Made several decades after the heyday of the theatrical Warner Bros. cartoons, "(Blooper) Bunny!" is a rather hilarious Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd/Yosemite Sam cartoon that celebrates Bugs' 51 1/2th birthday. After we see a briefly choreographed performance by the four principal characters, we then see a minute and a half of unedited footage behind the scenes while the characters rehearse and the stagehands move props (while the camera ASTONISHINGLY moves around the set in computerized animation), after which we see outtake after outtake. Believe me, this is one hell of a funny cartoon! My favorite outtakes in "(Blooper) Bunny!": On the first take, Bugs tries to dance to a skipping record, which prompts him to simply ask, "Eh, what's UP, Doc?", thus emitting hysterical laughter from the crew. Daffy is late for his entrance because he had to use the latrine. Elmer uses a real rifle instead of a prop and fires a shot, which misses Bugs and lands as a tiny flame on Daffy's head; Daffy then reprimands Elmer and steps on a loose board, which pops up and smacks him in the bill."(Blooper) Bunny!" was directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon, with Jeff Bergman doing a masterful job in supplying the voices for all four of these famous Warner Bros. characters. Bravo to everyone who worked so hard on this cartoon to make it SO GOOD! Producer/director Greg Ford can be heard supplying audio commentary for many of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, and he provides a commentary for "(Blooper) Bunny!" as well (Volume 1 Disc 1).

This short begins with Bugs and his "friends", Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam coming on stage, dancing, and wishing the wabbit a "Happy 51st and a 1/2 anniversary" cheerfully. Then, with intentionally scratched film, we see the behind the scenes footage with those same three characters as we usually know them: Daffy acting hostile toward Bugs, Elmer trying to really kill the wabbit, and Sam really roaring into the varmint. Then there are the "bloopers" that mostly involve the Duck with various "accidents" like the loose board that hits him. That was the funniest scene for me. Quite a throwback to the Bugs/Daffy/Elmer hunting shorts made by Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Too bad the folks at Time Warner thought this was too "edgy" to be shown in theaters but it's good to know that the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD has permanently made this available in their extra features section. Kudos to Greg Ford, Terry Lennon, and new voice actor Jeff Bergman for continuing the Looney Tunes tradition.

Although he is no replacement for the late Mel Blanc, Rick Bergman does the voice recreations a lot of justice, and this short, Blooper Bunny, is the funniest and best cartoon since the Golden Age ended back in the mid-60s. Honestly funny and reminiscent of the wacky show-biz humor of the classic "Show Biz Bugs", Blooper Bunny displays the decades long good humored rivalry between Bugs and Daffy Duck.I liked it.

This was a very original short for the Looney Tunes gang. The actual short was shown in like the first minute. The rest of it shows out takes from the short and how much 'effort' went into filming 'The Bugs Bunny 51st and a Half Anniversary Spectacular'. It was a laugh riot.