My Bunny Lies Over the Sea (1948)

Very Cool!!!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

. . . that your 200-mile round trips from the suburbs again will be just so much wasted time and gas (due to the fact that this part of America's Windy City is a police "No Go" zone, where the Government is totally powerless to oppose Anti-Christmas Economic Terrorists--or ET's--eager to harm as many random Middle Class Citizens as they can over some perceived slight dating back to the arrival of slaves in VIRGINIA in the early 1600s that the ancestors of Chicago's would-be shoppers fought and died to FREE!), and that "the other shoe" could drop at any moment if the ET's are further incensed by a life-time PGA ban of one of their role models for his serial cheating popping up on TV tournament golf broadcasts in recent years: during MY BUNNY LIES OVER THE SEA, Bugs Bunny demonstrates the 50 ways to Shave Your Scorecard, and cites the cases of Kaduffleblaze vs. Fuddle (Hebrides Open, 1918), Fraddis vs. Grisfritter (Private Match, No Year Given), as well as Bizbu vs. Stoigen (Casablanca Amateur, No Year Given) to establish that Golf has been The Liars' "Sport" since its earliest beginnings in Scotland, and is generally what you would expect from a nation where the men wear the skirts and do the (bagpipe) wailing!

Though this Looney Tunes episode has a great deal of stereotypical Scottish things featured, it is good all the same (the Scottish seem to love being their stereotypes for some reason, so it is OK that they do do it this way.) In "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea", Bugs Bunny is yet again trying to reach a place by going underground - and, as usual, he takes the wrong turn at Alberquerque - and ends up in the Highland of Scotland! He angers the first Scotsman he sees by ruining his bagpipes - and the Scotsman challenges the rabbit to a game of golf. The only mediocre thing about the episode was the predictability of the game of golf. The backgrounds, the other jokes (there are some very good verbal jokes here towards the end which are hard to catch) and the Scottishness about it were all brilliant. I also loved the background of Loch Lomond - very detailed for a Looney Tunes episode and quite true. Wonder if the Termite Terrace team went to Scotland before doing this episode... I recommend this episode to people who love Scotland, Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes. Enjoy "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea"! :-)

In perhaps Bugs's first reference to that "wrong turn at Albequerque," he instead finds himself in Scotland where he encounters a Scottish bagpipe player (whom he mistakenly presumes is an old lady being attacked by a monster - if that makes sense to you). After Bugs unknowingly destroys the Scotsman's bagpipes, he decides to settle the dispute by challenging the rabbit to a game of golf. Wackiness ensues.Although nothing above the ordinary, this is still a pretty amusing Bugs Bunny short. The interplay between him and the Scotsman at the beginning is funny (particularly Bugs's portrayal of a Scottish landowner). As are several of the tricks Bugs plays on him when on the links. As far as characterization is concerned, Bugs is his usual tricky self (but no more) while the Scotsman is the stereotypical foreigner complete with a deliberately funny Scottish accent. With no other characters to speak of, this may be one of Bugs's most simplistic cartoons ever (not to be confused with "worst" mind you). The surprise ending is pretty funny too as it finally gives the Scotsman a fair come-uppance.Perhaps the most interesting thing about this short is its animation. Despite being released in 1948, the cartoon both looks and sounds more like a 1950s short. By contrast, later shorts like High Diving Hare and Rebel Rabbit look and feel more like 1940s shorts. This just goes to show how ahead of his time Chuck Jones really was as his less cinematic style of animation was in the 70s and 80s imitated by almost every cartoonist in one way or another.Overall, this is a fairly average Bugs Bunny cartoon. But understand that an average Bugs cartoon is still better than a top cartoon with most other cartoon characters. That alone makes it well worth watching.

When Bugs takes that oh-so-famous right turn when he should have went left, he ends up in Scotland instead of the Labrea Tar Pits. The best ever game of golf ever seen on T.V. against a Scottish bag-pipe player ensues. Definitely for any Bugs fan whose ever played a round of golf. I only wish i could pull some of those stunts on the links. 10 out of 10.