(Blooper) Bunny

(Blooper) Bunny is a Merrie Melodies animated short film directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon, with music by George Daugherty, produced in 1991[1] by Warner Bros.

Featuring the voice talents of Jeff Bergman, Gordon Hunt,[2] and Russell Calabrese,[3] the short is a parody of some of the specials produced for Bugs Bunny's 50th anniversary the previous year.

The idea of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam acting friendly while being filmed but being their adversarial selves off-camera was done as a critical jab toward the executives at Warner Bros. for their handling of the characters at the time (marketing them in the vein of Disney).

[6][10] The first "backstage" scene in the film, a sequence that goes on for nearly a minute and a half without a cut, is, according to Ford, one of the single longest uninterrupted shots ever attempted in animated cartoons.

[10] Midway through the film, there is also a deliberate homage to the "Hunting Trilogy" made popular by Chuck Jones, of whom Ford reportedly holds great admiration.

It is featured on disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 DVD, as of 2003[update], along with an optional audio commentary by co-director Greg Ford.

Chicago Reader also gave the film a positive mention, saying: Much of what's funny about Blooper Bunny is the temperament of the aging cast: Bugs rehearsing his opening line, "Gosh, I'm so unimportant," over and over; Elmer still trying to grow hair with tonic; Daffy insanely jealous about being upstaged and threatening to have "my people" talk to "your people"; and Sam grouchily declaring as he's being forklifted onstage that he couldn't care less how old Bugs is — he still hates rabbits.Dawn Taylor in a mixed review for The DVD Journal, however, said: "it has some very funny moments, and falls completely flat in others.