Robot Rabbit

Robot Rabbit

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." "

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{Added on Feb. 1, 1998}

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