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  • Top twenty, yes but not No1!!!!

  • I love thies old cartoons, It takes me back in time when The was not so FUCKED UP and gas was 29.9 a gallon .

  • Best. Cartoon. Ever.

  • Looney Toons is and always will be the best of any animated series in history. If you disagree no one will really listen anyway.

  • 14 people expected a happy ending...

  • In music class we have 2 sing this sond.... And i love it!

  • One fat horse, that's the least believeable thing.

  • "Kill da wabbit, Kill da wabbit, Kill da wabbit"

  • That white horse is just about the funniest thing Chuck Jones ever drew.

  • One of the greatest cartoons of all time.

  • 14 people didn't like this?  Obviously from another planet?

  • It's been argued that this is possibly the best single animated cartoon of all time.

    WOULD IT KILL YOU TO TAKE THREE MINUTES TO GET THE GODDAM TITLE RIGHT?

    That is all.

  • Dislikes? What the hell?!?

  • Love this episode..so..so much

  • Kiww the wabbit! 

  • Bugs coming down from the hill dressed as Brunhilde while the Tannhauser Ouverture is playing...

    Priceless...

  • This one is beyond funny. It is the perfect combination of Wagner's stirring music, shorn of it's silly, pretentious, story, and recombined with a really silly story, but which nicely deflates the original. It certainly has the chops to make the claim of being the greatest cartoon ever, but probably no cartoon is the greatest cartoon ever, there are too many really great ones, maybe even too many at just Warner Bros.

  • Kill the wabbit! Wabbit tracks! Bugs should play Brunhilde at any Ring Cycle. Richard Wagner is spinning in his gwave.

  • that's a happy endings to cry for thoughts Virginia 

  • And in a final moment of madness, Elmer calls forth the EVIL of SMOG!!!!!

  • so this is the greatest cartoon ever

  • They sure don't make cwassics wike this anymore. That's for sure!

  • Elmer and Bugs should be on "Dancing with the Stars"...they would win hands down!

  • During those last few seconds before Bugs spits out the punch line, if you are not amazed at the music and art then you have no soul

  • Bugs is the best Brünhilde ever!

  • the only opera that I would ever pay to see!!!

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  • 2:58 Am I the only one who thought of Wayne's World?

  • That horse apparently has a glandular disorder.

  • @discolando Bugs having none of a Wagnerian heroines ample proportions, Chuck Jones said "we invested all the fat curves we owned in Brunnhilda's charger". Check Herr Meets Hare for the original charger (circa 1943 or 44) by Freleng (I think). This cartoon matured in Jones' mind for over a decade and was so worth that long gestation period. Might be a good place to recommend Chuck's autobiography Chuck Amuck. He gives us a good picture of himself, the times, the place, and cartoon making.

  • The animation on this is incredibly sophisticated and holds up well even by today's standards-an impressive feat considering it was made almost half a century ago. And honestly, who else but Mel Blanc could have managed to make Elmer Fudd sound convincing singing Wagner? The old Warner Bros. crew were so truly ahead of their time.

  • @dkupke man agreed 100 percent, no wonder this short was one of the best animations masterpieces ever. However this short was Arthur Q bryan doing elmer's voice up until his death in 1959. Mel took over after his death!

  • @andross51 Wow, you learn something new every day. All respect to Mr. Bryan for making a man with a speech impediment sound like Poveratti.

  • Magic Helmet??? LMFAO!!

  • That awkward moment when a cartoon character is hotter than your girlfriend

  • In my opinion, cartoons today don't have enough lead characters dressing in drag!

  • SMUG! at 5:39

  • @Goldentoadette Actually, he's saying, "SMOG!"

  • @Goldentoadette SMOG, it was LA

  • Poor wittle bunny! (all wabbits have great eyelashes, mine does)

  • 11 people don't have a magic helmet.

  • North winds bwoooe! Soouth winds Bwoooe!!

  • Magic helmet?

  • @RedHeadVicky Magic helmet!

  • Don't forget to mention the musical arrangement!!! Absolutely fabulous! :)

  • This is the most depressing Looney Tunes cartoon I've ever seen in my childhood.

  • With all due we-spect, no one, I we-peat, no one, does dwag as wadiantly and as dweamily as this wuvly wabbit!

  • looney toons is my primary memory for like the first 10 years of my life. I only feel nostalgia for a few things from that time and like 75% of them are looney toons shorts

  • man...that bunny is so f'ing sexy on drag!

  • WAGNER <3

  • "SMOOOOOOOOGGGGGG!!!!!"

  • @Stimulator7 Yesh, the absowutewy godawfullest thing he could summon to thwoe at the bunny

  • NO! With my golden magic slingshot! DOI!

  • This is chuck jones at his best. I love this and fantasia. Both are masterpieces. No wonder this is at the library of congress. I wonder they dont this now push the bounderies of what a cartoon can be. I cant imagine them doing spongebob does hamlet or dora the explorer does les misbarles

  • Magic helment!

  • @NY2357 And the spear!

  • What kills me every time is since they couldn't make buggs a fat Brunhilda, THEY MADE THE HORSE FAT INSTEAD!!!!!

  • You killed Bugs! You bastard!

  • @sarahewright9 Bugs seemed to take it in stride.

  • Cartoons today suck. I want the old Looney Tunes back. T^T Even the new 'Looney Tunes Show' does not compare tot his. .__.

  • algien me podria como es el tema real de la opera

  • @FromCarol Agreed, I thought it'd be better, but it really was bad.

  • Excellent !

  • @tyrionimpstark666 no i said that ren and stimpy referenced bugs bunny.

  • Milt Franklyn arranged and conducted this, 'rabbitsmom'. When this was originally released in July 1957, Stalling was easing himself into retirement, sharing his musical duties with Franklyn, and finally retired in early 1958.

  • @tyrionimpstark666 actually old spongebob episodes were heavily based off of these cartoons and a lot of references can be found and the music is similar in both. Ren and Stimpy did the same thing, but to a lesser extent and was a lot more entertaining for adults.

  • bugs is hot in drag.so wrong ,but so hot.

  • you know....I think people cannot FULLY appreciate this one unless they are aware that it is a parody of the real opera 'The Valkyrie' by Wagner

    these guys did such great parodies of so many subjects.... :D

    I still think Looney Tunes are hands down the best cartoons of all time!

  • @CattitudeInterlude I think they put Wagner's glorious music to better use than he did subject matter / story wise. Sort of like Boorman in the Excaliber movie.

  • this has got to be one of the best -pure genius if you ask me

    this, along with 'Feed The Kitty'

    stuff these days doesn't hold a candle to the brilliance of yesteryear, IMHO

    :)

  • this made me listen to Wagner, by the way

  • Classic!

    

  • Look back on the cartoons of old. Bugs and friends, Mickey Mouse and friends. Also look at the animated features predominantly held by Disney through to the 70's. Computer animation might be today's thing but these cartoons, some reaching close to 80 years still tower over them in terms of quality, feeling, and artistry. A true American art form.

  • I used to cry my eyes out to this when i was a kid

  • die walkure..hahaha por chuck jones!

  • Classic!

  • I would like to think that Wagner is somewhere bent over laughing his head off at this rendition of his opera! If it wasn't for Bugs, the world of classical music would have been closed to many of us as kids.

  • @joelt6502 I'd like to think that, too, but then reality hits: Wagner was a 19th-century German, a people not known for their light-hearted sense of humor. On top of that, Wagner was not exactly known as a fun-loving fellow.

  • lol "that was the wabbit!"

  • The scene where he realises he's killed Buggs made me so sad when I was 7!

  • bwunhilda so freaking funnay !!!

  • hey what's the name of the opera that they're renacting

  • @rockinamber18 Der Ring des Nibelungen (sometimes called Wagner's Ring Cycle), a four part opera by Richard Wagner.

  • Damn, that is a fatass horse...

  • the beginning reminds me of fantasia with chernabog

  • KILL THE WABBIT? :(

  • One of my all-time favorites. Cross-dressing at it's best!

  • My favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon ever. Well done!

    

  • @MommaRedWitch

    mine too :)

    

  • The fat horse makes me laugh every time. I don't know why.

  • This is just genius! Obviously, it's hilarious: Elmer singing "KILL THE WABBIT" and Bugs coming down in drag on that overweight horse. But my God, the music is so moving juxtaposed with Chuck Jones' exhilarating animation. At the end of the cartoon when Elmer is carrying Bugs up the staircase, I got chills.

    This cartoon may have been what saved Wagner's music from being solely associated with Nazi Germany, and it was only 12 years after WWII.

  • @LordoftheJimmy I am fairly sure that this cartoon basically popularized Wagner to the entire world

  • @dkupke

    I am fairly sure that the entire world knows and appreciates Wagner- this cartoon basically popularized Wagner to culture-less Americans.

  • @JackHanleyCO The funny part is Walt Disney wanted to do that almost a decade before this cartoon was released; he had wanted Fantasia to be a work in progress, getting re-released every few years with new pieces added, and he had specifically wanted to include Wagner in a future rendition of it. But Fantasia was not a box office success, and the idea was abandoned.

  • I love how bugs always has these plans set up in advance or magic powers. Just in case I need a giant mare, armor, and a wig; strategically placed 100 yards from my hole.

  • wow... remember when i was a child watching this... and now all the feelings comes back, very profound. the sad ending really got me :(

  • 5:12, if the helmet hadn't fallen off, how far was bugs willing to go with this...?

  • praise to the voice actor, Mel Blanc, for having to sing both characters!

  • @PhantomWerewolf If I remember correctly Elmer Fudd was one of the few voices that Mel Blanc did not do.

  • @PhantomWerewolf OMG, no! As great as Mel was, he didn't sing both parts. Elmer Fudd was voiced for over twenty years by Arthur Q. Bryan, and he sang here as well. Warners always had the best voice talent.

  • thumbs up for the fatest horse in cartoon history.

  • @Labyrinthianlogic That must be "Grane", Brunhilda's horse...is truly hilarious this cartoon...!!

  • Dat horse. D:

  • Hard to believe that this is the only chick jones cartoon being preserved by the library of Congress.

  • @rougeleader302 Not true. Duck Amuck and One Froggy Evening is also being preserved as culturally, historically or aesthetically signifigant by the US Library of Congress. That makes him the only animator to have 3 shorts thus preserved.

  • The part that really amazes me, considering these cartoon's are almost half a century old, is just how incredibly sophisticated the animation is even by today's standards and how well it still holds up against cartooning today. Chuck Jones was truly ahead of his time in his art.

  • ahead yes and cartoons nowadays are falling behind

  • @dkupke I think that has something to do with the fact that his art is the classic and foundation of all cartoons today.

  • @dkupke They also had a lot more time and money to put a cartoon together back then since it was meant to be shown alongside a movie. When you're trying to put together 26 half hour episodes a year, you have to take a lot of shortcuts just to be able to keep up.

  • @Errickfoxy Most definitely. Back then animation was a hot industry, so studio's put a great deal more resources into their artistic departments. Today CGI has taken the reigns, so the titans like Disney, Warner Bros., etc. don't have as much money or development poured into animation.

  • @dkupke reins*

  • @dkupke it actually looks better than the computer animated shit thats done nowadays imo

  • @dkupke animation in general was better back then, it wasnt so computer generated, teams of people would draw it out, or at least proportionally a lot more than today's standards.

  • @dkupke Actually back then they put much more attention to detail. Take a loony toon cartoon from the fifties and set it by todays...or even better, take disney movies and compare them to the disney channels 2d crap!

  • @dkupke This was made by people who gave a damn about quality as well as making a buck. Most modern animation seems to be all about the latter at the cost of the former.

  • this particular episode scared the shit out of me as a kid

  • eh whats up doc whats cookin whats up doc eh ya lookin for bugs bunny bunting doc is gone-a hunting just to get a rabbit skin but now the rabbit's gone again!~~~

  • Not only was Chuck Jones a visual genius, but for Carl Stalling to paraphrase Wagner is incredible. Hooray for both.

  • screw the looney tunes show!

  • damn thats a fat horse at 3:00

  • Wierd, I'm listening to this musical piece on the radio right now...

  • I was wincing and smiling all the way.

  • A vewy qoestionable behavior...

  • Without a doubt, the greatest short cartoon ever produced! Happy 701st B-day Bugs!

  • jajajajajajajjaja xD Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny x3

  • Happy 71st Birthday, Bugs!(Yes, today marks 71 years since Bugs first existed in Warner Bros. as well as on our screens to make us laugh no matter how young or "young at heart" we may be.) Had to share this on Facebook since I've got many friends who adore this cartoon. Thanks & I thoroughly enjoyed this, especially since it brought me back to my fond childhood memories of watching Looney Tunes on Saturday mornings as a kid....when cartoons were actually worth waking up early on Saturdays! lol.

  • 7 people killed the wabbit.

  • 7 dislikes? Clearly 7 people out there had miserable, sheltered childhoods... 

  • @amzbubu And no magic helmet.

  • As much as I love this cartoon growing up, it takes me 10 years later to die laughing at that fatass horse!!!! XDDD

  • "Brilliance. That's all I can say. Sheer, unadulterated brilliance!"

  • My favorite episode, without a doubt.

  • Kill the wabbit?! Hahaha!! I love it!

  • 30 more views and it'll be 123456

  • Bugs is such a tease.

  • KILL THE WABBIT!

  • "I will do it with my Spear and Magic Helmet!"

  • What a fat horse

  • EPIC...

  • I have many a fond childhood memory of watching the Bugs and Tweety show and Saturday mornings. Whenever the music for this one came on, my mother, father, and brother would drop what they were doing and converge on the livingroom. And when that stupid horse came on, we would all be on the floor laughing! That and Daffy Duck as Robin Hood.

  • Chuck Jones's book Chuck Amuck, admits that the giant horned shadow of Elmer in this cartoon is a tribute to Bill Tytla's Devil in Night on Bald Mountain from Fantasia! Warner Brother cartoons loved to parody films that they really enjoyed, whether those films were made at Warner Brothers, Disney or anywhere else!

  • @cloudgirl150 This is not disney....

  • That fat pony makes me giggle even after all these years.

  • @Thehouseoffail +1. Especially when you see the smug little look it has on its face.

  • This freaked me out as a little kid, because I was convinced that Bugs was dead. Now I realize how funny it is as an adult, but I can remember being absolutely freaked. I loved seeing it again! I really wish they made cartoons like this now.

    Kat

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  • @cloudgirl150 this is warner brothers.

  • This episode was awarded as the #1 Greatest Cartoon of all time

  • Omg! this was my fave cartoon growing up...and Bugs was my fave character. 29 years later it's still perfect!<3

  • I always thought the fat horse was SO funny, and I also always thought that Bugs was getting too much into his little romantic song with Elmer, and was actually surprised back to reality when his wig fell off!

  • ELMER <3 i love him cuz u couldnt understand him if he was doing sign language

  • The baroque fat horse at 3 minutes is hilarious.....

  • Happy to be the 1000th Like of this great cartoon. Thank you so much for uploading this!

  • Nothing like the classics...

    My parents told me that I cried when I first saw this one... I was afraid they had actually killed Bugs Bunny off. lol

    Aah... I miss those childhood days. Thanks for uploading an old classic for all of us to re-enjoy 10, 20 or even 40 years later.

  • Well what did you expected in an Opera? A happy ending? so true! epic drama ahah

  • Oh so funny why can not cartoons today be as cool

  • watched this daily as a kid lol

    cant stop now that iv found it again 20 years later

  • Only Warner Bros. could make something that seems so epic and serious so funny at the same time.

  • Tannhauser overture! :D

  • ,.....VOTED THE GREATEST CARTOON OF ALL TIME AND THE 1ST CARTOON TO BE IN THE NATIONAL FILM REGISTRY !!!

  • He wasn't? Then how come it has been his plan to get him in almost every cartoon?

  • One of my absolute favorites of all time.

    Classical music, Bugs Bunny, a big fat horse with tiny legs, and Bugs in drag. What more could you ask for? Perhaps a duet with Bugs and Elmer?

    And then, "KILL DA WABBIT!"

    Absolutely hilarious. Love this. and "Wetuhn my wove" ROFLMAO funny. Woo hoo!

  • The duet of Bugs and Elmer singing "Return my Love" is one of the defining moments of our age! Priceless!

  • KILL DA WABBIT! KILL DA WABBIT! KILL DA WABBIT! lol

  • dear doc im still stuck in 1895 because elmer fud used up all the lightning from marty

  • i was only about 6-8 when they cancelled this and i i was devastated

  • @GoldenRing1989 if your crazy then i am to i burst out laughing randomly in class because of the fat horse

  • @starlover773 ..........I freakin love that fat horse lol

    :)

  • @KassnMikey88 you kinda have to ;)

  • I don't get it. Elmer meant to kill Bugs, but when he did he was so sad.

  • @MultiCarmenSandiego No elmer wasn't trying to kill bugs

  • @dionned42 He wasn't? But isn't that his plan in just about every cartoon?

  • its funny kill the wabbit!!!! kill the wabbit?

  • I'm a WWE watcher, and everytime Daniel Bryan comes out, I sing "Kill da Wabbit," lol

  • 7 people won't admit they almost cried at the ending.

  • best 7 minutes of my life.

  • full of win

  • HAHAHAHA What a fat horse