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| Directed by | Douglas McCarthy Spike Brandt Tony Cervone |
| Story by | Timothy Cahill Julie McNally |
| Produced by | Timothy Cahill Julie McNally Kathleen Helppie-Shipley |
| Starring | Joe Alaskey Bob Bergen Greg Burson Maurice LaMarche Tress MacNeille |
| Edited by | Rick Gehr |
| Music by | Richard Stone Julie Bernstein (orchestration) |
| Animation by | Tony Cervone Shawn Keller Harry Sabin Jeff Siergey David S. Smith Bill Snelgrove Bill Waldman Nelson Recinos Phil Cummings Bill Knoll Kathleen Mauro 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 |
Carrotblanca is a 1995Looney Tunes cartoon short. It was originally shown in theaters alongsideThe Amazing Panda Adventure (in North America) andThe Pebble and the Penguin (internationally). It was subsequently released on video packaged with olderLooney Tunes cartoons and was included in the special editionDVD. It was later released onHD DVD,Blu-ray, andiTunes releases ofCasablanca, the film to which it is both aparody and anhomage.
Set during theNorth African campaign, General Pandemonium gets a frantic call fromFoghorn 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 Slaszlo and his wife, Kitty Ketty (Penelope Pussycat), arrive at the club. Kitty attracts the unwanted attention of Captain Louis (Pepé Le Pew), but she scratches him and throws him into the wall. Kitty,Bugs' ex-girlfriend, asks Duck Sam (Daffy Duck) to play her favorite song. The general suspects Slaszlo may know about the document and binds him in his office. Kitty pleads with Bugs to help Slaszlo out of this. Though Bugs is initially reluctant because Kitty broke his heart, he goes to the General's office nevertheless and confuses the General himself into jail.
Slaszlo and Kitty escape on the plane forToronto,New York City andCucamonga viaParis, as Bugs watches them go... except that they find Louis on the plane working as a steward. Louis asks Kitty for some tea, causing her to jump out of the aircraft in fright, seemingly without a parachute, landing right in front of Bugs. They kiss, and then the parachute opens, covering them.
Unlike the previous modernLooney Tunes shorts, this short was not made by theGreg Ford/Terry Lennon team norChuck Jones Film Productions. It was produced by theAnimaniacs writing team atWarner Bros. Feature Animation.Carrotblanca was the onlyLooney Tunes short produced by that group of writers and the Feature Animation division. The idea for the short came to be whenTimothy Cahill andJulie McNally saw a 50th anniversary screening ofCasablanca. The company that they worked for had the license to makeLooney Tunes merchandise. They pitched the idea of theLooney Tunes characters doing a parody ofCasablanca to the executives of Warner Bros. at the time, Bob Daly and Terry Semel. They were interested, and the short became the first Warner Bros. project that Cahill and McNally ever worked for writing and producing it. They worked with director Douglas McCarthy and composerRichard Stone, and as time went by, the project went from a TV special to an 8-minute short. Voices were provided byGreg Burson,Joe Alaskey,Maurice LaMarche,Bob Bergen, andTress MacNeille. The short was animated byTony Cervone, Shawn Keller, Harry Sabin, Jeff Siergey, David S. Smith,Bill Snelgrove, Bill Waldman, Nelson Recinos, Phil Cummings, Bill Knoll, Kathleen Mauro, 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, and Elyse Whittaker.[1]
The short involves nearly all the majorLooney Tunes characters in roles from the film, includingBugs Bunny as Mr. Bugs,Daffy Duck as Sam Duck,Yosemite Sam as General Pandemonium,Tweety as Usmarte,Sylvester as Sylvester Slazo,Penelope Pussycat as Kitty Ketty (this short marks Penelope's first speaking role), andPepé 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 minorLooney Tunes characters can be seen in the background (such asPete Puma as a waiter wearing akaftan andfez,Giovanni Jones and The Crusher as the maitre d' and doorman,Gossamer as a customer at a table, andSam Sheepdog as General Pandemonium's driver assistant).Porky Pig was planned to have a speaking role in the short, but it was cut.[1]
Common Sense Media rated it 5 out of 5 stars.[2]
It was released on the DVD set "The Essential Bugs Bunny", and it was released on the special edition ofCasablanca. It was later released on theLooney Tunes Parodies Collection DVD.
It is also a special feature on all HD DVD and Blu-ray releases ofCasablanca, including the Blu-ray in itsUltra HD Blu-ray release. On some Blu-rays (including with the Ultra HD Blu-ray), it is at the end of the "Additional Footage" sub-menu in "Special Features", but in DVD quality.
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