Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

When I was younger I had both the Looney Tunes golden collections Vol.1 and Vol.2, and I would watch through all of them to a rather obsessive degree. That being said, I always loved "Rabbit Fire" and "Rabbit Seasoning" and the timing of the humour and the gags seemed to work the best in those two episodes. While the general theme of the two episodes was the same, the execution and the plot-points were significantly different so that it didn't feel like the same episode. However, "Duck! Rabbit, Duck!" was one that I had never seen due to Golden Collection 3 not having been released at that time, so when I head that there was A THIRD hunting short I knew that I needed to see it.And unfortunately... it's mostly a rehash of the two.Almost all of the jokes and visual gags in this short were seen in the other two and it has almost nothing original to offer except for one joke involving Daffy Duck using common sayings such as, "Well I guess I'm the goat now" and then Bugs holds up a "Goat season" sign which then gets Daffy shot. This was... er... mildly humorous the first time, but it was more of a bad pun kind of joke and not an actual clever set-up. Unfortunately, this type of joke is reused on multiple occasions and it stops being funny by the second time. The vast majority of the episode is spent on this premise and it never feels like the plot physically goes anywhere, like the last two episodes which have some movement through the woods and to new locations while this one is isolated at Bugs' hole the entire time.All in all, not very funny or interesting; however, there was on interesting moment: When Elmer shoots Bugs' coffee cup, multiple holes are created. This confirms that Elmer is using "bird shot" for his gun and not using traditional bullets. I thought that was a nice little touch.

Chuck Jones's 'Duck! Rabbit, Duck!' is the last installment of the celebrated hunting trilogy. Often considered the weakest of the three cartoons, I believe it is at least as funny as its two predecessors. Set in a snowy wintertime wood as opposed to the summery setting of the other two cartoons, 'Duck! Rabbit, Duck!' is an attractive and hilarious short which hinges on a brilliant running gag involving Daffy being duped into proclaiming that he is a series of different animals, all of which correspond to signs held up by Bugs. As with its two predecessors, 'Duck! Rabbit, Duck!' features a variety of jokes involving Daffy's beak being blown off and plenty of ingenious wordplay. It culminates in the most violent moment of the whole trilogy. Easily the equal of its two predecessors, 'Duck! Rabbit, Duck!' is a superb final entry in a historical series of cartoons by one of the masters of the animated art form. What more recommendation do you need?!!

...lies a 10/10 classic. Do you recall watching shorts like this? I still do, and so do most of you. This is basically in the woods where Elmer is hunting and threatens Bugs with his "elephant gun" until Daffy comes along and Elmer is too dazed to decide who to shoot and come home with. Simple but effective.

The "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire (1951), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), and Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (1953) should be considered the comedic high water mark of the Chuck Jones-Michael Maltese collaboration. While they are seldom mentioned in lists of the "greatest" or "most important" cartoons in the history of animation, they are certainly THE FUNNIEST cartoons I've ever seen. Michael Maltese never got the credit that directors like Jones, Freleng or Avery got, but it's his dialogue and situations that make Warner Bros. cartoons, and these three in particular, some of the FUNNIEST ever made.