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Wackiki Wabbit is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, starring Bugs Bunny. It was written by Tedd Pierce and directed by Chuck Jones. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, and Michael Maltese. The musical score was conducted by Carl Stalling

"Wackiki Wabbit" is notable for its experimental use of strongly graphic, nearly abstract backgrounds.

Plot synopsis

The cartoon opens with two castaways adrift on a small raft in the middle of the ocean. Hunger starts to overcome them, to the point where they start imagining each other as food. They spot an island in the distance and rush ashore, meeting Bugs Bunny.

Chasing Bugs through the jungle, they spy him, dressed as one of the "natives", dancing. Bugs welcomes them with, "Ah! White Men! Welcome to Hula-hula-nooka-nooka-aaaa-island." He then proceeds to speak in polynesian-accented nonsense, which is subtitled "What's up, doc?"

For a while, Bugs tricks them by substituting a skinned chicken for himself in the large cooking pot. He taunts them with the chicken, using it as a marionette, until the strings are tangled and he has to make a quick escape.

Before the castaways can regroup, they are interrupted by a steam whistle from a ship. Overjoyed at the prospect of being saved. Bugs kisses them goodbye and presents them with leis before pulling a switcheroo and boarding the ship himself. The boat pulls out, leaving the two men on the island, still waving goodbye to Bugs. The Skinny Man slaps the Fat Man for still yelling "Goodbye!", and the two once again imagine themselves as a frankfurter and a hamburger, chasing each other into the distance.

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