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For whatever reason, (probably that I saw this cartoon 6 billion times on TV when I was a kid) this one has always stuck with me. The music stand out for me too.

When Bugs is 'kneading" the two Chefs—that "urmf! oof! arf!" sound Bugs makes has cracked me up for almost fifty years!

I also love the characterizations of the two chefs: their outrageous, over-the-top accents of the Chefs and just their whole look—particularly with rabbit teeth.

I admit, there's not much to the script. Perhaps it stands out for the never-before-seen characters...

I recently purchased this DVD from Amazon. It was a Korean import. Lousy quality.

But here's my question: I seem to remember a scene that is NOT on this edition. I remember a sequence where the boy falls asleep on a beach with the balloon. While he's asleep, a young couple come along, see the balloon, take it and leave him some coins. They go on their way. Very soon after they walk away, he wakes up, puts two and two together and goes chasing after them. He follows them to a party. He watches from behind a wall and sees a party of teens or twenty-somethings, smoking, laughing and kissing. All of them have balloons.

He sees the couple with his balloon. They're kissing and the girl is holding onto the string. Suddenly, one of the guys in the group takes his lighted cigarette and pops another couple's balloon. Everyone shrieks and laughs as, one by one, people raise their cigarettes to pop each other's balloons.

The boy panics, rushes in, grabs his balloon and dashes down the beach saving his balloon from certain tobacco-related death. The party goers look after him and smile at the cute kid with his balloon.

All this happens, I believe, prior to his encounter with the neighborhood kids.

This scene was not on the Korean Import DVD that I got. Am I remembering this accurately or am I confusing this with another movie? Please share your memories.

I saw this a couple of times in the early to mid seventies on public television in NYC. I thought it was mysterious and exciting. In some scenes people were eating magical blueberry pancakes that made them very happy. These scenes were shot in a very drunken/psychedelic manner. Fish-eye lenses, swaying camera movements, wild music, people laughing out of control.

I found it both disturbing and completely intriguing. The Witch said she was good, but you couldn't be sure. It had a real indie/low-budget feel to it and even though I was a child, I knew that Hermione Gingold was either doing somebody a favor or had fallen on hard times to be appearing in this "little" film. I had seen her in something else—Gigi perhaps—and I figured that she was a pretty big star. Maybe she wasn't.

I remember the playful relationship between Nicky and his Mother struck me as odd since my parents were much older when they had me and were more conservative.

I'd love to see it again. I think of it every now and then.