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Easter Yeggs

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Easter Yeggs
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Directed byRobert McKimson
Story byWarren Foster
StarringMel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan[1]
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byCharles McKimson
Richard Bickenbach
I. Ellis
Fred Abranz (unc.)
Anatole Kirsanoff (unc.)[2]
Layouts byCornett Wood
Backgrounds byRichard H. Thomas
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • June 28, 1947 (1947-06-28)
Running time
7:16
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Easter Yeggs is a 1947 Looney Tunes theatrical animated short.[3] The cartoon was released on June 28, 1947, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.[4] The title is a play on "Easter eggs" and on "yegg", a slang term for a burglar or safecracker. The voice and characterization of the Easter Bunny in the short is a reference to a character that Mel Blanc performed on the Burns and Allen radio show, the morose Happy Postman, even including the character's catch phrase, "Remember, keep smiling."[5]

Plot

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While reading How to Multiply, Bugs overhears moaning that turns out to be a depressed Easter Bunny, who tricks Bugs into filling in for him (a trick the Easter Bunny plays on unsuspecting rabbits every year). Initially, Bugs accepts the job with pleasure, which quickly evaporates when his encounter with a Dead End Kid (and his gun-toting caretakers), who delights in demolishing Easter eggs, sours him on the task. The Easter Bunny sends a now-angry Bugs toward Elmer Fudd, who has set a trap hoping to cook the Easter Bunny for "Easter rabbit stew." Thus commences the classic chase and gags until Bugs is finally able to stop Elmer by painting Elmer's head like an Easter egg and unleashing the Dead End Kid on him.

A disappointed Easter Bunny picks up a large egg Bugs dropped, which is actually a bomb. Bugs lights the fuse and the bomb explodes, propelling the Easter Bunny into a tree. Bugs looks up and, with triumphant schadenfreude, reminds the Easter Bunny of his own instruction: "Remember, keep smiling!"`

Reception

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Comic book and animation writer Earl Kress writes, "Daffy Doodles, Robert McKimson's directorial debut, and Easter Yeggs are the director's very best... There are plenty of gags and nice pacing here that make this cartoon one of my favorites."[6]

Home media

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Easter Yeggs is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD box set[7] and on Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 Blu-ray set.

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Robert McKimson's "Easter Yeggs" (1947) Starring Bugs Bunny | https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/robert-mckimsons-easter-yeggs-1947-starring-bugs-bunny/". {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ↑ "Robert McKimson's "Easter Yeggs" (1947) Starring Bugs Bunny | https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/robert-mckimsons-easter-yeggs-1947-starring-bugs-bunny/". {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 177. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  4. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  5. ↑ "Robert McKimson's "Easter Yeggs" (1947) Starring Bugs Bunny |".
  6. ↑ Beck, Jerry, ed. (2020). The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Insight Editions. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-64722-137-9.
  7. ↑ "Looney Tunes Golden Collection - Volume 3 - The Internet Animation Database". www.intanibase.com. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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