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Absolutely Brilliant!

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

" . . . children!" Bugs Bunny scolds Witch Hazel near the beginning of the Warner Bros. seven-minute Looney Tune, BEWITCHED BUNNY. "Call it a weakness," Hazel replies, without an ounce of compunction. Since this animated short hit the Big Screen, video stores, and You Tube, countless American kiddies have been cooked to death in Real Life stoves, microwaves, and (in at least one case), scrap metal smelters. Demographers estimate the U.S. population would have topped 400 million by now if not for the Satanic Subliminal Suggestions imprinted upon our brains by BEWITCHED BUNNY and other similar Looney Tunes. Just take a gander at the index of Hazel's Recipe Book here: "Waif Waffles, Page 7; Moppet Muffins, Page 16; Urchin Pie, Page 23; Kiddie Kippers, Page 35; Children Chops, Page 37; and Smorgas Boy, Page 92 (we had a Powerball entry developing until that last page number). Of course, Warner Bros. won't consider Pop-Tarted Tots as being eligible for its infamous "Forbidden Eleven List," since a Tyke Truffle is nowhere near as bad as a cartoon that might hurt the Fweewings of one of America's Dictatorial Minority Group Members. You can have your fill of twisted sadism, but Heaven Forbid exposure to a possible slur!

Directed by the great Charles M. (Chuck) Jones, "Bewitched Bunny" is a brilliant Bugs Bunny cartoon that cleverly parodies the famous fairy tale of Hansel & Gretel. Let's face it: Walt Disney played his fairy tale cartoons straight, so the Warner Bros. fairy tale cartoons HAD to have a humorous slant to them! Here are, in my opinion, the funnier moments from "Bewitched Bunny" (DON'T read any further until after you've seen this cartoon). Hansel & Gretel are two pudgy little kids who only care about eating sweets; the way they excitedly speak to each other in their mock German accents, loudly declaring that their sweets are "gut" and "yummy", is quite hilarious, as is their belief later on that the witch's mother rides a vacuum cleaner. AND when Bugs - and later, Prince Charming - says to himself, "Hansel? Hansel?? HAN-sel?!", it's really funny, and I don't know why! "Bewitched Bunny" is a lovable cartoon, from the facial expressions of Bugs & Witch Hazel, to the vocal performances of Mel Blanc & Bea Benaderet, to the musical accompaniment of Carl Stalling. Catch this amusing fairy tale on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5 Disc 2.

In Witch Hazel's first appearance, she tempts Hansel (Hansel?) and Gretel into her house, only to have Bugs Bunny intervene; of course, he might be just as tasty. If absolutely nothing else, it's always great to see the various and sundry tricks that Bugs comes up with on the spot - always helped, natch, by the fact that any useful substance is immediately at hand. If "Bewitched Bunny" has any problem, it's that the cartoon sort of stereotypes Germans (the children have accents like the characters in "Fargo"). But no matter, this cartoon is purely a joke, and it's impossible not to like. I'd say that Witch Hazel, with her lovable cackling, did as much to advance the cause of witchcraft as Harry Potter or Samantha on "Bewitched". A real classic.

..and in an edited version-on VHS. Classic Chuck Jones directed short with REALLY funky backgrounds and one of the most hilarious quotes: "Ahh,Your mother rides a vacuum cleaner!!!" spoken by the Teutonic Twins with a glorious German accent! And let's not forget Bugs' "....Hansel?.....Hansel?". I wonder if I've ever seen the original uncut version of this classic short, since, like most of us who've only watched it on ABC's Saturday morning cartoon programs in the 70s-80s, the majority of these were chopped off because they were deemed "violent"...hmmm...I guess these censors were never informed that most of these WB shorts were made FOR and BY ADULTS, so , if kids got a kick out of it, even better!!!Should have been included in the Golden Collection DVDs.