free trip to the moon," among other elements; not only does this trap fail to catch Rapid, but Quick winds up being shot to the moon!

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

It was intended to be the first of a series of Rapid Rabbit cartoons which had been planned, but no more were produced as the studio folded soon after its release. 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.

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! is a 1969 theatrically-released cartoon, one of the last few cartoons of the Merrie Melodies series (which, at that time, was owned by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts). It was a "chase" cartoon along the same lines as the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons; a predator tries and fails to catch his intended prey, despite using a number of ingenious or comically absurd traps.

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Rapid Rabbit, a small brown rabbit (who's not to be confused with Rapid T. Rabbit), is every bit as fast as his name implies; a pantomime character, he never says a word, but uses a bicycle horn to express himself. Quick Brown Fox, another pantomime character, is a fox who wants to eat the fast-running rabbit, but consistently fails to catch him despite using a variety of traps and devices. The fox's name is derived from the popular pangram, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

[ELMERFUDDBUDD]

Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit were a pair of Warner Bros. cartoon characters, created by Robert McKimson, who appeared in only one cartoon, Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

[wilek209]

Rapid Rabbit looks just like the Road Runner at 4:14! I guess that was supposed to be his version of the Road Runner's "tongue signature." And that's a Disney/Jay Ward sound effect accompanying it instead of a WB or Hanna-Barbera sound...

[ffejgib]

What ever happened to Rapid Rabbit and Quick Brown Fox???????????????

[cd637299]

See DaWalk's earlier comment.

[wilek209]

Yeah, the washed-out colors even show up during the opening/closing sequence!

[pikachusuperfanatic]

and yet it's not a Turner-owned cartoon

[springofpiesucks]

does anyone notice from 1:07-1:14 some animation cell numbers appear? an error like that happened in "3 Ring Wing Ding" but it was throughout the cartoon.

[fayremead]

A few poses are based on the bumpers McKimson crafted for The Road Runner Show in 1966. At 1:18, Foxy is posed the same way Wile E. was after being knocked aside by his robot. Foxy at 1:57 looks like Coyote after his shotgun backfire.

[SteveCarras]

THis is by far the best of the ENTIRE 1963-1969 period...

[SteveCarras]

Thsi sounds like an Ed Graham Linus caroton, notably Sugar Bear. Bill Lava really, for anyone who wants to note, gets Hoyt Curtin like here. All that';s needeed is Sheldon leonard..and Billi Bird!

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PRODUCTIONS

[DaWalk]

An interesting take on an already established formula with previous characters. Trivia for those who may not have known: Other Rapid Rabbit and Quick Brown Fox cartoons were planned and they also would've become regulars, but the animation studio shut down before more could be done with them.

[thmsrebel]

i like the fox walk at 5:31 it´s very funny :)

[wilek209]

Anyone notice the sound byte at 0:20 was taken from "Now Hear This?"

[springofpiesucks]

this is one of my favorite cartoons in the Seven Arts era, i'll have to admit the roadrunners were a little better but i love this cartoon.

[springofpiesucks]

and i ain't talkin' Rudy Larriva!!!! no suree i mean Jones

[wilek209]

Yes, THIS is my favorite of the Warner/Seven Arts Looney Tunes batch! Even though it is somewhat of a Road Runner knock-off, the music is awesome, and the use of pantomime and visual humor is excellent, as the other shorts rely more on puns and dialogue for most of their humor.

[EncoreEnterprisesLLC]

I really love the music in all the W/7 Arts cartoons I have seen. :)

[glowworm2]

Another actually good late 1960s Looney Tunes short. Rabbid Rabbit is awfully cute and once again the music is good-so good I can still remember it!

I also love the part with the rabbit trap.

[glowworm2]

Oh geez,I did it again-I keep calling Rapid Rabbit RABID! XD!