Rabbit of Seville

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Hand-Drawn Animation Slapstick Animation Comedy Family Music Short

Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.

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8.3/10

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- 1 nomination

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Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny
(voice)

Arthur Q. Bryan

Elmer Fudd
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Chuck Jones
Writer
- Michael Maltese
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Trivia
For a quick sequence where we see a close up of Bugs' hands massaging Elmer's scalp to the notes of a short piano solo in the opera, they are deliberately drawn with five fingers for the sequence so they can believably follow the tune.

Goofs
Bugs has three fingers and a thumb on each hand in this and other cartoons. Yet the close-ups of his hands when he grabs the "Figaro Fertilizer" and when he is rubbing it on Elmer's scalp show a regular hand with four fingers and a thumb.

Bugs needed the fourth finger on each hand to "play" the piano solo on Elmer's scalp. This was not a goof by the filmmakers.

Quotes
Bugs Bunny: How about a nice, close shave? / Teach your whiskers to behave. / Lots of lather, lots of soap. / Please hold still, don't be a dope. / Now we're ready for the scraping / There's no use to try escaping. / Yell and scream and rant and rave. / It's no use, you need a shave!
Elmer Fudd: [as Bugs slashes him with razor] Ooh! Ouch! Ouch! Ow! Ooh! Ooh! Ouch!
Bugs Bunny: There, you're nice and clean / Although your face looks like it might have gone through a ma-chine.

Alternate versions
On ABC, some of Elmer's gunshots were deleted. Possible editing was also done to reduce the depicted violence in the scene of Bugs slashing Elmer's face with a razor.

Connections
Edited from Long-Haired Hare (1949)

Soundtracks
Madrid
(uncredited)
Music by Georges Van Parys and Louis De Francesco

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8/10

Bugs, the Brutal Barber

It's the summer opera out in the mountain air of some nice place where "The barber of Seville" is being presented.....and that's what we get, with Bugs playing the barber and Elmer Fudd his foil.

What Bugs does to this bald-headed little fat guy, all set to the music and lyrics of the famous opera, is brutal. This is a very inventive animated short, where every movement, including tapping fingers, is set to the music.

The skits may not be laugh-out-loud funny but they're clever and it's a different and entertaining. This is a Bugs Bunny cartoon that flies by quickly which means it is pretty darn good.