Line #27 WesternAnimation/TheBigSnooze


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3	''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.
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5	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.
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7	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.
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9	The last cartoon Bob Clampett made for Warners, and the last one he ever made to be released.
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12	!!The Big Snooze provides examples of:
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14	* AnimatedActors: Elmer is a contract player for Warner Bros.
15	* AttractiveBentGender: In Elmer's dream, Bugs dresses him up as a sexy woman, similar to Creator/RitaHayworth. The wolves on Hollywood and Vine are attracted to him.
16	* BaitAndSwitchComment: As Bugs looks up things to do to Elmer, he says "Oh, no! It's too ''gruesome!''... but I'll do it."
17	* 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.
18	* {{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.
19	* BreakingTheFourthWall:
20	** "Creator/BetteDavis is going to hate me for this", said by Bugs as he's begging Elmer to stay. Davis was at the time fighting with Warner Brothers to get out of her contract.
21	** After Elmer, dressed 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 expewience like this?"
22	* ChainedToARailway: Parodied. Elmer 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]].
23	* DerangedAnimation: Like all of the best Bob Clampett 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.
24	* DisneyAcidSequence: Elmer's weird, surreal dream, as created by Bugs.
25	* DreamWalker: Bugs, seeing that Elmer is having a quiet, peaceful dream, takes some sleeping pills so he can fall asleep and enter Elmer's dream, to ruin it.
26	* DreamSequence: Bugs jumps into Elmer's dreams.
27	* {{Expy}}: The wolves dressed in zoot-suits, hang out on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, and lust after a sexy dame are identical to the zoot-suit wearing Wolfie, [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery's MGM character]], who also hung out on Hollywood and Vine and lusted after a sexy dame.
28	-->'''Wolf''': How OOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLD is she?????
29	* 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.
30	* MediumAwareness: Bugs and Elmer know they are making a cartoon. Elmer quits the business.
31	* 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 ''WesternAnimation/AllThisAndRabbitStew''.
32	* OpinionChangingDream: Elmer's nightmare makes him go back to work.
33	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Bugs is practically ''begging'' Elmer not to quit working in show business with him.
34	* PolkaDotPaint: Bugs recolors Elmer's dream with Nightmare Paint. Each brush stroke is a different color pattern.
35	* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The opening chase is set to Rossini's "William Tell Overture". 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".
36	* RageQuit: Elmer rips up his contract and quits the cartoon after one too many times being beaten by Bugs.
37	* RuleOfThree: After the third time Bugs gets Elmer to run off the cliff, Elmer has had enough.
38	* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: "I ''quit!'' I'm ''thwough!'' I get the worst of it fwom that wabbit in evewy one of these cawtoons!"
39	* ThatRussianSquatDance: Part of the WalkThisWay gag that Bugs gets Elmer to do.
40	* ShoutOut: Part of the nightmare references ''{{WesternAnimation/Dumbo}}'''s "Pink Elephants" sequence, with multicolored Bugs outlines on black backdrop singing "The rabbits are coming, hooray, hooray" in a similar rhythm to the "Pink Elephants" song.
41	* StandardSnippet:
42	** The opening title card is set to "Some Sunday Morning" from the 1945 Warner Bros. film ''Film/SanAntonio''.
43	** When Bugs knocks himself out, he floats up to Elmer's dream in a sailboat, appropriately singing, "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat".
44	** When Bugs splatters "Nightmare Paint" all over Elmer's dream, a faster version of Raymond Scott's "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals" is heard.
45	** While falling, Bugs casually sings "September in the Rain" from the 1937 Warner Bros. film ''Film/MelodyForTwo''.
46	* 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.
47	* WorldOfPun: This ''is'' a Bugs Bunny cartoon, after all.
48	** "Sleeping Pills: Take Dese and Doze."
49	** "One Thousand and One Arabian Night-mares"
50	** "Hare Tonic: Stops Falling Hare."

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