I decided to come out of spectator status on these Bugs Bunny cartoons and offer up a review. I didn't think there was much more for me to add. Yet after seeing reviewers critique Bugs Bunny and say the cartoons are anything less than brilliant is absurd. This cartoon isn't a masterpiece. Gags have been done better by Warner Brothers elsewhere. Still it's a Bugs Bunny short from the 1950s to early 60s when Warner Brothers did its best work. And I never tire of Daffy Duck getting blasted. Bugs always knows how to take care of him.
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nlathy-839-3006773 February 2022
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lee_eisenberg25 April 2007Since I took some interest in Edward R. Murrow after "Good Night, and Good Luck" came out, it's good that I've now seen "Person to Bunny". This cartoon portrays Edward R. Murrow - or someone based on him - interviewing Bugs Bunny about the latter's career. But Daffy Duck doesn't like Bugs getting all the attention, and Elmer Fudd (voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan for the last time) gets up in arms when Bugs badmouths him.
Yes, it's always great to see Bugs making mincemeat out of Daffy and Elmer. And this one is compounded with a look at old-style TV; I hope that most people agree that Edward R. Murrow was better than the likes of Bill O'Reilly. A really neat cartoon. -
pixrox14 June 2021. . . Bugs Bunny says of Elmer. Is it REALLY appropriate to encourage young tykes to make fun of intelligence testing scores? Very few children take such exams voluntarily. All such tests feature built-in cultural biases. Even many of the young people NOT tripped up by this sort of national selection suffer poor results because they are simply not good test takers. Why should someone proficient at filling out "bubble" score sheets (and little else) be placed in a position to lord it over their peers on such a virtually meaningless basis? It seems that the only time American Society wants to give someone the "benefit of the doubt" for such a low percentile tally is when they're eager to execute a person with mental deficits.
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garrettjopnes5017 August 2013Person To Bunny" was a expired Looney Tunes cartoon in 1960. How Did this Happen? Firstb it seemed to be going to plan until Elmer Fudds Voice Died. Arthur Q. Bryan Passed away from heart Failure before Person To Bunny was supposed to be released in 1959. Second Of All Edward R. Murrows, the Host of the Television Talk Series " Person To Person ( Known as Cedric R. Burrows In This cartoon) had retired from the show and was later replaced by Charles Collingswood. That was Paticurlly unavoidable where as it was about to be debuted ion 1960 it was then canceled because of expired date of trying to fix this Cartoon's Production ( In Some Cases of Person To Bunny for trying to fix the production, it was over a year).
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TheLittleSongbird4 November 2012Bugs Bunny? Daffy Duck? Elmer Fudd? Already three ingredients for a good(at least) cartoon. But for some as much as I love these three characters Person to Bunny seemed lacking. It does have a number of good things about it. Apart from some colours that were a little too bright, the animation does look lovely, it's fluid and all the characters are well drawn. The music has the right amount of energy and jaunty orchestration, while the dialogue has its funny moments like Elmer's IQ getting insulted and Bugs trying to shout over Daffy's gibbering(though I do think there have been much wittier endings before) and there are some decent sight gags with Daffy getting the worst of it. Bugs is still sharp-witted, smart, arrogant and likable, and when Bugs insults him you can't help feeling sympathy for Elmer. Mel Blanc's vocals are full of zest, Arthur Q.Bryan in his last cartoon before his sudden death is also perfect and Daws Butler, while not having dialogue much of note, is nicely understated. Against all this, I don't think Person to Bunny was very balanced. I realise it was a spoof, but while there were some funny moments in the interplay between the three leads the interview parts seemed half-baked and failed to make much of an impact. A great idea that could have been explored better. I was disappointed in Daffy also. Daffy at his best is every bit as smart as Bugs, but here he is very dumbed down and even stupider than Elmer. Some of the pacing sags as well, not badly but it lacks that extra-crisp and witty sort of pacing that the best of Looney Tunes had. Overall, quite good, and a lot better than what was to come later with the Speedy and some of the Roadrunner vs. Coyote cartoons, but there are better around. 7/10 Bethany Cox
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oscaralbert21 October 2015. . . is all over the map, featuring rampant gunfire, Al Jolson impersonations, hollow-log shenanigans, duck-as-rabbit masquerades, and disgusting chain-smoking by a character dubbed "Cedric R. Burrows." If there actually WERE a TV personality in the middle of the last century named "Edward R. Burrows" who hosted a boob tube program called "Person to Person," THEN this seven-minute-long animated short MIGHT qualify as "topical humor" (the sort of thing that should be buried with its original audience). The problem with this sort of pleasantry is that it sends people to Wikipedia after five minutes to try to "get" the meaning of the punch lines. The ancient Greeks and Romans no doubt had plenty of topical gags, but no one goes to Wiki them in order to puzzle out punch lines at this late date. PERSON TO BUNNY is equally hoary in its long-past-the-expiration-date but presumed humor, with "Mr. Burrows'" obnoxious smoking being one of the few aspects to which most modern day viewers might relate. Warner Bros. brags on its jewel case that PERSON TO BUNNY is "on DVD for the first time ever!" In the business, this is what's known as "scraping the bottom of the Vault."
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llltdesq15 January 2002This short is a take-off on the interview program done by Edward R. Murrow. As a spoof of television, it isn't bad, but more time is spent watching Bugs Bunny handle Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck than in the "interview". Typical short which makes use of dialogue to compensate for not as many sight gags, as the later entries tended to do. Very good cartoon, well worth watching. Recommended.
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CihanVercan20 January 2022Remember the infamous Clint Eastwood quote from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly(1966)?
"There are two kinds of people in the world, my fella: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting"
This is taken from Edward R. Burrows talk show in 1959 TV. Although no one recalls how the original quote was prompted on live TV, by today; we have a clue from Person To Bunny(1960):
During the late Spaghetti Western Action flick era, director Sergio Leone noted that there are 3 genuinely Humane faces in Hollywood from Burrows' vision of critique:
3. Overexcited know-all hand clappers (The Ugly) - Daffy Duck
2. Hidden banquet sitters and cash flow counters (The Bad) Producer-Interviewer on his couch
1. Actors who can't hold their mouth and pay the price overcharged (The Good) Bugs Bunny=Clint Eastwood
Timelessly speaking if you are ever in Hollywood and if you have a face number 4, then YOU ARE FAKE, you will not last long.
All these 3 faces are real life and all come ever brand new with the true-hearted mistakes they always do and keep doing; like Bugs Bunny can't hold his mouth and talk down about his audience so Elmer Fudd takes it personally and comes to throw stones to his face, illiterally. That's how everything ever is: illiteral.
Burrows both in real life and in this animation leaves a legacy equal everlasting lesson for all of us to take on how to stay genuine (if you were ever genuine at least once) in this industry. -
Horst_In_Translation31 August 2015"Person to Bunny" is another Warner Bros Looney Toons cartoon from 1960, so it had its 55th anniversary this year, but is already from after the big years of the cartoon industry boom. It runs for 7 minutes as always, is in color and features the talents of the very prolific Friz Freleng, Michael Maltese and Mel Blanc plus a couple more voice actors. In this one here, Bugs is interviewed, but Daffy wants his moment in the limelight too and when Elmer Fudd enters the picture it all gets very mayhem. The most interesting thing is probably the inclusion of one of the most famous journalists of his time. But other than that, in terms of the comedy, this is not even close to the best Warner Bros has produced. Thumbs down.
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cricket3021 November 2020. . . for an expected horde of Trick-or-treating urchins, and then faced the heartbreak of having few if any show up? PERSON TO BUNNY is typical of many cartoons prompting similar feelings of bait-and-switch disappointment among the viewers, because it features firearms galore but NO ONE bites the dust for real! It's as if Bambi's mom is cut down by a hunter one second, but springs back to life none-the-worst for wear the next. At least in a Disney flick what's dead is dead. Once they've gunned down THE YEARLING, you can count on it not leaping back into the picture in the next scene. When Elvis sings "Old Shep," how would it sound if he left out the line about "if there's a Dog Heaven where good doggies go, I'm sure he has a wonderful home" because he decided NOT to blow the mutt's brains out? However, you can get the taste of PERSON TO BUNNY--with it's unrealistic and downright dangerous takes on shooting irons Truth & Consequence--out of your brain by making a generous donation to your local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps).