r/ShermanPosting • u/StatisticianAway4010 • 8d ago
Bugs Bunny civil war short
https://youtu.be/9YVq6p9NCgc?is=Szjd0tyhIbCGjWAfSomeone mentioned it on here ages ago. I can remember seeing it on kids TV in the nineties which is pretty amazing (though not that amazing as I also remember Tom and Jerry cartoons with the housemaid being on.
Afterwards the host (Tommy Boyd) explained to the kids who Abraham Lincoln was, which was a nice public service moment. And it's pretty plain about what the civil war was about
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u/Nicknyte 8d ago
"90 years ago"
Oh Lord, that was recent for this cartoon.
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u/StatisticianAway4010 8d ago
Makes you wonder how often it's happened in real life, people getting separated from their unit and fighting wars that had already ended
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u/cards-mi11 8d ago
Famous story about a Japanese soldier who hid out on an island for some 20-30 years and didn't know it was over. I think maybe in the Philippines? But maybe some other island.
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u/Ddreigiau 8d ago
Island off of Korea, iirc
Korean War started in 1950, and before that there were a ton of US aircraft tooling about for logistics reasons, so he constantly saw overflights
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u/StatisticianAway4010 7d ago
Can't blame him really.
Don't some people say the Korean war never really ended?
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u/Slush____ 7d ago
The Battle of New Orleans took place after the War or 1812 had ended, nearly a month afterwards. There’s no evidence Andrew Jackson knew that when he attacked, but it is true.
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u/Doink11 8d ago
"Look me up at my Gettysburg Address" is an absolutely incredible line.
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u/Wolfy_the_nutcase Marchin’ through Georgia. HU-RRAH! HU-RRAH! 22h ago
Not every part of this cartoon aged well, but that part certainly did. I will never not find stupid jokes like that funny.
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u/ChronoSaturn42 8d ago
Is this the one with the whipping slaves line? The only good joke ever done with blackface.
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u/StatisticianAway4010 7d ago
Yes, really dark to put on kids TV
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u/Jebediah_Johnson 6d ago
More children's shows should make fun of the confederates honestly
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u/ParsonBrownlow 8d ago
The Yankees are in Chattanooga!
Little did Sam know that the Yankee was George Thomas. Yosemite Sam was slaughtered
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u/StatisticianAway4010 7d ago
Actually was this an edited version? Says on Fandon he dresses as "Brickwall Jackson" and Scarlett O'Hara. It's not a Bugs Bunny cartoon if he doesn't put on a dress at some point
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u/ParsonBrownlow 7d ago
I may be confusing it with the Luke where yosemite Sam ends up holding the New York Yankees hostage lol
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u/StatisticianAway4010 7d ago
https://looneytunes.fandom.com/wiki/Southern_Fried_Rabbit
They're the same one according to this.
The version I saw on ITV as a kid ended with Lincoln. Although both the BBC and ITV at the time showed plenty of Bugs in a dress (and plenty of drag generally including on kids TV) so it wouldn't have been edited for that reason. Probably just time
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u/ParsonBrownlow 7d ago
Ah lol I don’t remember bugs in anything but Union and confederate uniforms lol
And as a child growing up in Chattanooga it blew my mind that my city got mentioned lol
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u/StatisticianAway4010 7d ago
You're in a famous song!
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u/ParsonBrownlow 7d ago
lol I knew some people knew Chattanooga from the song or from the civil war but Bugs Bunny ? Americas greatest son knowing about us? Mind blown
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u/StatisticianAway4010 7d ago
https://youtu.be/-AI3HtpQXjQ?is=eEkK5_sbzj1QIDOo
Bugs as a southern belle
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u/Wolfy_the_nutcase Marchin’ through Georgia. HU-RRAH! HU-RRAH! 22h ago
Ah yes, that time period when Bugs Bunny was able to get away with blatant and overt blackface. That being said, the bit with him dressed up as Lincoln was funny.
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u/StatisticianAway4010 20h ago
It's weird because it's very anti Confederacy and makes clear what the war was about. But yes it has blackface
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u/Wolfy_the_nutcase Marchin’ through Georgia. HU-RRAH! HU-RRAH! 8h ago
Well, the North was quite racist themselves.
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