The Flying Mouse

The Flying Mouse is a 1946 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce. It stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, making this the second cartoon directed by Jones to co-star the two (the first being Elmer's Pet Rabbit). Voice characterizations are by Mel Blanc and (uncredited) Arthur Q. Bryan, respectively.
The title is a play on "hair tonic", a type of patent medicine, reinforced by Bugs' portrayal of a fake doctor at a few points in the picture. A bottle of "hare tonic" appeared as a prop in a 1946 cartoon, The Big Snooze.
The Flying Mouse boy and his mother make an appearance as spectators in the 1946 Mickey Mouse cartoon Mickey's Polo Team.
==Home video==
* (1986) VHS - Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd Cartoon Festival Featuring "Wabbit Twouble"
* (1988) VHS - Cartoon Moviestars: Bugs vs. Elmer
* (1988) VHS, LaserDisc - Cartoon Moviestars: Cartoons for Big Kids
* (1990) VHS - Bugs Bunny Collection: Bugs Bunny's Greatest Hits
* (1997) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 5, Side 3, Freleng Follies (USA 1995 Turner print)
* (2002) DVD - Tom and Jerry: Dumbo (USA 1995 Turner print added as a bonus)
* (2008) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2 (USA 1995 Turner print added as a bonus)
* (2010) Blu-ray, DVD - Tom and Jerry: Dumbo (USA 1995 Turner print added as a bonus)
== Censorship ==
* The scene of Bugs taking a sleeping pill (from a bottle labeled, "Sleeping Pills: Take Dese and Doze") to invade Elmer's dream was originally edited out when shown on most TV channels (particularly the Ted Turner-owned cable networks TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network, but there have been cases of this cartoon appearing edited on local TV stations [both affiliates and independent stations]). The scene was most often deleted with a jump cut or, as on the Ted Turner-owned networks, with a fake black-out.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-b.aspx In 2001, "The Big Snooze" was shown uncut on Cartoon Network's The Bob Clampett Show and has been shown uncut ever since, both on Cartoon Network and its spin-on channel, Boomerang.
== Notes ==
* The question of whether or not any of the girls in the audience have to put up with what was going on in a scene was later used in "Hare Splitter".
* Elmer tears up his contract with Warner Bros. and leaves. This was the last cartoon directed by Robert Clampett in production order before he left Warner Bros. As such, Clampett is not credited.
* The opening sequence, in which Bugs traps Elmer inside a log and rolls it toward a cliff each time Elmer tries to exit, reuses the animation from the 1941 Tex Avery cartoon "All This and Rabbit Stew". Instead of Elmer, though, the previous film features a black hunter chasing Bugs. Elmer was simply drawn in over the animation of the black hunter, right down to the same body poses and facial expressions.
* Backgrounds from "A Wild Hare" were reused in this cartoon.
* In the sequence where Bugs ties Elmer to the railroad tracks and pretends to run him over with a train, Elmer's cries of "Oh, agony, agony, agony!" are provided by Mel Blanc instead of Arthur Q. Bryan.
* As Bugs is pleading with Elmer not to quit, he turns to the audience and comments, "'Bette Davis' is gonna hate me for this." Davis, at the time, was going through a well-publicized legal battle with Warner Bros. trying to get out of her contract.
* After the dream, Elmer arrives back at the log in a rush and the pieces of contract blow about in the air. A nearly off-screen Bugs on the left looks like he mouths his catchphrase, "Ehhhh, What's up Doc?", but there is no sound.
* The Polish dubbing version has the 1946-55 version of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down opening music theme replaced with the 1945-46 opening theme.http://chomikuj.pl/Nieznam123/ZM+1935-1969/kresk*c3*b3wki+sprzed+1948+r.+*5bdubbing+C*2b*5d/1946-10-05+-+LT+-+Wielka+drzemka,4819253905.avi(video)
* The copyright was renewed in 1973.
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