Southern Fried Rabbit

That is my opinion of course. I do agree that the gag with the slave doesn't work at all and is rather offensive, but other than that I enjoyed Southern Fried Rabbit and don't get why it is banned when there have been more offensive stuff in animation and elsewhere. The rest of the gags are very clever and funny, especially the ending, the gag with the bomb and the rest of Bugs' other guises. The dialogue is fresh and witty. The animation is what you'd expect for a Looney Tunes cartoon, lavish colouring and fluid, detailed backgrounds. The music and sound effects have always added much to the cartoon and the quality of the humour, and Southern Fried Rabbit with its energetic orchestration and hummable songs is no exception to that. Bugs is characteristically arrogant and intelligent, and while Sam is not as greedy as in other collaborations he is still amusingly abrasive and relishes his "I hate you rabbit". Mel Blanc's vocal characterisations are superb. Overall, one poor gag is still not enough to dismiss a funny and underrated short. 9/10 Bethany Cox

"Southern Fried Rabbit" contains a scene that we probably wouldn't want to show nowadays: Bugs Bunny in black-face pretending to be a slave. But other than that, it's a really funny cartoon, as that carrot-chomping rascal ends up in Alabama and meets Yosemite Sam, a Confederate colonel under orders to kill Yankees. Sure enough, Bugs knows how to avoid getting hurt...especially if it involves Sam getting maimed.

So, if we can understand that the black-face scene (plus "war between the states", a pro-Confederate description of the Civil War) were pre-conscious manifestations of things, then this is one really hilarious cartoon. Another piece of classic animation. Abraham Lincoln would be proud.

I've long wondered how they were able to get the cross-dressing scenes past the censors.

Bugs Bunny cannot find a good carrot in the field. The north is a desert. He reads in the newspaper about a bumper harvest in Alabama. When he gets to the Mason Dixie Line, he finds the southern side to be a lush green paradise. Yosemite Sam is a Confederate Colonel ready to defend the border while following General Lee's last order.

I haven't seen this one since my childhood and it is so very different seeing it with adult eyes. I remember really liking this one. It has Bugs after all and I love Bugs in most of his cartoons. I really remember the Mason Dixie Line. I thought it was fascinating and imagined a real line like that going right across the country. I can appreciate doing a cartoon about history, but some of this has not aged well.

This short is absolutely delightful! Yosemite Sam is a Confederate officer (looking remarkably youthful for someone who would be well over 100 years old) assigned to keep Yankees from coming South. Enter our intrepid hero, Bugs, stage left and much hi-jinks ensue. The close is great and probably is every Red Sox fan's secret wish. Well worth watching. Recommended.

I saw this cartoon many times growing up and I thought it was pretty funny. However, at the time, I didn't think much about the short segment where Bugs pretends to be a slave begging Yosimite Sam not to beat him!!! Talk about offensive--very offensive! But, at the time, many of us just didn't think about this. Apart from this one horrid scene, though, the rest of the cartoon is very, very funny and it's a darn shame that Time-Warner has chosen to shelve this cartoon due to the racially offensive theme. Instead, it might make a lot more sense to show it and include a prologue talking about the offensiveness of this and understanding the context for when it was made. Or (and I shudder to suggest it), just excise the tiny segment. Banning a cartoon just seems draconian and silly. If you can find it, give it a look--you can find it on Google if you type in "Bugs Bunny banned" and then clicking the video tab.