Mutiny on the Bunny

Yosemite Sam (appropriately dubbed Shanghai Sam here) tricks Bugs Bunny into coming onto his ship. Then he conks him over the head and forces him to be his one-man crew. Bugs quickly adapts and takes control of the situation. Very funny Bugs cartoon with lots of great gags, some of which are familiar but fun ("I'm captain / You're captain"). I love the bit where Bugs writes graffiti on the deck just to rile ornery Sam up. Or when Bugs tricks Sam into digging for buried treasure on his ship. Sam's out of his league but it's so much fun to watch him be made a fool of repeatedly. Terrific animation, rousing music, and wonderful voicework. It's a fun Looney Tunes cartoon that everybody should enjoy.

Yosemite Sam continues using his pig-headed antics in a rather extreme way here compared to some of his other shorts. For example, not knowing that him and Bugs are the only crew on the ship and thinking that gold is buried under his own boat? But this is all in good fun! The show begins revealing Sam as a brutally evil character, as one of his crewmen manages to escape, but is now quite insane. By the way, Gravel Gertie was an old Dick Tracy character who had a treasure map tattooed on her head. A rather ugly character, quite fitting that they used this as an example as Bugs writes on the deck. And who cares how Bugs and Sam were able to make it back on shore themselves after the boat sank a few times?

Yosemite Sam gives one of his best and most believable performances as Shanghai Sam, feared captain of the Sad Sack (formerly the Jolly Roger), who has just lost another crew. Seeing as his idea of a crew is that one person is enough, he tricks the first carrot nibbling tourist he can find to get on board for a `free round the world ocean trip'. Of course he finds this Bunny is not so easily broken.

Yosemite is probably my favourite Loony villain, especially when paired with Bugs. Marvin may be more threatening to the universe, Daffy more backstabbing and the Coyote more hungry, but Sam is just plain mean. Nobody does the old `No I'm not /Yes I am' routine better than Bugs and Sam. No Toon looks as terrible in a dress as Sam and no one knows how to exploit the gullibility of a bloated ego like Bugs. As a running gag the same footage of the boat sinking and being repaired is used at least three times in a row. Each time the repetitiveness makes it funnier! (maybe this is how Lou Scheimer got the idea to start Filmation?).

7 out 10

This must have been rewatched so much as a kid, because I absolutely LOVED this carton. And I still do. Its probably one of the most underrated Yosemite sam cartoons of all time. I always loved bugs bunny since a young age, and I remember I used to pretend that I was playing the Hero, Bugs, and My young relative was Playing Shanghai Sam. Of course I don't love this cartoon to that extent nowadays, but It's still A great and Hilarious cartoon. The Animation Is Excellent (at least in my opinion) and Surprisingly the jokes aren't too funny in this one, but Still occasionally give you a few chuckles, Kids will absolutely love this cartoon.

10/10

Surprisingly this isn't even in my top 3 favorite Yosemite sam cartoons, but I still give it a 10/10.

Probably the reason that Yosemite Sam is so funny is that he's always so short-tempered, and when he gets paired with Bugs Bunny, he always seems like he's about to explode. In this case, Shanghai Sam loses his crew (the guy used to be a human being!) and kidnaps Bugs, only to see Bugs rebel. No matter what Sam does, Bugs figures out a way around it. The whole thing with the cannonballs makes me feel like I'm going to die laughing.

The point is, the combination of Bugs's antics and Sam's angry rants (involving insults like "flea-bitten varmint" or "fur-bearin' varmint", only extended) always make for something great. A really classic cartoon.