In my youth, the days of local syndication, I returned home from school every day to two hours of classic cartoons: Woody Woodpecker, the sometimes inexplicable DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther, and my fave-rave, Tom & Jerry. Of course, as any Poll Of The Week or MS-QOTD will tell you, the undisputed champeen of those original theatre shorts is Bugs Bunny, the wise-crackin’ Noo Yawk-accented lagomorph with the dry wit and understated delivery… Pitted against mobsters, against aliens, against Elmer; he prevails. Indeed, even when Cecil Turtle managed to put a couple over on him, we still loved seeing the best of the bunny, leading us to today’s carrot-munching query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) has a particular love for ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’, but my fave-rave will always be ‘Rabbit Rampage,’ pitting Bugs against the one person who can outdo him: The animator of the cartoon, asking: What cartoon outing constitutes the BEST of Bugs Bunny?
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Hands down, “What’s Opera, Doc?”
Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!
Damn it beat me to it.