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Prest-O Change-O is a 1939 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.

Plot[]

Two dogs being hunted by a dog catcher seek shelter at Sham-Fu's house, and are tossed inside. A strange bird in the clock comes in to tell them its midnight, and the dogs decide to explore. They are quickly separated when the puppy gets through a door that vanishes!

The bigger dog comes by a strange white rabbit, which shows him a few magic tricks with a vase before making it vanish. Both he and the dog curiously look for it, and the magical rabbit makes the vase fall on the dogs head. He peeks into the pocket the rabbit vanished inside of, only to pull back in pain when a lobster snags his nose!

The little white puppy meanwhile finds a strange rope and trails behind it after it hits him. After the brown dog gets the lobster off his nose, the rabbit appears again and shoots him with a pop gun. The dog peeks into the big vase to see a strange plant burst from it. Small flowers appear on the plant, and one tickles the dog, causing him to grab the entire plant and shake it about, revealing it as the rabbit. He kisses the dog and watches as it reacts in disgust. He prepares to attack the rabbit, but the rabbit makes him wait a moment and vanishes.

The little puppy continues to follow the rope, trying to get it, but the rope manages to trick him with each try and drops a vase on him, pours cold water on him, then drops the water pitcher onto his head. It gets stuck on the puppy's head, but he manages to break it. The rope turns the pieces of the yellow pitcher into small birds and summons a ball/balloon that pops when the puppy pokes it. He angrily grabs onto the wand and tries to pull it away from the rope, but accidentally swallows it.

The brown dog resumes waiting for the rabbit, who reappears, then turns invisible except for his hands. He performs more tricks and goes through a door and proceeds to smack, pinch, and tickle the dog.

The little puppy keeps hiccupping balloons while the rabbit is busy laughing at the dog. The rabbit hides in the door again and watches as the dog pounds on it, trying to get inside. Just as the rabbit thinks his fun is over, the little puppy shoots by after releasing the wind from a balloon that inflated inside of him through his mouth and hits the rabbit and open the door. After both dogs get up, they see the rabbit all tied up in the rope, so the big brown dog puts the rabbit into a box, into a chest, and finally in a giant iron chest.

Both dogs curiously watch, and the little puppy hiccups again, sending out a small red balloon. When it pops, the rabbit is revealed to be inside of it, and he uses the pop gun on the brown dog again before vanishing. The big dog who has had enough of the rabbit's tricks is very angry now, and was able to stop it in its tracks and he punches the rabbit as hard as possible, sending it all the way into a lamp and fish tank, with its eye is blackened and covered with a lampshade and sitting in a goldfish bowl with his feet sticking out.

Availability[]

Notes[]

  • The short subject fell into the public domain in 1968 due to United Artists (successor to Associated Artists Productions) failing to renew the copyright in time within 28 years.
  • This is the first appearance of the prototypical Bugs Bunny in the Merrie Melodies series.
  • This is the last short with the first design of the prototypical Bugs Bunny before he is redesigned as a grey rabbit in "Hare-um Scare-um". This is also the rabbit's first color appearance.
  • This is the only cartoon featuring The Two Curious Puppies to be in the public domain (the rest of them remain under copyright), and one of only two to be released on Blu-ray or DVD, along with "Stage Fright".
  • The rabbit does not speak in this short.
  • This is the first cartoon in which the will be-Bugs loses in the end.
  • The lobby card for the cartoon erroneously titles it as "Presto Chango".
  • The rabbit frequently utters Mel Blanc's version of Woody Woodpecker's laugh.
  • This cartoon was shown with Blackwell's Island in its original run.

Gallery[]

Preceded by
Porky's Hare Hunt
Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1939
Succeeded by
Hare-um Scare-um
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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