Looney Tunes - Broom-stick Bunny - Toonstalgia

Looney Tunes - Broom-stick Bunny

Premiered 1956

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Bugs Bunny visits Witch Hazel while trick or treating.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

Witch Hazel invites Bugs in thinking he's a particularly ugly witch. She plans to dose him with beauty treatments. After he takes off the Halloween mask, she realizes he's just the thing she needs for her soup. But Witch Hazel can't go through with axing him after he reminds her of her pet tarantula. She accidentally drinks the beauty tea. She's chased into the night by the genie from her mirror.

A thing I like to do when watching cartoon witches is to ask my nephew what he thinks a real witch looks like then remind him that he's sitting next to one. For the record, I'm neither green nor evil. It amuses me. I am easily amused.

A fraction of a second appearance of Witch Hazel's cat was enough to make me fall in love.

June Foray voiced Witch Hazel. She was one of the greats. She also voiced Granny, Rocket J. Squirrel and Natasha Fatale. Her earliest credit was Disney's Snow White in 1937. You don't have to watch as many cartoons as I do to have heard her voice. She had a prolific career.

The details like Witch Hazel's cookbook and green house provide some really fun jokes. The stylized aesthetic of the cartoon makes this one of my favorites. And the ending line made me laugh for a while.

My mom texted me the other day and asked me why Witches are drawn as green. The only answer I could think of was the Wicked Witch of the West. I love Margaret Hamilton. I think the Wicked Witch is fine. I find the production design and the stories about the film more interesting. Wizard of Oz wasn't a film I grew up on. I never saw it until I went to a special showing. I enjoyed it. Though I love Return to Oz. Anyway, I did a little research and it seems like my guess was right.