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| eastervideoguy wrote: well in all this and rabbit stew before it was completely banned they edited it out where the hunters is naked aand says just call me adam but then bug bunny removes the leaf he has and that was censored
And The Heckling Hare (WB, 1941) originally was conceived with a longer ending scene, where Bugs and Willoughby fall off of not one, or even two cliffs, but three. After they fall off from the first cliff, Bugs says: "Yeah, fooled you, didn't we?" and Willoughby says, "Yeah." When they were to fall from the second cliff, Bugs said "Hold on to your hats, folks. Here we go again!"
Director Tex Avery insisted this additional falling scene be kept, but when it got the attention of Leon Schlesinger, he wanted to trim the additional fall. Avery protested and was subsequently fired from Warner Bros. in 1941, being replaced by Bob Clampett (who already made a name in the WB director's chair in 1937). Apparently Schlesinger edited the scene due to the line "Hold on to your hats" as being considered risque. Coincidentally a similar line ("Hold your seats, folks. Here we go again!") was heard in the 1938 Daffy Duck and Egghead cartoon, called appropriately enough, Daffy Duck and Egghead. The line was spoken by Daffy just before he was to sing the Looney Tunes theme song.
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