The Wacky Wabbit

The Wacky Wabbit is a 1942 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert Clampett.
== Plot ==
The fat Elmer Fudd is singing "Oh! Susanna" while prospecting for gold to donate to the war effort: "Oh, Susanna, don't you cwy for me, I'm gonna get me wots of gold, "V for Victowy!", not to mention a "Buy US Savings Bonds and Stamps" sign.
Bugs Bunny appears during the second verse and finishes it with Elmer, singing harmoniously. From that point on, Bugs pesters Elmer without apparent provocation, from scaring him with the cattle skull over his face, throwing the dynamite back to him, to burying Elmer in the hole he was digging, to cutting off Elmer's suspenders and revealing the girdle he's wearing: "Don't waugh. I'll bet pwenty of you men wear one of these."
Instead of fleeing, Elmer turns toward revenge, especially when he observes that Bugs has a gold-filled tooth: "I'm came hewe for gold, and I'm gonna get it!" A fight ensues, and Elmer comes up the apparent "winner", holding up a gold tooth, saying, "Euweka! Gold at wast! Heh-heh-heh-heh!" Elmer grins and laughs his usual laugh, and at the same time Bugs mocks Elmer with the same words, dropped-"r" and laugh, revealing that his tooth is intact and that Elmer is holding his own knocked-out gold tooth. 
== Availability ==
Lt cel elmer.jpg|(1987) VHS Elmer!
Cartoon Moviestars 8.jpg|(1988) VHS Cartoon Moviestars: Elmer!
LT Laserdisc 1.jpg|(1988) LaserDisc Cartoon Moviestars: Bugs! and Elmer!
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-2-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 2, Side 5: Bob Clampett
LTCE VOL 7 WELCOME TO WACKYLAND.jpg|(2000) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 7: Welcome to Wackyland
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc Three
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - )
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - 2024)
== Notes ==
* Much like "Wabbit Twouble", directed by Bob Clampett the previous year, this short features Bugs as the aggressor, provoking Elmer for no apparent reason.
* Fat Elmer would wear a girdle with his underwear again in "Fresh Hare".
* A short clip from this cartoon appears in the opening credits of the Futurama episode "Love's Labour Lost in Space".
* This is one of the pre-1948 shorts to fall into the public domain, as United Artists, the copyright holder of the pre-1948 shorts at the time, failed to renew the copyright by 1970.
* This short contains a special "Merrily We Roll Along" ending cue. This cue would replace the original ending music for the Blue Ribbon reissues of "The Merry Old Soul", "Booby Hatched", "Tick Tock Tuckered", "Trap Happy Porky", and "Peck Up Your Troubles". Unlike most special ending cues, the cartoon's ending cue was preserved in the 1995 dubbed version.
* According to one of Cartoon Network's 2001 June Bugs marathon bumpers, after this cartoon's release, animation director Chuck Jones explicitly established a rule in future Bugs Bunny cartoons that Bugs Bunny must always be provoked in order to give the rabbit a valid reason to torment his enemies, as opposed to Bugs tormenting them for no reason whatsoever like in this one.
== Gallery ==
WackyWabbitCredits.png
The Wacky Wabbit (1942) - Spotted.jpg
The Wacky Wabbit (1942) - Scared.png
The Wacky Wabbit (1942) - Rung.png
39077886 357058694833001 280637763030614016 n.jpg|Lobby card
Wacky-wabbit-600.jpg|Lobby card
File:Screenshot 2024-02-03 111604.png|Animation drawing
es:The Wacky Wabbit
fr:Le lapin fou (court métrage, 1942)
Category:Bugs Bunny Cartoons
Category:Elmer Fudd Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:1942
Category:Public domain films
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons animated by Sid Sutherland
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 music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package