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** This was among the shorts that Warner Bros. submitted for Oscar in 1957, with the Academy passing on it and instead nominating ''WesternAnimation/TabascoRoad'' and ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', the latter of which won (though not as good as this one, it's certainly no slouch, being the only one of the five Oscar-winning Warner shorts to get included in the book ''The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons'').
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** This was among the shorts that Warner Bros. submitted for an Oscar in 1957, with the Academy passing on it and instead nominating ''WesternAnimation/TabascoRoad'' and ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', the latter of which won (though not as good as this one, it's certainly no slouch, being the only one of the five Oscar-winning Warner shorts to get included in the book ''The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons'').
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** The whole short begins with a wonderful rendition of the Overture from Wagner's Theatre/TheFlyingDutchman.
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** This was among the shorts that Warner Bros. submitted for Oscar in 1957, with the Academy passing on it and instead nominating ''WesternAnimation/TabascoRoad'' and ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', the latter of which won (though nowhere near as good, it's certainly no slouch).
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** This was among the shorts that Warner Bros. submitted for Oscar in 1957, with the Academy passing on it and instead nominating ''WesternAnimation/TabascoRoad'' and ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', the latter of which won (though nowhere near not as good, good as this one, it's certainly no slouch).slouch, being the only one of the five Oscar-winning Warner shorts to get included in the book ''The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons'').
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Not YMMV. Moving to the main page.
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* AlasPoorVillain: It's hard to not feel sad for poor Elmer as he grieves the fallen Bugs Bunny.
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* AlasPoorVillain: It's hard to not feel sad for poor Elmer as he grieves the fallen Bugs Bunny.
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* HarsherInHindsight: In this short, Bugs is seemingly killed by Elmer, but reveals himself to be alive at the end as he is carried away by him. Fast forward to ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', [[spoiler:where he performs a series of moves designed to freeze the game and prevent [[BigBad Al G.]] from cheating, and dies for real... only to come back unharmed at the end of the movie]].
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-->"Kill da Wabbit, Kill da Wabbit!"
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Writer Michael Maltese had already done the gag of Bugs dressing up as Brünnhilde in a cartoon he wrote for Creator/FrizFreleng, 1945's "Herr Meets Hare," where Siegfried is played by [[ItMakesSenseInContext Hermann Goering]]. The earlier sequence even used the same music, though the parody lyrics were newly written for this cartoon.
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* ParodyDisplacement: This short is arguably the source of many a modern American person's knowledge of all things Wagner, to the point where some people don't even know the short is actually based on a real opera (as opposed to just being a spoof of Wagnerian opera and its tropes in general).
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* WeirdAlEffect: This short is arguably the source of many a modern American person's knowledge of all things Wagner, to the point where some people don't even know the short is actually based on a real opera (as opposed to just being a spoof of Wagnerian opera and its tropes in general).
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** Bugs Bunny is found dead while laid out on a rock, with some kind of fluid dripping on his face. This is a reference to Loki the Norse trickster god who was punished for causing the god Balder's death. Loki was laid out on a rock with snake venom dripping on his face as punishment. (Loki appears as a character in the first Ring Cycle opera "Das Rheingold," albeit under the German name "Loge.")
** The ending is an inversion of the actual tragic ending of Siegfried and Brünnhilde's romance. In mythology and the opera ''Götterdämmerung," Brünnhilde has Siegfried murdered [[WomanScorned after he betrays her]], only to be stricken with grief and remorse after he dies (and {{Driven to Suicide}}). Here "Siegfried" is the betrayed lover who kills "Brünnhilde," only to instantly mourn.
** Bugs Bunny is found dead while laid out on a rock, with some kind of fluid dripping on his face. This is a reference to Loki the Norse trickster god who was punished for causing the god Balder's death. Loki was laid out on a rock with snake venom dripping on his face as punishment. (Loki appears as a character in the first Ring Cycle opera "Das Rheingold," albeit under the German name "Loge.")
** The ending is an inversion of the actual tragic ending of Siegfried and Brünnhilde's romance. In mythology and the opera ''Götterdämmerung," Brünnhilde has Siegfried murdered [[WomanScorned after he betrays her]], only to be stricken with grief and remorse after he dies (and {{Driven to Suicide}}). Here "Siegfried" is the betrayed lover who kills "Brünnhilde," only to instantly mourn.
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* WeirdAlEffect: This short is arguably the source of many a modern American person's knowledge of all things Wagner, to the point where some people don't even know the short is actually based on a real opera (as opposed to just being a spoof of Wagnerian opera and its tropes in general).
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* WeirdAlEffect: This short is arguably the source of many a modern American person's knowledge of all things Wagner, to the point where some people don't even know the short is actually based on a real opera (as opposed to just being a spoof of opera and its tropes in general).
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* HarsherInHindsight: In this short, Bugs is seemingly killed by Elmer, but reveals himself to be alive at the end as he is carried away by him. Fast forward to ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', [[spoiler:where he performs a series of moves designed to freeze the game and prevent Al G. from cheating, and dies for real... only to come back unharmed at the end of the movie]].
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* HarsherInHindsight: In this short, Bugs is seemingly killed by Elmer, but reveals himself to be alive at the end as he is carried away by him. Fast forward to ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'', [[spoiler:where he performs a series of moves designed to freeze the game and prevent [[BigBad Al G. G.]] from cheating, and dies for real... only to come back unharmed at the end of the movie]].
