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1* The entire cartoon is one long funny {{Deconstruction}} of opera.
2* The opening where we see the shadow of Siegried as a huge, muscular warrior posing to the dramatic music and lighting clashes... only to reveal the underwhelming Elmer, wearing armor that looks more like a trashcan with armholes.
3--> '''Elmer''': *sing-song voice* ''Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits!''
4* Elmer singing "Kill the Wabbit!" To the tune of Ride of the Valkyries, which prompts Bugs to emerge from his hole and repeat "Kill da ''Wabbit''?!" While looking at the audience with the most hilariously upset expression imaginable.
5** Made even better by Elmer's jabbing the hole where Bugs is "supposedly" hiding while screaming the stereotypical Valkyrie war cry.
6* The horse Bugs rides when dressed in drag - as a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of the stereotypical "fat opera lady on a horse", skinny Bugs Bunny rides atop what may be the fattest horse in animation history.
7* Bugs doing what he does best: [[WholesomeCrossdresser dressing up]] as Elmer's love interest.
8* Elmer demonstrates the power of his "spear and magic helmet" to Bugs, who runs off. Then Elmer looks dumbstruck at the camera.
9-->'''Elmer''': Dat was da wabbit!
10** Bugs's reaction when he first hears Elmer singing about killing him.
11---> '''Bugs''': ''Kill da wabbit?!'' *gives a "Who, me?" look to the camera*
12* After taunting him with long, silly rhyming songs up until then, Bugs' reaction to Elmer's demonstration of his helmet's ridiculously over-the-top power is just a flat "[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Bye!]]" as he runs off.
13* Bugs does his famous "enter scene from another hole just offscreen", and walks over to where Elmer is trying to "kill da wabbit". In the middle of his attack, Elmer '''just freezes in midair''' with the goofiest look on his face.
14--> '''Bugs''': ''Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock/migh I enquire- eh, what's up doc?''
15* After Brunhilde is revealed to be Bugs in drag, Elmer calls "White Wightning! Stwike the Wabbit!" This results in ''several'' lightning bolts striking the mountain where Bugs has taken shelter. [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill Overkill much?]]
16* The dead Bugs waking up and BreakingTheFourthWall to subvert the legitimate TearJerker of an ending with the final line:

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