History WesternAnimation / RabbitFire

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The elephant's voice is based on comedian Joe Besser (best known today as one of Film/TheThreeStooges), and his one line includes one of Besser's catchphrases. ("You do and I'll give you such a pinch!")

* EvilVegetarian: Bugs and Daffy start reading Duck and Rabbit "1000 Ways How to Cook" books respectively to get Elmer to hunt their "tastier" rival... only for Elmer to reveal he's a vegetarian who hunts for sport. Bugs does not take kindly to this.

* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: The argument in this short is the TropeNamer. It is only the first part of a very funny gag. It's a combination of the normal trope as well as the "light switch" variant -- Bugs and Daffy are actually pushing a gun barrel towards each other every time they say their line. When Bugs says "rabbit season," he also takes the barrel and pushes it towards Daffy, but then quickly back towards himself. When Daffy says "duck season," he pulls the gun back at himself.

* EvilVegetarian: Bugs and Daffy start reading Duck and Rabbit "1000 Ways How to Cook" books respectively to get Elmer to hunt their "tastier" rival... only for Elmer to reveal he's a vegetarian who hunts for sports. Bugs does not take kindly to this.
-->'''Bugs:''' Oh, yeah?! Well, there's ''other'' sport besides hunting, y'know!\\

'''Daffy:''' ''[dazed]'' Nith game.

* JugglingLoadedGuns: Turns out there was OneBuwwetWeft.

* PointThatSomewhereElse: Bugs and Daffy move Elmer's rifle back and forth between the two of them during the RabbitSeasonDuckSeason routine.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's never made clear whether it's ''actually'' Duck Season or Rabbit Season, and by the end, Bugs and Daffy TakeAThirdOption and say that it's Elmer Season. Was it actually Rabbit Season and Bugs was trying to survive, or was it actually Duck Season and Daffy was trying to convince Elmer otherwise?

* CatchPhrase: Daffy says "You're despicable" for the first time here... then goes on a rant about how despicable Bugs is (which is the page quote).

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The elephant's voice is based on comedian Joe Besser (best known today as one of Film/TheThreeStooges), and his one line includes one of Besser's {{catchphrase}}s. ("You do and I'll give you such a pinch!")

->'''Daffy:''' Hahahaha!

-->'''Bugs:''' Be vewy, vewy quiet! We're hunting Elmers!\\

->'''Bugs:''' [[BorrowedCatchphrase Shhhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting Elmers.]]
->'''Daffy:''' Hahahaha.

->'''Bugs:''' [[BorrowedCatchphrase Shhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting Elmers.]]

'''Daffy (imitating Elmer):''' Hahahahahaha!

''(BLAM!)''\\
'''Daffy:''' [''dazed''] Nith game.

-->'''Bugs:''' Be vewy, vewy quiet, we're hunting Elmers.\\

* UnbuiltTrope: This is the first short to establish Bugs and Daffy's ComicallyLopSidedRivalry. However the premise itself is more chaotic and built more around Elmer dealing with ''two'' trickster animals. The duo's banter only takes up the first half of the short (and Daffy does actually keep even footing with Bugs in a couple gags, not ''quite'' fully clicked into his later role). The remainder is them using TeethClenchedTeamwork against Elmer, with both of them winning, seeming like a rare TeamRocketWins for Daffy to modern viewers. By the second short "Rabbit Seasoning" the dynamic is has been fully realised, with Elmer more an oblivious middle man between the two's feud. It's also worth noting that this short was among a large amount of one-off crossovers with Daffy and other ''Looney Tunes'' entrants during this era (eg. Henery Hawk, Sylvester, Marvin), the Bugs pairing just happening to click long-term.

'''Daffy:''' Hahahahahaha!
* {{Bowdlerise}}: This cartoon (and the other two shorts in the "Hunter's Trilogy") was shown edited on nearly every American network TV channel (and one cable channel), all for the same gag: Daffy getting shot in the face by Elmer.

->'''Bugs:''' [[BorrowedCathphrase Shhh! Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting Elmers.]]
-->'''Daffy:''' Hahahaha.

%%* WholesomeCrossdresser: Bugs.
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'''Daffy:''' Nice game.

* UnbuiltTrope: This is the first short to establish Bugs and Daffy's ComicallyLopSidedRivalry. However the premise itself is more chaotic and built more around Elmer dealing with ''two'' trickster animals. The duo's banter only takes up the first half of the short (and Daffy does actually keep even footing with Bugs in a couple gags, not ''quite'' fully clicked into his later role). The remainder is them using TeethClenchedTeamwork against Elmer, with both of them winning, seeming like a rare TeamRocketWins for Daffy to modern viewers. By the second short "Rabbit Seasoning" the dynamic is has been fully realised, with Elmer more an oblivious middle man between the two's feud.

* OhCrapSmile: The look on Elmer's face when he realises that Bugs and Daffy have found a poster proclaiming it to be ''Elmer'' Season, and are giving him very evil grins indeed.
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