Buckaroo Bugs is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1944, starring Bugs Bunny and directed by Robert Clampett. It runs for about nine minutes, and is in color with a mono sound mix. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Looney Tunes opening title Looney Tunes is a Warner Brothers animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969. ... Bugs Bunny is an animated hare who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ... Robert Bob Clampett (May 8, 1913–May 4, 1984) was an animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ...

Cast

Mel Blanc provided the voices for Bugs Bunny, Red Hot Ryder, and some of the villagers. Lou Lilly wrote the story, and Leon Schlesinger served as producer. While only Manny Gould was credited as an animator, Robert McKimson and Rod Scribner also aided in the process. Other uncredited 'staff' includes the composers of several uncredited bits of non-original music--Sanford Faulkner ('Arkansas Traveller'), M.K. Jerome ('My Little Buckaroo', where the title ostensibly takes its name), Gioacchino Rossini ('William Tell Overture'), Franz Schubert ('Der Erlkonig'), and J.S. Zamecnik ('In the Stirrups'). All original music was composed by Carl W. Stalling. Melvin Jerome Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a prolific American voice actor. ... Bugs Bunny is an animated hare who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ... Lou Lilly (February 26, 1909–August 9, 1999) was an American animator, screenwriter and director best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. ... Robert Bob McKimson, Sr. ... Roderick H. Rod Scribner (October 10, 1910–December 21, 1976) was an American animator best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. ... Colonel Sanford C. Sandy Faulkner (1806-1874) was a teller of tall tales, fiddle player, and composer of the popular fiddle tune The Arkansas Traveller which was the State song of Arkansas from 1949-1963. ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868)[1] was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... Schubert redirects here. ... Carl W. Stalling (1888–1974) was the most famous composer and arranger of cartoon music. ...

Summary

Oddly enough, Bugs Bunny serves as antagonist: in the cartoon, he plays a carrot thief called the Masked Marauder, whom Brooklyn's Red Hot Ryder must bring to justice. The cartoon portrays Red Hot Ryder as a dimwit who can't distinguish Bugs Bunny from the Masked Marauder, and his good-natured slowness is consistently mocked: when Bugs Bunny as the Masked Marauder threatens to shoot Red Hot Ryder, saying, "Stick 'em up, or I'll blow your brains out," the latter treats it like a choice, replying, "Well, now, that's mighty neighborly of you." In the end, Red Hot Ryder catches on, but is unable to catch the Masked Marauder. It's one of the few cartoons that rewards the antagonist for bad behavior. Bugs Bunny is an animated hare who appears in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated films produced by Warner Bros. ...

Availability

The cartoon has been released on VHS in anonymous 'Bugs Bunny' collections, and will be released on the upcoming fifth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD set. Red Hot Ryder serves as a spoof of Red Ryder, borrowing the image of the popular Western serial's cowboy hero, Don 'Red' Barry. The Looney Tunes Golden Collection is a yearly series of four-disc DVD box sets from Warner Bros. ... Red Ryyder was a popular American comic strip cowboy created by Fred Harman, an artist and former partner of Walt Disney. ... Don Red Barry (January 11, 1912- July 17, 1980) was an American film actor who got his nickname Red after appearing in the highly successful Red Ryder film Adventures of Red Ryder (1940). ...

Trivia

• This was Bugs Bunny's second appearance in the Looney Tunes series. His first was a short cameo in "Porky Pig's Feat", but was not a starring role, therefore making Buckaroo Bugs the rascally rabbit's first starring role in a Looney Tunes short.

• This was the last cartoon to be produced by Leon Schlesinger, as he sold his cartoon studio to Warner Bros. around the time of its release. [1]

Censorship

• Some syndicated versions of this cartoon (particularly one version shown on a TBS station in Illinois) omit the part in which Red Hot Ryder's groin being covered by a fig leaf after the Masked Marauder takes off his belt and diaper pin with a magnet.