Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

**Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales** is a UK VHS release by Warner Home Video on 13th October 1986, and then it got re-released by Warner Home Video on 10th September 1990, 8th August 1994 and 20th October 1997.

The film also got aired on Cartoon Network on December 2000.

## Description

BUGS AND DAFFY TAKE TO THE ROAD AS TWO TRAVELLING BOOK SALESMEN - WITH SULTAN YOSEMITE SAM AS THEIR NUMBER ONE CLIENT!

SAM'S ROYAL HEIR, PRINCE ABADABA, DEMANDS THAT BUGS READS A SAMPLE OF HIS WARES - ALOUD.

SO BUGS TAKES OFF ON A RIDICULOUS ROMP THROUGH CHILDREN'S CLASSICS LIKE GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS, JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, AND MORE.

SYLVESTER, TWEETY, SPEEDY GONZALES AND A WHOLE MENAGERIE OF SUPPORTING PLAYERS COMPLETE THE CAST...

### Included shorts

* *Cracked Quack* (Daffy's line, "We'll just put it away in the storage for the winter", is replaced with, "Thermopolis will just have to wait")
* *Apes of Wrath* (Bugs' line, "So I'll be a monkey", is replaced with, "I'll sell books later")
* *Wise Quackers* (The opening where Daffy is flying and crash-lands like a plane on a farm and encounters Elmer.)
* *Ali Baba Bunny* (ending to cartoon appears later on with Bugs removed)
* *Tweety and the Beanstalk* (Bugs narrates the closing events of the cartoon)
* *Bewitched Bunny* (ends abruptly after the prince takes his leave)
* *Goldimouse and the Three Cats* (Bugs reads the narrator's lines)
* *A Sheep in the Deep* (Bugs tells the story of Little Bo Peep) \*Note: Currently cut out for time constrains.
* *Red Riding Hoodwinked* (Bugs again narrates the opening)
* *The Pied Piper of Guadalupe* & *Mexican Boarders* (with the story starting in the middle of the former after Sylvester had learned to play the flute before shifting to the plot of the latter and going back to the ending of the former)
* *One Froggy Evening* (the ending is not shown)
* *Aqua Duck* (footage is mirrored and only shown up to the point where Daffy realizes a pool of water is a mirage)

## Voices

* Mel Blanc - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Speedy Gonzales, Tweety Bird, Rover, Hassan, Big Bad Wolf, Genie, Beanstalk Giant, Elvis Gorilla.
* Bea Benaderet - Witch Hazel (archive footage)
* Arthur Q. Bryan - Elmer Fudd (archive footage)
* June Foray - Granny, Mother Gorilla, Goldimouse.
* Shepard Menken - Old Storyteller.
* Lennie Weinrib - Prince Abba-Dabba.

## Opening (1990 Re-release)

* Warner Home Video Ident (1985-1996)
* Bugs Bunny's 50th Birthday Song

## Opening (1994 Re-release)

1. Warner Home Video A Time Warner Entertainment Company Ident (1993)
2. Warner Bros Family Entertainment Children's Trailer From 1994 with clips of "The Secret Garden", "Curly Sue", "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", "The NeverEnding Story", "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman", "Rover Dangerfield", "Tiny Toon Adventures: Who I Spend My Vacation", "Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" and "Dennis". [announced by John Sachs]
3. Free Willy Trailer
4. John Sachs' Feature Presentation and Keep Watching Announcement
5. Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales Title Card with BBFC U Card (1982-2002)
6. Warner Bros Family Entertainment Ident (Long Version)
7. Start of Bugs Bunny’s 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)

## Trailers and info

#### **Opening**

1. Warner Bros Family Entertainment from 1994 with clips of "The Secret Garden", "Curly Sue", "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory", "The Neverending Story", "Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman", "Rover Dangerfield", "Tiny Toons: Who I Spend My Vacation", "Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" and "Dennis".
2. Free Willy

#### **Closing**

1. Thumbelina
2. Willy 2: The Adventure Home
3. Black Beauty