Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny Production Cel From Hare to Eternity Signed, COA

One of a kind original production animation cel. From the 1997 Bugs Bunny cartoon.

Cel and background measure 9" x 11". See photos for Youtube screenshot of actual scene from the cartoon.

Friz Freleng with home port in Kansas City (an on-screen reference to the late animator and his hometown), and he's heading on a voyage for buried treasure with the means to get it for himself. He reaches the island, immediately finding the dig site, and uncovers both a treasure chest and Bugs Bunny on it. Bugs avoids walking the plank and tricks Sam into thinking he's a charming mermaid, which gets him into a swimming chase with a shark.

In the end, Bugs Bunny opens his treasure chest, which is revealed to be full of carrots. The cartoon is mainly a parody of H. Pinafore with Sam and Bugs performing many of the songs.

It was issued as a tribute to Sam's creator, Friz Freleng, who had died two years earlier. It is both the final Bugs Bunny cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and the final Chuck Jones-directed Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies short, ending a career that began in 1938 with The Night Watchman and less than five years before his death on February 22, 2002. It is included as a special feature on the DVD for The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie as well as the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 Blu-ray box-set on the third disc. Frog also has a brief cameo in the cartoon. Because Yosemite Sam was created by Freleng, this is the only Chuck Jones cartoon to feature Yosemite Sam.