History WesternAnimation / TheBigSnooze

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The wolves dressed in zoot-suits and hanging around on the corner of Hollywood and Vine are identical to [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery's MGM character Wolfie]].

"The Big Snooze" is a 1946 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett (along with some uncredited ghost-direction by 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" is a 1946 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett, 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.

* 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 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.

* {{Blooper}}: After Elmer wakes up and runs back to the log, Bugs appears to say his catchphrase, "Eh, what's up, doc?", but no sound comes out.

** After Elmer, dresses as a woman, is chased by the wolves in his dream, he looks at the audience (the theater audience, since Elmer is looking down) and says "Have any of you girls ever had an experience like this?"

* DerangedAnimation: Like all of the best Bob Clampet cartoons, there's [[OffModel little care given to keeping characters on model]], the animators instead opting to draw the characters however they see fit in any given scene to fit the emotion.

* {{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 Ted Turner-owned networks TNT[[note]]back when all it aired was movies and cartoon shorts[[/note]] and Creator/CartoonNetwork (though, thanks to the short-lived series, ''The Creator/BobClampett Show'', the cartoon now runs uncensored).

'''The Big Snooze''' is a 1946 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett, 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.

* {{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 Ted Turner-owned networks TNT[[note]]back when all it aired was movies and cartoon shorts[[/note]] and CartoonNetwork (though, thanks to the short-lived series, ''The Creator/BobClampett Show'', the cartoon now runs uncensored).

* RealitySubtext: The cartoon's plot kicks off with Elmer Fudd quitting Warner Bros. Rather fitting since this was Bob Clampett's last cartoon for the studio.

* RageQuit: Elmer rips up his contract and quits the cartoon after one too many times being beaten by Bus.

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Three times, Bugs tricks Elmer into running through a hollow log and off a cliff. Three times, Elmer is able to scramble back after realizing he's standing on thin air. After the third time, he quits. This scene is recycled from ''WesternAnimation/AllThisAndRabbitStew'' (1941), by the way.

'''The Big Snooze''' is a 1946 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett, 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.

* ChainedToARailway: Parodied. Elmer (who's dressed as a woman) is tied to the tracks by Bugs Bunny and the "Super Chief" runs right over him -- the "Super Chief" being a long line of little bunnies following Bugs, who's wearing a [[KarmicTrickster feathered headdress]].

"The Big Snooze" is a 1946 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon, directed by Creator/BobClampett, 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.

* {{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 Ted Turner-owned networks TNT[[note]]back when all it aired was movies and cartoon shorts[[/note]] and CartoonNetwork (though, thanks to the short-lived series, ''The BobClampett Show'', the cartoon now runs uncensored).

* WalkThisWay: When Elmer is fleeing form the wolves in his dream, he finds Bugs, who says "Quick, run this way!" and then does a ridiculous dance. Elmer copies him exactly.

* GravityIsAHarshMistress: Three times, Bugs tricks Elmer into running through a hollow log and off a cliff. Three times, Elmer is able to scramble back after realizing he's standing on thin air. After the third time, he quits.

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