Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Tags: storytelling

Plot synopsis:
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck have to sell books for Rambling House. They go their separate ways and experience many wacky things. For instance, while flying through a winter storm, Daffy ran into a house owned by Porky Pig and briefly stayed there while taking place of a stuffed duck which he merely destroyed. Meanwhile, Bugs burrowed his way to a jungle where he pretended to be a baby ape to an ape couple. One half of the couple wanted to do Bugs in, but manages to divert him after he accidentally dropped a boulder on his wife's head.
After a little while, Bugs and Daffy reunite and burrowed their way to a cave at a dry desert. Inside, were treasures consisting of gold, jewels and stuff. The greedy duck tries to take the treasure, but he ran into Hassan the guard and made a mad dash back to Bugs who tricked Hassan into climbing into the clouds. Daffy ran back into the cave in excitement.
Later, Bugs comes across Sultan Yosemite Sam's palace in the Arabian desert. Sam needs someone to read a series of stories to his spoiled brat son, Prince Abba-Dabba. When Bugs first meets the tyke and gets mocked, he objects to the idea of reading to him. Then, Sam threatens to make Bugs bathe in boiling oil, at which point Bugs agrees to read to Abba-Dabba. Bugs tries to escape in a variety of ways but to no avail. At one point, Bugs even escaped on a flying carpet from the palace, but Sam catches him.
Meanwhile, Daffy tries to make off with the treasure. As he finished with it, he makes a quick check to see if he missed anything. That's when he encountered a magic lamp with a genie inside. Initially he rubbed the lamp thinking that with a little spit and polish, it would bring a few more bucks but it instead releases a genie whom Daffy pushes him back down thinking he was trying to steal the treasure. But the genie does not like what he was doing and chases him out of the cave by casting dangerous spells on him. Daffy then wanders through the desert in a desperate search for water.
Back at the palace, Bugs is fed up with reading stories to the prince, so he dumps his book in the fire. As he was being threatened to be dunked in boiling oil, Bugs warns Sam not to throw him in a nearby hole which Sam eventually did. Little did Sam and Abba-Dabba realize that this was Bugs' ticket to freedom. So Bugs luckily escapes and ran into Daffy. Daffy was pleased to see Bugs and soon sees the palace, hoping to sell books there. Bugs tries to warn Daffy about the palace, but he would not listen. He found out the hard way and the two walk off into the sunset with Daffy missing all of his feathers.
=== Included shorts ===
Cracked Quack (Daffy's line, "We'll just put it away in the storage for the winter", is replaced with, "Thermopolis will just have to wait")
Apes of Wrath (Bugs' line, "So I'll be a monkey", is replaced with, "I'll sell books later")
Wise Quackers (The opening where Daffy is flying and crash-lands like a plane on a farm and encounters Elmer.)
Ali Baba Bunny (ending to cartoon appears later on with Bugs removed)
Tweety and the Beanstalk (Bugs narrates the closing events of the cartoon)
Bewitched Bunny (ends abruptly after the prince takes his leave)
Goldimouse and the Three Cats (Bugs reads the narrator's lines)
A Sheep in the Deep (Bugs tells the story of Little Bo Peep) *Note: Currently cut out for time constrains.
Red Riding Hoodwinked (Bugs again narrates the opening)
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe & Mexican Boarders (with the story starting in the middle of the former after Sylvester had learned to play the flute before shifting to the plot of the latter and going back to the ending of the former)
One Froggy Evening (the ending is not shown)
Aqua Duck (footage is mirrored and only shown up to the point where Daffy realizes a pool of water is a mirage)

Review: I'll be honest.
I actually liked this!.
At 18, I am a huge Looney Tunes fan.
As a little girl, I loved watching them and laughing at the manic wit, marvelling at the colourful animation and admiring the playful and energetic music, not to mention loving the witty characters(especially Bugs and Daffy) and the fresh dialogue.
Even if some cartoons were a little predictable in the story, I know some of the Speedy Gonzales cartoons were on the predictable side, I still loved them.
And I still do, I've finished school now, and one of my guilty pleasures is watching Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry and Scooby Doo on Boomerang, I can't help it and I still love them.So as a huge fan of Looney Tunes, I heard there were a few movies and compilation films and thought I would like to check them out.
I had an inkling I had seen parts of 1001 Rabbit Tales before, as the parts in the palace struck a big bell with me, but I insisted on seeing the whole film.
Overall, I enjoyed 1001 Rabbit Tales.
I agree it is uneven, not a huge surprise for me as I have found in the past that compilation films have parts that work and parts that don't quite, but I liked it.First of all, it was a delight seeing all those cartoons.
I love a vast majority of the cartoons featured, especially One Froggy Evening, Bewitched Bunny, Ali Baba Bunny and Tweety and the Beanstalk, which have great animation, music, dialogue and sight gags.
The ones that didn't strike me as quite as memorable was Mexican Boarders and Apes of Wrath(though Bugs and the drunken stork elevated it), Mexican Boarders because although it was an improvement over most Speedy cartoons it was my least favourite cartoon featured.
I did like Goldimouse and the Three Cats too, it starts off slow but gets better as Sylvester falls victim to his own traps.As for the film itself, it was pretty good, though it is the case where the shorts and characters are better than the story itself in my opinion.
The animation on the whole is pretty good, admittedly better in the shorts than in the edited bits, which had a good "scratchy" style but the animation in the cartoons was much more fluid and colourful.
The music was highly enjoyable throughout, very playful and energetic, and I loved the humour.
The humour in the edited bits stuck to the style of the early cartoons, with the interplay between Bugs, Yosemite and the Prince standing out.
Though when it comes to the cartoons themselves, I loved the dark humour of Bewitched Bunny, how Sylvester Jnr in Goldimouse and the Three Cats was named "spoiled brat", the running joke that Bugs ends up somewhere other than he wants due to a wrong turn and the hilarious ending of Red Riding Hoodwinked(not to mention the Big Bad Wolf's short-term memory).It was a huge delight to see all the Looney Tunes characters, Bugs and Daffy of course are the stars of the show, Bugs having more to do, while Yosemite is a delight as the Sultan, they pretty nail what he was like in the earlier cartoons with the hot temper and the fact he is always up to no good.
Porky and Elmer aren't given as much to do, but they are good enough, while Speedy is a lot less annoying in two of his better cartoons(The Pied Piper of Guadalupe being the other).
The drunken stork and Witch Hazel also give delightful contributions.
And all of these characters are brilliantly voiced, Mel Blanc deserving the most credit.However what I didn't like so much was that the film is too short, for me anyway, and I think it should have been better finished than it was.
The story is a good idea, contrary to what has been said already, however it takes a bit of a while to get going but when it does get going it is fine.
The pacing is uneven here I think, not in the cartoons but parts at the beginning could have been better paced.
Finally while I loved the characters, there was one character I didn't like and that was the Prince.
I just found him irritating, not his dialogue(which was great actually) but how he was voiced and animated, too loud and abrasive and blocky when it comes to the animation.
I understand he was meant to be irritating, but not that irritating.Overall, despite its faults, I liked it.
When it comes to the compilation films, I felt Daffy Duck's Quackbusters had the better story and it felt better paced, but the humour and a vast majority of the cartoons here work splendidly.
7/10 Bethany Cox. WONDERFUL ENTERTAINMENT.
While I do agree with the fact that this is not the best way to see these wonderful cartoons, there's no denying that for some this is the only way.
Regular TV programming has fazed out Bugs Bunny cartoons.
Great video compliations are out-of-print.
And if you don't have cable TV, you're screwed.It edits the original shorts with new linking material, which is not a new practice.
Robert Youngson made a career out of this genre; his titles include "4 Clowns" and "Laurel and Hardy's Laughing 20s".
Also, the MGM That's Entertainment!
series, which is up to three.
Most critics tend to praise those titles, but condemn the Warner Bros.
Looney Tunes films.That is not fair.
"1001 Rabbit Tales" is a very good movie on its' own terms.
Supervised by the late, great Friz Freleng, the linking material is the best so far in this series.
The "plot" involves Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as salesmen for Rambling House Publishing (a great in-joke that's just one of many).
They go their separate ways and Bugs ends up being a storyteller for Yosemite Sam's son (this is where the old cartoons enter in)Freleng selects some of the very best Looney Tunes shorts for this film.
His selections include "One Froggy Evening", one of the greatest of all time and "Goldilocks and the Three Cats" (featuring Sylvester Jr.) and his editing is seamless this time round, unlike previous entries where it looked more obvious.
Those critics who feel obliged to hate a film like this can go back on the horse they rode in on.
Even Maltin thought it was decent at 2 1/2 stars.
This is wonderful entertainment and considering today's entertainment, timeless.**** out of 4 stars.
boiling oil.
After the creative team that made the classic Looney Tunes cartoons stopped making original cartoons, they made compilations of varying quality (after they all died, the cartoons turned into total garbage).
"Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" has Bugs and Daffy as book salesmen who go their separate ways to try and sell books.
Eventually, Bugs arrives in the Arabian desert, where Yosemite Sam is the sultan and has a spoiled brat son.
So, Bugs agrees to read to the boy, under the threat of bathing in boiling oil if he fails.I guess that overall, this compilation is pretty harmless.
If nothing else, they still had Mel Blanc doing the voices.
But are compilations really that necessary?.
Good Looeny Tunes movie!.
I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities.
The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear.
Not to mention beautiful!
Most of the characters in this show are hilarious Looney Tunes characters that we all love.
in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen.
In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious!
There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do!
If you like the original Looney Tunes and animated films then I strongly recommend that you watch this movie today!.
Very Good.
Although the idea of making films with Looney Tunes short films has already been used, this film is not behind the others, I think it's better, it has a great set of intelligent jokes, fun stories, interesting characters, among many other points positive experiences that will entertain children and adults.
Highly recommend..
I'd have preferred a plain "best of" instead..
I've been watching Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies bunch for as long as I can remember.
I grew up in the 60's before so many of the cartoons were gutted due to concerns about violence, and before they were edited for time.This vid, and the others in the series, makes use of all the old cartoons and splices them together in an effort to create some kind of common time line, and I supposed if you hadn't seen the originals it would be pretty slick, but for me it doesn't work very well.
Hiccupy, if that's even remotely a word, is how I would describe it.
Little modifications, some substantial cuts, and the overlying *effort* needed to fall into the new storyline takes away a lot of the magic for me.But the cartoons are good, solid classics.
Watch it for those..
The Bugs Bunny tales.
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are book salesmen.They go different ways to sell books and a lot of fun stuff happens to them.Bugs ends up in Sultan Yosemite Sam's palace, where he is forced to tell tales to Prince Abadaba.Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) is directed by Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson.It has a compilation of classic Warner Bros.
shorts.As voice artists you can hear Mel Blanc, who does the voice of Bugs, Daffy, Porky Pig and so on.Arthur Q.
Bryan is Elmer Fudd.June Foray (who is 94 years old today!) is Granny and some others.Shepard Menken is Old Storyteller.Lennie Weinrib is Abadaba.Bill Roberts is Michigan J.
Frog.I had most fun watching this.As did my 7-year old cousins.It's hilarious when Daffy pretends to be the stuffed duck.Or Sylvester trying to catch the gigantic Tweety in the beanstalk tale.Not to forget Sylvester as the Pied Piper and Speedy Gonzales doing his thing.These Looney Tunes tales are great fun- for both kids and adults..
Ridiculous Recycling..
Another one of the quick-fix movies by the Warner Bros.
studio to make some fast money off the famed Looney Tunes characters.
Old cartoons starring most all the major characters are held together by an unfunny new cartoon that has book salesman Bugs Bunny telling stories to Yosemite Sam's young brat of a son in a palace in the middle of the desert.
Naturally there is also Daffy Duck trying to survive the harsh desert environment.
It is tough to survive this harsh cut-and-paste mess.
Watch the Cartoon Network instead.
2.5 out of 5 stars..
Bygone .
What makes the Warner Bros.
animated shorts created between the early 30s and the late 50s so interesting is that are brought to life through a combination of perfect timing, wonderful writing and a wicked sense of humor.
That wicked sense of humor got passed the Hays office in the early 30s probably because the censorship watchdogs assumed that they were simple-minded cartoons and paid them no mind (or they were too busy crabbing about the length of Betty Boop's skirt).
These dayts that attitude comes mostly from distributors who routinely pigeonhole these works of comic art as 'kiddie fare' (which explains why the great black and white Popeye cartoons of the early 30s are always shown in color) so they routinely chop, cut and trim them to fit a time schedule.Those same distributors who like to package these great works as 'kiddie fare' are primarily responsible for what doesn't work in 'Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales', the third of Warner Bros.
compilation films linking new (rather ersatz) material to introduce old classic cartoons.The linking premise this time has Bugs and Daffy as book salesmen for Rambling House going their separate ways to try and see who can make more money.
Bugs ends up at a castle in Arabia run by Yosemite Sam who demands that Bugs read 1001 stories to his loudmouth son Prince Abba Dabba.
The first problem is that the premise is lame and the character of the son is irritating with his loud mouth and hyena whine every time Bugs refuses to read him a story.
Daffy meanwhile has unmemorable incounters with Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd.The other problem is that the classic cartoons that they include have been cut mostly to fit the storyline of the new linking material.
One of the greatest animated shorts ever made was Chuck Jones' brilliant 'One Froggy Evening' in which a greedy construction worker finds a box containing a frog that can sing and dance.
The downside being that the frog won't sing for anyone but him.
This falters all of the man's attempts to make money selling him as an act.
The greatest irony of this cartoon is that there are no speaking parts except when the frog sings.
The problem in this movie is that new narration by Bugs as he reads the story interrupts the quiet comic flow and worst of all, the hilarious, wicked final punchline is cut off.I was afraid that this kind of prepackaged butchery was becoming a trend until Cartoon Network put together three shows which really celebrate how important these shorts are.
The best is 'Toonheads' which has a theme every week showing how different artists interpreted different characters.
The others are 'The Tex Avery Show' and 'The Bob Clampett Show' which spotlight the best works of each artist and allow the viewer to learn a little about what went into their inspiration.'1001 Rabbit Tales' is an example of a practice in the 1980s of hurling any moving cartoon image at children and assuming that it would stick.
Thankfully, that era has passed..
bugs Bunny's 3rd compilation.
Friz, Chuck and others all had shorts featured on this one.I love Looney Tunes and have the golden collection sets and watch them and love them and they are put together really well.
I think that we all know how people in the movie business are good at putting out any product to make money off of.
This here is a perfect example of how..This is a compilation of shorts pieced together with popular shorts and new material written to piece it all together.The good thing is that these shorts are not as common as shorts on the first two movies, however they are still popular.
Things like Michigan Dave and the stork who takes bugs to a family of gorillas are nice additions.I love how slow poke Rodriquez was added here as thats not a popular one, as well as Daffy and the trophy duck.I was disappointed to see a short in this film that was also in The Great American Chase.
How can this be a sequel and have the same thing as part 1.I liked this one better than any of the "movies" but it still was nothing spectacular and we've seen it all so much.
I wanted for once there to be an actual movie.
I haven't seen the two daffy duck movies that are considered sequels to this, maybe some more original stuff was included in those.This one gets 5 out of 10 stars cause I have seen them less, and liked the connecting theme more..
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales.
This was the last Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies compilation film made up of loads of already made cartoons, concocted into a story.
Basically Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are working for a book selling company.
They split up to sell books in different areas, however Daffy wants to head south to migrate.
Bugs meets Daffy after mistakingly being given to gorillas by the Stork and chased by Elmer Fudd, and they both end up in Arabia.
Bugs finds a kingdom run by Yosemite Sam. He is told to read his 1001 stories for his prince, or face being boiled in oil.
This is obviously an excuse to use many good episodes involving fairy tales, e.g. Jack and the Beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, a Pied Piper story, and a Singing Frog.
Daffy Duck was number 30, Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies number 20 and Bugs Bunny number 10 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons.
Worth watching!