Hot Cross Bunny

Hot Cross Bunny
Hot Cross Bunny
	"That was me good deed for the day!"
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Story by	Warren Foster
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Starring	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Manny Gould; Charles McKimson; Phil DeLara; I. Ellis (unc.); Anatolle Kirsanoff (unc.); Fred Abranz (unc.)
Layouts by	Cornett Wood
Backgrounds by	Richard H. Thomas
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	August 21, 1948;
Running time	7 minutes 11 seconds
Country	United States
Language	English

Hot Cross Bunny is a 1948 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies theatrical animated short.^[1] The short was released on August 21, 1948, and features Bugs Bunny.^[2] The title is a play on the nursery rhyme Hot Cross Buns as well as a punny allusion to the basic plot premise.

Plot[edit]

Bugs is "Experimental Rabbit #46" in the Eureka Hospital Experimental Laboratory, Paul Revere Foundation. Bugs lives a pampered life, oblivious to the fact that a scientist plans on switching his brain with that of a chicken.

After giving Bugs an examination, the scientist brings him out to the operating theater, in front of an audience of fellow doctors. Bugs thinks he's been brought out to perform. Upon finishing each act, he looks around to see the unimpressed, stern-faced doctors in exactly the same frame position each time. When he learns the scientist's intentions, Bugs runs and a chase ensues.

Finally, Bugs is rendered helpless with laughing gas and placed on the table, with metallic mind-switching caps placed on him and the rather uninterested-looking chicken. At the last minute, he switches the electrodes and the scientist ends up clucking like a chicken, while the chicken (with the scientist's mind) states in plain English he hopes that the experiment can be reversed.

Home media[edit]

VHS/DVD: Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny (Unrestored)
DVD/Blu-Ray: Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Unrestored, as a bonus feature)
Blu-Ray: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection (Restored, with the original opening and ending titles)
Streaming: HBO Max (Restored, with the original opening and ending titles)

References[edit]

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 188. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60-61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

External links[edit]

Hot Cross Bunny at IMDb

Preceded by Haredevil Hare	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1948	Succeeded by Hare Splitter

[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 188. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60-61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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