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This Bugs Bunny from Gremlins 2: The New Batch is such a find, and a must for Gremlins fans! This is a rare original production cel of Bugs Bunny from Gremlins 2: The New Batch
The film includes animated segments written and directed by Chuck Jones and featuring Looney Tunes characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. Jones had retired from animation before returning to work on Gremlins 2: The New Batch.[9] Dante explained the animation at the beginning of the film was meant to "set the anarchic tone."
The first segment initiates the film and features the classic Looney Tunes opening card, leading to the assumption that this is a cartoon that is being shown alongside the film; however, when Bugs appears through the rings on top of the Warner Bros. shield, Daffy interrupts the sequence and pulls Bugs away from the shield, striving to recreate the opening with himself in Bugs' place. Unfortunately, the shield overshoots, causing the entire card to fall apart and become stuck around Daffy's waist. An annoyed Daffy states that since he will not star in the cartoon, they might as well just skip straight to the film. Bugs happily obliges by spinning Daffy away from the screen like a spinning top, making way for the film's title to appear.
The DVD and Blu-ray release of the film include a longer version of the cartoon short. In it, Daffy is informed by Bugs that he has been promoted to executive and is subsequently put in charge of writing the title of the movie. When Daffy mistakenly writes the title Gremlins 2 as "Gremlin Stew", Bugs corrects the error. Daffy then attempts to rename the film The Return of Super-Daffy Meets Gremlins 2 Part 6: The Movie, but Bugs rejects this for being too long, changing it back to Gremlins 2 (rendered in the font of the official logo). Daffy then quits his new job and Bugs decides to add a subtitle, saying it looks "a little skimpy" without one. This material was removed from the theatrical release because early audiences expected a live-action film and were bewildered by the lengthy animated sequence.
Trivia about the Bugs and friends cameo in Gremlins 2: The New Batch:
- When the film is aired on national television, the Looney Tunes scenes are often cut, possibly due to time constraints. Non-USA television broadcasts of this film however were aired with the Looney Tunes scenes kept intact.
- There is also a Looney Tunes character named The Gremlin from the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare" (1943) that did not appear in this film.
- A short clip of the cartoon was included in the home video release of the film, first on VHS and later as an easter egg on the DVD version.
- One of the gremlins in this movie is named after Daffy Duck.
- This is the first appearance of the Looney Tunes characters following the passing of long-time voice actor Mel Blanc the previous year; Jeff Bergman voices Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig in this film.
- This is Bugs, Daffy, and Porky's first appearance in a PG-13 rated movie, as well as the Looney Tunes characters' first appearances in PG-13 rated films (as well as films aimed at older audiences and with a higher rating than PG) in general.
- Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner appeared in the Gremlins season 2 episode "Never Try the Cider". They are portrayed as animal spirits. HERE IS THE EXTENDED SEGMENT (with the cel showing at 1:29 in the video)
https://youtu.be/hG_SFh90Ggc?si=3hLU7smsXwj69nqp
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 - February 22, 2002) was an American animator, filmmaker, cartoonist, author, artist, and screenwriter, best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepe Le Pew, Porky Pig, Michigan J. Frog, the Three Bears, and a slew of other Warner characters.
After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions, and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.
Jones was nominated for an Academy Award eight times and won three times, receiving awards for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line. He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Enterprises. He also said that the "feud" that there may have been between Jones and colleague Bob Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other. In Jerry Beck's The 50 Greatest Cartoons, ten of the entries were directed by Jones, with four out of the five top cartoons being Jones shorts.
