Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (1976)

Original title

Carnival of the Animals

Directed by

Chuck Jones

Genre

animation, comedy, music, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

23 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck star in a TV special based on Camille Saint-Saëns' musical suite. Their showbiz rivalry plays out with a live orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. The special features new animation set to the music and Ogden Nash's poetry.

whimsicalplayfulenergeticcomicmusicalfast-pacedlightheartednostalgic

What happens

Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired on TV as Carnival of the Animals) is a 1976 live action/animated television special featuring the Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and directed by Chuck Jones. The special, based on Camille Saint-Saëns' musical suite The Carnival of the Animals and consisting of entirely new animation, was purposely cast in the successful mold of Jones' own earlier musical cartoons (including Rabbit of Seville, Long-Haired Hare and Baton Bunny), and set the familiar showbiz rivalry between Bugs and Daffy against the orchestral backdrop of conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, in a performance based on Saint-Saëns' music and Ogden Nash's poetry. Carnival of the Animals originally aired on CBS on November 22, 1976, and was the first Warner Bros.-commissioned work featuring Bugs Bunny following the release of the cartoon False Hare, as well as their first Looney Tunes production following the second closure of their original animation studio on October 10, 1969. This is an abridged version of the work, omitting the "Tortoise", "Characters with Long Ears", "Cuckoo" and "Swan" movements and using the "Pianists" music (with added resolution) over the ending credits; Bugs and Daffy also use a part of "Characters with Long Ears" (Bugs for piano, Daffy for the poem) while they are reciting the movement "Wild Jackass". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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