Western Animation / 14 Carrot Rabbit

The Klondike, where men are men and women are women
A darn good arrangement.

— Title In opening

"There's gold in them thar hills!"

"14 Carrot Rabbit" is a 1952 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and featuring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam.

Prospectors in the Klondike are all terrified of "Chilkoot" Sam, a claim-jumper who robs other people of their gold. Unfortunately for him, his ill-gotten gains have been small as of late. When he overhears that Bugs naturally gets a "funny feeling" whenever he's near any gold, allowing him to dig up huge lodes of the stuff, he tries to exploit the rabbit for his own gain.

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"14 Carrot Rabbit" provides examples of:

• Aside Glance: As Sam pretends to befriend Bugs, the rabbit glances toward the camera and raises his eyebrows up and down slyly, knowing full well that Sam cannot be trusted before playing along.
• Big "SHUT UP!": When Bugs realizes that Sam, greedily digging for gold, is digging through the edge of a cliff and is about to fall, he tries to warn him, but Sam simply yells at him to shut up. Of course, he does end up falling through.
• Bowdlerization:
  • On CBS, the scene of Sam shooting at an elderly prospector and stealing his gold was cut.
  • On ABC, the scene of Sam shooting Bugs in his rear to start the race for the mother lode was cut.
• Character Tic: Bugs' "funny feeling" whenever he gets close to gold involves his body shaking and then jumping around wildly, almost against his will.
• Digging to China: Implied by Sam, who is so engrossed in digging for gold at one point that he doesn't realize that the patch he's digging into is in a dump truck, driven away by Bugs, who dumps it over the side of a cliff. As Sam plummets with the dirt, he peeks his head out upside-down and becomes confused.
  "Great horny toadies! I musta dug clean through to Chiny!"
• False Friend: Sam pretends to befriend Bugs in order to exploit his "funny feeling" to get the gold, falsely promising to share the gold with him — then drops any and all pretense afterwards.
  Bugs: Maybe I should help. After all, we are partners.
  Sam: Partners? Our partnership has dee-solved. This is all mine! Now beat it!
• Gainax Ending: After Sam is arrested for digging into Fort Knox, one of the guards turns his attention to Bugs. Bugs says "Well, eh, I'm waiting for a streetcar", and at that moment an ocean liner pulls up. "But in a spot like this, a boat will do", says Bugs as he boards and the ship sails off on dry land.
• Gold Fever: Sam has this in spades — and apparently, so does Bugs, if his "funny feeling" is any indication.
• Prospector: Sam, known here as Chilkoot Sam, "the roughest, toughest, rootinest, shootinest claim-jumper that ever jumped a claim!", robs an elderly prospector of his gold. Bugs could count, too, although he never seems to be actively looking for gold; he just finds it with his "funny feeling" and uses it to buy a few carrots.
• Running Gag: Bugs' "funny feeling" whenever he gets anywhere close to gold.
• Shot in the Ass: Goading Sam to chase him, Bugs wears a track uniform and makes a show of starting a race. This gets Bugs running for real.
  Bugs: On your mark! Get set!
  Sam: [popping up with a gun] Go! [fires]
• Travel Montage: Sam chasing Bugs "through every state in the Union" from Alaska all the way down to Fort Knox, Tennessee.