Dennis Nyback Presents: Bad Bugs Bunny

65 min.

These politically very incorrect cartoons filled with racism, sexism and violence were mainstream fare in the Forties, and are guaranteed to offend a wide range of people.


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Hare Ribbin'

Director: 
Bob Clampett
 / 
United States, 1944
8 min.

Bugs is chased into a lake by a French Poodle who speaks with a thick French accent; the rest of the story unfolds under water.

Sioux Me

Director: 
Cal Dalton 
Ben Hardaway
 / 
United States, 1939
7 min.

An Indian reservation is suffering from drought. At the request of the Chief, the Rainmaker and his young assistant seek a solution.

He Was Her Man

Director: 
Friz Freleng
 / 
United States, 1936
7 min.

A poor, mistreated wife who has to bring all her money home to her lazy, shiftless husband is left by that one, because he found a new girl to hang on to. When she spots him with his new flame while she's singing torch songs in a cheap shanty, she tries to win him back, but that leads to a shoot out with an unusual result.

Let It Be Me

Director: 
Friz Freleng
 / 
United States, 1936
8 min.

Rooester Bingo, a popular radio crooner, takes a girl, to whom her boy-friend was just about to propose, for a ride to the city. But Bingo soon gets bored of her and when she makes a scene at a night club, he has her thrown out. Pennyless she's now struggling to survive in the big city. But her boyfriend hasn't forgotten her

Ali Baba Bound

Director: 
Bob Clampett
 / 
United States, 1940
7 min.

Porky finds out that Ali-Baba and his Dirty Sleeves plan to attack the fort

Tokio Jokio

Director: 
Norm McCabe
 / 
United States, 1943
1 min.

A "captured" Japanese newsreel. Civilian defense shows an aircraft spotter painting spots on aircraft and a fire prevention HQ that already burned down.

Wise Quackers

Director: 
Friz Freleng
 / 
United States, 1949
7 min.

After Daffy lands on Elmer's farm, he begs Elmer to take him as a slave to avoid being shot. Daffy tortures Elmer with his antics.

Student Film

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

Director: 
Friz Freleng
 / 
United States, 1944
8 min.

Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.

Tin Pan Alley Cats

Director: 
Bob Clampett
 / 
United States, 1943
7 min.

A jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club.

Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs

Director: 
Bob Clampett
 / 
United States, 1943
7 min.

So White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.