What a waste of my time!!!

A Disappointing Continuation

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

" . . . 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!

This is the first appearance of Witch Hazel in the Looney Tunes universe. Her voice is patterned after another character named "Witch Hazel" from the 1952 Donald Duck cartoon "Trick or Treat." Because the character was named after a household product, Disney did not have a copyright on the name. Jones originally wanted June Foray, who originated the voice for the Disney cartoon to do the voice for the Warner Brothers' Witch Hazel. At first she refused, thus Bea Benaderet (i.e.- "Kate" from PETTICOAT JUNCTION) is imitating June Foray's voice in this cartoon. One of the most notable things about this cartoon is Maurice Noble's crazy backgrounds, where the furniture seems to be painted onto the background with no rhyme of reason, thus the curtains and windows start on the ceiling and end on the wall and the end table with the lamp is painted on the wall sideways. Also note, Looney Tunes took a shot at everyone, this one includes German stereotypes, but as this cartoon was made just 9 years after the ordeal of WWII, I'm sure the Germans were still fair game in the minds of the Looney tunes writers.

..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.

This is one of the all-time classic Bugs Bunny Cartons. It is so funny, I find myself rolling on the floor with laughter every time that it is on. Witch Hazel is a scream. Look for it the next time Lonney Tunes are on.