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Bug House Bunny is a 1950 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot

Needing to get away from hunters, Bugs digs a tunnel and accidentally winds up in Sing Song Prison (a clear reference to Sing Sing Prison). As he tries walking away, Yosemite Sam ('playing' a warden named Sam Schultz) beats on Bugs, telling him, "Caught you trying to escape, eh 77174?" To which Bugs replies, "I'm not 77174 - I'm only 3 1/2." Sam finds this fine, and soon Bugs is in a prison uniform, breaking rocks, with the prison number "3 1/2" (as Bugs says, "Eh, my mother told me there'd be days like this.")

When Sam tells Bugs he'll be in prison for 50 years, Bugs tries to make an escape, telling Sam that a different prisoner is escaping over the wall. Bugs puts his own ball which he's chained to in the cannon, which Sam fires, causing Bugs to leave. Sam chases after Bugs and brings him back.

When Sam attempts to put Bugs into a jail cell, Bugs manages to pull a switch on Sam, causing Sam to be locked up instead. Bugs then 'challenges' Sam to a fight, saying "You wouldn't be so tough with that uniform on." Sam goes for it, taking off his jacket and cap. After making a few fight gestures, Bugs puts on Sam's cap and jacket, causing Sam to be locked up instead. Bugs comes up to Sam and hands him an 'escape kit', complete with map and pickaxe. However, Sam winds up digging into the office of the warden, who yells at Sam before he's kicked out.

After a few more attempts at getting Bugs (including mistaking Bugs for the warden, and soon after the actual warden for Bugs), Sam has finally had enough. He opens the door, yelling for Bugs to get out. With Bugs gone, Sam is delighted... until he hears the warden over the intercom, "Shultz! OFFICE!" The next scene is of Sam in a prison uniform, breaking rocks, wondering who was the 'stool pigeon' who squealed on him. We then see Bugs standing on a stool, acting like a pigeon and cooing.

Trivia

The original cartoon included a sequence where Bugs ran up to an executioner's noose and used the platform as an elevator to get away from Sam. When Sam tried to do the same thing, he wound up temporarily hanged. This was removed from the cartoon when it went into American syndication, but it has been restored in the DVD edition.

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