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Bugs Bunny - All This and Rabbit Stew

by: Warner Bros.

Publication date: 1941-09-20

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: Bugs Bunny, All This and Rabbit Stew, Censored Eleven, Merrie Melodies, cartoons, stereotypes

Language: English

All This and Rabbit Stew is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on September 20, 1941 by Warner Bros. and Vitaphone. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by an uncredited Tex Avery, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling

The cartoon was the final Avery-directed Bugs Bunny short to be released. Although it was produced before The Heckling Hare (after the production of which Avery was suspended from the Schlesinger studio and defected to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), it was released afterwards. The title is a parody of that of All This and Heaven Too. Because the cartoon was released after Avery left Warner Bros., Avery's name does not appear in the credits.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

After copyright on All This and Rabbit Stew expired in 1969, the film fell into the public domain. The cartoon has been considered highly controversial due to racial stereotyping, which prompted United Artists to withhold this cartoon from syndication a year before it entered the public domain, making it one of the infamous Censored Eleven. The plot has Bugs Bunny hunted by a slow-witted African American hunter who sounds and looks like Stepin Fetchit. (Description source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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Reviewer: arkybarky - - January 21, 2022
Subject: the most boring bugs bunny cartoon ever

A cartoon failure. Bugs is ok but the "Stepin Fetchit" stereotype character as a kind of black Elmer Fudd, never gets off the ground. In trying to create a parody cartoon it looks like the writers were unable to translate the original " life" or essence of the character into their parody. This may have worked in 1941 but falls flat in 2022. The excessively stereotypical behavior of the "black" character really started to grate on my nerves after a minute, further destroying any possibility of enjoyment.

Reviewer: xery1234 - - November 30, 2021
Subject: Racist, but otherwise standard - albeit a great find

I'm no racist myself (why would you be one?) but this was very harmless outside of the stereotypes. Otherwise, Bugs faces off with a black hunter and goof off. Mostly, it's typical Bugs-Elmer type shenanigans and silly antics pop off the screen - with this being the first ever "turning the log" gag appearance that would be used in many later cartoons, such as (what I think is) "Hare-Do". However, this cartoon suffers from the fact that it doesn't really do anything to particularly stand out. Besides a new antagonist, the setting is rather plaid out, and no enhancing gimmick comes with that fact. The best things about Bugs cartoons are seeing what wacky situations he gets himself into, while this is rather boring.

I will admit, this was made in 1941, only a few "Bugs" had existed yet, so putting into context, this doesn't really hold up all that well. If not that many of these existed, I think I would've given this a respectful 8 or maybe 9.

Also final Tex Avery cartoon, sadly I think I've only watched two of his cartoons in general, that's not good.

6/10 cartoon, 10/10 find, as this has no a.a.p. logo.

Reviewer: isthisfuckingnametaken - - March 26, 2021
Subject: GREAT

EXCELLENT!
We need to preserve ALL history no matter how "controversial".
Everyone LEARNS from it in their own way, from both the "good" and the "bad".

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Reviewer: PiRSquared17 - - February 12, 2015
Subject: Sorry for low quality

If anyone has better quality, please upload it.

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