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These images of Elmer Fudd's Acme "WOBOTIC PEST CONTWOLLER with EWECTRONIC BWAIN"
were contributed to us by
Brad White
of Edmonton, Canada. They are from
the 1953 Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoon called, ROBOT RABBIT,
which was directed by I. Freleng and written by Warren Foster
Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald, authors of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies:
A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Brothers Cartoons, 1989,
describe this particular cartoon:
"Farmer Fudd, peeved at carrot-thief Bugs, who not only has the temerity to loot
his carrot patch but intrudes on his vocalizing, becomes more incensed when the
business-as-usual Bunny fools him into thinking he's kicked the bucket.
"This is the wast stwa, wabbit!" Fudd says, phoning the ACME Pest Control service
for their "ewectwonic pest controller with a wobot bwain," which Fudd programs
with an illustration of the pest in question, commanding it, "Go get that wong-eared
wascal, Mr. Wobot!" When Bugs realizes the "fugitive from a Stanley Steamer" is going to
cause him "no end of trouble" (it actually lands a mechanical punch on the rabbit and
extracts him from his underground sanctuary), Bugs gets the "cigarette machine" to
rust by chasing it under Fudd's rotating water sprinkler. He then unveils his latest
drag variation, an antique stove, with lipstick and bucket-head turning him into a
robotess, exciting the male of the species, who presents him with a box of assorted nuts
(metal ones) whilst Bugs throws a monkey wrench into his machinery.
Finally, Bugs gets "old tin pants" to chase him through a piled-river on a construction site.
Fudd wonders aloud how his robot is making out and Bugs answers his questions with a
bucket of bolts. "You know, someday these scientists are gonna invent something
that will outsmart a rabbit." "
Still image of a frame.
{Added on Feb. 1, 1998}
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