Rabbit Transit (film)

Rabbit Transit
Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) series
Directed by	I. Freleng
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Michael Maltese Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross Gerry Chiniquy A. C. Gamer (effects animation)
Layouts by	Hawley Pratt
Backgrounds by	Philip DeGuard
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	May 10, 1947 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	8 minutes
Language	English

Rabbit Transit is an 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng, released in 1947, and starring Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle. The title is a play on "Rapid Transit".

Cecil and Bugs had previously raced each other in 1941's Tortoise Beats Hare and 1943's Tortoise Wins By a Hare. This cartoon was their final encounter. Unlike Tortoise Wins by a Hare, this cartoon presumes that Bugs and Cecil have never met before now.

Plot

While relaxing in a steam bath, Bugs reads about the original fable and, as he did reading the credits of Tortoise Beats Hare, becomes incensed at the idea of a turtle outrunning a rabbit. Cecil, also in the steam bath, claims that he could outrun Bugs, prompting Bugs to challenge him to a race (again, as in Tortoise Beats Hare, although at least here Bugs receives some provocation). This time, Bugs and Cecil agree to no cheating. Cecil, however, quickly reveals that his shell is now rocket propelled, allowing him to go a surprising combination between fast and slow. Bugs does his best to steal, dismantle, and destroy the device, but all to little effect. In the end, however, Bugs does manage to top the turtle and crosses the finish line first. Nevertheless, it is Cecil who has the last laugh when he rooks the rabbit into confessing to "doing 100 easy"—in a 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed zone. Bugs is taken away by the police to enjoy his victory—behind bars. Cecil closes the cartoon by famously saying, "Ain't I a...um...stinker?".

Availability

VHS- Bugs!
VHS- Bugs Bunny's Zaniest Toons
VHS- Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 10: The Art of Bugs
VHS- Looney Tunes Collectors Edition: A Looney Life
Laserdisc- Bugs! And Elmer!
Laserdisc- Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol 1
DVD- Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol 2
Blu-ray- Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Vol 2

Preceded by Rhapsody Rabbit	Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1947	Succeeded by A Hare Grows in Manhattan

Films directed by Friz Freleng

1930s	Buddy the Gob (1934) Buddy and Towser (1934) Beauty and the Beast (1934) Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935) I Haven't Got a Hat (1935) My Green Fedora (1935) The Cat Came Back (1936) I'm a Big Shot Now (1936) Bingo Crosbyana (1936) Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936) Toy Town Hall (1936) Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936) The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936) Pigs Is Pigs (1937) The Fella with the Fiddle (1937) She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937) Clean Pastures (1937) The Lyin' Mouse (1937) Jungle Jitters (1938)

1940s	Confederate Honey (1940) You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940) Porky's Bear Facts (1941) Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941) Notes to You (1941) Rhapsody in Rivets (1941) The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942) Fresh Hare (1942) The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) Ding Dog Daddy (1942) Pigs in a Polka (1943) The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943) Greetings Bait (1943) Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943) Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) Daffy – The Commando (1943) Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944) Snafuperman (1944) Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944) Duck Soup to Nuts (1944) Hare Force (1944) Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944) Payday (1944) Three Brothers (1944) Stage Door Cartoon (1944) Herr Meets Hare (1945) Life with Feathers (1945) Hare Trigger (1945) Ain't That Ducky (1945) Peck Up Your Troubles (1945) Baseball Bugs (1946) Holiday for Shoestrings (1946) Hollywood Daffy (1946) Of Thee I Sting (1946) Racketeer Rabbit (1946) Rhapsody Rabbit (1946) The Gay Anties (1947) Tweetie Pie (1947) Rabbit Transit (1947) A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947) Along Came Daffy (1947) Slick Hare (1947) Back Alley Oproar (1948) I Taw a Putty Tat (1948) Buccaneer Bunny (1948) Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) Hare Splitter (1948) Hare Do (1949) Kit for Cat (1948) Wise Quackers (1949) High Diving Hare (1949) Curtain Razor (1949) Knights Must Fall (1949) Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949) Dough for the Do-Do (1949) Which Is Witch (1949)

1950s	Home Tweet Home (1950) Mutiny on the Bunny (1950) The Lion's Busy (1950) Big House Bunny (1950) His Bitter Half (1950) All a Bir-r-r-d (1950) Golden Yeggs (1950) Bunker Hill Bunny (1950) Canary Row (1950) Canned Feud (1950) A Fox in a Fix (1951) Rabbit Every Monday (1951) A Bone for a Bone (1951) His Hare-Raising Tale (1951) The Fair-Haired Hare (1951) Room and Bird (1951) Tweety's S.O.S. (1951) Ballot Box Bunny (1951) Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951) Gift Wrapped (1952) Foxy by Proxy (1952) 14 Carrot Rabbit (1952) Little Red Rodent Hood (1952) Ain't She Tweet (1952) Cracked Quack (1952) A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) Tree for Two (1952) Hare Lift (1952) Snow Business (1953) A Mouse Divided (1953) Fowl Weather (1953) Southern Fried Rabbit (1953) Hare Trimmed (1953) Tom Tom Tomcat (1953) A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953) Catty Cornered (1953) Robot Rabbit (1953) Dog Pounded (1954) Captain Hareblower (1954) Bugs and Thugs (1954) Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954) Muzzle Tough (1954) Satan's Waitin' (1954) Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954) Goo Goo Goliath (1954) Pizzicato Pussycat (1955) Sahara Hare (1955) Sandy Claws (1955) Hare Brush (1955) Tweety's Circus (1955) This Is a Life? (1955) Hyde and Hare (1955) Speedy Gonzales (1955) Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955) Roman Legion-Hare (1955) Heir-Conditioned (1955) Tweet and Sour (1956) Rabbitson Crusoe (1956) Tree Cornered Tweety (1956) Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956) Tugboat Granny (1956) A Star Is Bored (1956) Three Little Bops (1957) Tweet Zoo (1957) Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957) Piker's Peak (1957) Birds Anonymous (1957) Bugsy and Mugsy (1957) Greedy for Tweety (1957) Show Biz Bugs (1957) Hare-Less Wolf (1958) A Pizza Tweety Pie (1958) Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) Trick or Tweet (1959) Apes of Wrath (1959) Tweet and Lovely (1959) Mexicali Shmoes (1959) Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)

1960s	Hyde and Go Tweet (1960) From Hare to Heir (1960) Lighter Than Hare (1960) Putty Tat Trouble (1961) D' Fightin' Ones (1961) Rebel Without Claws (1961) The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) Prince Violent (1961) The Last Hungry Cat (1961) The Jet Cage (1962) Shishkabugs (1962) Devil's Feud Cake (1963) The Unmentionables (1963) Nuts and Volts (1964) The Pink Phink (1964) Road to Andalay (1964) The Wild Chase (1965) Cats and Bruises (1965) The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965) The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)

1980s	The Chocolate Chase (1980) The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)

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