Baby Buggy Bunny (1954)

User Rating:

7.5/10   

Director:

Chuck Jones

Writer:

Michael Maltese (story)

Release Date:

18 December 1954 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

Baby-faced Finster robs a bank, but the baby carriage with the money in it goes down Bugs' rabbit hole. |

Plot Keywords:

Baby Carriage | Stilts | Bugs Bunny | Fugitive | Merrie Melodies

Cast

Mel Blanc

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Bugs Bunny / Baby-Faced Finster aka Ant Hill Harry / TV Reporter / Sergeant / Clancy (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:Passed (PCA #16233)

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Quotes:

Bugs Bunny: Oh, Finster! Oh, Finster, baby!
[Sees Finster trying to get the money]
Bugs Bunny: Oh, there you are, you naughty baby.
[Shakes Finster]
Bugs Bunny: How many times I have told you not to play with that dirty money? We'll just have to get hims all tidied up.
[Puts Finster in the washing machine and turns it on; takes him out, covered in suds]
Bugs Bunny: There, nice enough to be kissed. Ah, whoops, the baby!
[Throws Finster up against the ceiling]
Bugs Bunny: Oh, dear. I do believe I've forgotten my fudge.
[Turns around, Finster falls behind him]
[...]

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Little Man (2006/I)

Soundtrack:

We're in the Money

Loved it as a child, merely like it as an adult

Chuck Jones' 'Baby Buggy Bunny' is a funny cartoon with a nice concept which never quite reaches the levels of hilarity you feel it should. Bank robber Baby Face Finster disguises himself as a real baby in order to retrieve his stolen money from Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. Adopted by an unwitting Bugs, he goes to violent lengths to liberate his cash from the rabbit. The best part of 'Baby Buggy Bunny' is the first section in which a surprisingly easily duped Bugs is brutalised by Finster who reverts back to baby mode whenever Bugs questions it. However, the sequence where Bugs turns the tables after catching Finster shaving is far too short and unfunny. By the time Bugs catches Finster shaving, it's already too late in the cartoon for him to do much in retaliation. His revenge really needed to be as brutal as Finster's treatment of him had been to achieve a satisfactory laugh level. Instead, he quickly turns him over to the police and the cartoon simply peters out with a below par wisecrack. 'Baby Buggy Bunny' was one of my favourite cartoons as a child and I still enjoy it today, only now it also leaves me with a sense of dissatisfaction.