Mississippi Hare
(1949)
| Starring |
Bugs Bunny Colonel Shuffle |
| Directed by | Chuck Jones |
Premise
Bugs Bunny versus Colonel Shuffle, the “the rip-roarin’-est, gold-diggin’-est, sharp-shootin’-est, poker-playin’-est riverboat gambler on the Mississippi.” Blackface minstrelsy gag ahoy.
Quotes
Colonel Shuffle: If’n I had four feet and went “hee haw”, what would I be?
Bugs: Why, you'd be a jackass.
Colonel Shuffle: CHOOSE YOUR WEAPON, sir.
Colonel Shuffle: Why for did you splash me in the Mississippi mud?
Colonel Shuffle: Why did you dunk my poor old hide in Old Man River, when I bought a loge seat?