1992
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
Release date: 1992-02-01
Plot: In this adventure, Bugs Bunny discovers that his friends Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck have been replaced by poorly drawn, overly friendly clones created by alien carrots from outer space. These clones try to recruit Bugs to their side, but he refuses and sets out to rescue the original versions of his friends, ultimately blasting the impostors back into space.
Name and role: The clones serve as a satire of low-quality animation and corporate meddling that has, over time, affected the Looney Tunes characters. They're intentionally animated with crude techniques, like Synchro-Vox, to mock the standardization and loss of personality in modern cartoons.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the theme of characters versus creators include Duck Amuck (1953) and Rabbit Rampage (1955).
Release date: 1992-02-01
Plot: In this adventure, Bugs Bunny discovers that his friends Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck have been replaced by poorly drawn, overly friendly clones created by alien carrots from outer space. These clones try to recruit Bugs to their side, but he refuses and sets out to rescue the original versions of his friends, ultimately blasting the impostors back into space.
Name and role: The clones serve as a satire of low-quality animation and corporate meddling that has, over time, affected the Looney Tunes characters. They're intentionally animated with crude techniques, like Synchro-Vox, to mock the standardization and loss of personality in modern cartoons.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the theme of characters versus creators include Duck Amuck (1953) and Rabbit Rampage (1955).
Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
Release date: 1992-02-01
Plot: In this adventure, Bugs Bunny discovers that his friends Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck have been replaced by poorly drawn, overly friendly clones created by alien carrots from outer space. These clones try to recruit Bugs to their side, but he refuses and sets out to rescue the original versions of his friends, ultimately blasting the impostors back into space.
Name and role: Bugs takes on the role of the audience's voice. He hates the changes his friends have undergone, this forced sweetness, this inability to think and act like true Looney Tunes. He fully embodies the frustration of the animators behind the short, voicing their feelings about the flattening of character, the loss of mischief, and the erasure of that anarchic spark that once defined the Looney world.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the theme of characters versus creators include Duck Amuck (1953) and Rabbit Rampage (1955).
Release date: 1992-02-01
Plot: In this adventure, Bugs Bunny discovers that his friends Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Daffy Duck have been replaced by poorly drawn, overly friendly clones created by alien carrots from outer space. These clones try to recruit Bugs to their side, but he refuses and sets out to rescue the original versions of his friends, ultimately blasting the impostors back into space.
Name and role: Bugs takes on the role of the audience's voice. He hates the changes his friends have undergone, this forced sweetness, this inability to think and act like true Looney Tunes. He fully embodies the frustration of the animators behind the short, voicing their feelings about the flattening of character, the loss of mischief, and the erasure of that anarchic spark that once defined the Looney world.
Trivia and other appearances: Other shorts that explore the theme of characters versus creators include Duck Amuck (1953) and Rabbit Rampage (1955).