Mutiny on the Bunny

Mutiny on the Bunny is a 1950 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The title is a reference to the film Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). In the short, Shanghai Sam needs a new crew for his ship. Bugs signs on but rebels at the captain's cruelty.

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Dialogue

Traumatized Sailor: [fleeing from Sam's ship screaming] I was a human being once...

Shanghai Sam: Avast there! Come back here, you barnacle-bitten swab! [Sam fires his pistols in frustration] Blast his scuppers! Now I gotta get me a whole new crew. I'm a-sailin' with the tide, or my name ain't Shanghai Sam...and it is.

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Shanghai Sam: [climbing back onto the ship] Blast his scuppers! I'll slice his liver out for this! [sees Bugs with a pickaxe and shovel] Hey! What are ya doin' with them diggin' tools?!

Bugs Bunny: Who, me? I'm gonna get rich. I'm gonna dig for buried treasure.

Shanghai Sam: Buried treasure? Gimme that map! [snatches it and runs behind the mast, laughing slyly] Let's see now. Ten paces northeast from the mist mast. [walks away] One, two, three, four, five...Twenty-seven steps down the hole. [walks down the stairs] One, two, three, four...And five paces to the right, and dig at stop marked "X". One, two, three, four, five. There it is. [digs into the cross, breaching the hull of the ship and causing it to sink.]

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Shanghai Sam: [pulling a cannon behind him on deck] Now, where's that swabber hidin' at? I'll blast the fur clean off of his flea-bitten hide! [Stops at an open cargo hatch and looks inside, sees Bugs standing there below him.

Bugs Bunny: Helloooo.

Shanghai Sam: Aha! There you are, you buck-toothed barnacle. [Points the cannon down into the cargo hatch and lights the fuse] Say your prayers! [laughs and covers his ears]

Bugs Bunny: [Now standing right in front of Sam] Thataboy, Sambo! Give 'em both barrels!

[Sam sees Bugs standing before him and realizes the cannon's aimed right into the ship. Sam desperately tries to blow and/or pinch out the burning fuse, but it just burns faster before firing the cannon, shooting a hole into the ship, causing it to flood and sink...again.]

External links

• Mutiny on the Bunny quotes at the Internet Movie Database