History WesternAnimation / BallotBoxBunny

* HandbagOfHurt / ParasolOfPain: Sam gets a dose of this from some angry mothers.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Sam sets a trap for Bugs using a canon at his front door, only for Bugs to fool him into opening it.

* LargeHam / NoIndoorVoice: Sam, as per usual.

* PoliticiansKissBabies: Sam attempts this as a campaign tactic, with little apparent success even before Bugs disguises himself as a baby and accuses Sam of biting him on the nose. WesternAnimation/BugsBunny disguises himself as a baby and kisses ''him'', then cries that "the bad man bit my widdle nose!", and all the women start to hit Sam over the head with their [[HandbagOfHurt handbags]] and [[ParasolOfPain umbrellas]].

* DarkHorseVictory: In the end, Sam and Bugs both lose to a previously-unseen third candidate, [[spoiler:who is literally a dark horse, and is declared the town's "new Mare"]].

* VisualPun: [[spoiler:The actual winner of the election is literally a dark horse.]]

'''Ballot Box Bunny''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In the short, Bugs throws himself into the race for small-town mayor after hearing that candidate Yosemite Sam's campaign platform includes a promise to wipe out every last rabbit. An escalating dirty-trick campaign ensues, along with [[HilarityEnsues hilarity.]]

'''Ballot Box Bunny''' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In the short, Bugs throws himself into the race for small-town mayor after hearing that candidate Yosemite Sam's campaign platform includes a promise to wipe out every last rabbit. An escalating dirty-trick campaign ensues, along with [[HilarityEnsues hilarity.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The ending scene where Bugs and Sam play Russian Roulette after both losing the mayoral race to an actual "dark horse mare" was deleted for many years on American TV airings regardless of channel (it has been edited on ABC, CBS, WB, FOX, syndicated networks, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Boomerang) with a fake iris-out after Bugs says: "Dark horse?" and Sam says: "Mare?"(Mayor). Since 2011, Cartoon Network has aired the cartoon uncut and uncensored. One local station left the first part of the ending scene intact, but edited the short by ending it just as Bugs puts the gun to his head and the cartoon irises out, deleting the scene of Bugs missing and shooting Yosemite Sam instead. Because of the darker implications of this edit (that Bugs committed suicide, rather than having blasted Yosemite Sam), this edited version has only aired once.

* SleazyPolitician: Sam is willing to use any trick in the book to beat defeat Bugs, no matter ''how'' violent and underhanded.

'''Ballot Box Bunny''' is a [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon directed by Creator/FrizFreleng and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In the short, Bugs throws himself into the race for small-town mayor after hearing that candidate Yosemite Sam's campaign platform includes a promise to wipe out every last rabbit. An escalating dirty-trick campaign ensues, along with [[HilarityEnsues hilarity.]]

* PoliticiansKissBabies: Sam attempts this as a campaign tactic, with little apparent success even before Bugs disguises himself as a baby and accuses Sam of biting him on the nose. BugsBunny disguises himself as a baby and kisses ''him'', then cries that "the bad man bit my widdle nose!", and all the women start to hit Sam over the head with their [[HandbagOfHurt handbags]] and [[ParasolOfPain umbrellas]].

* AshFace: Exaggerated. After the ExplosiveCigar goes off, a man's ''whole head'' turns to ash, which then blows away. Fortunately, his real head was hidden under his coat.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The original ending has Sam and Bugs play RussianRoulette; Sam gets an empty chamber, but the short [[IrisOut Irises Out]] as Bugs pulls the trigger and we hear a bang - then we Iris In to reveal that he "missed" and shot Sam. This is inevitably edited out of televised airings.

* PoliticiansKissBabies: Sam attempts this as a campaign tactic, with little apparent success even before Bugs disguises himself as a baby and accuses Sam of biting him on the nose.

* LargeHam/NoIndoorVoice: Sam, as per usual.

* {{Ashface}}: Exaggerated. After the ExplosiveCigar goes off, a man's ''whole head'' turns to ash, which then blows away. Fortunately, his real head was hidden under his coat.

* ExplosiveCigar: When Bugs decides to hand out cigars to prospective voters, Sam swaps them for the exploding variety.

* {{Ashface}}: Exaggerated. After the ExplodingCigar goes off, a man's ''whole head'' turns to ash, which then blows away. Fortunately, his real head was hidden under his coat.

* CarryABigStick
* [[spoiler: DarkHorseVictory]]: Literally.
* ExplosiveCigar

* PoliticiansKissBabies: "The bad man bit my widdle nose!"
* SausageStringSilliness

* StrongAnts
* VisualPun: [[spoiler: The actual winner of the election.]]
* XylophoneGag

* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter

* [[spoiler: DarkHorseVictory / DorkHorseCandidate]]: Literally.

* LooneyTunesInTheFifties
* MusicalTrigger / XylophoneGag

* [[spoiler: SeenItAllSuicide]]

* UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt: Bugs does a brief imitation.

* TheodoreRoosevelt: Bugs does a brief imitation.

* {{Ashface}}

'''Ballot Box Bunny''' is a [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1951]] WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon directed by FrizFreleng and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. In the short, Bugs throws himself into the race for small-town mayor after hearing that candidate Yosemite Sam's campaign platform includes a promise to wipe out every last rabbit. An escalating dirty-trick campaign ensues, along with [[HilarityEnsues hilarity.]]

* HandbagOfHurt