Rabbit Seasoning

(1952)

Starring Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck
Elmer Fudd
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Michael Maltese

Premise

The one in which Bugs and Daffy get into pronoun trouble over who Elmer should shoot now (or when he gets home). The second in the Jones-Maltese “Hunting Trilogy.”

Quotes

Bugs: Would you like to shoot me now or wait till you get home?

Daffy: Shoot him now! Shoot him now!

Bugs: You keep outta this! He doesn’t have to shoot you now!

Daffy: He does so have to shoot me now! I demand that you shoot me now!

Daffy: Let’s run through that again.

Bugs: Okay!

Daffy: HAH! That’s it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble.

Daffy: It’s not “He doesn’t have to shoot you now.” It’s: “He doesn’t have to shoot me now.” Well, I say he does have to shoot me now. So shoot me now!

Daffy: (points a finger in Bugs’ face, bill open to speak)

Bugs: Yayes?

Daffy: (lowers his finger, shuts his bill) Oh, no you don’t. Not again. Sorry.

Daffy: This time we’ll try it from the other end.

Daffy: Look. You’re a hunter, right?.

Elmer: Wight!

Daffy: And this is rabbit season. Right?

Elmer: Wight!

Bugs: And he was a rabbit, what would you do?

Daffy: Yeah, you’re so smart. If I was a rabbit what would you do?

Elmer: Well, I’d—

Daffy: Not again.

Bugs: Take a peek up and see if he’s still around.

Daffy: Right-O.

(Daffy sticks his head out of the hole, is shot, comes back down.)

Bugs: Is he still dere?

Daffy: Still lurking about.

Bugs: I tell you what. You go up and act as a decoy and lure him away.

Daffy: No more for me thanks, I’m driving.

Daffy: Out of sheer honesty, I demand that you tell him who you are! Well? Haven’t you anything to say? Anything? Out of sheer honesty? Huh?

Daffy: Now’s your chance, Hawkeye! Shoot him! Shoot him!

Daffy: You’re despicable.

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