Plot Slick_Hare

bugs bunny impersonates groucho. animation virgil ross.

the cartoon opens various shots of 1940s celebrities dining , drinking @ mocrumbo club—including such personalities ray milland (in spoof of lost weekend, pays drink adding machine , receives miniature adding machines change), gregory peck using straight razor cut steak in reference character in hitchcock s spellbound , frank sinatra (depicted exaggeratedly thin, so slips straw when trying take sip drink). fudd waiter @ mocrumbo , comes out find next customer humphrey bogart.

bogart tells elmer wants fried rabbit, within 20 minutes—or else! (pulls out tommy gun). puts elmer in bind, restaurant fwesh out of wabbit. however, during frantic search one, elmer hears familiar sound of bugs munching on carrots in corner of kitchen. elmer lets bugs know bogart wants have him dinner. bugs dresses in tailcoat , wants have peek @ cooking. elmer puts mirror pot. bugs, taking inside, realizes himself main course.

bugs manages escape kitchen, dressing groucho marx in attempt fool elmer. elmer appears next bugs, dressed harpo marx. bugs tries make getaway, stopped large abdomen of sydney greenstreet. runs carmen miranda s dressing room , hides in iconic fruit headdress. carmen performs song , exits stage, elmer starts chasing bugs. elmer runs away audience leaving bugs dance orchestra s samba rhythms.

bugs makes way kitchen, revels in audience s appreciation of performance ( ah, public! how love me! a-huh-huh! (the little laugh being jack benny shtick). fudd runs towards bugs, , bugs pretends waiter ordering pies , twice splatters elmer in face. third time (a comic triple), elmer throws pie @ bugs, ducks , sails out seating area, hitting bogart in face. bogart walks kitchen, grabs elmer , asks him, why did hit me in face wid coconut custard pie wid whipped cream? bogart warns elmer has 5 minutes come fried rabbit. elmer searches frantically, cannot find 1 in time. bogart returns, , sticks hand in jacket menacingly. elmer thinks s die, bogart pulls out handkerchief dab forehead says resignedly, baby have have ham sandwich instead. upon hearing baby , bugs jumps out of hiding place , takes place main course (lauren bacall being baby ), noting, remember, garçon, customer right! if s rabbit baby wants, rabbit baby gets! before howling , wolf whistling @ bacall.