Elmer's Pet Rabbit

Elmer's Pet Rabbit
Elmer's Pet Rabbit
	Lobby card
Directed by	Charles M. Jones
Story by	Rich Hogan
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger ; Henry Binder
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Rudy Larriva ; Ken Harris ; Bob Cannon; Ben Washam ; Phil Monroe ;
Layouts by	John McGrew
Color process	Technicolor
Production; company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures ; The Vitaphone Corporation ;
Release date	January 4, 1941;
Running time	7:45
Country	United States
Language	English

Last updated February 06, 2026

Elmer's Pet Rabbit is a 1941 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.^[1] The short was released on January 4, 1941, and features Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny.^[2]

Plot

Elmer Fudd buys Bugs Bunny from a pet store and builds a pen to hold him in. Elmer gives Bugs a bowl of vegetables, which Bugs says isn't fit food for him, even as he eats it.

Bugs pretends to drown in the bathtub, Elmer pulls him out, and they continue to fight.

When Elmer is ready to go to bed, he finds Bugs already there. They fight more, and when at the end Elmer tries to go to bed, he once again finds Bugs is already there.

Music

The music in the cartoon includes a variation on "While Strolling Through the Park One Day," arranged by Carl Stalling, performed by Elmer and the rabbit. Elmer, of course, has trouble with many of the words, due to his "rounded L and R" speech impediment.

Home media

Although the short was included on three VHS compilations in 1985, 1990 and 1999, as well as a 1992 Golden Age of Looney Tunes LaserDisc release, it was not issued again until 2020, when HBO Max included the cartoon in its collection of other Looney Tunes shorts.

It was released on the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 3 Blu-Ray disc in 2024.

References

↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 111. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.

External links

Elmer's Pet Rabbit at IMDb

Preceded by

A Wild Hare

Bugs Bunny Cartoons
1941

Succeeded by

Tortoise Beats Hare

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[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 111. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved June 6, 2020.

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