When Elmer Fudd brings Bugs Bunny home for dinner main course, Bugs tricks him into thinking there is a terrible outbreak of Rabbititus.
Direction
Jones builds to panic with surgical comedic precision.

Director
Chuck Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Chuck Jones's first Bugs-Elmer pairing after taking over from Tex Avery, establishing his more cerebral, psychological comedy style.
Rabbititus parodies real wartime disease panics—1945 audiences were VERY familiar with quarantine anxiety.