Bugs' Bonnets
Bugs' Bonnets
| 14 January 1956 (USA)
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A passing truck spills a variety of hats, causing Elmer and Bugs to change personalities in rapid succession to fit the headgear they wind up wearing.

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Incannerax

What a waste of my time!!!

Supelice

Dreadfully Boring

Stephanie

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

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Sarita Rafferty

There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

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Edgar Allan Pooh

. . . America realizes that changing one's sex (for Transgendered Folks), sexual orientation (for Bisexual Folks), or sexual special preferences (for Bestial Folks) needs to be as easy, simple, and judgment-free as changing your socks. That chief instigator of American Social Change, Warner Bros. Studio, realized all of this at least as early as the 1930s, and labored tirelessly to lobby both overtly and on a more subliminal level toward sometimes prodding but mostly dragging an often kicking-and-screaming nation down the path toward the vast smörgåsbord of sexual options that we enjoy today, particularly with its Looney Tunes animated shorts division. BUGS' BONNETS delivers this message in spades, as it closes with groom Bugs Bunny carrying his virginal white wedding-dressed bride Elmer Fudd toward some distant threshold. As the candy ad for Almond Joy and Mounds Bars states, "Sometimes you want to have nuts, sometimes you don't." BUGS' BONNETS also illustrates Warner's firm belief, depicted in many of its feature films, as well, that crook or cop, friend or foe, hero or heel is all a matter of perspective. Every American alternates between each of these roles, depending only upon which hat they're wearing at a given moment.

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Mightyzebra

"Bugs' Bonnets" begins as a psychological study on the different clothes that people wear and it gives examples of how the same person can change if he or she wears different outfits (which is not the case in real life). When Elmer Fudd is chasing Bugs Bunny in the woods, a van containing various hats, driving on a bridge above the pair, has its doors broken open and the hats and outfits fall out. Throughout the episode Bugs and Elmer wear different hats and change their personalities and roles dramatically throughout the episode.I do not know if anyone else noticed (if you watched the episode) but this episode reminded me of the sort of activities one does in drama, changing your personality completely just to sort an outfit. A bit like the reviewer Lee Eisenberg with his random theories, it may have only occurred to me and not to anyone else...Anyway, here is a list of the good things about this Bugs Bunny + Elmer Fudd episode: 1. The idea is a clever and amusing one and is used well in the cartoon. 2. The "base" characters are good in this episode and the "added" characters are also very well done and amusing. 3. The cartoon opens and ends well, parts of episodes I feel can very often be patchy in a Looney Tunes cartoon. 4. The back-ground animation is very good, the character animation could be better, but it is not an issue in this episode. 5. The music was well done and often changed dramatically in this cartoon, which I liked.If there was anything I did not like so much about the episode, it was the quickness of some of the character changes, the unnecessary pauses between some of the character changes and the slightly racist point where Bugs Bunny starts shooting Elmer Fudd as soon as Bugs is wearing Native American costume (I thought Americans had gone a bit better about that by the mid 1950's, but maybe I was mistaken).I recommend this episode to any fan of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoons, to people who enjoy Looney Tunes in general and to people who love quick-changing personalities in a cartoon.

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Lee Eisenberg

Chuck Jones's "Bugs' Bonnets" mostly looks like a place holder, but they have some really neat tricks up their sleeve! Even beyond Bugs's and Elmer's changing personalities as they wear new hats, one has to wonder whether or not one's attire - or just head-wear - could alter the person in question, as happens to the stars here.But let's not dwell on philosophical analysis. The point is that this is another funny one, with a real surprise ending. Definitely one that you'll want to watch. It only just became available on DVD a few weeks ago, on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.Yeah, corrupt cops do some real damage to our society. After all, they let the mafia get strong.

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Akbar Shahzad (rapt0r_claw-1)

This cartoon is fantastic, to say the least. It had me laughing constantly through its seven minutes of pure entertainment. The animation is brilliant, and the expressions are unbelievable. Shame that it's really very obscure. The ending and Bugs's transformation into a gangster are stupendous, and an interesting plot only makes it better. Surprising that it was written by Tedd Pierce and not Michael Maltese, who seems to have written all of Jones's best cartoons. Fantastic stuff! Very highly recommended.

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