All This and Rabbit Stew
In this short cartoon, Bugs Bunny finds himself dealing with a hunter whose character is drawn and played as a Black man, and the rabbit uses his usual wit to mock and escape the hunter's clumsy attempts to catch him. The episode includes a comic sequence where Bugs also squabbles with a bear,... Read more
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About All This and Rabbit Stew
In this short cartoon, Bugs Bunny finds himself dealing with a hunter whose character is drawn and played as a Black man, and the rabbit uses his usual wit to mock and escape the hunter's clumsy attempts to catch him. The episode includes a comic sequence where Bugs also squabbles with a bear, using trickery to turn danger into slapstick advantage. The action moves quickly, trading sight gags and fast dialogue for physical humor, and it keeps the focus on Bugs' clever evasions without giving away how the chase ends.
Released in 1941, the film was directed by Tex Avery and written by Dave Monahan, part of the era's theatrical animated shorts that circulated before feature films.
As a period cartoon short, it does not have widely reported box office totals. Theatrical shorts typically weren't tracked with standalone grosses, so no reliable commercial figures are available for this title.
The cartoon is one of the "Censored Eleven," a group of Warner Bros shorts pulled from United Artists TV distribution in 1968 because of racist stereotyping. It has become a frequent example in discussions about how early animation portrayed race and is rarely broadcast today, appearing mainly in historical surveys or academic contexts.
Modern viewers and critics tend to separate technical aspects from the subject matter: Avery's brisk pacing and gag construction get some acknowledgment, but the racial caricature dominates assessments. The film's humor reflects attitudes of its time that audiences and scholars now treat as offensive, so contemporary commentary focuses on how the cartoon illustrates changing standards in comedy, representation, and the ethics of preserving problematic work from animation history.
Details
- Release Date
- September 20, 1941
- Runtime
- 7m
- User Ratings
- 26 votes
- Type
- Movie
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy
- Country
- United States
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures +1 more
- External Links
- View on IMDB
Cast
Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny (voice) (uncredited)
Darrell Payne
Black Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
Director: Tex Avery
Written by: Dave Monahan