Show Biz Bugs

1957
7m

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Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.Bugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.

Director
- Friz Freleng
Writer
- Warren Foster
Star
- Mel Blanc

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7.7/10

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Director
- Friz Freleng
Writer
- Warren Foster
Star
- Mel Blanc

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Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny
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Director
- Friz Freleng
Writer
- Warren Foster
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Trivia
The exploding musical instrument scheme is the same in three Warner Brothers cartoons. The musical score is "Those Endearing Young Charms". In order, they are, first is Ballot Box Bunny (1951), as Yosemite Sam tried to get rid of Bugs Bunny, with a piano. Second is Show Biz Bugs (1957), as Daffy Duck tried to get rid of Bugs Bunny, with a xylophone. Then in Rushing Roulette (1965), the rivals were Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner. Wile E. Coyote set up a piano, and after the Roadrunner played a 'sour note', Wile E. played the correct theme. The very same musical note, approximately the seventh note to the tenth note, is the note, that is not played correctly, every time and when correctly played, by the schemer, instead gets the explosion occurred to the note.

Goofs
For his dance, Daffy asks the orchestra to play "E-flat, from the top." The orchestra proceeds to play in B-flat.

Quotes
Daffy Duck: There can only be one explanation for white tile in a dressing room.
[Daffy turns a sign around on door, that reads MEN]
Daffy Duck: And that's it.

Alternate versions
On Nickelodeon, the climax involving Daffy's fatal stunt mixture was edited thus: Daffy swallows all of the explosives and then "shakes well", but blows up before he can light and swallow the match (which is what ultimately blows him up in the short's unedited form).

Connections
Edited into Person to Bunny (1960)

Soundtracks
Tea for Two
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Music by Vincent Youmans
[Tap-danced by Bugs and Daffy.]

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10/10

There's no business like rabbit business!

Another instance of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck getting on each other's nerves, this time as they perform on stage and Bugs gets all the applause while Daffy gets none. As always, Daffy tries to undermine Bugs's integrity, but always gets his just desserts, most notably with the xylophone gag (these cartoons sure had a way with dynamite).

I noticed that some of the tricks in "Show Biz Bugs" were yanked out of the Porky Pig vehicle "Curtain Razor", namely the end. But even so, it's always a treat to see what happens to Daffy when he tries to harm Bugs, sort of like what happens to Wile E. Coyote when he tries to get Road Runner. Another classic.