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This cartoon is an AffectionateParody of ''Series/TheUntouchables''. Set in TheRoaringTwenties, a time of mobster violence, the government decides to sends in Agent Elegant Mess (Bugs) to the criminal underworld of Chicago to bring in Rocky and his right-hand man, Mugsy.

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This cartoon is an AffectionateParody of ''Series/TheUntouchables''. Set in TheRoaringTwenties, a time of mobster violence, the government decides to sends in send Agent Elegant Mess (Bugs) to into the criminal underworld of Chicago to bring in Rocky and his right-hand man, Mugsy.
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* PackedHero: Well, Packed Villains as Mugsy and Rocky fall afoul of a cereal factory.

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* WorkingOnTheChainGang: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy to justice, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.

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* WorkingOnTheChainGang: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy to justice, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.cuffs.
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* ThisBananaIsArmed / ItOnlyWorksOnce: Bugs aims a carrot at Rocky, who just chuckles at it... until it fires and leaves him and Mugsy charred. Unfortunately, the carrot only has one load.

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* ThisBananaIsArmed / ItOnlyWorksOnce: ThisBananaIsArmed: Bugs aims a carrot at Rocky, who just chuckles at it... until it fires and leaves him and Mugsy charred. Unfortunately, the carrot only has one load.



* WorkingOnTheChainGang / PyrrhicVictory: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy to justice, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.

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* WorkingOnTheChainGang / PyrrhicVictory: WorkingOnTheChainGang: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy to justice, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.
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* BittersweetEnding: Bugs arrests Rocky and Mugsy, who are sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. Unfortunately for Bugs, he lost the keys to his handcuffs, so he is forced to join them.
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* EndOfAnAge: It is the final Bugs Bunny cartoon to be directed by Friz Freleng.

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* EndOfAnAge: It is the final Bugs Bunny cartoon to be directed by Friz Freleng.Freleng, and the second-to-last short by Freleng, period, during the classic era.
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* WorkingOnTheChainGang / PyrrhicVictory: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.

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* WorkingOnTheChainGang / PyrrhicVictory: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy, Mugsy to justice, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.

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* PyrrhicVictory: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy, handcuffing the two in each arm. But alas, as they are sentenced to labor on the rock pile, Bugs is to spend the entirety of the sentence with the two, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.



'''Rocky:''' Shaddup.

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'''Rocky:''' Shaddup.Shaddup.
* WorkingOnTheChainGang / PyrrhicVictory: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy, handcuffing the two in each arm. They are sentenced to twenty years of hard labor on the rock pile. Alas, Bugs is to spend the entirety of that sentence with the two crooks, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.
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* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Having chased Bugs into the darkened cereal factory, Rocky orders Mugsy to turn on the lights to see where they are -- only to discover Bugs aiming a gun at Rocky, who yells for Mugsy to turn the lights off again, which he does, but not before Rocky gets shot by Bugs.

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* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Having chased Bugs into the darkened cereal factory, Rocky orders Mugsy to turn on the lights to see where they are are. Mugsy obliges -- only for Rocky to discover Bugs aiming a gun at Rocky, who him. Rocky yells for Mugsy to turn the lights off again, which he does, but not before Rocky gets shot by Bugs.

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'''The Unmentionables''' is a 1963 WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng. It stars WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in his third and final encounter with gangsters Rocky and Mugsy.

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'''The Unmentionables''' is a 1963 WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng. It stars WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in his third and final encounter with gangsters Rocky and Mugsy.
Mugsy, who would also make their final appearance, period, during this time.



* JumpingOutOfACake: Bugs infiltrate's Rocky's birthday party by dressing as a flapper and jumping out of the cake.



* JumpingOutOfACake: Bugs infiltrate's Rocky's birthday party by dressing as a flapper and jumping out of the cake.
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* MeaningfulName: Parodied. The nicknames of the gangsters at Rocky's party are taken literally; "Baby-face" Half Nelson has a baby's face, "Pistol-nose" Pringle has a gun barrel for a nose, and so on.0

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* MeaningfulName: Parodied. The nicknames of the gangsters at Rocky's party are taken literally; "Baby-face" Half Nelson has a baby's face, "Pistol-nose" Pringle has a gun barrel for a nose, and so on.0



* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: "Teeth" Malloy has giant teeth that take up almost his entire face.

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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: One gangster at Rocky's party, "Teeth" Malloy Malloy, has giant teeth that take up almost his entire face.

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* AccidentalMurder: Bugs having kicked Rocky so hard up under his hat that he drops his guns and can't see anything, he feels around for his guns and finds them, firing blindly. Rocky realizes he has been set up and orders the other gangsters to go after Bugs, only to discover that in blindly firing his guns everywhere, Rocky had gunned his own men down by mistake.

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* AccidentalMurder: Bugs having kicked Rocky so hard up under his hat that he drops his guns and can't see anything, he feels around for his guns and finds them, firing blindly. Rocky realizes he has been set up and orders sics the other gangsters to go after on Bugs, only to discover that in blindly firing his guns everywhere, Rocky had gunned his own men down the other gangsters by mistake.



* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: Having chased Bugs into the darkened cereal factory, Rocky orders Mugsy to turn on the lights to see where they are -- only to discover Bugs aiming a gun at Rocky, who yells for Mugsy to turn the lights off again, which he does, but not before Rocky gets shot by Bugs.



* MeaningfulName: Parodied. The nicknames of the gangsters at Rocky's party are taken literally; "Baby-face" Half Nelson has a baby's face, "Pistol-nose" Pringle has a gun barrel for a nose, and so on.

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* MeaningfulName: Parodied. The nicknames of the gangsters at Rocky's party are taken literally; "Baby-face" Half Nelson has a baby's face, "Pistol-nose" Pringle has a gun barrel for a nose, and so on.0


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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: One of the gangsters at Rocky's party is Jack "Legs" Rhinestone, a parody of real-life gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond.
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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The opening narration describes the Roaring '20s as "the Jazz Age, with the sound of strumming banjos and wailing saxes, the era of short fobs and long beads, big bands and tiny dance floors, and... violence."

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* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The opening narration describes the Roaring '20s as "the Jazz Age, with the sound of strumming banjos and wailing saxes, the era of short fobs and long beads, big bands and tiny dance floors, and... violence."" Cue two cars, both full of gangsters, as they fire machine guns at one another.

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* {{Bowdlerization}}: This cartoon was edited on two separate occasions:
** On the syndicated ''Merrie Melodies Show'', the two scenes of Rocky getting shot by Bugs, once by his carrot gun and the other in the darkness of the cereal factory, were cut.
** On the WB! network, the scene of a man running into the phone booth to call the operator to get in contact with the police was edited to remove him and the booth being shot in half by offscreen gunfire. Only the first part, with the man going into the booth to call the police, was shown.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The opening narration describes the Roaring '20s as "the Jazz Age, with the sound of strumming banjos and wailing saxes, the era of short fobs and long beads, big bands and tiny dance floors, and... violence."



* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the opening sequence, a man in a phonebooth is desperately calling for the police when machinegun bullets rip the booth in two. The bottom half falls off... leaving only the top of the man hanging in midair. To top it off, the telephone operator says the line has been disconnected.

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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the opening sequence, a man in a phonebooth is desperately calling for the police when machinegun machine gun bullets rip the booth in two. The bottom half falls off... leaving only the top of the man hanging in midair. To top it off, the telephone operator says the line has been disconnected.



* ThisBananaIsArmed: Bugs aims a carrot at Rocky, who just chuckles at it... until it fires and leaves him and Mugsy charred. Unfortunately, the carrot only has one load.

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* ThisBananaIsArmed: ThisBananaIsArmed / ItOnlyWorksOnce: Bugs aims a carrot at Rocky, who just chuckles at it... until it fires and leaves him and Mugsy charred. Unfortunately, the carrot only has one load.
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* AffectionateParody: Of the TV crime series ''Series/TheUntouchables''. Not only does is the title similar, but the narration, provided by Ralph James, is derivative of Walter Winchell's narration. Above all, Bugs takes on the role of crime-fighter Elegant Mess, a reference to Eliot Ness.

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* AffectionateParody: Of the TV crime series ''Series/TheUntouchables''. Not only does is the title similar, but the narration, provided by Ralph James, is derivative of Walter Winchell's narration. Above all, Bugs takes on the role of crime-fighter Elegant Mess, a reference to Eliot Ness.

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* CementShoes: After capturing Bugs, Rocky has his feet encased in cement and thrown off a pier. Bugs manages to survive by breathing through a straw and hopping back to land.

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* CementShoes: After capturing Bugs, Rocky has his feet encased in cement and thrown off a pier. Bugs manages to survive by breathing through a straw pipe and hopping back to land.



* DisguisedInDrag: Bugs tries to gain entry to Rocky's hideout by disguising himself as a flapper who pops out of Rocky's birthday cake -- and kicks Rocky repeatedly while dancing.

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* DisguisedInDrag: Bugs tries to gain entry to Rocky's hideout by disguising himself as a flapper [[TheFlapper flapper]] who pops out of Rocky's birthday cake -- and kicks Rocky repeatedly while dancing.



* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: During the opening sequence, a man in a phonebooth is desperately calling for the police when machinegun bullets rip the booth in two. The bottom half falls off... leaving only the top of the man hanging in midair. To top it off, the telephone operator says the line has been disconnected.
* MeaningfulName: Parodied. The nicknames of the gangsters at Rocky's party are taken literally; "Baby-face" Half Nelson has a baby's face, "Pistol-nose" Pringle has a gun barrel for a nose, and so on.



-->'''Bugs:''' That's the trouble with carrots. They're only good once.

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-->'''Bugs:''' That's the trouble with carrots. They're only good once.once.
* WasntThatFun: As Rocky and Mugsy are caught inside the cereal factory.
-->'''Mugsy:''' Hey, boss, this is fun. Like in the amusement park.\\
'''Rocky:''' Shaddup.
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* CementShoes: After capturing Bugs, Rocky has his feet encased in cement and thrown off a pier. Bugs manages to survive by breathing through a straw and hopping back to land.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: As cement is being poured on his feet, a blindfolded Bugs complains "Look, fellas, how many times do I have to tell you? I haven't got a cold!"



* JumpingOutOfACake: Bugs infiltrate's Rocky's birthday party by dressing as a flapper and jumping out of the cake.



* TheRoaringTwenties: The time in which the cartoon is set.

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* TheRoaringTwenties: The time in which the cartoon is set.set.
* ThisBananaIsArmed: Bugs aims a carrot at Rocky, who just chuckles at it... until it fires and leaves him and Mugsy charred. Unfortunately, the carrot only has one load.
-->'''Bugs:''' That's the trouble with carrots. They're only good once.
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* AccidentalMurder: Bugs having kicked Rocky so hard up under his hat that he drops his guns and can't see anything, he feels around for his guns and finds them, firing blindly. Rocky realizes he has been set up and orders the other gangsters to go after Bugs, only to discover that in blindly firing his guns everywhere, Rocky had gunned his own men down.

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* AccidentalMurder: Bugs having kicked Rocky so hard up under his hat that he drops his guns and can't see anything, he feels around for his guns and finds them, firing blindly. Rocky realizes he has been set up and orders the other gangsters to go after Bugs, only to discover that in blindly firing his guns everywhere, Rocky had gunned his own men down.down by mistake.

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* AccidentalMurder:
-->'''Mugsy:''' Gee, Rocky, you made a booboo.

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* AccidentalMurder:
AccidentalMurder: Bugs having kicked Rocky so hard up under his hat that he drops his guns and can't see anything, he feels around for his guns and finds them, firing blindly. Rocky realizes he has been set up and orders the other gangsters to go after Bugs, only to discover that in blindly firing his guns everywhere, Rocky had gunned his own men down.
-->'''Mugsy:''' Gee, Rocky, you made a booboo.\\
'''Bugs:''' ''(entering again, this time in a trenchcoat)'' Yeah, and I'm bookin' ya for murder!
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* AccidentalMurder:
-->'''Mugsy:''' Gee, Rocky, you made a booboo.


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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: "Teeth" Malloy has giant teeth that take up almost his entire face.
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* DisguisedInDrag: Bugs tries to gain entry to Rocky's hideout by disguising himself as a flapper who pops out of Rocky's birthday cake -- and kicks Rocky repeatedly while dancing.
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* AshFace: The result of Rocky and Mugsy getting shot by Bugs' carrot gun.
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'''The Unmentionables''' is a 1963 WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng. It stars WesternAnimation/BugsBunny in his third and final encounter with gangsters Rocky and Mugsy.

This cartoon is an AffectionateParody of ''Series/TheUntouchables''. Set in TheRoaringTwenties, a time of mobster violence, the government decides to sends in Agent Elegant Mess (Bugs) to the criminal underworld of Chicago to bring in Rocky and his right-hand man, Mugsy.

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* AcmeProducts: The chase leads to the ACME Cereal Factory, where the two gangsters wind up trapped in cereal boxes and brought in by Bugs.
* AffectionateParody: Of the TV crime series ''Series/TheUntouchables''. Not only does is the title similar, but the narration, provided by Ralph James, is derivative of Walter Winchell's narration. Above all, Bugs takes on the role of crime-fighter Elegant Mess, a reference to Eliot Ness.
* EndOfAnAge: It is the final Bugs Bunny cartoon to be directed by Friz Freleng.
* FunetikAksent: Rocky's birthday cake is labeled "Happy boithday Rocky".
* PyrrhicVictory: In the end, Bugs succeeds in bringing Rocky and Mugsy, handcuffing the two in each arm. But alas, as they are sentenced to labor on the rock pile, Bugs is to spend the entirety of the sentence with the two, as he had lost the keys to the cuffs.
* TheRoaringTwenties: The time in which the cartoon is set.

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