The Abominable Snow Rabbit

Plot synopsis:
Bugs tunnels through the Himalayan mountains, followed by Daffy. After a failed attempt by Daffy to go swimming in a frozen pond, the two realize that they are not at their intended destination, Palm Springs.
Daffy, whilst underground, crashes into said creature's foot. The Abominable Snowman (whose name is Hugo, but that is not revealed in this short), grabs Daffy, names him George (a reference to Of Mice and Men, casting Hugo as Lennie Small to Daffy's George Milton), and gives him crippling hugs, believing Daffy is a rabbit, when actually Daffy just tied his sweater round his head for warmth, with the sleeves on top. Daffy reveals this by angrily yelling his head off, and Hugo proceeds to spank Daffy for his 'deception'. However, Daffy imparts to him where he can find a real rabbit i.e. Bugs. As Bugs starts experiencing Hugo's overbearing love, Daffy sneaks away. Hugo sits on Bugs, who sneaks out under the snow, carrying Daffy toward Hugo.
As Hugo doubts that Daffy is or isn't a rabbit, Daffy asks what a rabbit really looks like. Hugo responds that rabbits have long ears, making Bugs tie down his own ears and stick two of his fingers behind Daffy's head as rabbit ears. After Hugo painfully hugs the duck again but realizes that he has a bill and feathers, Daffy points out the tunneling Bugs to Hugo, who chases him underground. Eager to see the incident's conclusion, Daffy follows.
Later, in Palm Springs, a profusely sweating Hugo, and a disguised Bugs, discuss Hugo's failure to catch Bugs. Hugo believes that he will not be able to see the rabbit again, but Bugs encourages him that "if he loves you, he will come back." When Daffy emerges from the hole, Bugs puts fake rabbit ears on him, causing Hugo to recognize him as a rabbit again. While Daffy is cuddled for the last time, Hugo literally melts due to the intense heat of the environment. Bugs comments, "He really was a snowman!" and Daffy, soaked in water, replies, "Abominable, that is!"

Tags: cult, psychedelic

Review:
Bugs Makes Another Wrong Turn, And Daffy Pays For It.
"I told you to turn left at East St. Louis," yells a shivering Daffy Duck to Bugs Bunny after the latter made another wrong turn in another long underground excursion.
This time, the two Looney Tunes characters wind up in the Himalayas (a tiny bit off their destination!).Daffy heads back to Perth Amboy and leaves Bugs to become a "snow shoe bunny." However, our duck hero doesn't go far, running into the "Ambomniable Snow Man," who is anything but scary.
He's just a big dumb oaf, modeled after "Lenny" of the novel "Mice and Men." You know that because he calls daffy "George" and the little duck is a rabbit and adopts him as his pet.
The cartoon turns out to be a familiar story in a lot of LTs when Bugs and Daffy are together, meaning each other tries to foist off the other to an unwanted character.
Many times it was Elmer Fudd, the hunter; this time, an "abominable snowman." The best gag, I thought, was the last minute when all of the characters wind up in Hawaii- type island..
Another parody taken from Of Mice and Men. This is one of the cartoons where we meet the Abominable Snowman, a parody of Lenny from Of Mice and Men, which became a staple joke at both Warner Brothers and MGM (courtesy of Tex Avery for the latter studio) and virtually every less than bright secondary character was modeled to some degree after Lenny.
Daffy is his usual charming and affable self and much chaos follows.
Good to see that it's available.
Well worth watching.
Recommended..
Bugs and Daffy continue to travel the world, remaining just as funny anywhere.
The Abominable Snow Rabbit is one of those Bugs & Daffy travel cartoons, in which the left turn at Albuquerque is always forgotten.
This time, they go further than usual, ending up in the Himalayas.
Here they inevitably meet the abominable snowman, a successful one-shot for many years until he made a second appearance on Mars - of all places - in Chuck Jones' TV production, Spaced Out Bunny.
For such an insufferable analyst as me, I can watch, rewind and watch again my tape of this cartoon just to study how Bugs and Daffy are drawn in Jones' unique style in the 60's and beyond.
Daffy is once again the heel of the picture, trying to cook Bugs' goose but repeatedly getting squashed himself.
An excellent cartoon for all fans..
The Abominable Snow Rabbit.
I liked this.
It wasn't the best Looney Tunes cartoon ever, but it was very entertaining.
It can be a little too quick, but the story is carefully-constructed in which Bugs makes yet another wrong turn and once again it is Daffy who suffers the consequences.
The animation is crisp, colourful and smooth, with some vibrant colouring, and the music is fun.
The dialogue has some very entertaining moments to it, especially with the Abominable Snowman when he mistakes Daffy for a rabbit and starts calling him George(a big lol moment), and the sight gags are clever too.
Bugs is good here, a little stupider than he usually is but he is still arrogant and funny, and Daffy has some great lines and is easily annoyed here, no wonder come to think of it.
The Abominable Snowman steals the cartoon though, he isn't scary but rather dim-witted and cute, and his voice does also remind me of Barney from the Flintstones.
Once again, the voice work from Mel Blanc is excellent.
Overall, funny and well-animated.
9/10 Bethany Cox.
"I will name him George and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him...".
Bugs and Daffy are headed to Palm Springs but take a wrong turn and wind up in the Himalayas.
Before they can leave they run into the Abominable Snowman.
He's a hulking white creature with a blue nose who delivers bonecrushing hugs.
Despite how dangerous he is, I found him terribly cute.
In typical Looney Tunes fashion, the Snowman is modeled after Lenny from "Of Mice and Men." Daffy's reactions when this big brute manhandles him are hilarious.
It's a simple but very funny short from Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.
This was the last original theatrical Daffy Duck short Jones did.
The animation is nice and the script is a hoot..
Bugs turns left at Alberquerque.
In this very funny Looney Tunes episode, Bugs Bunny has taken Daffy Duck somewhere or other and has ended up miles from home in the Himalayas.
Bugs Bunny is pretty anxious and Daffy is also very annoyed.
Just when things start to become better, a very mad yeti arrives on the scene.
He likes bunny rabbits and thinks Daffy is one...I was surprised this episode was so funny, as usually I do not particularly enjoy episodes where Daffy duck is greedy.
However, I very much enjoyed this episode for his and Bugs' brilliant quotes, the mad yeti, the layout of the episode and the turn-out.One theme about this episode to consider is that here, Bugs Bunny is quite stupid, taking Daffy Duck to a place a thousand miles from Palm Springs (where the pair originally wanted to go).
Bugs Bunny is usually thought of as a clever character, although a great deal of the time he can be almost as stupid as Daffy.
Hmm...This is well worth spending seven or so minutes for, recommended to the average Looney Tunes fans and people who like mad yetis.8 and a half out of ten..
I wonder whether they knew about recent events in the Himalayas..
In their tradition of coming up with any crazy plot, the Termite Terrace crowd sticks Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck in the Himalayas, where the two characters run into the Abominable Snowman (named Hugo).
The big guy immediately tries to adopt Daffy as a pet rabbit, and Bugs helps with this.
"The Abominable Snow Rabbit" brings up an interesting point.
It seems like for years, our stereotype of the Himalayas was the Yeti - it's anyone's guess as to whether or not such a being really exists.
Nowadays, there's of course the issue of the Dalai Lama.
I wonder whether or not the cartoon's creators knew about the Dalai Lama.Oh well.
That's just what I notice.
The point is, this is a pretty funny cartoon.
It's not abominable at all..
"I'm not like other people.
I can't stand pain.
It hurts me.".
"The Abominable Snow Rabbit" is a classic sixties Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and co-directed by Maurice Noble.
Costarring with the wascawwy wabbit & despicable duck is a severely dopey abominable snowman who desires a pet bunny rabbit.
The snowman never became a star character in the Looney Tunes family, but we all remember him!
My favorite moments from "The Abominable Snow Rabbit": How could we forget the joy in the snowman's voice when he first mistakes Daffy for a pink rabbit and exclaims how he will call him George and hug him and pet him and squeeze him, etc.?
And watch what happens to Daffy when he excitedly tries to dive into a frozen pond!Ever notice how the snowman's voice is very similar to Barney Rubble's voice?
Well, that's because these two characters, as well as Bugs & Daffy, were voiced by none other than that "Man of a Thousand Voices" - the fabulous Mel Blanc!.
A bit repetitive.
Most of the 1960s cartoons are not as we--received anymore compared to the finest of the 1940s and 1950s, the Golden Age of Animation, but "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" is an exception looking at the film's IMDb rating.
Bugs and Daffy end up in the Himalayas where the Abominable Snowman is looking for a cute soft rabbit he can squeeze and hug all day long.
Unluckily for him 8and Daffy) he does not really know what rabbits look like these days.
I thought this was not as funny as some other Warner Bros cartoons I have seen, even if Jones, Pierce and Blanc are on board and their creative genius is undeniable.
I also did not like the ending.
Poor snowman.
All in all, I do not recommend these 6 minutes.
The only somewhat interesting thing I found was how different the characters looked compared to cartoons from the previous decades.
Very mediocre one we have here, very misleading title too and the joke gets old quickly too.
There really only is one joke in here.
Thumbs down..
John Steinbeck's stories were frequent targets .
. for Warner Bros.
Looney Tunes animators, and perhaps none more so than OF MICE AND MEN.
In this outing THE ABOMINABLE SNOW RABBIT, Bugs Bunny once again takes a wrong turn in East St. Louis, and leads his burrowing buddy Daffy Duck to The "Chinese Himalayas" (showing that the Warner people assumed that Red China would have completed its seizure of the Asian Highlands by the time that this animated short aired).
There the peripatetic pair fall into the clutches of Steinbeck's too-friendly giant, Lenny, in the guise of an Abominable Snowman.
Lenny's life-long dream is to have a furry bunny named "George" that he can pet to death.
Warnologists may argue that "George" is Donald Trump's pet name for America.
Be that as it may, Bugs quickly burrows back to his and Daffy's original destination, Palm Springs.
Lenny implausibly squeezes into this tunnel, as well, and gets his first taste of the desert.
It turns out that Lenny ACTUALLY IS a snowman (just as Trump's a Showman), and he melts away in the Springtime Sun (just as The Donald is doing right now).