Rabbit Fire (transcript)

Transcript of the 1951 cartoon "Rabbit Fire".
Elmer is on the hunt.
Elmer: Shh. Be vewy, vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits. (laughs) Oh boy, wabbit twacks!
A rabbit is seen walking.
Elmer: Oh boy, wabbit twacks!
As it turns out, Daffy was using rabbit tracks to Bugs' hole to fool Elmer.
Daffy: Oh, Bugsy! Bugsy pal. There's a friend here to see you! Survival of the fittest. And besides it's fun. (hoots as he hides behind the boulder)
Bugs comes out
Bugs: Did someone knock?
Elmer shoots
Bugs: Eh, what's up, Doc?
Elmer: Now I got you, you, you, wabbit! (laughs)
Bugs pushes Elmer's shotgun away from his mouth and eats his carrot
Bugs: Say, Doc, are you trying to get yourself in trouble with the law? This ain't wabbit huntin' season.
Elmer: It's not?
Bugs: No, it's duck hunting season.
Daffy: That, sir, is an in-mitigated frab-rication! It's wabbit season!
Bugs: Duck season!
They repeat two more times before Bugs repeats Wabbit season to trick Daffy
Bugs: Wabbit season!
Daffy: Duck season!
Bugs: Wabbit season!
Daffy: I say it's duck season and I say FIRE!
Elmer shoots Daffy in the face causing his duckbill to spin around a high speed until it slows down
Daffy: Hmm, let's try that again.
Bugs: Okay
Daffy: I'll start it this time.
Bugs: Right!
Daffy: Wabbit season!
Bugs: Duck season.
Daffy: Wabbit season!
Bugs: Wabbit season!
Daffy: Duck season, FIRE!
Elmer shoots at Daffy again, but this time made his bill face backwards
Daffy: Okay, this time you start it.
Bugs: Whatever you say.
Bugs: Wabbit.
Daffy: Duck, FIRE!
Elmer shoots at Daffy once again leaving the duck's head upside-down
Daffy: What's the matter? Everything's upside down. Strange, can't make heads or tails a thing.
Elmer: Hey you, come back here!
Checks gun to find it needs reloading
Elmer: Well, what do you know. No more buwwets.
Bugs: No more buwwets? Hey, laughing boy, no more buwwets.
Daffy: No more bullets. (swipes the shotgun from Elmer) Here! Let me see that thing. (looks through the barrels of the shotgun) Hmm.
Last bullet explodes on Daffy
Elmer: Well, what do you know. One buwwet weft.
Bugs: One buwwet left? Hey, laughing boy, there was-
Daffy: (with the last bullet lodged through his scalp) I know, I KNOW!
Bugs is seen putting a Duck season sign. He sneaks away and Daffy sees the sign
Daffy: Hmm, devilishly clever.
Sees someone and turns back
Daffy: Uh-oh.
Elmer then comes with his gun
Daffy: (disguised as Bugs) Eh, what's up, Doc? Having any luck with those ducks? It's duck season, ya know.
Bugs: (disguised as Daffy) Just a darn minute! Where do you get that duck season stuff?
Daffy: Says so over there on that sign your so smart.
Sign says Rabbit Season
Daffy: You know what to do with that gun, Doc.
Elmer shoots Daffy
Daffy: (to Bugs) You're despicable. (walking with Bugs while removing their costumes) Yes, you're despicable, and... and... and picable! And... and you're very definitely despicable. How a person can get so... so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. And it isn't so that I... I haven't met a lot of people, goodness knows it isn't that. And it isn't that goodness knows. It isn't that's... that. Goodness knows. It isn't... it's... it's... it's despicable.
The two begin to mention recipes against their counterparts
Bugs: (pulls out "1000 Ways to Cook A Duck") Fillet of duck Bordelaise maitre d'butter. Yum-yum. Duck polonaise under glass. Mmm-mm!
Daffy: (pulls out "1000 Ways to Cook a Rabbit") Rabbit au gratin de gelatin under tooled leather. Oh, drool, drool.
Bugs: Barbecued duck meat with broiled duck bill Milanese. Yummy-yum.
Daffy: Chicken-fried rabbit with cottontail sauce braised in carrots. Mm-mmm!
Elmer: I'm sorry fewwas but I'm a vegetawian. I just hunt for the sport of it. (laughs)
Bugs: Oh, yeah? Well, there's other sports beside huntin', you know.
Daffy: Anyone for tennis?
Elmer shoots Daffy
Daffy: Nice game.
Elmer: Now, you scwewy wabbit, you're next!
Elmer repeatedly shoots as Bugs and Daffy run into a hole
Elmer: Awwight! Come on out or I'll bwast you out!
Bugs comes out and puts his finger on the gun
Bugs: For shame, Doc! Hunting rabbits with an elephant gun.
Elmer: Ewephant gun?
Bugs: That's right, Doc. So why don't you shoot yourself an elephant.
An elephant comes out in the middle of nowhere and standing behind Elmer
Elephant: You do and I'll give you such a pinch!
The elephant slams Elmer to the ground until the hunter is up to his neck, and then the pachyderm walks away
Elmer: (angry) Ooh, just wait til I get that scwewy wabbit and that scwewbaww duck!
Daffy barks and points at Elmer
A gunshot is heard in the distance
Elmer: Hey! What's the big idea? Why don't you wook where you'r-- (doesn't get to finish) Huh?!
Bugs: (dressed as a lady) Oh, how simply dreadful. You poor little man. Did I hurt you with my naughty gun.
Elmer: Aw, shucks. Weww, I uh- (laughs)
Bugs kisses Elmer causing the hunter to blush, and then Daffy bites him
Elmer: (yelps in pain) Y-e-e-e-o-o-o-w-w!!
Bugs: Jiffy, you naughty bow-wow, stop that.
Bugs' ear pops out and Elmer finds out as he swipes the shotgun and points it at Bugs
Elmer: Okay, wabbit, I see thwough that disguise. Say your pwayers!
Daffy tries to turn away
Elmer: You, too, duck!
Daffy: Wabbit season!
Bugs: Duck season!
Daffy and Bugs repeat themselves over and over again before coming across a final sign that says Elmer Season
Elmer: Uh-oh!
Elmer backs away slowly, but then he was shot at as runs away fast
Bugs and Daffy are dressed as hunters
Bugs: Shh, be very very quiet. We're hunting Elmer's.
Daffy: (laughs)
Iris out
That's all, Folks!
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