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Now if you consider a coughing fit as reason to be shot I would hate to see what you would do to hecklers


* AssholeVictim: Absolutely nobody cared when Bugs shot the coughing man.
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This cartoon is notable for two things:
** It was the ''very first'' cartoon to air on Creator/CartoonNetwork back when that channel premiered in October 1992.
** It was accused of plagiarizing the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short "WesternAnimation/TheCatConcerto", since both were released at around the same time, both center on a pianist being bugged by a mouse while playing Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", some of the same gags are used, and the cartoons visually resemble each other. MGM and Warner Brothers accused each other of plagiarism. To this day, no one knows who ripped off whom, or whether this was a deliberate act of plagiarism or just a coincidence. Friz Freleng himself insisted that the latter was the case, because Technicolor, who was already swamped with work, accidentally sent finished footage of "Rhapsody Rabbit" to MGM. When they saw that Warner Bros. was making a similar cartoon, they rushed "The Cat Concerto" to its completion and put that short up for Oscar consideration.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: An audience member bothers Bugs by coughing and clearing his throat repeatedly. So Bugs pulls out a gun and shoots him.

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* DisproportionateRetribution: An audience member bothers keeps bothering Bugs by coughing and clearing his throat repeatedly. So repeatedly, so Bugs pulls resorts to pulling out a gun and shoots shooting him just to silence him.
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is a 1946 WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon short, released in the ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' series and directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.

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Rhapsody Rabbit is a 1946 WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon short, released in the ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' series and directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.
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** It was accused of plagiarizing the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short "WesternAnimation/TheCatConcerto", since both were released at around the same time, both center on a pianist being bugged by a mouse while playing Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", some of the same gags are used, and the cartoons visually resemble each other. MGM and Warner Brothers accused each other of plagiarism. To this day, no one knows who ripped off whom, or whether this was a deliberate act of plagiarism or just a coincidence. Friz Freleng himself insisted that the latter was the case, because Technicolor, who was already swamped with work, accidentally sent finished footage of "Rhapsody Rabbit" to [=MGM=]. When they saw that Warner Bros. was making a similar cartoon, they rushed "The Cat Concerto" to its completion and put that short up for Oscar consideration.

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** It was accused of plagiarizing the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry short "WesternAnimation/TheCatConcerto", since both were released at around the same time, both center on a pianist being bugged by a mouse while playing Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2", some of the same gags are used, and the cartoons visually resemble each other. MGM and Warner Brothers accused each other of plagiarism. To this day, no one knows who ripped off whom, or whether this was a deliberate act of plagiarism or just a coincidence. Friz Freleng himself insisted that the latter was the case, because Technicolor, who was already swamped with work, accidentally sent finished footage of "Rhapsody Rabbit" to [=MGM=].MGM. When they saw that Warner Bros. was making a similar cartoon, they rushed "The Cat Concerto" to its completion and put that short up for Oscar consideration.



--> "[[CatchPhrase Eh, what's up, doc?]] Who? Music/FranzLiszt? [[TakeThat Never heard of him.]] Wrong number."
--> "Fi-ga-ro! Fi-ga-ro!"
--> "Look, one hand! No hands!"

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--> "[[CatchPhrase -->"[[CatchPhrase Eh, what's up, doc?]] Who? Music/FranzLiszt? [[TakeThat Never heard of him.]] Wrong number."
-->
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"Fi-ga-ro! Fi-ga-ro!"
-->
Fi-ga-ro!"\\
"Look, one hand! No hands!"

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