Bugs Bunny, once again making that "wrong turn at Albuquerque", burrows into a bullring where a magnificent bull is making short work of a toreador. The bull bucks Bugs out of the arena, prompting the bunny to declare "Of course you realize, this means war!" The deft Bugs' arsenal comes plenty packed, as he uses anvils, well-placed face slaps and the bull's horns as a slingshot. The bull fights back, using his horns as a shotgun barrel. The bull's comeback is short-lived; just after Bugs makes out his will, he lures the bull out of the arena, just in time to set up a rube-like device that leads to the bull's defeat.
Direction
Jones' timing is surgical, every gag lands
Acting
Mel Blanc's bull gulps are ASMR
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn anvil physics, unmatched
Director
Chuck Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chuck Jones allegedly timed this to exactly 6 minutes 59 seconds because he hated when executives rounded down.
This short single-handedly kept 'rube Goldberg machine' in American vocabulary during the 1950s.
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