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Easter Yeggs is a 1947 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title[]

The title is a play on "Easter eggs" and on "yegg", a slang term for a burglar or safecracker.

Plot[]

Bugs Bunny finds the Easter Rabbit sitting on a rock, crying. He tells Bugs that his feet are sore, so he cannot deliver the Easter eggs. Bugs takes up the job, not knowing that he was actually tricked into doing so. Once Bugs leaves, the Easter Rabbit says that every year, he gets some "dumb bunny" to do his work for him.

The first house the "joyous bunny" visits bears a name by the door: Dead End Kid, and the mean little red-haired kid who lives inside throws the egg at Bugs' face, bites him and beats Bugs up before body slamming him on the floor. Bugs loses his cool and grabs the kid's arm. Unfortunately, Dead End Kid screams and three huge thugs, one of which is either a man dressed as a woman or is a woman with mannish features, rush in on Bugs while aiming guns at him. Bugs barely escapes the hail of bullets. The bullets even write out a message on the door "AND STAY OUT" When Bugs rushes back to the Easter Rabbit telling him he quits, the Easter Rabbit urges him to "try once more."

Unfortunately, the next house is that of Elmer Fudd, the veteran wabbit-hunter who wants to make stew out of the Easter Rabbit. Fudd sets up an elaborate welcome and, disguised as a baby, hides his gun in a bassinet and climbs in. Just then Bugs arrives, but this time he's prepared for toddler resistance: he cracks the egg in Elmer's hands. Thus commences the classic chase until Bugs manages to sic Dead End Kid on Elmer and the Kid beats Elmer on the head repeatedly with a hammer. Elmer runs away into the woods with the Kid still on his head beating him.

Finally, Bugs plants a bomb painted like an Easter egg and leaves it for the Easter Rabbit. When he picks it up to finish his job, Bugs lights the fuse, proclaiming, "It's the suspense that gets me," and the bomb explodes on the Easter Rabbit, leaving the hapless hen-fruit handler hanging high up in a tree. Bugs says, "Remember, Doc, keep smiling!" and starts laughing.

Quotes[]

  • [Bugs opens the door of the first house and it's Elmer Fudd. He closes the door and opens the door of the second house and it's Elmer Fudd again. He closes the door and opens the door of the third house and it's the Dead End Kid]
  • Dead End Kid: I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg!
  • Bugs Bunny: Oh, no!
  • [Bugs closes the door and goes to the last house and Elmer crashes through the door. Bugs paints Elmer's head to look like an Easter egg]
  • Bugs Bunny: [whistles]
  • [Dead End Kid hits Elmer with a hammer]
  • Dead End Kid: I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg! I want an Easter egg...
  • Elmer Fudd: Hey! Cut it out! Ooh! No! Stop it!
  • [Elmer, with Dead End Kid runs away]
  • Bugs Bunny: Well, that's that. No more with the nickering with Easter eggs.
  • Easter Rabbit: Oh. Here's an Easter egg that crazy rabbit forgot to deliver it. If you want anything done, You have to do it yourself. [picks up an egg] Things like this just make me go all to pieces.
  • [Bugs lights up the fuse]
  • Bugs Bunny: It's the suspense that gets me!
  • [The bomb explodes and the Easter Rabbit is left hanging on a tree]
  • Bugs Bunny: Remember, Doc: keep smiling!
  • [Bugs starts laughing as the cartoon irises out]

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Goofs[]

  • When Bugs says to the bratty kid, "Cut it out, kid! Somebody could get hurt. Probably me," his mouth does not move.

Notes[]

  • This was the 500th cartoon short released by Warner Bros.
  • This is the first Bugs/Elmer pairing to be directed by Robert McKimson.
  • Elmer tries to make stew out of Bugs Bunny, but in the later cartoon "Rabbit Fire", he says he is a vegetarian who only hunts for sport.
  • Robert McKimson redesigned Bugs slightly in this cartoon short, giving him slanter eyes, a wider mouth and a shorter, slightly plump stature. This design would continue to be used in the rest of the Bugs Bunny cartoons directed by Robert McKimson throughout the late-1940s. It was not until "What's Up Doc?" (1950) when McKimson reverted Bugs' design to the modern design, which he previously made in "Tortoise Wins by a Hare" (1943) for the Bob Clampett unit.

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Bugs Bunny Shorts
1938 Porky's Hare Hunt
1939 Prest-O Change-O • Hare-um Scare-um
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera • A Wild Hare
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Tortoise Beats Hare • Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt • The Heckling Hare • All This and Rabbit Stew • Wabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Hold the Lion, Please • Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist • Case of the Missing Hare
1943 Tortoise Wins by a Hare • Super-Rabbit • Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk • Wackiki Wabbit • Falling Hare
1944 Little Red Riding Rabbit • What's Cookin' Doc? • Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears • Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips • Hare Ribbin' • Hare Force • Buckaroo Bugs • The Old Grey Hare • Stage Door Cartoon
1945 Herr Meets Hare • The Unruly Hare • Hare Trigger • Hare Conditioned • Hare Tonic
1946 Baseball Bugs • Hare Remover • Hair-Raising Hare • Acrobatty Bunny • Racketeer Rabbit • The Big Snooze • Rhapsody Rabbit
1947 Rabbit Transit • A Hare Grows in Manhattan • Easter Yeggs • Slick Hare
1948 Gorilla My Dreams • A Feather in His Hare • Rabbit Punch • Buccaneer Bunny • Bugs Bunny Rides Again • Haredevil Hare • Hot Cross Bunny • Hare Splitter • A-Lad-In His Lamp • My Bunny Lies over the Sea
1949 Hare Do • Mississippi Hare • Rebel Rabbit • High Diving Hare • Bowery Bugs • Long-Haired Hare • Knights Must Fall • The Grey Hounded Hare • The Windblown Hare • Frigid Hare • Which Is Witch • Rabbit Hood
1950 Hurdy-Gurdy Hare • Mutiny on the Bunny • Homeless Hare • Big House Bunny • What's Up Doc? • 8 Ball Bunny • Hillbilly Hare • Bunker Hill Bunny • Bushy Hare • Rabbit of Seville
1951 Hare We Go • Rabbit Every Monday • Bunny Hugged • The Fair Haired Hare • Rabbit Fire • French Rarebit • His Hare Raising Tale • Ballot Box Bunny • Big Top Bunny
1952 Operation: Rabbit • Foxy by Proxy • 14 Carrot Rabbit • Water, Water Every Hare • The Hasty Hare • Oily Hare • Rabbit Seasoning • Rabbit's Kin • Hare Lift
1953 Forward March Hare • Upswept Hare • Southern Fried Rabbit • Hare Trimmed • Bully for Bugs • Lumber Jack-Rabbit • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954 Captain Hareblower • Bugs and Thugs • No Parking Hare • Devil May Hare • Bewitched Bunny • Yankee Doodle Bugs • Baby Buggy Bunny
1955 Beanstalk Bunny • Sahara Hare • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Hyde and Hare • Knight-Mare Hare • Roman Legion-Hare
1956 Bugs' Bonnets • Broom-Stick Bunny • Rabbitson Crusoe • Napoleon Bunny-Part • Barbary-Coast Bunny • Half-Fare Hare • A Star Is Bored • Wideo Wabbit • To Hare Is Human
1957 Ali Baba Bunny • Bedevilled Rabbit • Piker's Peak • What's Opera, Doc? • Bugsy and Mugsy • Show Biz Bugs • Rabbit Romeo
1958 Hare-Less Wolf • Hare-Way to the Stars • Now, Hare This • Knighty Knight Bugs • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959 Baton Bunny • Hare-abian Nights • Apes of Wrath • Backwoods Bunny • Wild and Woolly Hare • Bonanza Bunny • A Witch's Tangled Hare • People Are Bunny
1960 Horse Hare • Person to Bunny • Rabbit's Feat • From Hare to Heir • Lighter Than Hare
1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit • Compressed Hare • Prince Violent
1962 Wet Hare • Bill of Hare • Shishkabugs
1963 Devil's Feud Cake • The Million Hare • Hare-Breadth Hurry • The Unmentionables • Mad as a Mars Hare • Transylvania 6-5000
1964 Dumb Patrol • Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare • The Iceman Ducketh • False Hare
1979 Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol • Fright Before Christmas
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny • 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 • Daffy Duck for President
Elmer Fudd Cartoons
1937 Little Red Walking Hood
1938 The Isle of Pingo Pongo • Cinderella Meets Fella • A Feud There Was • Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
1939 Hamateur Night • A Day at the Zoo • Believe It or Else
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera • Confederate Honey • The Hardship of Miles Standish • A Wild Hare • Good Night Elmer
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Wabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Nutty News • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1943 To Duck .... or Not to Duck • A Corny Concerto • An Itch in Time
1944 The Old Grey Hare • The Stupid Cupid • Stage Door Cartoon
1945 The Unruly Hare • Hare Tonic
1946 Hare Remover • The Big Snooze
1947 Easter Yeggs • A Pest in the House • Slick Hare
1948 What Makes Daffy Duck • Back Alley Op-Roar • Kit for Cat
1949 Wise Quackers • Hare Do • Each Dawn I Crow
1950 What's Up Doc? • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • Rabbit of Seville
1951 Rabbit Fire
1952 Rabbit Seasoning
1953 Upswept Hare • Ant Pasted • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954 Design for Leaving • Quack Shot
1955 Pests for Guests • Beanstalk Bunny • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Heir-Conditioned
1956 Bugs' Bonnets • A Star Is Bored • Yankee Dood It • Wideo Wabbit
1957 What's Opera, Doc? • Rabbit Romeo
1958 Don't Axe Me • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959 A Mutt in a Rut
1960 Person to Bunny • Dog Gone People
1961 What's My Lion?
1962 Crows' Feat
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
2012 Daffy's Rhapsody
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