Rabbit Fire

May. 19,1951 NR

Rating：

8.3

Genre：

Animation Comedy

Keywords：

Short Film Cartoon Hunting

Trailer Synopsis Cast

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.

Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck / Elephant (voice)

Arthur Q. Bryan as Elmer Fudd (voice) (uncredited)

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Reviews

Fluentiama

1951/05/19

Perfect cast and a good story

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AshUnow

1951/05/20

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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Keeley Coleman

1951/05/21

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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Arianna Moses

1951/05/22

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71)

1951/05/23

This is my favorite out of the three "hunting" cartoons from Chuck Jones and one of his writers Michael Maltese.I love it when Daffy's beak goes in every directions when ever he gets shot by Elmer, when when Daffy disguise himself as a rabbit and Bugs as a duck and when they disguise themselves as a woman hunter and her dog. Well I don't necessarily go with Bugs dressing in drag, I mean it may be funny way back then but I think it's...kind of disturbing now. I also thought it is amazing that Mel Blanc make his character voices (Bugs & Daffy) imitate each other.So anyway, that is all I have to say about this cartoon is that I really love it.

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phantom_tollbooth

1951/05/24

The first entry in Chuck Jones's celebrated hunting trilogy, 'Rabbit Fire' opens with the familiar declaration "Be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits". So begins the famous battle between Bugs and Daffy over whether its Rabbit Season or Duck Season. While the following cartoon 'Rabbit Seasoning' boasts a better script on paper, 'Rabbit Fire' is probably more gut-bustingly hilarious. Jones's direction is typically impeccable, which proves most crucial in the early scenes in which Bugs tricks Daffy into admitting it's Duck Season by changing his argumentative "DUCK SEASON" TO "WABBIT SEASON", thereby coaxing Daffy into also changing and setting himself up for a beak-altering shooting. It's an old gag given new life by Jones's fast pacing and Mel Blanc's hysterical voice characterization ("DUCK SEASON, FIRE!!!"). Blanc excels himself here, especially in a jaw-dropping scene in which he voices Daffy attempting to imitate Bugs and vice versa. It's a flawless example of why Blanc is such an irreplacable actor The ultimately anti-hunting subtext of the hunting trilogy is clear in Elmer's revelatory confession "I'm a vegetarian, I just hunt for the sport of it". It makes it all the more satisfying, then, when it is Elmer who gets a comeuppance at the climax rather than Daffy. 'Rabbit Fire' is a wonderful cartoon that proved so popular it spawned a classic trilogy.

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dolite91

1951/05/25

Daffy Duck: Rabbit Season!Bugs Bunny: Duck Season.Daffy Duck: RABBIT season!!!Bugs Bunny: (reversing the flow) Rabbit Season.Daffy Duck: DUCK SEASON!! FIRE!!Elmer Fudd: (opened fire) Boom!!!The quotes above were from the classical shorts 'Rabbit Fire'(1951), which was directed by Chuck Jones (1912-2002).This short was the first installment for the ''Hunter Trilogy''. The other two being 'Rabbit Seasoning' and 'Duck! Rabbit! Duck!'.To me, this short was the best out of the two sequels of the ''Hunter Trilogy''. It was a funny short. Other than that, it pitted Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny against Elmer Fudd (most of the time, it pitted Daffy Duck against Bugs Bunny). An elephant even made a cameo in the short pushing Elmer under the ground.At the end of the short, the sign on the tree showed 'Elmer Season', which made Bugs and Daffy to hunt for Elmer.This short could be considered as one of the best cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones.What a great classics!!!

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Rikichi

1951/05/26

This is the first of Chuck Jones' famous "Hunting Trilogy". The premise of all three films (Rabbit Seasoning and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! being the other two) is that Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck try to persuade Elmer Fudd as to whether it's duck hunting season or rabbit hunting season. All three are classics, and all are very close to being a continuation of the previous one. Many stations wouldn't air these because of violence, and when Fox used to have a show called Merrie Melodies, they cut the scenes where Daffy Duck gets shot. If I had to choose the best of the bunch, I pick this one because it has one of the funniest endings of any cartoon ever made.

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