Bonehead

Bonehead is a 2021 Looney Tunes Cartoons short directed by Pete Browngardt.
== Title ==
The title is a pun on the slang "bonehead", which refers to a stupid or foolish person. In this case, the title is used both figuratively and literally.
== Plot ==
Russian Dog uncovers troubles when he buries a bone in Bugs Bunny's hole.
== Caricatures==
* Groucho Marx - "Of course you realize, this means..."
* Bert Gordon - Russian Dog is based on his Mad Russian character.
== Music Cues ==
* Henry Bishop - "Home, Sweet Home" - plays when Russian Dog find Bugs Bunny's burrow.
* Raymond Scott - "Powerhouse" - plays when Russian Dog pursues Bugs Bunny.
== Availability ==
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* The title card is a reference to the 1977 film Eraserhead.
* This cartoon's plot is very reminiscent to that of the Goofy Gophers cartoon "A Bone for a Bone" (1951) produced 70 years earlier, as both cartoons feature burrowing rodents whose home gets disrupted by a bone buried by unsuspecting dimwitted dogs, and despite these burrowing rodents politely requesting these dogs to bury their bones elsewhere, these dogs outright refuse to comply their offer in a rather aggressive fashion, therefore resulting the burrowing rodents to retaliate against the dogs using violent methods. Except here, the burrowing rodent in question is Bugs Bunny instead of Mac and Tosh the gophers.
**Ironically, both Bugs and the Goofy Gophers previously appeared in the same cartoon with a canine antagonist in "The Goofy Gophers", the cartoon which the Gophers officially debuted, albeit with Bugs only appearing in a cameo role in the ending.
*The ending where Bugs tricks the Russian Dog into burying himself alive and dances away after his "death" complete with the Russian Dog's tombstone telling the audience "This shouldn't even happen to a dog!" is a reference to the ending of "Hare Ribbin'" (1944), the cartoon which the Russian Dog officially debuted. In addition, Bugs does the exact same dance from "Hare Ribbin'" in the ending, which in turn is partially-reused animation from "A Corny Concerto" (1943).
*Before considering Bugs' hole, the Russian Dog originally considered burying his bone at a squirrel's home up in a tree, a skunk's home in a hollow tree, and in a funeral graveyard which a tombstone which reads "Look Elsewhere, Bub!".
**The skunk scene recycles the B.O. gag from "Hare Ribbin'" (1944), complete with a foghorn sound effect playing over it, which was inspired by radio commercials for Lifebuoy soap from that year.
**The tombstone scene at the beginning foreshadows the ending scene where the Russian Dog gets buried alive by Bugs, complete with a tombstone.
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Category:2021
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Cartoons
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Cartoons that contain excerpts from "Powerhouse"