Bugs Cocotte and Confit Daffy: Difference between revisions

▲Looney Tunes

▲Product of Warner Bros.

▲20/06/2014

▲From 1964-1967, DePatie-Freleng productions were contracted by Warner Bros to produce some Looney Tunes shorts due to their success with Pink Panther. Lasting for only around three years with most episodes featuring Daffy Duck quarreling with Speedy Gonzales, it's not very difficult to think that DePatie-Freleng's take on the Looney Tunes had little success and was taken off the air. Actually, as a little kid, I always felt a Looney Tunes episode was going to flunk whenever a DePatie-Freleng style logo of WB pops up at the beginning with the rather off tone Looney Tunes theme. Remembering those shorts today, I don't really feel that bothered by them, until this happened.

▲Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson, the guys behind DePatie-Freleng series one day got bored and decided to screw about with the viewers by making a lost episode... Which I found the tape of in in a broken down sewage system when I was taking a walk in the country side decades after it was canceled. What I found was, well, retarded, to say the least, with a sick twist.

▲The episode started with its typical DePatie-Freleng opening. But the theme music "Mary-Go-Round Broke Down!" Was played backwards, it's tone growing deeper and deeper until the screen flashed bright red (or perhaps pink if you will) and the logo turned into a red, bloody mess of guts and a decapitated head of Tweety Bird (well, I never really cared about that Canary anyway, but what's the point?) with his/her spinal chord (which seemed to look like real bones) and end trails (that also looked too realistic to be animated) dangling out and cut and paste photos of human bloodshot eyes on Tweety's face. This was only for around one tenth of a second and I later had to get the tape out and shine a flashlight through the transparent frames to figure out what the Hell I just saw after watching the video... It wasted my time.

▲So I thought little of it as the title of the episode pops up saying "Bugs a La Cocotte and Confit de Daffy" with photos of cooked rabbit and duck below in a black and bloodstained background. It looked like a preschooler did the job as it was poorly organized and was in really bad condition, with the blood looking a bit out of place. Then, the cartoon starts.

▲It starts off with your typical classic Bugs Bunny vs Daffy Duck vs Elmer Fudd short with Fudd tip-toeing in the woods, but the screen was messy and there was a constant static noise buzzing throughout as Fudd says his catchphrase "Shh, be very, very quiet, I'm hunting Wabbits! Hahahahaha!" The scene pans across thousands of posters saying "Rabbit Season" being slapped on all the trees, most of them covering posters saying "Duck Season". 

▲Well, no prizes for guessing, It turns out Daffy is hammering the Rabbit Season posters all over the place, yet his face is pasted with cut out photos of blood shot human eyes that seem to be smothered in black markers around them and shark teeth running across his beak... Uhh, so he's supposed to be angry or something?... Bugs Bunny shows up with... What the Hell, the same thing I said with what's on Daffy's face also slapped on his... Ok, so I'm guessing the two seem to be baring a bigger grudge on each other than usual?

▲Elmer Fudd arrives and points his... cut out photo of a rotary-cannon, slapped over the usual elephant gun Fudd is supposed to be holding, at Bugs and Daffy. The build up for the slapstick starts off normally with Bugs and Daffy arguing over which hunting season is it, yet the both of them sounding like someone was choking on splintered wood as if attempting to sound furious and demonic. Then, the two grab Fudd's cut-out rotary cannon photo and start shooting each other while wrestling over the gun, pulling the trigger and firing through the brawl.

▲I starts off harmlessly cartoonish with the typical smoky faces, but then the firing started to actually pierce through Bugs and Daffy's skin and it seems that someone in the animation studio spilled red wine all over to make an attempt to make you think they are bleeding. The shooting continues through the majority of the short, perhaps around five or six minutes, as the bullets from the gun start to tear through flesh and reveal muscle tissue, veins and intestines. Then, the insides are shredded away to reveal the bones as Bugs and Daffy have become blood-soaked skeletons still fighting over the gun to kill one another. Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson must really seem to hate kids to animate such a knife into you're childhood to come up with this trash or they must have been drunk.

▲As Juvenal and retarded as it is, this particular section of tape has some of the most random cut outs. As you watch the sloppy animation, the tape keeps randomly jittering and cutting to stills of bloody mammalian and avian fetuses, each still showing them being grind further and further into a pulp... I really have nothing to comment for that schlock.

▲Finally, the mauling stops as what ever is left of Bugs and Daffy collapse into a gushy pile of red glop. Elmer Fudd gawks at the mess, trying to figure out what the Hell he just witnessed. He then felt a bit hungry and thought to himself "I don't know what's coming over me right now. I'm only hunting for sport, but I can't help but feel this is a waste of such good food!" And he prepares to eat the two corpses with his bare hands.

▲The short ends with credits, backwards "Mary-Go-Round Broke Down!" music and the logo of a headless Porky Pig bursting through the drum (with an inverted pentagram drawn on it) to say "(the sound of inners gushing out of the neck trying to say "Blee-Blee-Blee, That's all folks!")". The animation on Porky was sort of that stop-motion cut-out paper animation like in South Park, but like the Tweety head in the beginning, there was a realistic spinal chord and end trails placed on top.