Southern Fried Rabbit
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Yosemite Sam doesn't realize that the Civil War is over, so he tries to keep Bugs from crossing the Mason-Dixon line.
Characters
Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Isadore Freleng (as I. Freleng)
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Warren Foster
Animation
- Animator
- Art Davis, Manuel Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam)
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Crew
- Layouts
- Hawley Pratt
- Backgrounds
- Irv Wyner
Production notes
A scene in which Bugs appears in blackface as a slave has been cut from TV prints.
Bugs does not say "What's up, Doc" in this cartoon.
Bugs does not say "What's up, Doc" in this cartoon.
Pictures
Reviews
Southern Fried Rabbit
I'm probably mellowing too much as I get older, but I'm FINALLY willing to extend the unbroken string of great Bugs-Yosemite encounters (1945-52) to include this film.......what got me in my most recent viewing was the number of time Bugs changes disguises to keep ahead of Sam.
And the banjo-playing slave scene (in which Bugs quickly turns into Abe Lincoln) is an all-time classic.
Southern Fried Rabbit
Interestingly, Here in England, the Boomerang channel have just broadcast this cartoon and included the 'blackface' scene in full. I wonder if this was a mistake?
Southern Fried Rabbit
It's too bad that Virgil Ross did some of his best work in the scene where Bugs does blackface. All the P.C. Nazis would like to rip that scene out and burn it. However, that still doesn't stop it from being a great cartoon.