History WesternAnimation / TheBigSnooze

* AttractiveBentGender: In Elmer's dream, Bugs dresses him up as a sexy woman. The wolves on Hollywood and Vine are attracted to him.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: While Elmer is sleeping, Bugs taunts him by singing Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer". Later, during the [[WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}} pink elephants]] parody, he sings "The Rabbits are Comin'", a parody of the Scottish march "The Campbells are Coming".

* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: Elmer repeatedly changes into a "sucker" (that is, a lollipop) after Bugs gets him to run through the log and off the cliff. This was repurposed from the animation of Sambo in Tex Avery's "All This and Rabbit Stew."

* MetaphoricMetamorphosis: Elmer repeatedly changes into a "sucker" (that is, a lollipop) after Bugs gets him to run through the log and off the cliff.

"The Big Snooze" is a 1946 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by an uncredited Creator/BobClampett (along with some ghost-direction by a likewise uncredited Creator/ArtDavis), starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In this one, Elmer is chasing Bugs, as usual -- but Elmer decides he's tired of being the ButtMonkey, tears up his Creator/WarnerBros contract, and quits the cartoon business. Elmer is happily snoozing under a tree when Bugs, panicked at losing his partner, decides to invade Elmer's dream to get Elmer to come back to work.

!!"The Big Snooze" provides examples of:

* BitingTheHandHumor, Elmer Fudd tears up his contract, and decides to give up wabbit hunting in favor of fishing. Bugs decides to invade Elmer's dream and splash loud, clashy colors into Elmer's dream to persuade him to come back. After a train of rabbits runs over him, Bugs putting a dress on him and the wolves chasing him while Bugs and Elmer do [[ThatRussianSquatDance the cossack dance]] before Elmer falls off the cliff and wakes up, putting his contract back together and saying "Oh, Mr. Warner, I'm ba-ack!" in a singsong voice.
** In real life, Creator/BobClampett's animation style, which was quite innovative for 1946, diverged from that of his contemporaries, Creator/FrizFreleng and Creator/ChuckJones, and he was ready to take on new challenges in the animation industry. Because of this, Clampett (Elmer Fudd) took this chance to bid farewell to Creator/WarnerBrothers, in spite of his colleagues' attempts to dissuade him from doing this.

* BreakingTheFourthWall

* OffModel: When Elmer says "Oooh, what a howwible nightmawe" after he wakes up, his mouth is obviously on a different animation cel to the rest of his body (which doesn't move at all), isn't colored correctly, and there's a very abrupt and noticeable jump cut when he actually starts talking. Bob Clampett's shorts usually demonstrate that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad in this regard, but this bit of animation is just jarringly bad, almost like the kind of thing you'd expect to see in a Warner Bros. Seven Arts short.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The "Super Chief" that Bugs refers to was a [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Chief passenger railroad train]] that was famous back then.

** In real life, Creator/BobClampett's animation style, which was quite innovative for 1946, diverged from that of his contemporaries, Creator/FrizFreleng and Creator/ChuckJones, and he was ready to take on new challenges in animation, so Clampett (via Elmer Fudd) took this chance to say goodbye to Creator/WarnerBrothers, in defiance of his colleagues' attempts to dissuade him from it.

* OffModel: When Elmer says "Oooh, what a howwible nightmawe" after he wakes up, his mouth is obviously on a different animation cel to the rest of his body (which doesn't move at all), isn't colored correctly, and there's a very abrupt and noticeable jump cut when he actually starts talking. Bob Clampett's shorts usually demonstrate that Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad in this regard, but this bit of animation is just jarringly bad, almost like the kind of thing you'd expect to see in a Warner Bros.-Seven Arts short.

The last cartoon Bob Clampett made for Warners, and the last one he ever made to be released. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

** "Sleeping Pills: Take Dese and Dose."

* {{Bowdlerization}}: During the sequence where Bugs finds Elmer asleep next to a tree, the part where Bugs takes out a bottle of sleeping pills and ingests them so he can invade Elmer's dream was often edited out on a lot of American TV airings (with a quick black out from Bugs saying "Hey, I better look into this!" to Bugs asleep next to the tree), specifically in syndication and on the UsefulNotes/TedTurner-owned networks Creator/{{TNT}}[[note]]back when it was a proto-[[Creator/TurnerClassicMovies TCM]] that ran older movies and cartoon shorts[[/note]] and Creator/CartoonNetwork (though, thanks to the short-lived series, ''The Creator/BobClampett Show'', the cartoon now runs uncensored).