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3	"Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" is a 1992 ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' made-for-TV cartoon staring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd, WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam, and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, which led off the 1992 TV special ''Bugs Bunny's Creature Features''.
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5	Bugs Bunny's daily life consists of traveling across the country and tangling with Elmer, Sam, and Daffy. One day during his routine, he continuously notices strange-looking carrots around, but doesn't pay them any mind. The next day, however, he notices that his adversaries seem to have become badly-drawn, pale stereotypes of themselves, and want him to have one of the strange carrots. That night, while contemplating this oddity, a pale stereotype of ''himself'' emerges from the carrot he received. After a harrowing encounter with it, Bugs becomes determined to learn what's behind this.
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8	!!"Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers" provides examples of:
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10	* AnimationBump: Bugs and Daffy's first encounter contains far more fluid and bouncy animation compared to the rest of the short.
11	* ArtShift: The pale stereotype versions of the Looney Tunes characters are shoddily drawn.
12	* BitingTheHandHumor: The Looney Tunes are disappearing and being replaced by poorly-animated automatons without any of the wit or anarchy that made them so beloved in the first place. Yes, this was completely intentional on the filmmakers' part.
13	* BrokenRecord: The copies constantly repeat the same lines over and over, which are mostly the originals' {{Character Catchphrase}}s. At one point, Bugs even says to the fake Elmer "Come over here, ya broken record!".
14	* TheCameo: WesternAnimation/PorkyPig, in his usual "Th-That's All Folks!" routine at the end. At first, a doppelganger had taken his place, but Bugs kicked it out and replaced it with the real Porky.
15	* EvilTwin: Bugs refers to his doppelganger as this.
16	* FakeOutFadeOut: After Bugs runs off screaming in terror after encountering his own doppelganger, the "That's All Folks!" card pops up, complete with the ending music...before Bugs appears in front of it, saying "Hold it! You didn't think I'd let it end like ''that'', did you?" before the cartoon continues and he investigates where the doppelgangers came from.
17	* KillAndReplace: While it's not known where the real Elmer, Sam, and Daffy went when their doppelgangers appeared,[[note]]and it didn't really matter since they were restored when Bugs sent the copies to space[[/note]] Bugs' doppelganger outright tries to kill him with an axe.
18	* LimitedAnimation: The copies are parodies of every bad TV animation cliché. Daffy even has SynchroVox superimposed live-action lips à la ''WesternAnimation/ClutchCargo'' at one point. Also a minor case with the short overall, itself being made on a slightly larger than usual TV animation budget. This allows the animation to be full enough so that it stands out against deliberately bad parodies, but still comes off as a noticeable downgrade compared to the theatrical shorts with the odd shortcut showing up from time to time.
19	* MadeInCountryX: When Bugs inspects the imposters, he finds that each of them bears a label saying "Made on the Planet Nudnik".
20	* MoodWhiplash: PlayedForLaughs. After Bugs narrowly escapes being killed by his own doppelganger, he runs off screaming in terror... then pauses to turn to the audience and say "You know something, folks? This is the scariest part of the picture" and resumes running.
21	* MythologyGag:
22	** Bugs does the "I dare you to step across this line" routine from ''Bugs Bunny Rides Again'' to Sam.
23	** The classic DuckSeasonRabbitSeason routine from ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'' is recreated.
24	* NonStandardCharacterDesign: The copies are made to resemble simplistic, [[LimitedAnimation crudely animated]] cartoon characters from 50s and 60s television. Of course they look horrendously out of place when placed right next to the smoothly animated Bugs.
25	* PieInTheFace: At the end of his routine with Elmer, Bugs shoves a custard cream pie in his face.
26	* PunchClockHero: "Hero" might be hyperbolic, but in the short, Bugs annoying Elmer, Sam, and Daffy is just his job, including lengthy commutes between the three locations.
27	* RuleOfThree: As the short takes place in three locations, this comes up a lot, such as Bugs doing some less-than-subtle {{Foreshadowing}}.
28	** "Gee, what strange-looking carrots." ''(dramatic musical sting)'' "Oh, well."
29	** "Gee, what strange-looking wild cactus carrots." ''(taps foot impatiently, waiting for musical sting)'' "Oh, well."
30	** "Gee, what strange-looking... [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ahhh, you know.]]"
31	* ShoutOut:
32	** After falling off a cliff, Sam says "I've fallen and I can't get up!", a line from a famous commercial for the Life Alert emergency bracelet.
33	** The bus Bugs rides in one scene is driven by [[Series/TheHoneymooners Ralph Kramden]].
34	** The pale stereotypes come from the Planet Nudnik. [[WesternAnimation/HeresNudnik Nudnik]] was a cartoon character created by Creator/GeneDeitch in the 1960s.
35	** The rocket carrying the pale stereotypes almost hits [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial Eliot and E.T.]].
36	** Porky's doppelganger is animated in the style of Creator/TerryGilliam.
37	* StylisticSuck: The copies of the Looney Tunes gang are badly animated on purpose.
38	* SynchroVox: The imposter Daffy has super-imposed live-action lips while saying "But now it's all over. It doesn't matter anymore."
39	* TakeThat: The badly animated Looney Tunes copies are basically one big take that against UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, parodying its [[LimitedAnimation limited visuals]] and [[FlatCharacter flat characterization]]. As stated above, the copies came from [[WesternAnimation/HeresNudnik Planet Nudnik.]]
40	* UnexplainedRecovery: Bugs' doppelgänger immediately attempting to kill him upon awakening suggests all the other doppelgängers did the same thing to Elmer, Daffy, and Sam. However, once Bugs disposes of the doppelgängers, the three appear back at their usual spots no worse for wear with no explanation.
41	* VisualPun: A few of them as the Bugs, Elmer, Sam and Daffy imposters get sent into space. Namely, they pass through the Milky Way, which is made entirely of empty milk bottles, and Sirius, the "Dog Star", who sleeps in a doghouse and has a dog's face, as seen when it barks. The doghouse even has a sign next to it reading "[[BewareOfViciousDog Beware of Dog Star]]".
42	* WeWantOurJerkBack: You would think Bugs would be happy with his various enemies replaced with harmless versions of themselves that don't want to harm him, but he actually misses them and their adversarial personalities. Indeed, their confrontations are presented here [[PunchClockVillain as their actual occupations]].
43	* WholePlotReference: The entire plot, and even the title, reference the classic film ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.

Context WesternAnimation / InvasionOfTheBunnySnatchers