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Looney Tunes.

The music playing during the scene where Elmer chases Bugs is "The William Tell Overture" by Gioachino Rossini

Through cartoon magic, he's suspended in mid-air. There, through cartoon symbolism, he briefly becomes a literal sucker, complete with a stick and red foil wrapping. Then he runs back into the log.

The opening sequence, in which Bugs traps Elmer inside a log and rolls it toward a cliff each time Elmer tries to exit, reuses the animation from the Tex Avery cartoon All This and Rabbit Stew (1941) (1941). Instead of Elmer, though, the previous film features a black hunter chasing Bugs. Elmer was simply drawn in over the animation of the black hunter, right down to the same body poses and facial expressions.

Paraphrased from: IMDb's trivia page for this title.

Elmer momentarily stops himself from dissolving his partnership with Bugs when he says, "There's the little matter of my contract with Mr. Warner."

He means the guys who ran Warner Bros., Jack L. Warner.

This was the last cartoon Robert Clampett made for the studio (although some of his other cartoons were released after this one).

"No, doc!" cries Bugs when Elmer threatens to end their partnership. "You can't do this to me. Think what we've been to each other. Why, we've been like Rabbit and Costello, Damon and Runyon, Stan and Laurel!" Bugs is too distraught to get the names right. He means Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Damon Runyon (a writer who has no partner), and Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.

The "Damon and Runyon" reference is also a bit of wordplay on the Greek myth of Damon and Pythias, two friends with an unswerving loyalty to one another.

Bugs interrupts himself in the middle of his emotional outburst to say to the camera, "Bette Davis is gonna hate me for this."

Bette Davis was the premier actress of her time, already a multiple Oscar-winner by the time of this cartoon.

"Beautiful Dreamer" by Stephen Foster.

"SLEEPING PILLS 'TAKE DESE and DOZE.'"

He sings "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat," by Leon René, Otis René and Emerson Scott, as he dreams of sailing in a boat that floats right into Elmer's dream.

When Bugs turns Elmer's dream into a nightmare, he becomes - as in so many real-life nightmares - nearly naked. We see more of Elmer's buttocks than perhaps anyone has ever specifically requested.

Later, Bugs dresses up Elmer as a woman and places him on Hollywood and Vine where he's beset by three lustful (and literal) wolves. One wolf cries, "Hooooowl!" But listen carefully. Mel Blanc, who's providing the voice, is saying "Hooooow old is she?!"

"A Thousand and One Arabian Nightmares."

Yes, but when Elmer Fudd says "Agony! A-go-nee!" that's Mel Blanc.

A bottle of "Hare Tonic." It "stops falling hare."

Bugs Bunny takes sleeping pills in order to enter Elmer Fudd's dream. In one or more censored TV prints, the screen goes black for a second during the moment when Bugs takes the pills; we resume the scene with Bugs singing "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat."

Source: The Censored Cartoons Page

See: this FAQ entry.

Yes, it's included in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume One (2003) (V) Disc 1; and on Warner Home Video's 2004 DVD of Nuit et jour (1946) (1946).