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Stage Door Cartoon
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Stage Door Cartoon is a 1944 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series, directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and a predecessor to Yosemite Sam. Voices are by Mel Blanc, except Elmer was voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan.
The film starts as a typical Elmer-hunting-rabbits cartoon, and ends up in a Vaudeville theater. Bugs gets a chance to do his tap-dance routine, one of his recurring schticks. He then tricks the shy Elmer onto the stage. First, he prompts Elmer through some classic acting emotive poses, seguéing into face-making, which draws a ripe tomato in the face, from the jeering crowd. Then he tricks Elmer into doing a "strip-tease", whereupon a southern sheriff (a primordial Yosemite Sam, with the same raucous drawl as the similar-sounding Foghorn Leghorn) arrests Elmer.
- Bugsy's goofy yell to Elmer, "Here I ya-um!" was a catchphrase used by radio star Red Skelton's country bumpkin character "Clem Kadiddlehopper".
- Bugsy's statement to the audience at the end of the film, "I got a million of 'em!" was a Jimmy Durante catchphrase; Bugs mimics Durante's standard body language while saying it.
- The basic plotline would be re-used in the 1950 Bugs-and-Elmer cartoon, The Rabbit of Seville.