. . . by a Pandemic of Political Correctness, Classic Looney Tunes such as BABY BUGGY BUNNY always serve to illuminate a Path to RE-ENLIGHTENED Times. Back in Grandpa's Day, there was a song about "Short People," such as Bugs Bunny's antagonist here, bank robber Ant Hill Harry (a.k.a., Baby Face Finster), 35. "Short people got no reason--short people got no reason--to live," I believe that lyric goes. (It's amazing what you can hear on a tiny turntable from a .45 vinyl record collection gathering dust in the attic these past few decades.) From THE WIZARD OF OZ to THE GAME OF THRONES, normal people usually find themselves drawing the short straw in any contest with the vertically-challenged. Warner exposed nearly all of Today's Sacred Cows for the threats that they actually represent to the Common Man during the Looney Tunes Golden Days. At last count, 14,263 adjectives used to describe people by Shakespeare, Twain, and Steinbeck have been Black-Listed by the Thought Police. American Schools used to teach Great Thoughts. Today that's been shortened to Grey Thoughts, as in the drab gray stale society of the baby-killers in the recent release, THE GIVER.

Chuck Jones' 'Baby Buggy Bunny' is a funny cartoon with a nice concept which never quite reaches the levels of hilarity you feel it should. Bank robber Baby Face Finster disguises himself as a real baby in order to retrieve his stolen money from Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole. Adopted by an unwitting Bugs, he goes to violent lengths to liberate his cash from the rabbit. The best part of 'Baby Buggy Bunny' is the first section in which a surprisingly easily duped Bugs is brutalised by Finster who reverts back to baby mode whenever Bugs questions it. However, the sequence where Bugs turns the tables after catching Finster shaving is far too short and unfunny. By the time Bugs catches Finster shaving, it's already too late in the cartoon for him to do much in retaliation. His revenge really needed to be as brutal as Finster's treatment of him had been to achieve a satisfactory laugh level. Instead, he quickly turns him over to the police and the cartoon simply peters out with a below par wisecrack. 'Baby Buggy Bunny' was one of my favourite cartoons as a child and I still enjoy it today, only now it also leaves me with a sense of dissatisfaction.

To the pantheon of gangster flicks we can add Chuck Jones's "Baby Buggy Bunny". It portrays a bank robber named Ant Hill Harry, whose diminutive stature enables him to masquerade as an infant. And when he drops his loot into Bugs Bunny's home, the baby charade goes into full gear.I get the feeling that this cartoon was basically a place holder in between the really famous ones. In my view, Ant Hill Harry - who also calls himself Baby-Face Finster - wasn't as much of a bad-ass as the little guy baby-sat by Porky Pig in "Brother Brat". But for a connection to a more famous movie, I thought that the rolling stroller resembled a scene in Sergei Eisenstein's "Battleship Potemkin". Of course, I'm sure that Chuck Jones didn't intend for it to look like that; he probably intended the cartoon as entertainment. It certainly entertained me. Worth seeing.Ninety-nine years. We'll have to see how things turn out in 2107.

Finster, a bank robbing midget, masquerades as a baby to alludes the cops. Bugs Bunny finds said fake baby when Finster shows up in his rabbit hole. At first Bugs is suitably duped regardless of the violent streak of this 'baby', but he soon catches on and he pays Finster's aggressions back in spades. This cartoon is not among the best of Bugs Bunny's shorts, but it is nice enough to watch on occasion. And it's STILL head and shoulders above ANY Bunny cartoon that Robert McKimson ever directed. This animated short can be seen on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2. It also features an optional music and effects only track.My Grade: B