History Westernanimation / BullyForBugs

''Bully for Bugs'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short directed by Creator/ChuckJones, starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny.

!!This Looney Tunes short provides examples of:

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[[caption-width-right:266:"[[ShutUpScaryThing Stop steaming up my tail! What're you trying to do, wrinkle it]]?!"]]

The short begins with Bugs on his way to the Coachella Valley for the "Big carrot festival, therein." but takes a WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque and winds up inside a [[BeastlyBloodsports bullfight arena]], and becomes an unwitting victim of Toro the Bull and his horns. Bugs, indignant at this attack, immediately decides to turn the tables, taking up the role of matador and giving the bull his just desserts for the rest of the cartoon. One of the few Bugs shorts where his opponent gains the upper hand at several points along the way.

-->'''Bugs:''' Of course you realize, this means war!

* ButtMonkey: Toro once he meets Bugs becomes the designated victim of all his nasty pranks.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Bugs's "nin-cow-poop" line, since the word "poop" didn't become a synonym for for "feces" until the mid-1960's.

* ADogNamedDog: "Toro" is Spanish for "bull".

* HairTriggerTemper: Toro, as the bull he is, is alawys seen in an angry mood. His meeting with Bugs doesn't make anything better.

* DoorJudo: Sets up Bugs' FinishingMove.

* ShapedLikeItself: "Toro" is Spanish for "Bull".

* ShutUpScaryThing: As seen in the page-image above. Of course, the Scary Thing uses this moment to prepare for payback.

* DeadlyDodging / OneDimensionalThinking: Bugs does this with an anvil.

* BrutishBulls: Toro the huge black bull takes downright sadistic pleasure in fighting and charging opponents. While doing this with the toreador he charges down at the beginning of the short is potentially understandable, his unprovoked attack on Bugs seems motivated entirely by petty malice. Throughout the short, Toro relies on straightforward attacks and powerful charges (and a shotgun after he accidentally swallows it), and is at the end easily outwitted by the clever Bugs.

* GeniusBruiser: Toro. OK, maybe "genius" is an overstatement, but compared to most of the opponents Bugs faces, he's practically [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The original bullfighter hightails it for the hills as soon as Toro appears.

* ShownTheirWork: The crew wanted to make this portrayal of bullfighting as close to accurate as possible. Film editor Treg Brown travelled to Barcelona to record the sounds of a bullfighting crowd and the mooing of an actual bull, which is what ended up in the film.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: Both CBS and ABC censored the climactic scene of Toro sliding up a greased ramp and, as he flies through the air, having a run-in with an explosive, the detonation of which is caused by Toro getting hit first by a bit of glue and then some sandpaper, which strikes a strategically-placed match, which lights the explosive's fuse. ABC would only show Toro sliding up the ramp and crashing into the fence, but CBS was slightly more careless: it would also show Toro being hit with the glue and sandpaper, as well as his dazed look caused by the unseen explosion.

* HornAttack: Toro's whole shtick.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Toro has red, blood-shot eyes.

This cartoon is also notable for a bit of history behind its making, at least according to Chuck Jones: Jones' supervisor, Eddie Selzer, barged into Jones' office one day and announced, completely out of the blue, that "bullfights aren't funny!" Since Jones and his fellow animators [[AntiAdvice worked from the assumption that Eddie was always wrong about everything]], their only choice was to make a cartoon about bullfighting.[[note]]In his autobiography, Jones joked that his one regret was not animating the bull with a pair of gigantic, pendulous (but [[TruthInTelevision anatomically correct]]) testicles.[[/note]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The entire premise of this cartoon. Bugs slaps Toro in the nose for "steaming up his tail", Toro rebuts but headbutting Bugs into the sky and Bugs declares that ThisMeansWar.

''Bully for Bugs'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1953]] WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short, directed by Creator/ChuckJones.

The short begins with Bugs on his way to the Coachella Valley for the "Big carrot festival, therein." but takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up inside a [[BeastlyBloodsports bullfight arena]], and becomes an unwitting victim of Toro the Bull and his horns. Bugs, indignant at this attack, immediately decides to turn the tables, taking up the role of matador and giving the bull his just desserts for the rest of the cartoon. One of the few Bugs shorts where his opponent gains the upper hand at several points along the way.

!!This Looney Tune provides examples of:

* BeastlyBloodsports

* HornAttack

* ShapedLikeItself: "Toro" is spanish for "Bull".

* StandardSnippet: The staple South of the Border tunes "La Cucaracha" and "Las Chiapanecas" are played when Bugs is fighting with Toro.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The entire premise of this cartoon. Bugs slaps Toro in the nose for "steaming up his tail", for that Toro headbutts Bugs into the sky, and then Bugs declares war on Toro and enters as a bullfighter.

This cartoon is also notable for a bit of history behind its making, at least according to Chuck Jones: Jones' supervisor, Eddie Selzer, barged into Jones' office one day and announced, completely out of the blue, that "bullfights aren't funny!" Since Jones and his fellow animators [[AntiAdvice worked from the assumption that Eddie was always wrong about everything]], their only choice was to make a cartoon about bullfighting.

The short begins with Bugs on his way to the Coachella Valley for the "Big carrot festival, therein." but takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up inside a [[BeastlyBloodsports bullfight arena]], and becomes an unwitting victim of Toro the Bull and his horns. Bugs, indignant at this attack, immediately decides to turn the tables, taking up the role of matador and giving the bull his just desserts for the rest of the cartoon.