Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (Clan of the Cave Duck)

 

Director(s): Chuck Jones (credited as “Charles Jones”)

Summary: A caveman who sounds like radio and TV comedian Jack Benny goes hunting for duck with his pet Brontosaurus, Fido.

Fun Facts:

1) This is Chuck Jones’ first Daffy Duck cartoon, though since this is the era of Chuck Jones being Disney-esque, it does suffer from being slow-paced and not as heavy with the jokes as what you get if this were a Tex Avery or Bob Clampett cartoon (coincidentally, Dave Monahan, who wrote this cartoon, worked with Tex Avery when he was employed at Termite Terrace). I think Letterboxd (whose reviews on classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts can be a bit harsh, though I mostly chalk that up to the writers completely missing the point) said it best here: 

“Largely dull earlier Daffy Duck cartoon that Daffy isn't even really in that much. It's most focused on a stupid caveman and his moron dinosaur…” 

There’s also this review, which…yeah, best to put that in a journal (an actual paper journal): 

“This one made me extremely sad as a child. Not sure why, it’s a rather sanguine affair. Possible that the implication of “billions and billions of years ago” sent my brain down a dark thought hallway. The idea that people used to live without McDonalds and television was really depressing to me as a kid, which is an unbelievably bleak thing to consider. People ask why this caveman and dinosaur didn’t come back in other shorts and I’m here to set the record straight. They died. “But Branson, why didn’t Daffy die, too?” Because he survived.”

Yeah. What the hell?

2) Though this is Chuck Jones’ first time with Daffy Duck, he’s already altering Daffy’s personality away from just being “the wacky duck.” It’s not the greedy, cowardly jerk Daffy just yet. It’s more “half-wacky, half-cunning,” especially during the climax with the overly-inflated duck.

3) There wouldn’t be another color cartoon starring Daffy Duck until 1942’s “Conrad the Sailor.”

The Channel(s): Cartoon Network and Boomerang (American feed only)

Part(s) Edited: About the most insignificant edit so far. The fade to black between the shot of the “For The Pause That Refreshes – Duck!” and the shot of the Jack Benny caveman and his brontosaurus, Fido, staring at the neon sign that reads, “Only 50 Ft. to the Duck” with an arrow pointing to the right was cut.

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit(s): EVERYTHING! There’s no reason this edit should exist, not even if it’s one of those “cut for time/pacing” edits. The jump in audio is obvious and there’s nothing offensive about a fade to black (unless it’s some kind of visual joke that ends in a stereotypical depiction of a black/African-American person). I haven’t been able to find a logical explanation of the cut from an outside source. If anyone out there knows why this was cut, please let me know.

Video Comparison: 

Availability Uncut: Fortunately for me (and you, the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies fan), this cartoon has been in the public domain since 1967, so it’s available on a lot of gray-market, unofficial home media releases (if you were a kid back when VCRs were around, you probably remember seeing this one a lot, alongside, “Yankee Doodle Daffy” [the one where Porky is a talent agent about to go on vacation, and Daffy holds him up by advertising a lollipop-licking child star as the next big thing in stage and screen], “Daffy – The Commando” [my first World War II cartoon, even though it wouldn’t be until sixth or seventh grade that I knew everything about it. It’s basically a less offensive, but still outdated and problematic version of “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips.” In fact, “Daffy – The Commando” and “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips” would make for a great WWII cartoon double feature], “Fresh Hare” [one of the four Bugs vs. Elmer cartoons where Elmer is fat to better match his voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan. This one is to the Banned Bugs Bunny 12 what “Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule” is to The Censored Eleven: it’s not officially on there, but it does qualify because of the ending where Bugs, Elmer, and the Royal Canadian Mountie firing squad are in blackface. The main difference is that “Fresh Hare” did air on TV…with the ending censored, of course, before the short got phased out. Classic WB cartoon fans are still waiting for “Fresh Hare” to have an official DVD or Blu-ray release, uncut, uncensored, and digitally restored], and “The Wabbit Who Came to Supper” [another Fat Elmer cartoon; this is the one where Elmer has to keep Bugs as a pet due to an inheritance from a rich uncle]). If you want an official release of this short, then you can easily find “Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur” on:

• An Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p) Super 8 (year unknown, though assume it’s the 1970s or thereabouts)
• Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals: Daffy Duck Cartoon Festival Featuring “Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur” (VHS, 1986)
• Cartoon Moviestars: Daffy Duck and Company (VHS, 1990)
• Golden Age of Looney Tunes (laser disc, 1992, volume 3, side 9: Porky and Daffy)
• Looney Tunes Golden Collection (DVD, 2005, third volume, disc four)
• Looney Tunes Collection All-Stars (DVD, 2006, volume 4 [Australia only])
• Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection (DVD, 2009, volume 7, disc 2)
• Looney Tunes Collection (DVD, 2018, volume 3 [Australia only])

Is/Was It on Streaming or Digital Download: If this short is everywhere on home media (both officially and unofficially) because of its public domain status, then it should be everywhere on streaming and digital download, right? Well, it is and it isn’t. While it’s very easy to find on YouTube, YouTube-style video sites, iTunes, and Tubi, you can’t find it on the Boomerang streaming app or HBO Max (f.k.a “Max”). They did used to have “Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur,” but Boomerang streaming ditched it in 2024, while HBO Max/Max ditched it in 2025.

‘Til next time, Stay Looney, and Be –

No, NO! Th-th-th-that’s not all, folks! Since this is a somewhat iconic short that a lot of people dismiss as boring because this was when Chuck Jones was trying to be Disney-esque, I wanted to tack on some bonus material. First, we have a compare and contrast of how the short was remastered from television to home media:

And here’s a list of Warner Bros. shorts that (at least in the United States) have fallen into the public domain due to not renewing the copyright in time or it never being copyrighted in the first place.

Now, we can Stay Looney and Be Merrie, ‘til next time.

The Night Watchman (Beaten to the Punch)

 

Director(s): Chuck Jones (credited as “Charles Jones”)

Summary: In this, Chuck Jones’ directorial debut, Tommy Cat, the son of a sick night watchman, is tasked to keep guard of the kitchen, and finds himself bullied by gangster mice. While there are gags involving mice eating the food and a musical number that doesn’t advance the plot (but does show that the mice are in control as Tommy tries to fight back), the short does have a story and character arc: Tommy, who has never had a position of authority before because of his timid demeanor, has to learn to stand up for himself so he can get the mice out of the kitchen and make his father proud.

Fun Facts:

- The obvious one: this is Chuck Jones’ first cartoon as director after years of animating for Bob Clampett, thanks to Frank Tashlin temporarily leaving Termite Terrace. This was also the start of his foray into being Disney-esque, which artistically, isn’t too bad, but since Leon Schlesinger Studios (a.k.a Termite Terrace, a.k.a Warner Bros. Animation) prided itself more on being brash and wacky (which Tex Avery and Bob Clampett did before they both left for greener pastures) to compete with Disney being beautifully animated and lacking in the jokes and gags department (though Snow White and the Seven Dwarves had its moments of being like a less harsh, but still slapstick-packed animated version of The Three Stooges, particularly in the sequence where The Seven Dwarves think their house is haunted and most scenes with Dopey. Walt even offered five dollars [that’s $112.78 in 2025 money] for the best visual and verbal gags that ended up in the movie. Not a bad price for coming up with funny stuff), most critics, fans, and even Chuck Jones himself don't/didn't think highly of his pre-1948 oeuvre (outside of "The Dover Boys," of course).

- The voice actress for Tommy Cat (Margaret Hill-Talbot, who, I’m not making this up, also went by the name “Peggy Hill” and, hopefully, was nothing like this one) would later be the voice actress for Sniffles the mouse (the Chuck Jones series of cartoons that symbolizes Jones’ early days trying to copy Disney, which has come under fire for being slow-paced and devoid of comedy [though I’d say that the comedy is lighter and not as cynical as his later works. It’s safe for kids and those who don’t like dark humor or thinks there’s too much of it in the world]).

- The short is also one of a handful of Warner Bros. cartoons that depicts the cat as the hero and the rats as the villains. It might not seem like much now, but try to look at it through the eyes of someone from 1938 who is used to seeing Warner Bros and some Disney cartoons where the cat is the enemy and the mice are the heroes (MGM wouldn’t come out with Tom and Jerry until 1940, with “Puss Gets the Boot,” so that’s why it’s not included).

-Right off the bat, you can see Chuck Jones was experimenting with visual effects and trying to take animation to new and exciting directions. “The Night Watchman” made extensive use of double exposure, as seen with the illumination of Tommy Cat’s flashlight, the singing rat trio against a spotlight, and the ghosting effects shown when all the rats glare at Tommy Cat who tells them to be quiet and when Tommy Cat’s guardian angel urges him to stand up for himself and fight back against the gangster mice. Despite Jones’s distinct vision, some sequences animated by certain artists still carried hallmarks of other Warner Bros. units, such as A.C. Gamer’s rats being drawn simply, resembling rodents from the Freleng unit, or the rats having exaggerated drawings that, ironically, would be at home on a Bob Clampett short.

Okay, enough animation history, let’s get to what we all came here to see: hardcore editing!

The Channel(s): The WB

Part(s) Edited: After Tommy Cat’s guardian angel urges him to fight back against being bullied, some scenes of Tommy Cat punching the gangster mice while “Yankee Doodle” plays are edited. The old Censored Cartoons Page and the Looney Tunes Fandom Wiki don’t go into specifics into what punches were cut, so I just went by what I think a censorship editor for a free-to-air TV channel would do.

What Wasn’t Cut But Should Have Been: The mice bullying Tommy Cat, obviously. I don’t think it’s fair if the bad guys can get away with treating the hero (or heroine [the second “e” is the difference between a female hero and a dangerous needle drug. Please remember that during your English grammar classes]) like crap, but the hero can’t fight fire with fire. Maybe the end where the main mouse villain gets pants’d, since that counts as sexual harassment/humiliation, but if “The Night Watchman” was edited around the time The WB was a TV channel (the 1990s), then that can easily be brushed off as comedic karma.

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit(s): I…mentioned why I didn’t like the cut above: why do the villains get to be shown bullying the innocent, but the innocent can’t be shown fighting back with similar dirty tactics? Just once I’d like to see that if it doesn’t already exist.

Video Comparison (still using CapCut, which has an amazing free version that I want to use for my censorship blog videos...at least until it tells me I can’t use it anymore without buying it. So far, it hasn’t done that, but I have Davinci Resolve on standby in case it does. Filmora 15 is out, and I am seriously considering buying it so I can continue with my A.I. Snow White 1937 spoof [and definitely improve on the clips I have uploaded as of this writing], but that won’t come until either some time this month or in December, just in time for Christmas):

Availability Uncut: This one has a respectable presence on physical home media. First, it was on laser disc as part of The Golden Age of Looney Tunes VHS and laser disc collection (on laser disc, the short can be seen on the first volume, side 5). Then, it made its DVD debut as a bonus feature for the 2006 release of the film A Slight Case of Murder, starring Edward G. Robinson (see?), Jane Bryan, and Allen Jenkins, but the version shown was the 1995 Turner print that most likely had the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodie reissue title cards (it’s uncut, I assure you, but most people are anal when it comes to classic Warner Bros shorts having their original beginning and ending titles restored).

Speaking of which, the version of this short that has its original beginning and ending titles restored is available on the fourth volume of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection (disc four, featuring obscure cat characters that aren’t Sylvester, Sylvester, Jr., or Claude) and all of its repackaged versions, such as Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection (a smaller collection of Looney Tunes shorts that is more suited for those who don’t like or don’t want their children to see the more racially offensive and sexually-charged content. I only got the first volume of the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection because that’s all I could afford before I got the actual Golden Collection. Pretty sure I sold the Spotlight Collection for food money in college), the international version called Looney Tunes All Stars (volume 5), and the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection (volumes four and five repack).

Is/Was It on Streaming or Digital Download: It did a nickel (five years) on HBO Max (and Max before it reverted to its original name). It’s now on Tubi as the 700-800 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts available for free streaming as of this writing.

There’s no “‘Til next time…” because I included it in the video comparison above, but I will conclude with Sarthurva U.’s line from the “Claws for Alarm” podcast:

Stay Looney, and Be Merrie.

Porky/Sylvester Horror Vacation Trilogy -- Episode Two -- Yes, Andrea, There Is A Sanity Claws

The Censorship Report for “The Night Watchman” will not be seen today, because he got scared off by the murderous mice that came from the following horrifying segment…

Sarthurva U and Andrea Hicks are back, and continuing their look at the Porky/Sylvester horror vacation trilogy. This is the second one, “Claws for Alarm.” This one is considered the scariest, most artistic one in the lot, thanks to Maurice Noble’s artwork and eerie color palette, the tighter pacing, how it leans more into horror than comedy, the mice being more of a threat (and not vanquished at all), and the subtle inklings that this was going to be a 3D cartoon in the same vein as “Lumber Jack-Rabbit.”

Like “Scaredy Cat,” this one also had edits to it, but “Claws for Alarm” had more of them, and Cartoon Network actually left this uncut in the twilight years of the channel airing classic Warner Bros shorts. I’ll let Sarthurva and Andrea explain. The blog will be back to its regularly-scheduled format next time.

Porky's Hero Agency (No Re-Guard for Consistency)

 

Director: Bob Clampett (credited as “Robert Clampett”); Chuck Jones (credited as “Charles Jones” for animation)

Summary: Porky (depicted here as a child character) reads some Greek myths before bed and dreams that he runs a “Hero for Hire” agency who runs afoul of a man-hungry Medusa (the gorgon who turns men to stone with her cursed gaze) who works as a photographer and collects her rock-hard victims to use as statues.

The Channel(s): Cartoon Network (barring The Bob Clampett Show), Boomerang, MeTV, and MeTV Toons (surprisingly, not Nickelodeon)

Part(s) Edited: Two small parts for the same reason: The guard pulling Porky through the barred door window and putting him in line to be Medusa’s next victim, and the guard telling Porky that he’s next, with Porky backing away and imagining himself as a piggy bank. The alleged reason: either the guard is an outdated caricature of a black man or he's in blackface. I’m leaning hard towards the caricature claim, because there’s nothing that says that the guard is a white guy in questionable race make-up.

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit: We’ll get to the “why this grinds my gears [if it ever did]” bit shortly. I just want to bring up this:

I don’t understand why the price for a “fair maiden” rescue is lower than one for slaying dragons (which I don’t even think was part of Greek mythology. Yeah, they had the hydra, which was a dragon-like creature with three heads, but not the kind of dragon you hear about in fairy tales and epic, medieval fantasies that try to be like J.R.R. Tolkein with varying degrees of success and failure) or a daring last-minute rescue (and why change the price from $25 to 3 for $10)? Are damsels (or maidens) in distress so common that you can get them for cheap?

And let’s see how much all those prices would be in 2025:

The $50.00 (in 1937 money) dragon slaying would be $1,120 today (this also applies to the “genuine Egyptian pyramid” that Medusa makes out of a group of men in a human pyramid), which, yeah, pricey, but is worth it, give how difficult slaying a dragon is. From the stories I’ve heard and seen, it’s a one-man operation and only the bravest and most valiant definitely need to be paid that for the work done. The $12 per dozen in 1937 would come to $268.00 today, which might not seem much, but if you slayed more than ten dozen, you could clean up ($268 x 120 [ten dozen] = $32,160).

Fifty cents (in 1937 money) for a “fair maiden/damsel in distress” rescue is $11.20 today. I…guess that’s an improvement, but it seems like there’s no good money in rescuing maidens and damsels, despite that that’s one of the best parts about myths, legends, pulp stories, and most action and fantasy movies and TV shows. You want women to be safe, don’t you? On the other hand, with the large amount of “fair maiden/damsel in distress” rescues priced at $11.20 in today’s money, you could clean up a decent amount. It’s not going to be on the same level as ten or more dozen dragons slain, but it’s still a good amount.

The old price for “thrilling, last-minute rescues” was $25 a pop in 1937. In today’s money, that’s $560.00. Not bad, but a bit too rich for most people’s blood, that will no doubt spill because they can’t afford it. The new price where it’s three rescues for $10.00 (1937 money) would be $224.00, which, yeah, is a better deal. I just hope Porky(karkus) has a good installment plan, especially for the dragon slaying.

The old man statue labeled an “antique” that’s priced at $60 billion in 1937 money would be around $1.34 trillion in 2025. You read that right: trillion. So saying that you’re worth more dead than alive isn’t just an expression.

The “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” statue that was $3.00 in 1937 is $67.20 today, though I thought it would be priced higher, since Three Stooges memorabilia would be more popular, especially if it’s the original trio of Moe, Larry, and Curly.

Okay, the math and economics lesson is over for the day. Time for some film editing and criticism:

The first time the guard was cut looked painfully obvious, as there’s a jump in the audio track (at least from what I remember from seeing on Cartoon Network. I have vague memories of seeing it on Nickelodeon, but from what I could tell, the guard’s two appearances weren’t censored). Second edit…can’t really complain about it because of how seamless it is. It’s not on the edit approximation video, but the second edit was supposed to go from Medusa creating the Egyptian pyramid from a human pyramid to Porky walking in disguised as the Dick Powell statue, which Medusa immediately falls for.

Video Comparison:

Availability Uncut: For a mid Porky cartoon that was mostly shown on television (at least in my youth), this actually does have some good home media releases. In 1992, it was released (as a computer-colorized edition, which I assume is the copy that aired on such channels as Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Nickelodeon when they turned Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon into a daytime/weekend show) on the VHS “Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses” as part of the Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons VHS collection (yeah, that title sounds very much like something from a gray market video distributor, where most, if not all, the cartoons are public domain -- at best. At worst, it sounds like a video collection series from Wish or Temu, but, in order to actually be like those, “Looney Tunes” has to be misspelled as “Loney Toons”). Two years later, “Porky’s Hero Agency” was released on the laser disc called “Wince upon a Time: Foolhardy Fairy Tales and Looney Legends” (a collection of Warner Bros cartoons that spoof fairy tales and mythical stories). Seven years after that, the short appeared on volume 9 of this British Looney Tunes video collection called, “The Looney Tunes Special Bumper Collection.” Today, the cartoon can be found, uncut, uncensored, and in its original black and white either as a special feature on the DVD version of the movie Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, or, if you’d rather buy cartoon compilation DVDs instead of old movies with the cartoon shorts that ran concurrent with them in theaters as special features, the Porky Pig 101 DVD set.

EDIT (8/1/2026): This cartoon is also available for streaming on Tubi. And yes, it is uncut, uncensored, and in its original black and white format.

‘Til next time…

The Hunter's Trilogy (Shoot to Kill, Censor to Annoy)

Similar to the FAQ/Q&A about The Censored Eleven (and “Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule”) and the Banned Bugs Bunny 12 from June Bugs 2001, the following is a special Censored Cartoons Blog entry that explores three or more Warner Bros. cartoons that have had similar edits to them. As mentioned on the “Under Construction” post, these are the “special” episodes/installments rather than the usual ones that cover one short and were created because exploring the cartoons one at a time can be tedious and, if a Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies short has a common edit with another or is part of a trilogy or tetralogy (NOT “quadrilogy,” damn it!) that has had all or most of their shorts edited, then why not explore that?

Director: Chuck Jones (credited as “Charles M. Jones”)

Summary: For people who remember this from childhood, these cartoons need no introduction. For the unfortunate few and counting who haven’t seen these, all three of them have the same story: it’s duck hunting season. Daffy tries to get out of it by claiming it’s rabbit season and setting Bugs up to get shot by Elmer Fudd. Through wordplay, emotional trickery, and pronoun trouble (which, thanks to traditional gender norms being turned on their head, means something else entirely these days), Daffy ends up bearing the brunt of the gun-flavored slapstick in all three shorts. For a full look at the Hunter’s Trilogy and how they are considered iconic in the world of classic American animation, check out these videos from the YouTube channel, Anthony’s Animation Talk (or really, any animation video essay...or regular, written/typed essay...or audio DVD commentary):

Rabbit Fire

Rabbit Seasoning

Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

The Channel(s): CBS, ABC, The WB, both the FOX and syndicated version of Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends, and Nickelodeon (“Rabbit Fire” only)

Part(s) Edited: Daffy getting shot, of course. That would be the easy way to put it and, yes, I wish I could just leave it at that, but there are exceptions/nuances that explain a bit more.

The ABC and Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends version replaced the scenes of Daffy getting shot with freeze-framed shots of Bugs (mostly), though the approximation I did for “Rabbit Fire” didn’t do that much. I’m assuming the freeze-framed shots of Bugs were more for “Rabbit Seasoning,” because that’s the one I remember being edited like that on ABC.

CBS and The WB, in contrast, cut all scenes of Elmer shooting Daffy point-blank in the face (and possibly, but most definitely, Daffy getting shot while staring down the barrel of Elmer’s rifle [the “no more bullets” gag] on “Rabbit Fire” and Daffy getting shot by a circle of hunters at the end of “Duck! Rabbit! Duck!”), which made “Duck! Rabbit! Duck!” kinda choppy and somewhat incoherent. Coincidentally, early ABC versions also cut “Duck! Rabbit! Duck!” the same way it was done on CBS and The WB as they didn’t have the technology back then to replace problematic footage with benign, alternate footage. As obvious as the alternate footage looks, straight-up cutting it, as you’ll see in the re-enactment videos I did, is worse (the cartoon runs shorter when Daffy getting shot is cut, as opposed to going to a freeze-framed shot to make it look like the gunfire is happening off-screen). The old ABC version also cut Daffy warming himself over a fire using the "Duck Season" signs as kindling (I...don't know the rationale behind that. It could be an edit because the censors don't want kids to play with fire [edits to get rid of dangerous, imitable behavior were common on 1990s American TV], but the viewer doesn't see Daffy actually burn the signs on-screen) and Elmer shoving his gun in the back of Bugs' head after Bugs makes that comment about how he never knew that molasses runs in January. I don't know if the new ABC edited version still edited those scenes or reinstated them, but still cut Daffy getting shot, but I'm going to assume that's what happened until someone out there says otherwise.

Then there’s the Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon version. “Rabbit Seasoning” and “Duck! Rabbit! Duck!” were left uncut, though I’m going to assume that they didn’t air much as Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon didn’t air the popular shorts much; just the second- to fourth-tier fare that’s either considered more appealing to the more serious fans or are examples that not every Looney Tunes cartoon is a classic. However, “Rabbit Fire” was only edited to remove the “No More Bullets” scene, where Elmer thinks he ran out of bullets, Bugs tells Daffy that Elmer’s out of ammo, Daffy comes back to personally check (by staring down the barrel of the gun), and gets shot by the “one buwwet weft.”

How It Plays Edited/Video Comparison: I’m going to let the videos speak for themselves. For convenience, I'm grouping the videos by title:

Rabbit Fire

ABC and Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends version:

CBS and WB version:

Compare and Contrast -- Uncut vs. Nickelodeon version:

Rabbit Seasoning

ABC and Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends version:

CBS and WB version:

Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

Old ABC version (where most of the shooting scenes are cut completely):

New ABC version and Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends version (where shooting scenes are replaced with freeze-framed shots of Bugs):

CBS and WB version (same as old ABC version, but with more scenes left in):

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit: Well, as a Looney Tunes fan, I can say that the fact that the shooting edits are obvious and that merely editing them out of a cartoon isn’t going to fix any issues America has with guns. All these censors are doing is ruining good entertainment, which can drive someone into a shooting spree or gun-induced suicide if they’re mentally deranged enough. However, I’ve only seen “Rabbit Seasoning” edited on ABC and the alternate footage cuts, while obvious, doesn’t shock and appall me the same way “Hare Trimmed”’s edits do or how Cartoon Network suddenly editing “For Scent-imental Reasons” after showing it uncut shocks and appalls me. I guess it’s because I saw “Rabbit Seasoning” uncut elsewhere (mostly on video) and the other two cartoons I saw uncut on Cartoon Network as a teenager. Your experience may vary.

Availability Uncut: The trio is considered one of Warner Bros.’s most iconic cartoons in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies filmography, so it’s not hard to find it uncut and uncensored anywhere. For a full list, click on one of the three links below:

Rabbit Fire Availability

Rabbit Seasoning Availability

Duck! Rabbit, Duck! Availability

‘Til next time…