Edgar Allan Pooh
" . . . it's my hobby," Daffy Duck explains to Bugs Bunny, in asking the self-proclaimed "Me Genie. Light brown hare" to save him from a rich guy's security force for about the 11th time during Warner Bros.' seven-minute animated short, ALI BABA BUNNY. Some Warnologists probably will view Daffy as the always prophetic Warner Folks' effort to Warn us Americans-of-the-Far-Future about the Advent of The Trumpster. However, I feel that this slant may be a little unfair to the duck, who I do not remember being involved in a series of Charlie Sheen-like marriage scandals. (In other words, the American Voter would have little reason NOT to trust Daffy to pick out the USA's next First Lady, but I'm getting a sense that our American Electorate would be extremely hesitant to afford the same privilege to either Charlie or Donald.) Speaking of the latter, Disney Corp. has clearly copyrighted his moniker as a Duck's name. If, Texas Forbid, Mr. T. finagles his way into the White House--Foreign Wives and All--I'm thinking that the top U.S. litigating company might sue America's Number One litigating citizen for first dibs on "The Donald" first name.
Hitchcoc
This is a kind of variation on an Arabian Nights story. It's the old "Open Sesame" thing where an immerse treasure is kept in a cave. Daffy and Bugs are on their way to Pismo Beach, CA, to enjoy the beach, but a wrong turn in Albuquerque gets them lost. They end up in an Arabian desert. Because they have tunneled underground, they pop up in the treasure cave. Of course, when Daffy sees the jewels and gold, he drives Bugs into the ground and begins to take possession of all the loot. Unfortunately for him, Ali Baba or some other guy is around and he isn't happy to see someone running off with his treasure. Just like always, Daffy goes bananas, and Bugs is the unflappable one. Fun, familiar effort by Chuck Jones.
Mightyzebra
Personally I usually do not like episodes where Daffy Duck is annoyingly cruel, but I was very impressed with this one. In "Ali Baba Bunny" are surprises, very good gags and jokes and a theme that works well. The animation and lines from Daffy were also impressive and I did not begin to mind too much that he was, as he phrased it himself, "a greedy slob" in this episode.The episode begins with Ali Baba closing the cave to the well-known Arabian treasure. He tells his guard, Hassan, to guard the cave well and goes off on his very small camel. What Hassan was not expecting was a black duck called Daffy and a grey bunny called Bugs to come up from underground into the cave. Bugs Bunny is beginning to become worried when he realises he is not where he wanted to be, but Daffy is perfectly happy to stay where he is and be "comfortably well off"...I recommend this episode to anyone who likes a good laugh, for anyone who does not mind a greedy black duck and for anyone who likes Looney Tunes in general. As bobthemoo proves (he is a Looney Tunes fan, by the way people), not every Looney Tunes fan will enjoy this, but I say this episode is worth a try. Enjoy "Ali Baba Bunny"! :-)
Shira Dotnet
Other people here on IMDb have given good plot synopses in their comments, so I'll try to describe other things about this cartoon that may interest some people, such as which DVD you can find it on (if you care).The copy of this cartoon that I saw was on the DVD set titled "Looney Tunes Movie Collection". It contains "two feature-length movies", both of which are collections of classic Looney Tunes cartoons loosely woven together with a minimal plot. The first DVD in the set, which contains the Ali Baba Bunny cartoon, is "The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie". Ali Baba Bunny is the 8th scene.The length of Ali Baba Bunny as it appears in "The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie" is 6 minutes 14 seconds. For people like me who enjoy spotting glimpses of belly dancing in movies and cartoons, Bugs does a couple of head slides and hip slides about 3 minutes and 44 seconds into it, when he is pretending to be a genie. It's only about 4 seconds long, but it's there.The other disk in the same 2-DVD package contains a much-shortened version of the same cartoon, under the name Hassan Chop. It is chopped, indeed. This falls within a movie called "Bugs Bunny's Third Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales" as the 6th scene. It is 1 minute 57 seconds in length. It tells basically the same story, but leaves out a lot along the way to achieve the shorter length. It doesn't have the genie scene with the hip slides.I prefer the Ali Baba Bunny version. Too many funny moments needed to be removed to create the shorter Hassan Chop version.
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