"Wackiki Wabbit" is a 1943 Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and starring Bugs Bunny.
Two castaways wash ashore on a deserted island and are greeted by Bugs, seemingly the only inhabitant. Being on the verge of starvation, they look at Bugs and think "Food!"; but the rascally rabbit, as always, has a trick or two up his sleeve.
- Autocannibalism: In the beginning when the castaways are on raft, the skinny castaway wants to eat his own feet.
- Design Student's Orgasm: Jones was experimenting with abstract backgrounds at that point in his career, and most of the scenes on the island use an exotic patterned background.
- Dope Slap: A Running Gag, with the tall castaway slapping the short one whenever he does something stupid, the camera pulling in so the slap isn't seen (to comply with The Hays Code).
- Downer Ending: Castaways get stuck on island, and after seeing themselves as a hamburger and a hot dog, respectively, chase each other.
- Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: Despite the trope namer didn't appearing in this short, this trope is used in the title.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Bugs takes a bath in the boiling pot the castaways use to cook their supper as if mistaking it for a bathtub.Castaways (in sing-song): We’re going to have roast rabbit! We’re going to have roast rabbit! We’re going to have roast rabbit!
Bugs (joining in): We’re going to have roast rabbit! We’re going to have roast… Gulp! (suddenly realizes the situation) - Fat and Skinny: The castaways who land on Bugs’ Island and try to eat him.
- Fun with Subtitles: Bugs greets the castaways with a long line of faux-Polynesian gibberish, which the subtitles translate as "What's up, Doc?" He follows that with a short phrase, with the subtitles reading "Now is the time for every good man to come to the aid of his party." When one of the castaways says, "Gee, thanks", faux-Polynesian subtitles appear beneath, causing his friend to comment, "Did you say that?"
- Ink-Suit Actor: The castaways are caricatures of their voice actors, story artists Mike Maltese and Tedd Pierce.
- Instant Roast: Bugs invokes this when he escapes from the pot and places a roast chicken on strings in his place. When the castaways take it out to eat it, Bugs makes the chicken move like a marionette, making it act as if Bugs were still alive and threatening them with vengeance. He is soon found out when the strings get tangled, making the chicken point up to Bugs' hiding place.
- Jungle Drums: The drums can be heard when Bugs dances in hawaiian shorts, and later when the castaways join him in the dancing.
- Kick the Dog: While Bugs has the rights to defend himself, during the moment when the castaways hold roasted chicken - that he was using to prank them - he shreds the skin of it, rendering it into skeleton. Later, when ship arrives on the island, Bugs joins the castaways who are celebrating that they're going home, but in the process he switches places and gets on the boat instead of them, leaving them on the island.
- Loud Gulp: Bugs makes one when he suddenly realizes that the castaways are making a meal of him.
- Meat-O-Vision: In the beginning, the skinny castaway sees his companion turn into a hamburger. At the end, they both see themselves as a hamburger and a hot dog, respectively, and chase each other for the Iris Out.
- No Party Like a Donner Party: In the beginning of the short, when stuck on the ocean, skinny castaway sees his companion as hamburger and later fat castaway wants to eat his knee, while the former wants to eat his own feet. At the end, they both see themselves as a hamburger and a hot dog, respectively, and chase each other.
- Overly Long Name: The cartoon takes place on Humuhumunukunukuapua'a Island. Also falls into
Genius Bonus and Aluminum Christmas Trees, since that's the native name for the reef triggerfish, which is now the state fish of Hawaii. - Repeat What You Just Said: Fat castaway probably didn't understanded what his companion said to Bugs earlier, in the "tribalish'' language.Fat: Jee, did you say that? (meanwhile skinny castaway shrugs)
- Running Gag: Tall castaway slapping the short one whenever he does something stupid, with camera pulling in so the slap isn't seen (to comply with The Hays Code).
- Shout-Out: When Bugs notices that castaways want to eat him, he escapes from them by swinging on vine and yelling like Tarzan.
- In the Polish dub, when he first meets them, he calls them "Robinson's".
- So You Were Saying...?: When the skinny castaway imagines the fat one as a hamburger:
- Throat-Slitting Gesture: Bugs makes the chicken he's puppeteering make the gesture when threatening the castaways.
- Vine Swing: How Bugs escapes the castaways who want to eat him.
- Yank the Dog's Chain: At the end, a ship arrives and the castaways cheer that they're finally saved. Bugs joins in the celebration to bid them farewell, but in the process he switches places and gets on the boat instead of them. As they watch the boat leave, the tall castaway realizes what happened and gives his companion, who is still saying goodbye to Bugs, one last Dope Slap. The cartoon ends with them stuck on the island with no hope of escape.
