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Buccaneer Bunny is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot[]

Sam is digging a hole to bury his treasure on a beach. He is singing the stereotypical pirate shanty "Dead Man's Chest"--on the second strain, Sam switches from the typical "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" to a decidedly more original "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of... Ma's old-fashioned ci-der" with a conga kick on the last syllable.

In attempting to bury his treasure, Sam has encroached on Bugs' domain, as Bugs happens to have his rabbit hole there on the beach. When Bugs asks him who he is, he responds, "I'm a pirate, Sea-Goin' Sam, the blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em-first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer that ever sailed the Spanish main!"

Bugs torments Sam in the usual way, taking advantage of Sam's short temper and blustery personality. Bugs disguises himself as Captain Bligh and puts the gullible seaman through a whirlwind of shipboard chores.

Bugs is trying to hide, and a pesky parrot keeps crowing, "He's in there! He's in there! Awk!" Finally, Bugs asks the parrot, "Polly want a cracker?" The parrot changes his tune, "Polly want a cracker! Polly want a cracker! Awk!" Bugs hands him a huge, lit firecracker, which promptly explodes, reducing the bird to near-skeletal remains. His last words before he drops are, "Me and my big mouth!"

Bugs is in the crow's nest and Sam tries various unsuccessful attempts to get to him; for example, Bugs tells Sam that the elevator is out of order and instead tosses him a rope, Sam climbs up but, climbs back down and crashes on the ground below. Sam tries making a seesaw, but, that fails too. Bugs tells Sam he's going to jump. Instead, Bugs drops a convenient anvil over the side of the crow's nest, Sam catches it, and the entire ship except for the crows nest submerges. Sam mouths some apparent curses, then tosses the anvil over the railing and the ship resurfaces.

Later on, Sam is tricked by Bugs into playing a "dare" game with matches that ends up exploding the pirate ship's powder magazine, reducing the ship to splinters.

At various times, Sam gets blasted by cannon fire. First he gets tricked into a cannon by Bugs who acted just like the parrot. Then he hunts for Bugs through the ship's window's but he always gets blasted. Next he is subjected to the famous lots-of-doors in-and-out routine and it ends with Sam getting blasted, again. And finally after the ship blew up, when he thought Sam had Bugs cornered in his hole, Sam gets blasted one more time.

Finally, defeated, Sam raises the white flag. Bugs turns, puts on an old-style ship captain's hat, and paraphrases John Paul Jones, "I had not even begun to fight!"

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  • The WB channel edited this cartoon to remove the part where Bugs tells Sam that "Dead men tell no tales," and Sam almost shoots himself in the head before realizing he's been tricked.[4] This scene was also edited when shown on Cartoon Network's Latin American channel (but left intact on other Cartoon Network channels, including ones in the United States, Australia, and United Kingdom, and on Cartoon Network's spin-off channel, Boomerang, both in the United States and overseas) and the cartoon channel Tooncast. In contrast to the WB! version, Tooncast and Cartoon Network Latin America left in the scene of Bugs telling Sam "Dead men tell no tales" and Sam realizing that Bugs is right, but cut the scene of Sam saying, "Well, doggone it, I reckon I ain't got no alternative," and pointing a gun on his head before realizing he's been tricked (making it obvious that there's something missing).[5][dead link]

Notes[]

  • Though this cartoon is in the Looney Tunes series, the Merrie Melodies rings are seen in the first opening title. When Bugs pulls down the Looney Tunes title, the rings go back to normal. This also happens in "Baseball Bugs".
  • The titles feature an instrumental of "The Sailor's Hornpipe", also one of the theme songs to Popeye.
  • Sam's "Ma's Old-Fashioned Cider" song is a parody of "Dad's Old-Fashioned Root Beer", a well-known radio advertising jingle at that time.
  • A similar sequence where Bugs throws a lit match into the powder magazine of Sam's ship would later be used in "Captain Hareblower" (1954).
  • This is one of the few non-dubbed Cartoon Network/Boomerang USA airings after 1995, although 1995 dubbed version prints do exist. The version that airs is the LaserDisc print from The Golden Age of Looney Tunes.
    • The USA dubbed print airs on CN/Boomerang Latin America and Tooncast, but is censored unlike CN/Boomerang USA (see "Censorship" for more details).
    • The EU dubbed print airs on various European CN/Boomerang stations, completely uncensored like CN/Boomerang USA.

Goofs[]

  • During the door scene the knobs are all on the left. When Sam approaches the door that Bugs went in last, the knob moves right.

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Preceded by
Rabbit Punch
Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1940-1964
Succeeded by
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938 Porky's Hare Hunt
1939 Prest-O Change-O ā€¢ Hare-um Scare-um
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera ā€¢ A Wild Hare
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit ā€¢ Tortoise Beats Hare ā€¢ Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt ā€¢ The Heckling Hare ā€¢ All This and Rabbit Stew ā€¢ Wabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to Supper ā€¢ Any Bonds Today? ā€¢ The Wacky Wabbit ā€¢ Hold the Lion, Please ā€¢ Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid ā€¢ Fresh Hare ā€¢ The Hare-Brained Hypnotist ā€¢ Case of the Missing Hare
1943 Tortoise Wins by a Hare ā€¢ Super-Rabbit ā€¢ Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk ā€¢ Wackiki Wabbit ā€¢ Falling Hare
1944 Little Red Riding Rabbit ā€¢ What's Cookin' Doc? ā€¢ Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ā€¢ Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips ā€¢ Hare Ribbin' ā€¢ Hare Force ā€¢ Buckaroo Bugs ā€¢ The Old Grey Hare ā€¢ Stage Door Cartoon
1945 Herr Meets Hare ā€¢ The Unruly Hare ā€¢ Hare Trigger ā€¢ Hare Conditioned ā€¢ Hare Tonic
1946 Baseball Bugs ā€¢ Hare Remover ā€¢ Hair-Raising Hare ā€¢ Acrobatty Bunny ā€¢ Racketeer Rabbit ā€¢ The Big Snooze ā€¢ Rhapsody Rabbit
1947 Rabbit Transit ā€¢ A Hare Grows in Manhattan ā€¢ Easter Yeggs ā€¢ Slick Hare
1948 Gorilla My Dreams ā€¢ A Feather in His Hare ā€¢ Rabbit Punch ā€¢ Buccaneer Bunny ā€¢ Bugs Bunny Rides Again ā€¢ Haredevil Hare ā€¢ Hot Cross Bunny ā€¢ Hare Splitter ā€¢ A-Lad-In His Lamp ā€¢ My Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949 Hare Do ā€¢ Mississippi Hare ā€¢ Rebel Rabbit ā€¢ High Diving Hare ā€¢ Bowery Bugs ā€¢ Long-Haired Hare ā€¢ Knights Must Fall ā€¢ The Grey Hounded Hare ā€¢ The Windblown Hare ā€¢ Frigid Hare ā€¢ Which Is Witch ā€¢ Rabbit Hood
1950 Hurdy-Gurdy Hare ā€¢ Mutiny on the Bunny ā€¢ Homeless Hare ā€¢ Big House Bunny ā€¢ What's Up Doc? ā€¢ 8 Ball Bunny ā€¢ Hillbilly Hare ā€¢ Bunker Hill Bunny ā€¢ Bushy Hare ā€¢ Rabbit of Seville
1951 Hare We Go ā€¢ Rabbit Every Monday ā€¢ Bunny Hugged ā€¢ The Fair Haired Hare ā€¢ Rabbit Fire ā€¢ French Rarebit ā€¢ His Hare Raising Tale ā€¢ Ballot Box Bunny ā€¢ Big Top Bunny
1952 Operation: Rabbit ā€¢ Foxy by Proxy ā€¢ 14 Carrot Rabbit ā€¢ Water, Water Every Hare ā€¢ The Hasty Hare ā€¢ Oily Hare ā€¢ Rabbit Seasoning ā€¢ Rabbit's Kin ā€¢ Hare Lift
1953 Forward March Hare ā€¢ Upswept Hare ā€¢ Southern Fried Rabbit ā€¢ Hare Trimmed ā€¢ Bully for Bugs ā€¢ Lumber Jack-Rabbit ā€¢ Duck! Rabbit, Duck! ā€¢ Robot Rabbit
1954 Captain Hareblower ā€¢ Bugs and Thugs ā€¢ No Parking Hare ā€¢ Devil May Hare ā€¢ Bewitched Bunny ā€¢ Yankee Doodle Bugs ā€¢ Baby Buggy Bunny
1955 Beanstalk Bunny ā€¢ Sahara Hare ā€¢ Hare Brush ā€¢ Rabbit Rampage ā€¢ This Is a Life? ā€¢ Hyde and Hare ā€¢ Knight-Mare Hare ā€¢ Roman Legion-Hare
1956 Bugs' Bonnets ā€¢ Broom-Stick Bunny ā€¢ Rabbitson Crusoe ā€¢ Napoleon Bunny-Part ā€¢ Barbary-Coast Bunny ā€¢ Half-Fare Hare ā€¢ A Star Is Bored ā€¢ Wideo Wabbit ā€¢ To Hare Is Human
1957 Ali Baba Bunny ā€¢ Bedevilled Rabbit ā€¢ Piker's Peak ā€¢ What's Opera, Doc? ā€¢ Bugsy and Mugsy ā€¢ Show Biz Bugs ā€¢ Rabbit Romeo
1958 Hare-Less Wolf ā€¢ Hare-Way to the Stars ā€¢ Now, Hare This ā€¢ Knighty Knight Bugs ā€¢ Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959 Baton Bunny ā€¢ Hare-abian Nights ā€¢ Apes of Wrath ā€¢ Backwoods Bunny ā€¢ Wild and Woolly Hare ā€¢ Bonanza Bunny ā€¢ A Witch's Tangled Hare ā€¢ People Are Bunny
1960 Horse Hare ā€¢ Person to Bunny ā€¢ Rabbit's Feat ā€¢ From Hare to Heir ā€¢ Lighter Than Hare
1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit ā€¢ Compressed Hare ā€¢ Prince Violent
1962 Wet Hare ā€¢ Bill of Hare ā€¢ Shishkabugs
1963 Devil's Feud Cake ā€¢ The Million Hare ā€¢ Hare-Breadth Hurry ā€¢ The Unmentionables ā€¢ Mad as a Mars Hare ā€¢ Transylvania 6-5000
1964 Dumb Patrol ā€¢ Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare ā€¢ The Iceman Ducketh ā€¢ False Hare
1979 Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol ā€¢ Fright Before Christmas
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny ā€¢ Spaced 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 Vegas ā€¢ Daffy Duck for President

also see the List of Bugs Bunny cartoons

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