Review of What's Cookin' Doc?

Well, having just seen all the 1941 Oscar nominees for Best Short Subject, Cartoon, I can now understand why that clip for Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt was shown in this one since this is one in which Bugs Bunny campaigns for the Academy Award. See, in this short Bugs believes he'll win one saying, "It's in the bag" nonchalantly but instead, it's given to James Cagney (this was the period in which he won Best Actor for Yankee Doodle Dandy). Never mind there's no way Bugs would be in that category, he still wants his Oscar so to demonstrate his worthiness, he shows a clip from that cartoon (retitled Little Hiawatha) I mentioned earlier in my review, which was directed by Friz Freleng and which lost to Clyde Geronimi's Lend a Paw starring Pluto and Mickey Mouse, and then does all the pandering to his audience to get it. "Shall we give it to him?" asks one audience member in a voice Mel Blanc would later use for Marvin the Martian. "Yeah, let's give it to him!" roars his fellow audience members. I don't want to reveal what happens after that so I'll just say I also loved the live-action beginning footage, the narration, and Bob Clampett's direction and most of Bob McKimson's animation. So that's a high recommendation of this short. By the way, Bugs would eventually get his Oscar when his 1958 short Knighty Knight Bugs got it. I'll review that and the other two nominees that year next...