Bugs Bunny Ooh Im Dying Again
"Pardon me, but could y'all help out a boyfriend American who's downward on his luck?"
—Humphrey Bogart to Bugs Bunny, repeatedly
8 Ball Bunny is a 1950 Chuck Jones cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and is the second of two appearances of Playboy the Penguin (the first beingness Frigid Hare).
The drawing starts with the Water ice Frolics skating show packing up and leaving subsequently a run at the Brooklyn Ice Palace, accidentally leaving backside their star attraction, Playboy the Penguin. He tries to follow the trucks, just slips downwardly a hill and falls into Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, waking him up. Bugs is bellyaching at Playboy disturbing his rest, just he quickly apologizes when he realizes Playboy is lost, and offers to help him find his mode home, reading a book and deducing that he has to accept him all the fashion to the South Pole.
And so begins an extended journey as they hop a freight train to New Orleans (fending off a hungry hobo who shows interest in eating one or both of them), where Bugs puts Playboy on what he thinks is a gunkhole to Antarctica but which turns out to be headed for Brooklyn. Later Bugs rescues Playboy from existence eaten for a 2nd fourth dimension, they swim to Martinique, where Playboy builds a boat that carries them to the Panama Culvert, from which they continue on pes across South America, dodging carnivorous tribes and crocodiles earlier finally crossing the Southern Body of water to Antarctica. But at that place's something Playboy hasn't told Bugs most himself...
Tropes:
- All for Nothing: Bugs does quite a lot of life-endangering efforts to take Playboy to the South Pole simply to discover that Playboy was supposed to go to Hoboken instead. notation For context, the duo started in Brooklyn; Hoboken is less than ten miles from in that location, only the other side of the Hudson River from downtown Manhattan. They could have gone in that location on foot in a thing of hours. Bugs has a nervous breakdown right then and there.
- Borrowed Catchphrase:
Bogart: Say, pardon me, Mac—
Bugs: Merely could yous help a swain American who's downwardly on his luck? - Bowdlerise: When the brusk aired on ABC, the part where Bugs and Playboy are captured by South American natives is edited to remove the part where 1 of the natives runs to warn the group of "Bwana" Humphrey Bogart coming and the group handful. The scene was replaced with a frozen shot of Bogart'due south feet while the sound of the group muttering and fleeing was heard.
- Captured by Cannibals: Bugs and Playboy are briefly captured and are most to exist cooked past a colony of cannibals, only they're scared off by Humphrey Bogart.
- Cry Cute: Playboy starts crying ice cubes when Bugs is nigh to leave him behind in the Southward Pole.
- Downer Catastrophe: Playboy is taken to the completely incorrect identify in the world, and Bugs loses his listen when he finds out. Information technology's Played for Laughs, though. And it's likely Bogart will take Playboy dorsum to Hoboken and become a advantage for his return.
- Get Mad from the Revelation: Bugs loses it when he realizes that Playboy Penguin was raised in captivity in Hoboken and his quest to take him to the South Pole was all for nothing.
- Hostile Hitchhiker: Bugs and Playboy hop on a cargo train and share the car with a hobo who decides to try to eat them both. Worse yet, the guy goes on a tangent about how eating Playboy is going to be a Mercy Kill, but when Bugs points out that a rabbit would exist a better meal, the hobo simply yells "I dear rabbits, also!" and blindly charges at Bugs.
- Instant Ice: Only Add Cold!: In a gag recycled from Frigid Hare, Playboy's tears turn into ice cubes at the Southward Pole.
- Joisey: Playboy was really born and raised in Hoboken.
Bugs: Hoboken!? Oooh, I'm dyin' once more!
- Meat-O-Vision: A starving Bugs sees Playboy as a roast craven.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: The recurring homo who asks Bugs for change is a caricature of actor Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.
- Offscreen Teleportation: Humphrey Bogart is somehow able to keep up with or stay ahead of Bugs and Playboy in their worldwide travels.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Playboy is adorable looking.
- Rule of 3: Humphrey Bogart randomly shows up at Bugs and Playboy's locations iii times. The first two times, he asks Bugs if he tin help "a fellow American who's down on his luck", and Bugs flips him a coin to get rid of him. The third time, Bugs asks Bogart if he can help a fellow American who's down on his luck before shoving Playboy into his hands and going Laughing Mad as he runs toward the horizon.
- Running Gag:
- Bugs saying "Oooh, I'chiliad dyin'!" after discovering how far he has to take Playboy to render him habitation.
- Humphrey Bogart popping upward to enquire Bugs Bunny for spare change.
Bogart: Say, pardon me, just could you help a fellow American who's down on his luck?
- Sanity Slippage: The normally cool and collected Bugs Bunny is reduced to a raving lunatic in the terminate when he realizes his efforts were all in vain.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Later swearing he would help Playboy get home (after regretting making him cry), he finds out that penguins come up from the Southward Pole ("Due south Pole?! Ooh, I'1000 dyin'!"). He tries to help Playboy to the Antarctic, going through hell and high water to do so, only to notice out when he finally gets there that this was a domesticated performing penguin who lived in Hoboken ("Hoboken?! Ooh, I'm dyin' again!"), and he merely dragged him several thousand miles for naught.
- Short Cuts Brand Long Delays: Afterward Bugs and Playboy are captured past a native tribe in the Southward American jungle and put into a giant pot to cook, Bugs glares at Playboy and mutters, "You and your short cuts!"
- Shout-Out:
- The ship Bugs puts Playboy on is called Admiral Byrd, a reference to the real-life Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr.
- Humphrey Bogart'southward appearances are based on his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and more than specifically on the opening sequence in which he begs for spare change from the aforementioned person (a cameo by the film's director, John Huston) three times.
- The Speechless: Playboy has no dialogue at all.
- Spit Have: When Bugs and Playboy make it in New Orleans, Playboy is loaded onto the Admiral Byrd, which Bugs assumes is bound for Antarctica. Every bit he relaxes at an outdoor cafe with a glass of carrot juice and says he might stay on for "the Madree Grass", two sailors at a nearby table comment on the departure of the Admiral Byrd, bound for Brooklyn... notation Ironically, since Playboy was raised in captivity in Hoboken, he would have been about home upon inflow in Brooklyn.
Bugs: [spits out his mouthful of carrot juice and coughs and splutters for a moment] BROOKLYN!?
- Stewed Alive: Bugs and Playboy are caught by natives and put in a pot.
- Tastes Like Chicken: The hobo who tries to eat Playboy says that "penguins is practically chickens".
- Travel Montage: As Bugs and Playboy make their mode to the Due south Pole. Initially, we simply come across a line being fatigued downward the length of South America, but when information technology reaches the foothills of the Andes, information technology stops and turns around, resulting in the carnivorous tribe scene. When the montage resumes, the line on the map is superimposed over scenes of Bugs and Playboy swinging through the jungle on vines, pond abroad from a crocodile, climbing a mountain, and crossing the Southern ocean in a tiny boat.
- Twist Ending: Playboy turns out to have been raised in captivity and wasn't born in the South Pole.
Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/EightBallBunny