[[1] (http://www.animationsensations.com/img/warner14.jpg)] An ACTUAL production drawing of the cartoon drawn by the legendary Ken Harris!! [It has Chuck Jones' signature on it.]

Super Rabbit was a Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Bugs Bunny portraying Superman. It was released to theaters on April 3, 1943. Merrie Melodies end screen Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros. ... Bugs has appeared in numerous cartoons including the Looney Tunes series. ... Superman, nicknamed The Man of Steel, is a fictional character and superhero who first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938 and eventually became one of the most popular comic book heroes of all time. ... For other usages see Theatre (disambiguation) Theater (American English) or Theatre (British English and widespread usage among theatre professionals in the US) is that branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed... April 3 is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 272 days remaining. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ...

Credits

Distributor: Warner Brothers Warner Bros. ...

Producer: Leon Schlesinger Leon Schlesinger (1884 - December 25, 1949) was a producer at the Warner Bros. ...

Supervision: Chuck Jones Charles Martin Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912–February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Brothers cartoon studio. ...

Story: Tedd Pierce Edward Stacey Tedd Pierce III (August 12, 1906, – February 19, 1972), was an American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist. ...

Animation: Ken Harris

Musical Direction: Carl Stalling Carl W. Stalling (1888–1974) was the most famous composer and arranger of cartoon music. ...

Cast

Mel Blanc: Bugs Bunny, Cottontail Smith, Texas Rabbit Melvin Jerome Blanc, better known as Mel Blanc, (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was a famous American voice actor for many animation studios, primarily the Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbera studios. ...

Richard Hadyn: Professor Canafrazz

Tedd Pierce: Observer Edward Stacey Tedd Pierce III (August 12, 1906, – February 19, 1972), was an American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist. ...

Quotes

BUGS: Bricka bracka firecracker sis boom bah! Bugs Bunny! Bugs Bunny! RAH RAH RAH!

Trivia

The U.S. Marine Corps was so flattered that Bugs Bunny decides to become a marine in this film that they insisted that the character be officially inducted into the force as a private, which was done, complete with dogtags. The character was regularly promoted until Bugs was officially "discharged" at the end of World War II as a Master Sergeant. United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... United States Master Sergeant insignia U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant insignia U.S. Army Master Sergeant insignia U.S. Marine Corps A Master Sergeant is: the seventh enlisted rank in the United States Air Force, just above Technical Sergeant and below Senior Master Sergeant. ...

Professor Canafrazz was patterned at least in part after Richard Haydn's radio character Edwin Carp on the Burns and Allen radio show. Burns and Allen was a network comedy radio show starring George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen. ...

Numbers

This was Bugs' 16th cartoon, and this was the 47th cartoon Chuck Jones directed at WB.