User Reviews

This was Wile E Coyote's third attempt to, as he explains in the opening, pursue, capture and eat Bugs Bunny -- and it was just as unsuccessful as his attempts to capture and eat ANYTHING!

To be honest, I don't think this episode is as funny as the first two in this shortened series ("To Hare Is Human" and the hilarious "Operation Rabbit").

Bugs is loonier than ever in this episode, but the pace is a bit slow, and there's not as much action as you normally expect to see in a Wile E Coyote cartoon.

That's not to say there aren't some funny gags in this short -- I especially laughed at Wile E's defective rifle, which Bugs manages to thwart by first, spinning the gun barrel -- and then removing the end sight so that the coyote doesn't know for sure which end is the "shooting end" (you'd think by now he'd know that the shooting end is whatever end is aimed at him!).

But some of the jokes are recycled ideas -- somehow Bugs screaming "YAHHHH" to send Wile E flying doesn't seem as funny as Road Runner's "meep meep". And the barbecued coyote's final words -- "my name is mud" -- are, of course, the same as he moaned at the end of "Operation Rabbit".

Overall, not bad -- but not the best.

Incidentally, this cartoon has no "Story" credit. Apparently, Michael Maltese -- who was director Chuck Jones' long-time partner on so many WB cartoons -- did write it, but by the time it was released, he'd left for Hanna-Barbera, and so his credit was removed -- as was producer John Q. Burton's.

'Rabbit's Feat' is a very odd cartoon for Chuck Jones, especially for the time (1960). It's nothing like any of his other Bugs Bunny toons and is an intentional throwback to the Tex Avery/Bob Clampett Bugs shorts from the early 40s.

The first big tip-off that this will not be a typical Jones- Bugs cartoon is when Wile E. sticks his head down into Bugs' rabbit hole and, unlike the four poster bed that Bugs usually sleeps in, Bugs is in a baby crib curled up in the fetal position, sucking his thumb.

Unlike the straight man or urbane smart-aleck that Jones usually preferred, this Bugs is outright wacky: suspending himself in mid-air before using his ears to corkscrew himself into his rabbit hole, planting huge smooches on Wile E. Coyote like he did in the older Elmer Fudd matchups, making surreal statements ("Daddy you're back from Peru!") and periodically screaming at the top of his lungs causing Wile E. to shoot up into the air.

He even uses a trademark Clampett-Bugs line "Agony! Aaa-go-neee!".

All-in-all a great cartoon and a real change of pace for Chuck Jones.

. . . or "By any means necessary" to we Americans of (The Then) Far Future is this offering from their Animated Shorts Seers (aka, The Looney Tuners), RABBIT'S FEAT. Warner was so insistent upon the urgent nature of this particular warning that they pumped the normally taciturn (if not mute) "Wile E. Coyote" full of dialog so that the clairvoyant cartoonists could convey their clarion Prophecy of Doom in with crystal clarity. Early in this episode "Bugs Bunny" makes the seemingly senseless remark "Daddy, you're back from Peru!" and kisses Wile on his snout. Since "Peru" recently has been used as a Secret Service Code Word for the U.S. Supreme Court, this sentence and its accompanying action obviously are telegraphing this week's rigged "retirement" of "Tony Kennedy," resulting in grave danger to LGBT-Q rights, as well as the female privacy safeguards against a HANDMAID'S TALE society built into the Roe vs. Wade precedent. What is Wile considering as a solution to this Present Day Threat? He mentions doing in the bad guy(s) with a "Rock Crusher" or a "Burmese Tiger Trap" (meaning leveraged resignations of the five Red Commie KGB justices, or this traitorous quintet's impeachment for High Treason). However, the rest of RABBIT'S FEAT (involving shot guns, dynamite, and hand grenades) spells out the multitude of possible tactics for implementing "The Third Way" (aka, five PELICAN BRIEFINGS).