Please don't spend money on this.

People are voting emotionally.

Load of rubbish!!

Blistering performances.

Chuck Jones's '8 Ball Bunny' is a terrific sequel to the excellent 'Frigid Hare'. It's the second of two shorts which feature a cute character who came to be known as Playboy Penguin. A mute baby penguin dressed in top hat and bow-tie, Playboy is a great character whose cuteness is played up for exaggerated laughs, unlike Friz Freleng's sickening cutification of Tweety, which was mostly played for unsuccessful "awwwwws"! 'Frigid Hare' had played out as a traditional chase film with Bugs defending the penguin from a grotesque Eskimo stereotype. '8 Ball Bunny' widens the scope, presenting us with an epic road movie in which Bugs must travel across half the globe in order to return the penguin to the South Pole. Along the way he gets into numerous scrapes and continuously encounters a caricature of Humphrey Bogart in 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. Although it was probably a wise choice to retire Playboy Penguin after just two appearances, both the cartoons that feature him are brilliant and, with its epic adventure story, '8 Ball Bunny' stands out as the best of the two.

...I didn't like this Looney Tunes short all that much. I agree with Lee Eisenberg, this is far from the best cartoon. However, it is very sweet and worth watching at least once, but only for the cute penguin. Bugs Bunny has a few lines which are quite good, but he is better in a great deal of episodes.In this short, an ice skating penguin in Hoboken is left behind by the rest of his company when they leave once the show has closed down. By accident, he lands in Bugs Bunny's burrow (in the middle of the road, funnily enough) and the rabbit wakes up in a rather irritated manner. Seeing the adorable "pengi-win" crying at Bugs Bunny's approach, the kind-hearted rabbit decides to take pity on him and help take the wee penguin back home...I recommend this to people who like watching Looney Tunes shorts with a cute penguin, a Humphrey Bogart spoof (He is quite good, even though I have never actually seen the real Humphrey Bogart) and for people who like meagre Looney Tunes episode (a.k.a light). Enjoy "8 Ball Bunny"! :-) 7 and a half out of ten.P.S This short can be found on the same disc as "March of the Penguins", which is rather useful.

Written by Michael Maltese and directed by Chuck Jones, "8 Ball Bunny" is quite an unusual Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs has such a large heart that his conscience forces him to help a shy little penguin return to his antarctic home, all the way from Brooklyn! Of course, upon traveling southward with his little companion, Bugs gets himself in all kinds of physical peril! Highlights: Several times in this cartoon we see a clever caricature of Humphrey Bogart as the down-on-his-luck Fred C. Dobbs character from "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948), asking Bugs Bunny for some spare change. The penguin takes delight in seeing Bugs physically defeating a big ravenous galoot on the southbound train. While on a South American island, Bugs wears some cheap clothing and adopts a humorous accent as he strums a guitar and sings a song about his predicament with the penguin."8 Ball Bunny" is a very good cartoon that shows the more humane qualities of Bugs Bunny. He may at times be annoyed at the poor, innocent little penguin, but he has the sheer determination to get him home.

Bugs Bunny had gotten acquainted with a penguin once before (in 1949's "Frigid Hare"), but this time he goes all out. After a penguin gets left in a performance hall, Bugs agrees to take the little guy to the South Pole. The journey down proves to be quite far from what anyone expected, especially given the Panama Canal tax and encounters with a certain movie star."8-Ball Bunny" is far from the greatest cartoon. It seems like one of the shorts that they made to fill in the gaps between the really famous ones (1950 also saw the release of "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" and "The Rabbit of Seville"). But no matter, it's got some neat scenes, namely the penguin's tears freezing. Worth seeing, if only once.Hoboken. Maybe he knew Frank Sinatra.