анимационный «Дикий кролик»

Perhaps no animated cartoon in history has had such a great impact on one cartoon series. This one film, with a rabbit character designed by Charles Thorson and still officially unnamed (It was said that Tex Avery wanted to name him «Jack E. Rabbit») had an impact that would spark the golden age of Warner Bros. animation. The basic plot of this cartoon would be re-used and re-formulated and parodied and twisted dozens of times throughout the run of Bugs Bunny cartoons. Tex Avery paired his new rabbit with Chuck Jones' Elmer Fudd in a rabbit hunt cartoon, except this time he wanted the rabbit to be totally rude, irreverent, nutty but calm at the same time. Elmer goes hunting for «Wabbits», finds Bugs, gets repeatedly tricked and tormented, and runs away crying «wabbits! wabbits! wabbits! wahhhahahaha!» Several familiar routines originate here: the lines «Be Vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits» and «What's Up, Doc?» the «does he have long furry ears and hop around like this?!» routine, the fake death scene, and the triumphant ending for Bugs (this time acting as a yankee doodle flute player on his carrot!) It was so popular with audiences that more rabbit cartoons were requested, and within the next three years (1941-42) Bugs Bunny was born and on his way to becoming perhaps history's most enduring cartoon character.