History WesternAnimation / BugsAndThugs

-->'''Bugs:''' Hello, Bugs Bunny, Private Eyeball. Thugs thwarted, arsonists arrested, bandits booked, forgers found, counterfeiters caught and chiselers chiseled.

* InJoke: Bugs Bunny Private Eyeball has a certificate on his wall awarded by the "Detectives' Guild Local 839". This is a nod to the Burbank, California chapter of what was then the Cartoonists Guild union (later dissolved and succeeded by the Animation Guild, but with the same chapter).

* LookBothWays: At a railroad crossing, Rocky asks Bugs to see whether the train is approaching. Bugs looks both ways and gives the all clear. Rocky crosses... and is hit by the express train.

* LiteralMetaphor: Rocky tells Mugsy to "button your lip", and Mugsy... does.

* VerbalIrony: "Boy, am I glad I live in the city where it's safe," says Bugs, as he blissfully crosses the street reading his paper, unaware of all the traffic that keeps just missing him, or the bank robbery in progress.
* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: "I said button yer lip." So Mugsy literally does.
* TooDumbToLive: After Bugs politely asks to make a quick phone call at a gas station, Mugsy complies. He only realises his mistake midway through Bugs' call to the police department.

* LiteralMinded: Mugsy lets Bugs have it.

[[caption-width-right:350:"We're not stuck, rabbit, ''you're'' stuck!"]]'''Bugs and Thugs''' is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In this cartoon, Bugs goes to the bank to withdraw some carrots from his safe deposit box, but blunders into the getaway car of bank robber Rocky and his {{mook}}, Mugsy. (Bugs thinks it's a taxi.) After Bugs gets away, Rocky decides Bugs needs to be eliminated. HilarityEnsues as Bugs outwits the criminals.

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"Bugs and Thugs" is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In this cartoon, Bugs goes to the bank to withdraw some carrots from his safe deposit box, but blunders into the getaway car of bank robber Rocky and his {{mook}}, Mugsy. (Bugs thinks it's a taxi.) After Bugs gets away, Rocky decides Bugs needs to be eliminated. HilarityEnsues as Bugs outwits the criminals.

* WipeThatSmileOffYourFace: "I said button yer lip." So Mugsy literally does.

* PityTheKidnapper: When the cops finally arrive, Rocky and Mugsy beg to be taken away from Bugs (using the exact same voice, too).

* HereWeGoAgain: After Bugs pretends to talk to a policeman while Rocky and Mugsy hide in the stove (and Bugs lights it to "prove" Rocky is not there), the real police come and the entire exchange happens again... except this time Rocky and Mugsy break out and beg to be arrested.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: The final lines.

** Also when Rocky asks Bugs what he knows, Bugs answers, "Oh I know lots of things. Two and two is four, Carson City is the capital of Nevada..."

-->'''Bugs:''' Hello, Bugs Bunny Detective Agency. Thugs thwarted, arsonists arrested, bandits booked, forgers found, counterfeiters caught and chiselers chiseled.

"Bugs and Thugs" is a 1953 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In this cartoon, Bugs goes to the bank to withdraw some carrots from his safe deposit box, only to blunder into the getaway car of bank robber Rocky and his {{Mook}} Mugsy. (He thinks it's a taxi.) After getting away, Rocky decides Bugs needs to be eliminated. HilarityEnsues as Bugs outwits the criminals.

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal:
The final lines.

* BankRobbery: They don't get the carrots.
* DiminishingVillainThreat: Rocky and his goons were a sinister menace against Daffy and Sylvester in previous shorts (and [[TheBadGuyWins even won]] in ''Golden Yeggs''). Naturally against Bugs, he quickly meets his match, especially paired with his far stupider mook, Mugsy.

* HereWeGoAgain: After Bugs pretends to talk to a policeman while Rocky and Mugsy hide in the stove (and Bugs lights it to "prove" he's not there), the real police come and the entire exchange happens again... except this time Rocky and Mugsy break out and beg to be arrested.

* LookBothWays: At a railroad crossing, Rocky asks Bugs to see if the train is approaching. Bugs looks both ways and gives the all clear. Rocky crosses... and is hit by the express train.

* PityTheKidnapper: When the cops finally arrive, Rocky and Mugsy beg to be taken away from Bugs (using the exact same voice too).
* ReachingBetweenTheLines: As Bugs calls the cops on a phone booth, Rocky drags him back in the car and drives off while he's still holding the receiver. The cop on the other line is pulled through the booth and dragged down the road before the line snaps.

-->'''Rocky:''' [sticks gun in Bugs's face] Shut up ''shuttin' up!''
* VerbalIrony: "Boy am I glad I live in the city where it's safe", says Bugs, as he blissfully crosses the street reading his paper, unaware of all the traffic that keeps just missing him, or the bank robbery in-progress.

* RhymesOnADime: The final lines.
-->'''Bugs:''' Hello, Bugs Bunny Detective Agency. Thugs thwarted, arsonists arrested, bandits booked, forgers found, counterfeiters caught and chiselers chiseled.

-->'''Rocky:''' [sticks gun in Bugs's face] Shut up ''shut-in' up!''

* HereWeGoAgain

* RhymesOnADime

* VerbalIrony: "Boy am I glad I live in the city where it's safe", says Bugs, as he blissfully crosses the street reading his paper, unaware of all the traffic that keeps just missing him, or the bank robbery in-progress.

* DiminishingVillainThreat: Rocky and his goons were a sinister menace against Daffy and Sylvester in previous shorts. Naturally against Bugs, he quickly meets his match, especially paired with his far stupider mook, Mugsy.

Directed by Creator/FrizFreleng. One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* VerbalIrony: "Boy am I glad I live in the city where it's safe", says Bugs, as he blissfully crosses the street reading his paper, unaware of all the traffic that keeps just missing him.

* PityTheKidnapper: When the cops finally arrive, Rocky and Mugsy beg to be taken away from Bugs.

Directed by Creator/FrizFreleng. One of The100GreatestLooneyTunes.