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ThePeterNetwork
08-10-2005, 06:58 PM
So I've seen this particular LT cartoon over and over where Sam uses Bugs as a gold detector with hilarious results, and at the final scene, Bugs leads Sam to Fort Knox where Sam is arrested, and Bugs makes his getaway in a streetcar... I mean a boat.

Anyone have any idea why a boat was chosen? Surprise value? Funnier ending? Streetcars non-existant in Kentucky?
Thad
08-10-2005, 07:02 PM
That's 14 CARROT RABBIT's ending. I guess the ending means Bugs isn't being too choosey about means of escape from punishment for breaking into Fort Knox.

-Thad
Jaime_Weinman
08-10-2005, 08:04 PM
The gag is a variation on an old gag where someone says "Believe it or not, I'm waiting for a streetcar," and then a streetcar actually arrives in some very unlikely place (like a forest or a bedroom). I guess Warren Foster didn't want to just do that gag with no variation, so he added the twist of having a boat show up instead of the streetcar.

I think that's one of the last examples in WB cartoons of the kind of totally silly, Vaudeville-style ending gags that were common in the '40s but started to die out in the '50s (I could actually see Foster writing the same gag for Clampett or Tashlin, unlike a lot of his work for Freleng).
Miss Marnie
08-11-2005, 12:47 AM
I've always wondered about that ending to 14 Carrot Rabbit. Thanks for explaining it.
guy incognito
08-11-2005, 06:48 PM
The gag is a variation on an old gag where someone says "Believe it or not, I'm waiting for a streetcar," and then a streetcar actually arrives in some very unlikely place (like a forest or a bedroom). I guess Warren Foster didn't want to just do that gag with no variation, so he added the twist of having a boat show up instead of the streetcar.


His Hare-Raising Tale ends with a similar bit, IIRC.
ThePeterNetwork
08-12-2005, 06:00 AM
His Hare-Raising Tale ends with a similar bit, IIRC.

Is that on any of the LTGC discs?
Cartman
08-12-2005, 10:48 AM
Is that on any of the LTGC discs?
No. It isn't.:bugs2:
gilligan fanati
08-12-2005, 03:19 PM
Is that on any of the LTGC discs?

I think it was on one of the laser discs though in the early 90's but I could be wrong
ThePeterNetwork
08-12-2005, 06:59 PM
Oh, wait, I think I remember that one. Isn't that the "clip cartoon" where Bugs takes his nephew Clyde down Memory Lane via clips of his past cartoon adventures, and in the end Clyde gives him this look of disbelief to which Bugs says something like, "If everything I said wasn't true, then I hope to be run over by a streetcar," and then he promptly gets run over by said streetcar.

So many cartoon titles, so much work to match their respective plots. :bugs2: