It's classic encounters of the funniest kind!


From his distinguished retirement in a carrot-filled mansion in Beverly Hills, Bugs Bunny (in new animation) introduces the stories of dozens of cartoon adventures created during the Chuck Jones tenure (1939-62) at Warner Brothers' animation department. The new animation contains many in-jokes and sly references; look for the portraits of many eminent figures in the animation business, including Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, and Mel Blanc in the eminent rabbit's portrait gallery. Besides featuring Bugs and the Road Runner, the film contains adventures with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd, including the classic, "Duck Amuck."


The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie is a 1979 Looney Tunes film with a compilation of classic Warner Bros. cartoon shorts and animated bridging sequences, hosted by Bugs Bunny. The bridging sequences show Bugs at his home, which is cantilevered over a carrot-juice waterfall (modeled on Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater" house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania).[citation needed]
Early on, Bugs discusses the wild villans he had co-starred with in his cartoons, which is followed by a tongue-in-cheek sequence depicting the history of comedy, and a scene in which Bugs discusses his "several fathers". The latter scene was written by Chuck Jones as a way to debunk fellow animation director Robert Clampett's claims throughout the 1970s that he alone created Bugs, and Clampett's name is notably missing from Bugs's list, as a result of the conflict between Jones and Clampett.[citation needed]
The first half of the film consists of classic cartoons (some of which have been shortened with some scenes removed) featuring Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Marvin the Martian, and Pepé Le Pew. They include (in order):


The cartoons and bridging scenes were directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. The backgrounds and animation were contributed by Maurice Noble and Ben Washam.
A new gag was developed by Chuck Jones for the film. After the WB logo appears at the beginning, he put the "That's all, Folks!" card up being written in the wrong place. A frustrated Bugs Bunny sees it and pushes the ending iris away from the scene. He then pushes the words away and squeezes a giant, red, underlined "NOT" in the sentence, so that it reads "That's NOT all, Folks!". He then smiles and lets the iris push itself back in. The same thing happens at the end of the film, but right as the title is being written, a frustrated Bugs prevents it from finishing by putting his nose in while it was writing. He then causes it to back-write and the quotes, who look like they are characters as well, are stunned and Bugs says, "well". The title is then rewritten to say "That's not quite all, Folks!" with the "not quite" being red and underlined. The title disappears as Bugs lowers the credits down to be played. After the credits, Bugs appears on top of a Warner Bros. logo shield zooming in out of the ending iris of the "That's all, Folks!" card. He then says, "Eat your heart out, Burt Reynolds!" before he and the logo zoom back into the iris, followed by the text "That's all, Folks!" fading in, with the added underlined word "really" to make the sentence read "That's really all, Folks!"
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie was dedicated to Dorothy Jones, the wife of Chuck Jones, who died not long before the film was released.


Release Date: September 29, 1979


Distrib: Warner Brothers