Cotton pickers mistake Bugs' tail for a ball of cotton and toss him in with the rest of the haul. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.Cotton pickers mistake Bugs' tail for a ball of cotton and toss him in with the rest of the haul. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.Cotton pickers mistake Bugs' tail for a ball of cotton and toss him in with the rest of the haul. On the riverboat Bugs takes on the gambler Colonel Shuffle.
- Director
- Writer
- Stars
Mel Blanc
- Bugs Bunny
- (voice)
- …
Billy Bletcher
- Col. Shuffle
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
The Sportsmen Quartet
- Vocalists
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- Trivia"Mississippi Hare" was one of 11 cartoons pulled from rotation by the Cartoon Network for its 2001 "June Bugs" marathon (which was to show the complete chronology of Bugs Bunny cartoons) due to pressure from Warner Bros. This was in addition to the "Censored 11" that had been withheld from distribution since 1968. The reason given was related to the short's depiction of people with dark complexions and a certain idea about it being potentially offensive.
- GoofsThroughout the short Col. Shuffle fires his pistols as if they were revolvers or semi-automatics, despite the fact that they are represented as single-shot muzzle-loaded sidearms.
- Quotes
Col. Shuffle: If'n I had four feet and went "hee haw", what would I be?
Bugs: Why, you'd be a jackass.
- ConnectionsEdited into Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 1/2 Minutes (1989)
- Soundtracks(I Wish I Was in) Dixie's Land
(uncredited)
aka "Dixie"
Written by Daniel Decatur Emmett
Sung by The Sportsmen Quartet at the beginning
Variation played when Colonel Shuffle chases Bugs into the boiler room
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Bugs Playing Two Southern Roles
Accidentally picked up and stuffed into a bale of cotton, Bugs winds up on a steamship headed to Mississippi. Fearful of being discovered as a stowaway and thrown into the river, Bugs dons two different disguises, beginning with his Southern aristocrat outfit and finishing with his Southern Belle look.
In the bulk of the story, Bugs battles a Yosemite Sam-type character in "Colonel Shuffle," a gambler who doesn't tolerate losing. Overall, the duels between the two had a few funny sight gags but not many. The dialog was the attraction here more than the slapstick visuals.
The final line Bugs delivers in here - directed to us, the audience, - was "cute." Overall, however, this was okay, but nothing special.
Note: I was stunned to see from other reviewers here comment that the Politically-Correct Police banned this cartoon because a black person was seen early on picking cotton. Excuse me, but what's the problem? Many blacks did pick cotton down South. So what? You censor a cartoon for showing something that happened in history? Black people would not be offended at that opening scene. That's going way overboard. It sounds like modern-day Nazism. By the way, where is the concerned PC Police in all these cartoons and movies which almost always show Southerners to be stupid?
Banning Bugs Bunny cartoons? How lame and ludicrous can you get?
As another reviewer said, the cartoon isn't offensive, just not all that funny.
In the bulk of the story, Bugs battles a Yosemite Sam-type character in "Colonel Shuffle," a gambler who doesn't tolerate losing. Overall, the duels between the two had a few funny sight gags but not many. The dialog was the attraction here more than the slapstick visuals.
The final line Bugs delivers in here - directed to us, the audience, - was "cute." Overall, however, this was okay, but nothing special.
Note: I was stunned to see from other reviewers here comment that the Politically-Correct Police banned this cartoon because a black person was seen early on picking cotton. Excuse me, but what's the problem? Many blacks did pick cotton down South. So what? You censor a cartoon for showing something that happened in history? Black people would not be offended at that opening scene. That's going way overboard. It sounds like modern-day Nazism. By the way, where is the concerned PC Police in all these cartoons and movies which almost always show Southerners to be stupid?
Banning Bugs Bunny cartoons? How lame and ludicrous can you get?
As another reviewer said, the cartoon isn't offensive, just not all that funny.
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- ccthemovieman-1
- Aug 25, 2007
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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