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"The Queen Was in the Parlor" (Harman and Ising; 1932):
CN: A short appearance by a Jewish knight is edited.
"Quackodile Tears" (Davis; 1962):
CBS:
The scene in which Daffy substitutes his egg for a firecracker for the
alligator to grab only for the alligator to suspect treachery and put the
firecracker back beneath Daffy's behind, was eliminated.
"Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", and "Duck!
Rabbit! Duck!" (Jones; 1951, 1952, 1953):
ABC, CBS,
Merrie Melodies, WB: Places in these cartoons at which Elmer fires his rifle upon Daffy's head-and beak- were edited to avoid showing the gunshots. While Merrie
Melodies would superimpose still shots of Bugs observing the
violence over the gun discharge, which was therefore heard but not seen, ABC
would completely remove the firing of the rifle, sound and picture.
Nickelodeon: When "Rabbit Fire" aired, gone was the, "No more bullets!"
routine, apparently because it involves Daffy looking into a gun.
"Rabbit Hood" (Jones; 1949):
ABC: This cartoon
was altered in two places. When the Sheriff is building his house in the
King's garden, he realizes that he was duped into doing this by Bugs and
gnashes his teeth with nails in them. There was then a false fade-out to
eliminate the Sheriff grabbing a hammer and hitting himself on the head
several times with it, saying, "Oooh, I hate myself! I do! I do! I do!"
Near the end of this cartoon, with Bugs dressing as the King and "knighting"
the Sheriff by pounding him on the head many, many times with a scepter, ABC
reduced the number of hits to the Sheriff's head to one, which rendered this
unedited statement by Bugs senseless: "Got lots of stamina!"
"Rabbit Romeo" (McKimson; 1957):
CBS: Missing was
the scene wherein Bugs has a goldfish kiss Millicent instead of himself, the
goldfish then returning to its bowl, producing a gun, and shooting itself to
death with the gun.
Merrie Melodies: Same edit as on CBS.
WB: This scene was edited out of the cartoon: Millicent asks Bugs for a kiss;
so, Bugs grabs an electric fan and presses it against her lips. Millicent's
lips only destroy the fan, leaving her to remark, "Hmmm. Not bad for a
beginner!"
"The Rabbit of Seville" (Jones; 1950):
ABC:
Some of Elmer's gunshots were deleted. Possible editing was also done to
reduce the depicted violence in the scene of Bugs slashing Elmer's face
with a razor.
"Rabbit's Feat" (Jones; 1960):
CBS: Wile E. lunges
for Bugs and falls into the pot of hot water intended for the rabbit. ("Oh,
Father, you're stewed again.")
WB: Wile E's gun discharging its bullets and blasting him in the face after
Bugs moves the pin at the end of the gun nozzle to the other side of said
nozzle, was eliminated.
"Racketeer Rabbit" (Freleng; 1946):
WB: All gunshot
gags (Rocky shooting his pistol at the police, Hugo needing a board to keep
himself standing while firing his machine gun, Bugs walking under a line of
gunfire and saying, "Low bridge," etc.) were removed from the beginning of
this cartoon. Also deleted was the last part of the scene wherein Rocky has
Bugs in a chair and demands that Bugs talk. Bugs refuses until Rocky points
a gun in his face, and Bugs starts talking like an auctioneer.
"Ready, Set, Zoom!" (Jones; 1955):
ABC:
These two scenes, both involving explosives, were omitted. Wile E. spreads
glue across the read and readies to lob a lit dynamite stick at the Road
Runner; instead, the Road Runner runs so fast that he splashes the glue over
Wile E., leaving Wile E. stuck to the dynamite, with the standard outcome.
Wile E. later uses a lasso with lit sticks of dynamite tied to it, and the
dynamite explodes before he can throw the lasso.
"Ready, Woolen, and Able" (Jones; 1960):
ABC:
These two scenes were deleted: 1) Ralph places a plank under Sam's backside
and a dynamite stick at the other end of the plank, hoping to propel the
dynamite onto Sam, but when Ralph jumps on the plank, the TNT merely rolls
over to Ralph and detonates; 2) After Ralph and his parachute descend over
Sam after the Spring Boots technique fails, Sam grabs Ralph by the neck
and punches him off of a cliff.
"Rebel Rabbit" (McKimson; 1949):
CN:
The scene that shows the headline: "Bugs Bunny Gives Manhattan Back to the
Indians" and that has Bugs saying, "They (Indians) wouldn't take it
(Manhattan) unless I threw in a set of dishes," is missing.
FOX: Same edit as on CN.
WB: Same edit as on CN.
"The Rebel Without Claws" (Freleng; 1961):
CN:
There is a fade to black before the Confederate officer can say, "Damn
Yankees," and when Tweety says, "I tawt I taw a damn Yankee tat," the "damn"
is missing.
Merrie Melodies: The scenes on the ship involving cannon blasts to
Sylvester's face were omitted from the cartoon proper but included as a
"Hip Clip" in another installment of Merrie Melodies.
WB: When the Confederate officer says, "Damn Yankees," the "damn" was
deleted. Also, Tweety's line, "I tawt I taw a damn Yankee tat," was censored
altogether.
"Red-Headed Baby" (Harman and Ising; 1931):
TBS:
The redrawn version of this cartoon that aired in black and white was without
a scene of the title character singing a song with two black dolls.
"Rhapsody Rabbit" (Freleng; 1946):
WB: Gone was
Bugs becoming annoyed by an off-screen audience member's coughing and then
gunning him dead.
"Riff Raffy Daffy" (Davis; 1948):
ABC: The scene
wherein Daffy drops Porky down an open elevator shaft was excised. Also gone
was Daffy giving to Porky a lit July 4 firecracker.
"Road to Andalay" (Freleng; 1964):
Syndication:
Malcolm Falcon tears away a piece of Sylvester's scalp as he ascends to fly
in pursuit of Speedy.
"Robot Rabbit" (Freleng; 1953):
ABC: Removed from this cartoon was the scene in which the robot mistakes both
a mule and Elmer for rabbits and shoots at them with its laser gun.
CBS: In addition to the same deleted scene as on ABC, this was omitted:
Elmer fires several gunshots into Bugs' rabbit hole, prompting a phony death
scene by the rabbit. ("Hooway! The wabbit kicked the bucket!") Later, Bugs
lures the robot to chase him back and forth under an active pile driver.
The audience did not see this but did view Bugs later delivering the
demolished remains of the robot in a bucket to Fudd.
Merrie Melodies: A still shot of the mule with a befuddled look on its face
was superimposed over the robot blasting Elmer with its laser gun.
"Roman Legion-Hare" (Freleng; 1953):
ABC:
Yosemite Sam is standing in front of a lion's cage, unaware that there are
no iron bars between him and the lion that he is hitting over the head with
a club. Several of the strikes to the lion's head were deleted.
CN: Bugs' line, "Well, as the Romans say, e pluribus uranium," is
gone.
"Rookie Revue" (Freleng; 1941):
CN:
In the series of mess hall gags, the scene featuring the "suicide squad" unhappily eating out of a large bowl labeled "Hash" is removed.
"Rover's Rival" (Clampett; 1937):
Nickelodeon:
A young puppy calling Rover "an old antique" seemed to be intentionally
muffled in the redrawn version of "Rover's Rival".
"Russian Rhapsody" (Clampett; 1944):
Video:
There appears to be too quick a change in Hitler's expression and attitude
between his spooking by a Stalin mask and his being dropped out of the
airplane's bomb bay door. Likewise after the gremlin with the thumbtack on
its head jumps into Hitler's buttocks.
All images (c) Warner Bros.
Thanks to Brian Cruz for image from "Rookie Revue"
Thanks to DON3k for image from "Roman Legion-Hare"
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