Stage Door Cartoon

1944 film by Friz Freleng

Stage Door Cartoon is a 1944 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on December 30, 1944, and features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd. It's the first cartoon featuring the music What's Up, Doc?, in the opening titles.

Bugs Bunny

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  • I'll do it, but I'll probably hate myself in the morning!

Dialogue

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Southern Sheriff: [to Elmer, who has no pants on] You're under arrest for indecent southern exposure. Is agin' the law. Get a-goin'! It's the hoosegow for you, bub. [as they are leaving the theater, a Bugs Bunny cartoon starts playing] Say, just a moment. Hold your horses. It's one of them Bugs Bunny cartoonies a-comin' on. I just dotes on that there critter's doin's. Sit, son. I ain't a gonna miss this'n.
Bugs Bunny: [on screen] Eh, what's up, Doc?
Southern Sheriff: [laughing] Look at that critter! What a scalawag! Don't he beat all? [on screen, Bugs is putting on the sheriff costume] I can't stand it! He's a-killin' me!
Elmer Fudd: Hey! Wait a minute, you impostor. You're not shewiff. You're the wabbit in disguise. Off with it, you twickster. [tears off the sheriff's clothes]
[He's not Bugs Bunny after all]
Southern Sheriff: Hmm. You'll swing for this, sir!
[As the sheriff escorts Elmer out of the theater, the band conductor takes off his wig and reveals himself as Bugs]
Bugs Bunny: [imitating Jimmy Durante] Ah-ha-ha-ha! I got a million of them!
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