Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . or "By any means necessary" to we Americans of (The Then) Far Future is this offering from their Animated Shorts Seers (aka, The Looney Tuners), RABBIT'S FEAT. Warner was so insistent upon the urgent nature of this particular warning that they pumped the normally taciturn (if not mute) "Wile E. Coyote" full of dialog so that the clairvoyant cartoonists could convey their clarion Prophecy of Doom in with crystal clarity. Early in this episode "Bugs Bunny" makes the seemingly senseless remark "Daddy, you're back from Peru!" and kisses Wile on his snout. Since "Peru" recently has been used as a Secret Service Code Word for the U.S. Supreme Court, this sentence and its accompanying action obviously are telegraphing this week's rigged "retirement" of "Tony Kennedy," resulting in grave danger to LGBT-Q rights, as well as the female privacy safeguards against a HANDMAID'S TALE society built into the Roe vs. Wade precedent. What is Wile considering as a solution to this Present Day Threat? He mentions doing in the bad guy(s) with a "Rock Crusher" or a "Burmese Tiger Trap" (meaning leveraged resignations of the five Red Commie KGB justices, or this traitorous quintet's impeachment for High Treason). However, the rest of RABBIT'S FEAT (involving shot guns, dynamite, and hand grenades) spells out the multitude of possible tactics for implementing "The Third Way" (aka, five PELICAN BRIEFINGS).
Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71)
This is another favorite Bugs Bunny cartoon that features Wile E. Coyote as an adversary. You know, this is one of the last three Bug/Wile E. cartoons before the original Warner Bros. cartoon studio shut down in 1964.I love the part where Wile E. lunges at Bugs and falls into the cauldron of water intended for the rabbit. And Wile E.'s eyes and nose peered out of the water to glare at Bugs during his: "Oh Father! You're stewed again!" I also love it when Wile E. mentions the "dynamite-in-the-carrot" idea, Bugs screams and Wile E. freaks, falls on his face, and then Bugs: "That it'd hurt." So anyway, this is another Bugs Bunny favorite.
DaniGirl1969
This was Wile E Coyote's third attempt to, as he explains in the opening, pursue, capture and eat Bugs Bunny -- and it was just as unsuccessful as his attempts to capture and eat ANYTHING! To be honest, I don't think this episode is as funny as the first two in this shortened series ("To Hare Is Human" and the hilarious "Operation Rabbit"). Bugs is loonier than ever in this episode, but the pace is a bit slow, and there's not as much action as you normally expect to see in a Wile E Coyote cartoon.That's not to say there aren't some funny gags in this short -- I especially laughed at Wile E's defective rifle, which Bugs manages to thwart by first, spinning the gun barrel -- and then removing the end sight so that the coyote doesn't know for sure which end is the "shooting end" (you'd think by now he'd know that the shooting end is whatever end is aimed at him!).But some of the jokes are recycled ideas -- somehow Bugs screaming "YAHHHH" to send Wile E flying doesn't seem as funny as Road Runner's "meep meep". And the barbecued coyote's final words -- "my name is mud" -- are, of course, the same as he moaned at the end of "Operation Rabbit".Overall, not bad -- but not the best.Incidentally, this cartoon has no "Story" credit. Apparently, Michael Maltese -- who was director Chuck Jones' long-time partner on so many WB cartoons -- did write it, but by the time it was released, he'd left for Hanna-Barbera, and so his credit was removed -- as was producer John Q. Burton's.
Lee Eisenberg
Once again, Wile E. Coyote takes a break from chasing Road Runner to go after Bugs Bunny, with no more success. In fact, Bugs occasionally tricks WEC into acting against his own interests, as he often does to other characters.By the time that "Rabbit's Feat" came out, the Warner Bros. animation department had passed its heyday. Over the next few years, the directors retired most of the characters. But in my opinion, as long as the cartoons make you laugh, they're still really good. I certainly laughed at the action in this one. Chuck Jones had definitely not lost his touch. Worth seeing.That'll never be all, folks.
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