The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (originally titled The Great American Chase) is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. These cartoons, which also feature Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, and Pepe le Pew, include (in order):

• Hare-Way to the Stars
• Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
• Robin Hood Daffy
• Duck Amuck
• Bully For Bugs
• Ali Baba Bunny
• Rabbit Fire
• For Scent-imental Reasons
• Long-Haired Hare
• What's Opera, Doc?
• Operation: Rabbit

The cartoons are followed by a 15-minute compilation featuring the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, culled from 11 cartoons (*To Beep or Not to Beep, Zoom and Bored,, Hopalong Casualty, Whoa Be-Gone!, Ready..Set..Zoom!, There They Go-Go-Go, Gee Whizzz..., Going! Going! Gosh, Stop, Look, and Hasten, Beep Prepared, Fast and Furry-ous.).

The cartoons and bridging scenes were directed by Charles M. Jones, written by Michael Maltese, and backgrounds and animation contributed by Maurice Noble and Ben Washam.

A running gag is established at the film's beginning; Chuck Jones had put the "That's all folks!" card in the wrong place, which was right after the original 1970s Warner Bros. opening logo (replaced with a new WB logo on the DVD release) which Bugs corrects as "That's NOT all Folks!". This happens again at the end; That's all Folks! was being written again, but Bugs stops it and makes it rewrite as "That's not quite all Folks" before the credits roll. Right at the end, just before the 1970s Warner Bros. logo (or 2003 Warner Bros. Television logo on the DVD version), the same catchphrase appears but written as "That's really all Folks!". On top of the logo is Bugs, and he says, "Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds!"

External link

• The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie at the Internet Movie Database

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