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Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips is a Merrie Melodies
animated cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, and released to theatres on April 22, 1944 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation.

The cartoon was made during World War II, and reflects the United States' attitude towards one of its main enemies at the time, Japan. In the cartoon, Bugs Bunny lands on an island in the Pacific and is pitted against a group of highly stereotyped Japanese soldiers. Bugs shows no mercy against the Japanese soldiers, greeting them with several racial slurs, making short work of a large sumo wrestler, and bombing most of the Japanese army using various explosives, including bombs hidden in ice cream bars.

Since the 1960s, Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips has become very controversial, because of its portrayal of the Japanese and Bugs' attitude and casual violence toward them. When Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips was included on the compilation home video Bugs and Daffy: The Wartime Years in 1992, Japanese rights groups protested its distribution, and the cartoon was immediately replaced with another.

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