There is a bad jump in the sound and picture at 3 minutes 35 seconds. Is this the way the theatrical print was edited? Or has something been censored out of the current home edition for "politically correctness" sensitivities?
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Here's your answer, and it only took two years.
Bugs Bunny takes sleeping pills in order to enter Elmer Fudd's dream. In the censored version, the screen goes black for a second during the moment when Bugs takes the pills; we resume the scene with Bugs singing "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat."
Source: The Censored Cartoons Page http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ltcutsb.html
... Justin
Yes, I've seen the cartoon on TV in its uncut form and in its censored version, and I must say that bit of censorship is incredibly stupid. Without Bugs taking the sleeping pill, how does he enter Elmer Fudd's dream? It makes no sense. Was Warners afraid that kids might get the idea to sneak into Mommy's medicine cabinet and swallow her sleeping pills so they can dream their way into the cartoon world? STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.
Cutting that bit also eliminates a funny pun. The label on the bottle of pills says, "TAKE DEZE AND DOZE."
All the universe . . . or nothingness. Which shall it be, Passworthy? Which shall it be?
Was Warners afraid that kids might get the idea to sneak into Mommy's medicine cabinet and swallow her sleeping pills so they can dream their way into the cartoon world?That's exactly what they were afraid of. I wonder if that has happened even once in the cartoon's 50-some-year existence.
Hawkeye said it very well once on M*A*S*H: "Tom Swift and his electric paranoid."
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