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Napoleon Bunny-Part is a 1956 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

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Bugs is traveling underground, and emerges in France at the headquarters of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon is planning a military offensive and thinks Bugs is a saboteur, and sends a guard after him. Bugs easily outwits the incompetent guard and then disguises himself as Josephine and asks Napoleon to dance. Napoleon sees Bugs' tail through the disguise and chases Bugs, who slides down a staircase. The guard sees Bugs and points his bayonet, intending to stab Bugs as he slides down. Bugs hops off of the staircase and Napoleon is stabbed instead. He slides back up the staircase screaming. The guard then gets the "point" from Napoleon and goes howling into the air again.

Napoleon catches Bugs and orders him into a guillotine. Bugs runs off with Napoleon in pursuit, running down the guillotine platform and then back up and through the guillotine which is still raised. Napoleon follows Bugs but as he runs through the guillotine the blade falls and slices the back of his uniform along with the hair from the back of his head. Napoleon demands an explanation from the hooded executor, who is Bugs himself. Bugs then tries to elude Napoleon by hiding in a mortar, but is found.

Furious, Napoleon resumes his chase of Bugs, but two men in white coats show up and one says to the other, "Hey Pierre, here's another Napoleon," and Pierre replies, "that's the twelfth one today." "But I am Napoleon," the little corporal wails as he's dragged away by them to the nearest insane asylum. "Sure, you are," one of the men nods sarcastically. Napoleon then promises ā€œ I will have you executed for this!ā€

Bugs says, "Imagine that guy thinking he's Napoleon...[quickly donning a Napoleon hat] when I really am!" He pulls out a flute, playing "La Marseillaise", which becomes "Yankee Doodle" as he marches into the distance.

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  • In light of the backlash over alleged drug references in an episode of Ralph Bakshi's The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, where Mighty Mouse's inhaling of crushed flower petals was mistaken for cocaine by media watchdog groups, the ABC version of "Napoleon Bunny-Part" in the mid-to-late 1980s cut the scene where Napoleon inhales some snuff and Bugs does the same, only to sneeze all over Napoleon's map.[2] The scene was later reinstated on ABC after the backlash died down. Other channels despite having a history of editing out scenes of drugs such as Cartoon Network and Boomerang also left the scene uncut.

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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
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