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3"Rabbitson Crusoe" is a 1956 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng and featuring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam. In this parody of Daniel Defoe's famous novel, ''Literature/RobinsonCrusoe'', Sam is in the titular role: a shipwreck survivor forced to inhabit a tiny island with nothing but coconuts to eat and constantly having his life endangered by the presence of a man-eating shark named Dopey Dick that prowls the shore.
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5When he spots fellow castaway Bugs drifting out at sea, Sam senses an opportunity to have rabbit stew for a change. Bugs, of course, will have none of it.
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8!!"Rabbitson Crusoe" provides examples of:
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10* AffectionateParody: Of "Robinson Crusoe".
11* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Whenever Sam beats back at Dopey Dick, the shark retreats while yelping like a dog. Also, Sam tries to distract Dick with a bone, which Dick goes after.
12* BigShutUp: When Bugs tries to warn Sam about an incoming tidal wave, Sam ignores him with the command, "SHADDUP AND START SIMMERIN'!"
13* DesertedIsland: The setting of the cartoon obviously.
14* GiantWallOfWateryDoom: Bugs sees a tidal wave coming toward the island and tries to warn Sam, but Sam, thinking it's just a trick of Bugs to escape, ignores him until it's too late, whereupon the wave does indeed make the island disappear.
15-->'''Bugs:''' Holy carrot sticks! The island's gone!
16* OhCrap: Bugs has a rather sickly reaction when he learns that he is the rabbit that Sam intends to eat.
17** Also, Sam laughs evilly when he sees he's about to get Bugs on the ship, but his laugh trails off into a groan when Bugs opens the hatch, revealing the shark Sam is about to face as he lowers down into the hatch.
18* PunnyName: Dopey Dick's name is a pun on ''Literature/MobyDick''.
19* {{Robinsonade}}: With Yosemite Sam taking the role of the shipwrecked man. Naturally, he's the antagonist.
20* SuperPersistentPredator: Dopey Dick, if what Sam has to say is any indication after the shark tries again to get him:
21-->'''Sam:''' Twenty years tryin' and ya missed me again, ya shovel-nosed mackerel! No-good bushwhackin' barracuda!
22* ThreateningShark: Don't let Dopey Dick's silly appearance fool you -- he is still a threat.

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