Carrotblanca
Carrotblanca is a 1995 Looney Tunes cartoon short. It was originally shown in theaters alongside The Amazing Panda Adventure (in North America) and The Pebble and the Penguin (internationally). It was subsequently released on video packaged with older Looney Tunes cartoons and was included in the special edition DVD, and later HD DVD and Blu-ray, releases of Casablanca, the film to which it is both a parody and an homage. At the time of release, WB did not own the rights to Casablanca (such rights were with Turner Entertainment – they still technically hold the film today, but WB became responsible for distribution a year after the short's release as a result of their parent company's purchase of Turner in 1996). Like the original film, Carrotblanca is set during World War II.
| Carrotblanca | |
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| Directed by | Douglas McCarthy Assistant director: Spike Brandt Tony Cervone |
| Story by | Timothy Cahill Julie McNally |
| Produced by | Timothy Cahill Julie McNally Senior producer: Kathleen Helppie-Shipley |
| Starring | Joe Alaskey Bob Bergen Greg Burson Maurice LaMarche Tress MacNeille |
| Edited by | Assistant editor: Rick Gehr |
| Music by | Richard Stone Orchestration: Julie Bernstein (uncredited) |
| Animation by | Character animation: Tony Cervone Shawn Keller Harry Sabin Jeff Siergey David S. Smith Bill Snelgrove Bill Waldman Supervision assistant animation: Nelson Recinos Effects animation: Phil Cummings Bill Knoll Kathleen Mauro Assistant animation: Doug Bombardier Myung Miller Ivan Camilli Bill Mimms Ed Gabriel Herb Moore George Goodchild Myung Nam David Hancock Doug Ninneman Mary Hanley David Recinos Sandy Henkin Joe Roman Myung Kang Rodeny Tirey Miyul Lee Elyse Whittaker |
| Layouts by | Bryan Evans Ed Hayney Dave Kuhn |
| Backgrounds by | Patricia Keppler Tim Maloney |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 8 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Unlike the previous modern Looney Tunes shorts, this short was not made by the Greg Ford/Terry Lennon team nor Chuck Jones Film Productions. It was produced by the Animaniacs writing team at Warner Bros. Feature Animation. Carrotblanca was the only Looney Tunes short produced by that group of writers and the Feature Animation division.
The short involves nearly all the major Looney Tunes characters in roles from the film, including Bugs Bunny as Mr. Bugs, Daffy Duck as Sam Duck and Pepé Le Pew as Captain Louis. Some characters use their real names, others the names of the characters in the original film, or parodic versions. Several minor Looney Tunes characters can be seen in the background (such as Pete Puma as a waiter wearing a kaftan and fez, and Giovanni Jones and The Crusher as the maitre d' and doorman; a customer at a table is Gossamer; Sam Sheepdog as General Pandemonian's driver assistant). It also features a cat named Sylvester Slazo and his wife, Kitty Ketty. A remake of it, Outlawblanca, was used from Canva with new audio, making crossovers.
Plot
General Pandemonium gets a frantic call from Foghorn Leghorn saying that a secret German document has been stolen, and immediately heads for the Carrotblanca nightclub―the Cafe Au Lait Americain featuring "Eleanor Roosevelt's All girl revue" with his friend, Sam Sheepdog. At the nightclub, Tweety, the actual thief, convinces Mr. Bugs to take the document.
Meanwhile, Sylvester Slazlo and his wife Kitty Ketty arrive at the club. Kitty attracts the unwanted attention of Captain Louis aka Pepe Le Pew, but she scratches him and throws him into the wall. Kitty, who is the ex-girlfriend of Bugs, asks Duck Sam to play her favorite song. The general suspects Slazo may know about the document and binds him in his office. Kitty pleads with Bugs to help Slazo out of this. Though Bugs is initially reluctant due to the fact that Kitty broke his heart, he goes to the General's office nevertheless and confuses the General himself into jail.
Slazo and Kitty escape on the plane for Toronto, New York City and Cucamonga, as Bugs watches them go... except that they find Pepe on the plane working as a steward. Louis asks Kitty for some tea, causing her to jump out of the plane in fright, seemingly without a parachute, landing right in front of Bugs. They kiss, then the parachute opens, covering them and they pretend to be ghosts.
Cast
- Greg Burson as Mr. Bugs, Foghorn Leghorn, Captain Louis/Pepé Le Pew and Airport PA Announcer
- Joe Alaskey as Sam Duck and Sylvester Slazo
- Bob Bergen as Tweety and The Crusher
- Maurice LaMarche as the General
- Tress MacNeille as Kitty Ketty
Reception
Common Sense Media rated it 5 out of 5 stars.[1]
Home media
It was released on the DVD set "The Essential Bugs Bunny", and it was released on the special edition of Casablanca. It was later released on the Looney Tunes Parodies Collection DVD.
References
- Trandahl, Paul. "Carrotblanca". Common Sense Media. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
External links
- Carrotblanca at IMDb
- Carrotblanca at the Big Cartoon Database
