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Rabbit Seasoning is the second part of the 'Rabbit Fire Triliogy' To sum up briefly. This is a series of three cartoons in where Daffy and Bugs try to outwit the rather dim hunter Elmer Fudd. The twist is that both Daffy and Bugs dont really work as a team and constantly betray each other. Usually it's daffy who instigates the trouble in the first place by trying to convince Elmer that it is Rabbit ( or Wabbit) season and that ducks should be left alone.
Each of the cartoons take place in the major hunting seasons - summer, fall and winter. Rabbit Seasoning takes place in the Fall.
The premise of Rabbit seasoning is simple. Daffy convinces Elmer to shoot Bugs, Bugs manages to get out of the situation using various means ( more a bit later) and Daffy gets shot ( well usually his bill is the only thing which suffers)
Rabbit Seasoning is more violent than the classic Rabbit Fire as there's more gun usage. It's also worth noticing on how Jones uses daffy's detatchable beak as a running gag all throughout the picture ( in fact it's more off his face than on) and again Bugs dresses like a female in order to trick elmer, and Jones does manage to make bugs genuinely sexy (im not joking) . However it's a zippy cartoon and has the famous pronoun argument. Thanks to wikipedia i'll be able to paste this conversation :
Bugs: It's true, Doc; I'm a rabbit alright. Would you like to shoot me now or wait 'til you get home?
Daffy: Shoot him now! Shoot him now!
Bugs: You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now!
Daffy: He does so have to shoot me now! [to Elmer] I demand that you shoot me now!
[Elmer raises his gun. As Daffy sticks his tongue out at Bugs, he is shot. Daffy walks back over to Bugs, gunsmoke pouring out of his nostrils]
Daffy: [to Bugs] Let's run through that again.
Bugs: Okay.
Bugs: [deadpan] Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home.
Daffy:[similarly] Shoot him now, shoot him now.
Bugs: [as before] You keep outta this, he doesn't have to shoot you now.
Daffy Duck: [re-animated] Hah! That’s it! Hold it right there! [to audience] Pronoun trouble. [to Bugs] It's not "he doesn't have to shoot you now", it's "he doesn't have to shoot me now"
[Pause]
Daffy: [angrily] Well, I say he does have to shoot me now!! [to Elmer] So shoot me now!
[Elmer shoots Daffy again]
See with this argument ( and the wabbit season/duck season one in Rabbit Fire) on really understands the Bugs/Daffy/Elmer relationship.
Bugs is always in charge
Daffy tries and fails due to his extremest personality
Elmer is a follower, who obeys without using reason.
If you check out other Jones directed bugs/daffy cartoons, you'll notice that Bugs will always win at the end of the day and Daffy will suffer due to the fact that he doesn't use his full potential in rationalising the situation, as he is perfectly capable of doing so.
Eventually it is this pronoun mix up which leads to Daffy being shot in the end and again, his bill is somewhere else and he uses his infamous ' you're despicable' statement against bugs.
As the second part of the triliogy, Rabbit Seasoning is an excellent follow up. Maybe not as funny or monumental as 'Rabbit Fire' but nonetheless entertaining.
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