Delivering his first egg to the junior brat inside, he gets it returned – right in his eye. While Bugs improvises a song, “Here’s the Easter Rabbit, hooray!” to the tune of his old introductory theme, “Woo Woo” from 1939’s “Hare-Un Scare-Um”, he comments that it’s a good thing he doesn’t have to do this for a living.
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The Easter rabbit, using the by-line of the Happy Postman, gives Bugs a final word of advice in a quavery voice: “And remember, keep smiling” – then asides to the audience that “Every year I get some dumb bunny to do my work.”īugs’ first stop is on a “Dead End” street, at the home of the “Dead End Kid” (reference to a long-popular series of B-movies about juvenile delinquents). Bugs, not doing anything, volunteers to deliver the “Technicolor henfruit”. The stoop-shouldered geezer complains that he has all these eggs to deliver – but his feet are killing him. (In fact, Bugs would perform Easter services twice, also appearing as an Easter bunny (but without eggs) in the “Freddie, Get Ready” number with Doris Day and Jack Carson in My Dream Is Yours (1949).) But in the 1947 edition, Bugs, while minding his own business catching up on his reading (a volume titled “How to Multiply” – which he guards like a teenager with a vimtage edition of Playboy), is set upon by a miserable old coot of an Easter Bunny (a character which had provided Mel Blanc a resume credit in another medium, as the established voice of the “Happy” Postman on the George Burns and Gracie Allen radio show – a dour fellow who was in fact anything but happy).
It’s high time all of Hollywood’s chickens and bunnies took some tips on the subject from the greatest “Wabbit” of them all.Įaster Yeggs (Warner, Bugs Bunny, 6/28/47 – Robert McKimson, dir.) – If Walter Lantz could turn his staring Rabbit into an Easter Bunny, it was inevitable that Bugs would sooner or later have to follow suit. Into the late 1940’s, with another springtime holiday for eggs on the plate.
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