It's sort of funny that this cartoon is the one to kick off, on what can possibly be a ten volume series but anyways what's done is done.
The short starts out with a baseball game between the octogenarian (and older) team Tea Totallers ( and one makes a statement which harks back to Clampett's Baby Bottleneck, which is a refrence to radio star, Fanny Brice's similar quote) and the odious Gas House Gorillas, who cheat and win their way throughout the game.
However the Tea Totallers ( nice pun) have a fan in the form of bugs bunny, who vehemently talks badly against the G-H Gorillas. This results in him having to single handedly beat the team and take over where the tea totallers left off ( which isn't very good)
As usual brains will always win over brawn and Bugs uses his usual tricks.
Verbally confusing a team player who has sabatoged the 'fair' umpire.
Distracting team players with pin ups
And so on.
The game continues until there is one point remaining between Bugs and The Gorillas and the brutes are up (the player using a tree instead of a normal bat). Obviously the ball gets hit and literally soars out of the grounds. Bugs is determined to catch it, hails a taxi ( and one of the Gorillas is the driver) , hops on a bus and rushes to the Empire State Building and yes he catches the ball. As The Gorillas start arguing with Bugs, The Statue of Liberty concurs ( again another throwback to a radio star of that time) and it ends with Bugs imitating her.
Baseball Bugs isnt really one of my top Cartoons, Freleng has done much better and funnier Bugs ones but it is entertaining in its own way. However the batboy pun is great and the pinball imagery (when bugs throws a ball and it bounces against the Gorilla's heads) is executed well. It's good but not great.
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