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. . . from the always prophetic Warner Bros. Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners), those unparalleled masters of foreseeing America's upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti. Why Malibu? Because that's the center of the USA's "Domestic Policy" nowadays, which consists mostly of doling out presidential pardons to History's most notorious murderers, thieves, and perverts. Just this week a Malibu Babe persuaded the orange-faced buffoon to release Public Enemy #1, convicted by 12 of her peers of dooming her city by trafficking AT LEAST at TON of cocaine!! (The top generals in America's War on Drugs estimate an overdose death and\or the slaying of on innocent by-stander on the part of an addict desperate to come up with quick cash for the next "fix" is the consequence of every ounce of coke put out on the streets; if you have even third grade math skills, you should be able to easily calculate that "Carrot Tops'" new best bud slaughtered a MINIMUM of 32,000 victims!!) Every miscreant who has ever donated a dollar to the Putin-controlled, Red Commie KGB Pachyderm Party has now been pardoned of even the most heinous crimes, no matter how Racist or Perverted juries declared them to be. BONANZA BUNNY represents this murderer's row in the character of "Blaque Jacque Shellaque," a dead ringer for the now-exonerated "Bernie Madoff." While some Americans might not lose any sleep over "Marta Stewart's" conviction being erased, should the Olympic Gymnastic Team's notorious "Dr. Larry" really be walking the streets again just because some Oval Office Bozo says "He didn't do anything I haven't done myself?" Of course, BONANZA BUNNY's villain Jacque hangs out in Malibu (stepping into the picture from a "Wanted" poster of himself), secure in the belief that he can PARDON HIMSELF if push comes to shove. America's heroic rabbit will have none of this, first shooting Jacque in the face, and then blowing him up twice for good measure.

. . . they must be looked at in the context of firearms. Sometimes Bugs is interacting with Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck, as in the Hunting Season Trilogy. At other junctures Bugs is down South, pursued by trigger-happy bumpkins (who may not even be mammals, as is the case with the rifle-toting vultures of BACKWOODS BUNNY). Out West, Yosemite Sam often is gunning for Bugs. However, during BONANZA BUNNY, it is NOT "Hoss" and "Little Joe" with Bugs in their sights, but rather a not-so-big galoot named Something Jacque Something way Up North. Since both Jacque and Bugs enter this picture packing, one would expect a gun duel to break out eventually. Though the strapped pair begin pacing off at one point, Jacque proves to be a cheating would-be back-shooter, so Bugs tricks this desperado into blasting HIMSELF in the face! Perhaps more significantly, Jacque's subsequent injuries are inflicted by explosions (the first of a TNT stick nature, the latter involving a long trail of gunpowder). Obviously, Bugs is advising viewers that getting shot is too good of a fate for no-good losers such as Jacque.

"Bonanza Bunny" is an American cartoon from 1959, so also already way over 55 years old. It is a Warner bros. production and this results once again in the collaboration of Robert McKimson, Tedd Pierce and voice actor Mel Blanc. The Bonanza reference in the title means of course that here we have a western cartoons film. It runs slightly under 7 minutes as they usually do and has Bugs come to a western town with a bag full of gold nuggets. Or does he really? The solution comes at the end. Everybody wants the nuggets, but a French cowboy wants them the most and he becomes Bugs' main antagonist throughout the film. Sadly, I must say wit and creativity were missing a bit and this film lacks in new aspects (besides the villain). It also was not as funny as many other Looney Toons from the 1950s. That's why I give it a thumbs-down overall. Not recommended.