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All This and Rabbit Stew is a 1941 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery.

Title[]

The title is a play on the 1940 film All This and Heaven Too.

Plot[]

Bugs Bunny is being hunted by a slow-witted Black hunter. After Bugs outwits the hunter several times, Bugs wins all of his clothing through a dice game. The man then covers himself with only a leaf and remarks "Well, call me Adam." Bugs rushes back and plucks the leaf.

Caricatures[]

Censorship[]

This cartoon is part of the infamous Censored Eleven by United Artists (and currently Warner Bros.) since 1968 due to its caricature of a blackface African-American hunter. Thus, it has been pulled from television circulation since 1968. It was also a member of the "Twelve Missing Hares", a series of Bugs Bunny cartoons pulled from Cartoon Network's 2001 June Bugs marathon, by order of AOL Time Warner.[5] As with the other members of the "Twelve Missing Hares" as described in the unreleased ToonHeads episode, it was originally intended to air in the marathon, but was pulled due to executive backlash.

Despite this cartoon's ban from American television as well as its inclusion in the infamous Censored Eleven, clips of this cartoon (including the climax where Bugs screams and does a wild double take when the angry Black hunter goes after him) were included in the documentary King Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution as part of Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 Blu-ray bonus features, albeit with all scenes involving the Black hunter completely cut or cropped out to avoid any possible controversy.[6] As the cartoon itself is in the public domain, it is also present in several gray-market public domain releases.

Notes[]

  • This is the only Bugs Bunny cartoon to be in the Censored Eleven.
  • The cartoon was the final Avery-directed Bugs Bunny short to be fully produced as such and released.[7] Because the cartoon was released after Avery left Schlesinger, Avery was not credited.
  • The cartoon's central gag sequence, involving the hunter constantly ending up on the wrong side of a rolling log hanging over a cliff, was repurposed for Bob Clampett's 1946 Looney Tunes short "The Big Snooze". For that film, the animation of the hunter was redrawn into the animation of Elmer Fudd. Coincidentally, "The Big Snooze" was also Clampett's last Bugs cartoon that he directed.
  • Along with "Notes to You", the film was completed and shipped on 2 September 1941.[8]
  • The cartoon entered the public domain in 1969 as United Artists chose not to renew the copyright in time. This is one of three Censored Eleven cartoons to enter the public domain; the others are "Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land" and "Jungle Jitters".
  • Alongside clips from "Jungle Jitters", clips of the cartoon appear in the 2000 film Bamboozled, a Spike Lee movie about black stereotypes.
  • The scene of the hunter and Bugs in a dark cave before lighting a match appeared in the "Mysterious Stranger" episode of Shining Time Station. During the "Everybody’s Afraid of Something" song sequence, it is included in a montage of clips from public domain cartoons with characters being scared or being in the dark. This makes this the only time a clip from any of the Censored Eleven shorts was played on American television after 1968, not counting reused animation nor the unaired ToonHeads special, "The Twelve Missing Hares".
  • Vitaphone release number: 173

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References[]

  1. Beck, Jerry (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, page 102. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2. 
  2. https://www.patreon.com/posts/tex-avery-rev-81908312
  3. (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media. 
  4. https://www.patreon.com/posts/tex-avery-rev-81908312
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNTv3oQoE8
  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=III4mVWV_2I
  7. https://www.patreon.com/posts/tex-avery-rev-81908312
  8. https://archive.org/details/filmdaily80wids/page/n539/mode/2up?q=Merrie+Melody

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Preceded by
The Heckling Hare
Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1941
Succeeded by
Wabbit Twouble
Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938 Porky's Hare Hunt
1939 Prest-O Change-OHare-um Scare-um
1940 Elmer's Candid CameraA Wild Hare
1941 Elmer's Pet RabbitTortoise Beats HareHiawatha's Rabbit HuntThe Heckling HareAll This and Rabbit StewWabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to SupperAny Bonds Today?The Wacky WabbitHold the Lion, PleaseBugs Bunny Gets the BoidFresh HareThe Hare-Brained HypnotistCase of the Missing Hare
1943 Tortoise Wins by a HareSuper-RabbitJack-Wabbit and the BeanstalkWackiki WabbitFalling Hare
1944 Little Red Riding RabbitWhat's Cookin' Doc?Bugs Bunny and the Three BearsBugs Bunny Nips the NipsHare Ribbin'Hare ForceBuckaroo BugsThe Old Grey HareStage Door Cartoon
1945 Herr Meets HareThe Unruly HareHare TriggerHare ConditionedHare Tonic
1946 Baseball BugsHare RemoverHair-Raising HareAcrobatty BunnyRacketeer RabbitThe Big SnoozeRhapsody Rabbit
1947 Rabbit TransitA Hare Grows in ManhattanEaster YeggsSlick Hare
1948 Gorilla My DreamsA Feather in His HareRabbit PunchBuccaneer BunnyBugs Bunny Rides AgainHaredevil HareHot Cross BunnyHare SplitterA-Lad-In His LampMy Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949 Hare DoMississippi HareRebel RabbitHigh Diving HareBowery BugsLong-Haired HareKnights Must FallThe Grey Hounded HareThe Windblown HareFrigid HareWhich Is WitchRabbit Hood
1950 Hurdy-Gurdy HareMutiny on the BunnyHomeless HareBig House BunnyWhat's Up Doc?8 Ball BunnyHillbilly HareBunker Hill BunnyBushy HareRabbit of Seville
1951 Hare We GoRabbit Every MondayBunny HuggedThe Fair Haired HareRabbit FireFrench RarebitHis Hare Raising TaleBallot Box BunnyBig Top Bunny
1952 Operation: RabbitFoxy by Proxy14 Carrot RabbitWater, Water Every HareThe Hasty HareOily HareRabbit SeasoningRabbit's KinHare Lift
1953 Forward March HareUpswept HareSouthern Fried RabbitHare TrimmedBully for BugsLumber Jack-RabbitDuck! Rabbit, Duck!Robot Rabbit
1954 Captain HareblowerBugs and ThugsNo Parking HareDevil May HareBewitched BunnyYankee Doodle BugsBaby Buggy Bunny
1955 Beanstalk BunnySahara HareHare BrushRabbit RampageThis Is a Life?Hyde and HareKnight-Mare HareRoman Legion-Hare
1956 Bugs' BonnetsBroom-Stick BunnyRabbitson CrusoeNapoleon Bunny-PartBarbary-Coast BunnyHalf-Fare HareA Star Is BoredWideo WabbitTo Hare Is Human
1957 Ali Baba BunnyBedevilled RabbitPiker's PeakWhat's Opera, Doc?Bugsy and MugsyShow Biz BugsRabbit Romeo
1958 Hare-Less WolfHare-Way to the StarsNow, Hare ThisKnighty Knight BugsPre-Hysterical Hare
1959 Baton BunnyHare-abian NightsApes of WrathBackwoods BunnyWild and Woolly HareBonanza BunnyA Witch's Tangled HarePeople Are Bunny
1960 Horse HarePerson to BunnyRabbit's FeatFrom Hare to HeirLighter Than Hare
1961 The Abominable Snow RabbitCompressed HarePrince Violent
1962 Wet HareBill of HareShishkabugs
1963 Devil's Feud CakeThe Million HareHare-Breadth HurryThe UnmentionablesMad as a Mars HareTransylvania 6-5000
1964 Dumb PatrolDr. Devil and Mr. HareThe Iceman DuckethFalse Hare
1979 Bugs Bunny's Christmas CarolFright Before Christmas
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young BunnySpaced Out Bunny
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 From Hare to Eternity
2004 Hare and Loathing in Las VegasDaffy Duck for President
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