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All This and Rabbit Stew is a one-reel animated cartoon short subject in the Merrie Melodies series, produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on September 20, 1941 by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by an uncredited Tex Avery, with musical supervision by Carl W. Stalling and voices by Mel Blanc. The cartoon was the final Avery-directed Bugs Bunny short to be released. Although it was produced before The Heckling Hare (after the production of which Avery was suspended from the Schlesinger studio and defected to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), it was released afterwards. The title is a parody of that of All This and Heaven Too. Because the cartoon was released after Avery left Schlesinger, Avery's name does not appear in the credits. All This and Rabbit Stew is now in the public domain, after the copyright expired in 1969. The cartoon has been considered controversial due to racial stereotyping, which prompted United Artists to withhold this cartoon from syndication in 1968, making it one of the infamous Censored Eleven.

Lovingly restored with correct intro cards and music, this Tex Avery-directed short of 1940 features the debut of the Bugs Bunny we grew to love. The plot was straightforward: Bugs is being hunted by Elmer Fudd (who really makes his debut here too as the role we grew to love too), and so Bugs has to outwit him! The cartoon was such a big theatrical hit that Bugs became a household name in no-time, and has been one since!

"A cat steals the headpiece of a dog to deceive the bulldog Spike and get a chance to eat the canary Spike is guarding. Creative common license; Public Domain"