Wabbit Twouble

Wabbit Twouble (1941)

Elmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.

Date of release
1941-12-20
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (46)
Runtime
8m
Genres
Animation, Comedy
Director
Robert Clampett, Tex Avery

Casting

Interesting facts

Wabbit Twouble is a 1941 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery. It was released on December 20, 1941. It is part of the Merrie Melodies series, the eleventh cartoon to feature Bugs Bunny and the final Bugs Bunny cartoon to be directed by Avery, as he left the studio before its release; Bob Clampett, who took over his unit, was credited instead, as he helped finish post-production.

Production

This is the first of several Bugs Bunny films that refer to Elmer Fudd's speech impediment, intentionally misspelling the names of supervisor Bob Clampett, lead animator Sidney Sutherland, and composer Carl W. Stalling, in the credits to match the speech impediment.

Tex Avery began the project which Clampett finished post-production for; Avery is not credited on screen. This was the first Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoon directed by Clampett, with a story by Dave Monahan and musical direction by Carl W. Stalling. Although Sid Sutherland is the only credited animator, the short was also animated by Virgil Ross, Rod Scribner, and Robert McKimson.

For the cartoon, Elmer was redesigned as a fat man (based on voice actor Arthur Q. Bryan's own physique) in an attempt to make him funnier. The "fat Elmer" would only make three more appearances in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies canon – The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, The Wacky Wabbit and Fresh Hare, in addition to a cameo appearance in the war bond advertisement Any Bonds Today? – before returning to the slimmer form by which he is better known…

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