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Jones admitted as much, having described a surreptitious re-allocation of production time to complete the short. What's Opera, Doc? required about six times as much work and expense as any of the other six-minute cartoons his production unit was turning out at the time. shorts (the others being Hare Brush and Rabbit Rampage) in which Elmer defeats Bugs (though here the former shows regret for defeating the latter), as well as the last Elmer Fudd cartoon directed by Jones. This is the third of the three Warner Bros. The short is also sometimes informally referred to as Kill the Wabbit after the line sung by Elmer to the tune of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries", the opening passage from Act Three of Die Walküre (which is also the leitmotif of the Valkyries). on July 6, 1957, What's Opera, Doc? features the speaking and singing voices of Mel Blanc and Arthur Q.
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Originally released to theaters by Warner Bros. What's Opera, Doc? (LIVE!)/Outfits Original Production
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"Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?" Outfits Bryan as Elmer Fudd (as Siegfried) (uncredited) Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny (as Brünnhilde), Elmer Fudd (yelling "SMOG").The pre-written "That's all, Folks!" card appears while the music finishes. Bugs then breaks the fourth wall and briefly raises his head to face the audience while remarking, "Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?" before going back to playing dead. Elmer triumphantly rushes to see his victory, but upon seeing Bugs' intact yet seemingly lifeless body as a drop of rain lands on the rabbit, Elmer immediately regrets his wrath and tearfully carries the rabbit off, presumably to Valhalla in keeping with the Wagnerian theme, per Act III of The Valkyries (although the music again comes from the overture to Tannhäuser). Once Elmer puts his helmet back into the right position, the "Ride" overture plays once again and the white gazebo turns red (reflecting Elmer's anger), resolving to himself "I'll kill the wabbit!" prompting him to command fierce lightning, "typhoons, huwwicanes, earthquakes" and, finally, "SMOG!!!" to "stwike de wabbit!" while music from The Flying Dutchman plays in the background.Įventually, the ensuing storm tears apart the mountains where Bugs has fled.
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A crescendo drum roll is playing while Elmer struggles to fix his helmet. Bugs yanks Elmer's helmet down over his head and uses it as a chance to escape, discarding his disguise. Bugs' true identity is inadvertently exposed when his headdress falls off, enraging Elmer. "Siegfried" and "Brünnhilde" exchange endearments, set to the "Pilgrims' Chorus" theme from Tannhäuser as orchestrated in the opera's overture.Īfter the usual "hard to get" pursuit, they perform a short ballet (based on the Venusberg ballet in Tannhäuser), capping it off with the duet "Return My Love" set to another section of the Tannhäuser overture as the pair meet at a gazebo. Suddenly, Elmer stops in his tracks at the sight of the beautiful Valkyrie Brünnhilde (who is really Bugs in disguise), riding in grandly on her enormously fat horse, Grane. At that, a scared Bugs flees, Elmer realizes "That was the wabbit!", and the chase begins. This prompts a display of Elmer-as-Siegfried's "mighty powers", set to the overture of The Flying Dutchman, which makes clouds rain and causes lightning to strike the tree next to Bugs. He asks Elmer how he will kill the rabbit, then taunts Elmer about his spear and magic helmet, calling it a "magic fillmet". Bugs sticks his head out of another rabbit hole and, seeming appalled, sings his signature line "What's up, doc?" to the theme of Siegfried's horn call from the Ring Cycle. Elmer then jams his spear into Bugs' hole to "Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit! Kill the wabbit!" to the tune of Ride of the Valkyries. Elmer sings his signature line "Be vewy qwiet, I'm hunting wabbits" in recitative, before he finds "wabbit twacks" (rabbit tracks) and arrives at Bugs Bunny's hole. The screen pans on the silhouette of a mighty Viking arousing ferocious lightning storms, but then zooms in to reveal Elmer Fudd in armor (as the demigod Siegfried).