Wackiki Wabbit

Wackiki Wabbit is a 1943 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Title ==
The title is a double play on words, with "Wackiki" suggesting both the island setting, as in "Waikiki", as well as suggesting "wacky", along with the usual Elmer Fudd speech pronunciation of "rabbit", although Elmer does not appear in this picture.
== Plot ==
Two castaways are adrift on a small raft in the middle of the ocean, underscored with "Asleep in the Deep". Delirious from hunger, they start imagining each other, or even their own limbs, as food items. They spot an island in the distance and rush ashore, underscored by "Down Where the Trade Winds Play", where they meet Bugs Bunny. To his friendly greeting, "What's the good word?", they answer "FOOD!" and start after Bugs, who swings away on a vine with a Tarzan yell.
Chasing Bugs through the jungle, they spy him dancing, semi-disguised as one of the "natives." Bugs welcomes them with "Ah! White men! Welcome to Humuhumunukunukuapua'a'a'a island." He then proceeds to speak in Polynesian-accented nonsense, a long stretch of which is subtitled simply "What's up Doc?" and a very short segment is subtitled, "Now is the time for every good man to come to the aid of his party." The tall and skinny man says, "Well, thanks!" and the short, fat man, actually seeing the peculiar subtitle, "Ofa eno maua te ofe popaa", says "Gee, did you say that?" The skinny man shrugs. Bugs begins dancing as the two castaways dance along as Bugs walked away leaving them distracted until the skinny man smacked the fat man.
After boiling some water in the cooking pot, Bugs steals it for himself mistaking it for a bath. The two castaways prepare to cook Bugs, but the rabbit tricks them by substituting a skinned chicken for himself in the large cooking pot. He taunts them with the chicken, using it as a marionette, until the strings become tangled (the chicken ends up giving away Bugs' hiding spot) and he has to make a quick escape and pulled the skin off the chicken.
As the castaways sobbed in frustration, they hear a steam whistle from a ship. The men leap for joy at the prospect of being saved and trot toward the gangplank. Bugs kisses them goodbye and presents them with leis, then pulls his time-honored switcheroo trick and boards the ship himself. The boat pulls out, leaving the two men on the island, still waving goodbye to Bugs. The Skinny Man slaps the Fat Man for still yelling "Goodbye!" The two once again imagine each other as a hot dog and a hamburger, chasing each other into the distance as "Aloha Oe" plays.
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-3-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 3, Side 2: Bugs Bunny
Lt taste.jpg|(1993) VHS A Taste of Cartoon Network
LTCE VOL 11 WABBIT TALES.jpg|(2001) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition, Volume 11: Wabbit Tales
Golden Collection box 3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc One (uncut and restored, with optional audio commentary by Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi)
Lt cbobb3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Bugs Bunny Volume 3
Lt cv3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Volume 3
Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection.png|(2020) DVD Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - ) (restored)
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== Notes ==
* This short continues to experiment with strongly graphic, nearly abstract backgrounds, seen throughout Jones cartoons from late 1942–1943.
** This is the last cartoon with layouts done by John McGrew.
* The castaways are caricatures of Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce. One of Cartoon Network's 2001 June Bugs marathon bumpers confirms this fact.http://chomikuj.pl/SSNN/*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac+*e2*97*84*e2*9d*b6*e2*96*ba+Bajki+*e2*97*84*e2*9d*b6*e2*96*ba/*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac*e2*96*ac+*e2*97*95+Zwariowane+Melodie/Wersje+Angielskie/Rok+1943/070343+Wackiki+Wabbit+MM+CN,1989586177.avi(video)
* This cartoon is currently in the public domain as of 1971 after United Artists failed to renew the copyright in time.
* A few clips from this, "Fresh Hare", and "Case of the Missing Hare" were used in the documentary Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants.
* During the sequence where Bugs, dressed in a Hawaiian outfit, speaks Hawaiian to the castaways, subtitles appear in this scene. In the 1995 dubbed version prints (both USA and EU) a blue border appears in this sequence. While the USA dubbed print has the video properly scaled to fit the border in this sequence, the EU dubbed print (pictured at the bottom of the image below) has the video not scaled properly to fit the border in this sequence, resulting in part of the subtitles in this sequence to get cropped off, most notably in the scene when the subtitles "NOW IS THE TIME FOR EVERY GOOD MAN TO COME TO THE AID OF HIS PARTY" appear onscreen.
* This short's Vitaphone number is 1051https://books.google.com/books/about/Vitaphone_Films.html?id=mmtZAAAAMAAJ
== Gallery ==
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==References==
also see the List of Bugs Bunny cartoons
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:1943
Category:Bugs Bunny Chuck Jones
Category:Public domain films
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with layouts by John McGrew
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Gene Fleury
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Bernyce Polifka
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package