This is a very good Bugs Bunny short which illustrates that no good deed goes unpunished. Because I want to touch on several details, this is a spoiler warning:
This short opens with the star attraction of an ice show, a penguin, being left behind, trying to catch up to the truck and winding up falling into Bug's hole and disturbing an honest rabbit's slumber. At the sight of the penguin in tears, Bugs promises to get him home-a promise he'll have repeated cause to regret for the rest of the short.
They hop a freight, where a hobo looks at the penguin and observes that "Penguins is practically chickens" and starts planning the dinner menu. Bugs gets rid of him with some balletic moves which would earn him an audition with the ABT.
Bugs puts his charge on the Admiral Byrd, provisioned with "some ice cubes you can munch on the way", only to later discover that the ship is bound for Brooklyn. He swims to the ship in time to find that the poor little guy is once again viewed with an eye toward the culinary. Bugs rescues him once again and they set off on a series of adventures.
The highlights of this section for me include Bugs playing a guitar and singing a calypso song while the penguin labors with an ax to hollow out a tree to fashion a crude boat and a scene where our heroes are in a boiling pot surrounded by singing and dancing natives (this time, they're both on the menu). Both scenes are punctuated by the running gag-Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, uttering the immortal line, "Could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?", which happens several times.
After several gags and a montage, Bugs finally gets the penguin to the South Pole, only to learn that he's not from the South Pole, causing Bugs to throw a fit. The closing gag is hilarious, so I won't spoil it here.
This short is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 and is well worth seeing. Recommended.
This short opens with the star attraction of an ice show, a penguin, being left behind, trying to catch up to the truck and winding up falling into Bug's hole and disturbing an honest rabbit's slumber. At the sight of the penguin in tears, Bugs promises to get him home-a promise he'll have repeated cause to regret for the rest of the short.
They hop a freight, where a hobo looks at the penguin and observes that "Penguins is practically chickens" and starts planning the dinner menu. Bugs gets rid of him with some balletic moves which would earn him an audition with the ABT.
Bugs puts his charge on the Admiral Byrd, provisioned with "some ice cubes you can munch on the way", only to later discover that the ship is bound for Brooklyn. He swims to the ship in time to find that the poor little guy is once again viewed with an eye toward the culinary. Bugs rescues him once again and they set off on a series of adventures.
The highlights of this section for me include Bugs playing a guitar and singing a calypso song while the penguin labors with an ax to hollow out a tree to fashion a crude boat and a scene where our heroes are in a boiling pot surrounded by singing and dancing natives (this time, they're both on the menu). Both scenes are punctuated by the running gag-Humphrey Bogart as Fred C. Dobbs from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, uttering the immortal line, "Could you help out a fellow American who's down on his luck?", which happens several times.
After several gags and a montage, Bugs finally gets the penguin to the South Pole, only to learn that he's not from the South Pole, causing Bugs to throw a fit. The closing gag is hilarious, so I won't spoil it here.
This short is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Volume 4 and is well worth seeing. Recommended.