Rabbit and Costello

Elmer Fudd quits cartoons in “The Big Snooze” (1946). Bugs begs him to consider. “T’ink what we’ve been to each other. Why, we’ve been like Rabbit and Costello. Damon and Runyon. Stan and Laurel!” Note the crooked fingers in the last drawing. Bugs does that in a number of drawings in this scene.

Who wrote the lines? Beats me. The writer and director aren’t credited. The director is, of course, Bob Clampett. The writer could have been his buddy, Mike Sasanoff, who quit cartoons to go into ad agency work. I do like the play on Damian and Pythias. The credited animators are Manny Gould, Izzy Ellis, Bill Melendez and Rod Scribner.