Baseball Bugs

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Hand-Drawn Animation Animation Comedy Family Short Sport

Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.

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7.7/10

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Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny
(voice)
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Bea Benaderet

The Statue of Liberty
(voice)
(uncredited)

Frank Graham

Commentator
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Tedd Pierce

Announcer - First scene
(voice)
(uncredited)

The Sportsmen Quartet

Vocalists
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Friz Freleng
Writers
- Michael Maltese
- Tedd Pierce
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Trivia
Among the ads on the fence is one for "Mike Maltese, Ace Detective" featuring a picture of Michael Maltese (the writer of "Baseball Bugs") with a fedora and a pistol.

Goofs
Halfway through the cartoon, the scoreboard shows the Gas-House Gorillas after four innings with the following scores: 10 + 28 + 16 + 42 for a total of 96 runs. Yet, in the bottom of the ninth, the announcer gives the score as "Gas-House Gorillas: 95 points. Bugs Bunny: 96."

Quotes
Bugs Bunny: Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermus percussion pitch.

Connections
Edited into His Hare Raising Tale (1951)

Soundtracks
The Umbrella Man
(uncredited)
Music by Vincent Rose and Larry Stock
Played when the Gashouse Gorilla sees angels

Watch this instead of "Space Jam"...

...if you want to see Bugs in a sports milieu. You'll see Bugs takes care of his own business as opposed to kidnapping a popular, talented athlete to do it for him. You won't see Bugs nabbing Joe DiMaggio, say, to help him against the Gashouse Gorillas. But I digress.

I think the comments on this toon are a bit too analytical. The fact is this is a classic and just plain fun; a toon that I always enjoyed as a kid (and I wasn't even a baseball fan at the time).

Notice how the Gorillas start out as the visiting team, then end up as the home team. Also, note how Bugs, when following the Gorillas' would-be game-ending long fly to try and catch it, gets off the cab that's "going the wrong way" and gets on a bus that appears to be heading in the same direction. These "bloopers" were probably due to error and/or a limited budget but they only add to the hilarious charm of this classic cartoon.