Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.
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- Stars
Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- …
Billy Bletcher
- The Champ
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaBugs uses a prop to simulate a disaster for Crusher (here, a broken bone) and then shows up as someone who can help (a doctor)... but doesn't, really. This gag would be repeated a few years later in Bunny Hugged, with a slightly different angle.
- GoofsBugs describes a 'rabbit punch to the kidneys' - a rabbit punch is to the back of the neck or skull. The term is derived from a technique hunters used to kill rabbits quickly, by the use of a sharp chop to the back of the head where it meets the neck.
- Quotes
[after film "breaks"]
Bugs Bunny: Ladies and gentlemen. Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to continue with this picture. And, eh, confidentially, that film didn't exactly break.
[holds up scissors, winks at audience]
- ConnectionsEdited into His Hare Raising Tale (1951)
- SoundtracksThe Black Horse Troop
(uncredited)
Music by John Philip Sousa
Played during the opening credits
Also played during rounds 48 and 73
Featured review
A great cartoon that is far superior to the remake, 'Bunny Hugged'
Chuck Jones's 'Rabbit Punch' is a great cartoon in which Bugs is drawn into a boxing match with The Champ (later redubbed The Crusher in the far inferior wrestling-based sequel 'Bunny Hugged') and ends up going 110 rounds with him, each round escalating in its levels of violence until finally Bugs finds himself tied to a train track! A fast paced, beautifully orchestrated cartoon which eventually turns into a series of unusual spot-gags, 'Rabbit Punch' is full of great sequences, the best being Bugs's grease-assisted ice skating routine which is abruptly ended by a glove to the head. There's also a famous ending in which Bugs admits psychical defeat by resorting to tampering with the very cartoon itself. Unlike the lifeless follow-up 'Bunny Hugged', 'Rabbit Punch' is filled with invention and moves along at a fast lick, making it an enormously enjoyable short.
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- phantom_tollbooth
- Nov 4, 2008
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- Крутой боксер
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- Runtime8 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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