The crimes (here corrected for Elmer's rounded-l-and-r speech) are as follows: Elmer, who remains completely unharmed, tells Bugs that he has been found guilty of committing a litany of crimes. He then deliberately takes his time going through each and every key, and does not find the correct one until the moment the bomb explodes offscreen. He frantically searches for his keys, only to find that Bugs has them and, leaning against a nearby tree, is nonchalantly twirling them around his finger while munching a carrot. Elmer, attached to the bomb via the other handcuff, panics when he pulls it from the burrow. Somehow, though, Bugs works his arm free of the cuff – out of sight in his burrow – and attaches a bomb in its place. After following the rabbit tracks to a burrow, Elmer tries to lure Bugs out with a carrot this works, at least with Bugs' hand, and Elmer initially succeeds in getting a handcuff around the rabbit's wrist. In this short, the rotund early-1940s version of Elmer Fudd is portrayed as a Mountie, earnestly attempting to arrest Bugs Bunny, who is, according to several posters attached to forest trees, wanted dead or alive (preferably dead). It was released to theatres on August 22, 1942. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, written by Michael Maltese, and produced by Leon Schlesinger.
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