Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)

Directed by

Friz Freleng

Genre

Christmas film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an eight-minute animated cartoon that adapts A Christmas Carol with Looney Tunes characters. Yosemite Sam plays the mean Scrooge, Porky Pig is Bob Cratchit, and Bugs Bunny portrays Marley's ghost and Scrooge's nephew Fred. Fred tries to scare Scrooge into being nice by dressing up as a ghost.

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What happens

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol is an eight-minute animated film produced by Warner Bros. Television and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises, and aired on CBS on November 27, 1979 as the first segment of the Christmas special, Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales. The cartoon is an adaptation of the Charles Dickens 1843 novella A Christmas Carol, featuring Yosemite Sam as Ebenezer Scrooge, Porky Pig as Bob Cratchit, and Tweety Bird as Tiny Tim. Bugs Bunny plays the ghost of Jacob Marley and Scrooge's nephew, Fred. Scrooge's dream-journey into his past, present, and future is omitted; instead, Fred dresses up as Marley's ghost to scare the unhappy protagonist straight. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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