The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

. . . Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck wind up turning the tables on self-professed vegetarian Elmer "I only hunt for the sport of it" Fudd. After some early ambiguity over whether it's actually Duck Season or Rabbit Season, Bugs and Daffy discover that it's really "Elmer Season," and the pair are last seen blasting away at Mr. Fudd with hunting rifles. With RABBIT FIRE, Warner Bros. is drawing attention to the fact that an average of 718 hunters are gunned down in American forests each year (though less than 10% of these are field dressed). Since Elmer is a slob hunter, he shoots Daffy five times without inflicting a fatal wound. (When he runs out of ammo, he overlooks the one in the chamber; but since Daffy is holding Elmer's piece when blasted by THAT round, Daffy's sixth wounding here is technically self-inflicted.) In RABBIT FIRE, Warner's seems to be saying that only a slob hunter needs an extended magazine, whether he's hunting rabbits or first graders. At one point Daffy illustrates this concept by implying that if you cannot bring down your prey with a single shot, you ought to be playing tennis, a pastime in which extended volleys are NOT considered shameful.

Season time! But what season is it actually? Rabbit season or duck season? This is the first of a trilogy of cartoons that is considered to be among the finest (and certainly most famous) of Warner Bros's cartoon work in the 1950s. These 7 minutes were made almost 65 years ago by the usual trio of Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese and Mel Blanc, who voices the two protagonists and the elephant. Only Elmer was done by somebody else. Of course, as always, Bugs is way too smart to be caught and Daffy gets his fair share too, but the ending this time shows us Elmer as the loser. Not too often the case in short films where Bugs and Duffy appear. He is usually more of an observant despite being the hunter of course. I think this is a solid little short film. It has its moments, such as the aforementioned elephant, Bug in drag, Bugs posing as Daffy and Daffy posing as Elmer and a funny little discussion contest by our two heroes which season it currently is. Good stuff. Recommended.

The first entry in Chuck Jones's celebrated hunting trilogy, 'Rabbit Fire' opens with the familiar declaration "Be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits". So begins the famous battle between Bugs and Daffy over whether its Rabbit Season or Duck Season. While the following cartoon 'Rabbit Seasoning' boasts a better script on paper, 'Rabbit Fire' is probably more gut-bustingly hilarious. Jones's direction is typically impeccable, which proves most crucial in the early scenes in which Bugs tricks Daffy into admitting it's Duck Season by changing his argumentative "DUCK SEASON" TO "WABBIT SEASON", thereby coaxing Daffy into also changing and setting himself up for a beak-altering shooting. It's an old gag given new life by Jones's fast pacing and Mel Blanc's hysterical voice characterization ("DUCK SEASON, FIRE!!!"). Blanc excels himself here, especially in a jaw-dropping scene in which he voices Daffy attempting to imitate Bugs and vice versa. It's a flawless example of why Blanc is such an irreplacable actor The ultimately anti-hunting subtext of the hunting trilogy is clear in Elmer's revelatory confession "I'm a vegetarian, I just hunt for the sport of it". It makes it all the more satisfying, then, when it is Elmer who gets a comeuppance at the climax rather than Daffy. 'Rabbit Fire' is a wonderful cartoon that proved so popular it spawned a classic trilogy.

In the first of three Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd combinations, Bugs and Daffy perpetually try to get Elmer to shoot the other. Sure enough, through various tricks, Bugs gets Elmer to shoot Daffy (well, his bill at least). And this one had a most unusual ending.What was always great about these combinations was the idea that they portrayed: the loud, mindless Daffy always tries to undermine the integrity of the calm, perceptive Bugs, but always gets his just desserts. It's sort of like how Wile E. Coyote always tries to harm Road Runner, but always gets harmed himself.Anyway, "Rabbit Fire" is a real classic.