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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10/10

A Masterpiece

While chasing Bugs Bunny thru the mountains, Elmer and Bugs happen upon a concert performance of Rossini's opera 'Il barbiere di Siviglia'. Seizing the opportunity to cause major mayhem and trickery, Bugs hijacks the opera for his own wicked plans.

Now Bugs and Elmer are the stars of the show and pain, torture and humiliation come in that order. The animation, timing, music and editing are all absolutely perfect in this cartoon. Surely one of the finest Looney Tune efforts containing all the anarchy, madness and insanity they are famous for plus enough intelligence and cleverness to put a roomful of NASA experts to shame.