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1952. Approved. 7m. IMDb RATING. 7.9 /10. 1.5K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Animation Short Adventure. Wile E. Coyote set up an elaborate scientific contraption to trap Bugs. Director. Chuck Jones. Writer. Michael Maltese. Star. Mel Blanc. See production info at IMDbPro. RENT/BUY. search Amazon. Add to Watchlist. 22 User reviews. 1 Critic review. Photos 6.
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Operation: Rabbit is a 1952 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.
Wile E. Coyote runs up to Bugs Bunny's hole and erects a door. He knocks on the door and Bugs opens it, saying his usual line, "What's up, doc?" The Coyote advises Bugs of he being a rabbit and himself a genius, and he will eat Bugs and he is faster, bigger and smarter than him, even berating Bugs for his stupidity by claiming that the rabbit "could hardly enter the entrance examinations to kindergarten". Bugs, unimpressed, says "I'm sorry mac, the lady of the house ain't home. And besides, we mailed you people a check last week." and rudely slams the door right in his face. The Coyote leaves with the door, asking himself, "Why do they always want to do it the hard way?"
At his cave hideout, the Coyote's first plan follows: he makes one thermal tamp and takes a cook book and ingredients for preparing "Rabbit stew" in the rabbit's hole. Bugs, in another hole, looks at his work and asks him what he is preparing. The Coyote says the hole has a rabbit inside, but it does not. He looks into the hole and Bugs kicks him and traps him in the hole. He picks up a bat, goes back down the second hole, and clobbers the Coyote at the other hole, prompting the Coyote to remark, "Well, back to the old drawing board."
The Coyote prepares a second plan: the use of a chute for shooting a cannonball in Bugs's hole. As he drafts out the plan, a mechanical lump massager is on the bump on Coyote's head from the previous plan. After the ball arrives in the hole via the chute from a cannon, Bugs uses a second chute for returning the ball to the Coyote, which explodes right at the Coyote. The Coyote returns to his cave along with the blown-out pipes.
As the Coyote drafts his upcoming third plan, Bugs goes to the Coyote's cave to sign what appears to be a will. Bugs claims he's giving up, but needs a witness for his will, and that he finally surrenders to the Coyote's super-intelligence. He proffers the will for the Coyote to sign and one "pen", actually a lit stick of TNT with which to sign it. Coyote realizes this and extinguishes the fuse, asiding that that was "a rather amateurish" move on Bugs' part. While gloating about his intellect, Coyote fails to see the other side of the TNT stick has a lit fuse, and it promptly explodes in his face.
The Coyote builds one explosive lady rabbit to send to Bugs' residence. Just after he activates it, the Coyote encounters one coyote lady, over whom he swoons. The female coyote is also an explosive robot, which Bugs detonates. Coyote is charred, singing to himself "Here comes the bride". He returns to his senses when he sees the time bomb on the lady rabbit is about to detonate. He grabs the robot to throw it out his window, but fails to make it in time, and it detonates on him.
The Coyote makes an exploding bird-hunting disc, usually used for road runners, mice, and rabbits, with a "hunter options" mechanism. The disc flies to Bugs's hole and encounters Bugs disguised as a chicken, who writes "Coyote" on the "hunter options" mechanism, twisting the dial to the new target. The disc returns to Coyote's home, blowing up not only Coyote's home, but the whole mountain.
•Bugs Bunny: What's up, doc?
•Wile E. Coyote: Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, genius. I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college, so let's get down to basics: you are a rabbit and I am going to eat you for supper. Now don't try to get away, I am more muscular, more cunning, faster and larger than you are and I am a genius, while you could hardly pass the entrance examinations to kindergarten, so I'm going to give you the customary two minutes to say your prayers.
Bugs Bunny: Sorry, Mac, the lady of the house ain't home and besides, we mailed you people a check last week.
•Wile E. Coyote: Why do they always want to do it the hard way?
•Bugs Bunny: (singing) I'm looking over a three-leaf clover that I overlooked be-three...
•Bugs Bunny: I have come to give myself up, on account of I cannot compete no more against such genius.
•This short was used in The Bugs Bunny Road-Runner Movie and The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, both instances edited for time. In the former, when introducing the short, Bugs states that compared to Elmer Fudd, who hunts because he's a sportsman, Wile E. goes hunting because he's really hungry. Prior to the short being used in Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, Coyote is in his residence sitting in his armchair. He hears a radio announcement of how Bugs Bunny is a national fugitive. When the DJ says "A reward has been offered; eaten or alive". When Coyote hears the words "eaten", he tracks down Bugs with the intent of making him his next meal.
•This is Wile E. Coyote's (following 1949's "Fast and Furry-ous") second appearance. This is the first in which he is given a name and the first in which the he speaks. His voice, like Bugs', was provided by Mel Blanc, albeit with a smooth, upper-class accent, in contrast to Bugs' Bronx-Brooklyn city slicker accent.
•Wile E. would unsuccessfully attempt to catch and eat Bugs Bunny four more times: "To Hare Is Human" (1956), "Rabbit's Feat" (1960), "Compressed Hare" (1961) and "Hare-Breadth Hurry" (1963). After the classic shorts, Wile E. would be pitted against Bugs Bunny (and talks) once more in Season 1 of New Looney Tunes.
•Wile E.'s eyebrows are brown in this cartoon, unlike other cartoons where they are cream-colored like his jaw and chest. Also, beginning from this cartoon, Wile E. is redesigned to be taller in height and thinner in physique with a more refined look, in contrast to his shorter height and scruffier appearance in his debut cartoon three years earlier.
•The scene where Wile E. introduces himself to Bugs was used as a bumper for Cartoon Network, with the 1992-2004 CN logo in place of Wile E.'s name courtesy of digital editing.
•The gag where Bugs gives the Coyote a pen in the form of a TNT stick was previously used in "Long-Haired Hare" (1949), except that Bugs' victim is Giovanni Jones instead of Wile E., and Bugs did cross-dress in that scene unlike this cartoon (in fact, Bugs did not cross-dress in drag in any of the Bugs/Wile E. cartoons at all).
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Plot. Wile E. Coyote endeavors to capture Bugs Bunny. At first, Coyote's audacious declaration of superiority over Bugs, touting his intellect and physical prowess. Despite Coyote's bravado, Bugs remains unfazed, deploying his quick wit to outsmart his adversary at every turn.
Operation: Rabbit is the two hundred and ninety-sixth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 19, 1952. It was written by Michael Maltese, and directed by Chuck Jones .
Directed by. Charles M. Jones. Uncredited Producer. Eddie Selzer. Story. Michael Maltese. Animation. Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam Ken Harris Phil Monroe. Layouts. Robert Gribbroek. Backgrounds. Philip DeGuard. Uncredited Film Editor. Treg Brown. Voice Characterizations. Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote) Musical Direction. Carl Stalling. MPAA No.:
Summaries. Wile E. Coyote set up an elaborate scientific contraption to trap Bugs. Wile E. Coyote, nemesis of the Road Runner, makes the first of several attempts to use Bugs Bunny to satisfy both his craving for food and his mental craving for the thrill of capturing some helpless desert animal with an elaborate scientific contraption. — Anonymous
Year: 1952. Original title: Looney Tunes: Operation: Rabbit. Synopsis: Wile E. Coyote, nemesis of the Road Runner, makes the first of several attempts to use Bugs Bunny to satisfy both his craving for food and his mental craving for the thrill of capturing some helpless ...You can watch Operation: Rabbit (S) through on the platforms:
