Tag: Bugs Bunny Rides Again

Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam is the only ‘Y’ Looney Tunes character in the series.  His name is taken from Yosemite National Park.  Yosemite is a hothead, a real grouch-puss.  He’s depicted as a gun slinging cowboy, prospector, or outlaw and is rather short in stature but that’s not all he’s short in.  His hair trigger temper gets torqued over his hatred of rabbits, in particular for none other than Bugs Bunny. 

The first short Yosemite appeared in was Hare Trigger (1945).  In this short, Yosemite is an outlaw, a very very short outlaw.  I laughed as the train he tries to rob passes right over top him and then to mount his horse he had to use steps. Ha-Ha! Watch the clip!

A few years later in 1948, Yosemite appeared in Bugs Bunny Rides Again. 

POST REVISION NOTIFICATION 8/2/2023  Thanks to whoever owed the previous two videos, I was forced to replace the clips with working links. For each, I found series of videos for each episode which means the ones beyond this point might be repeats.  

In the above clip portion of the cartoon was cut out.  *roll eyes*  I managed to find I think the scenes removed and created a playlist of the three in the right sequence.  There’s one more which I couldn’t add because the ‘save’ feature was grayed out but I was able to embed the clip below this one.

You know I had forgotten just how short Yosemite Sam is.  He’s ridiculously short,isn’t he? lol

It would be awesome to find all of the classic, unedited Looney Tunes cartoons on YouTube to watch or share anytime.  Political correctness ruins everything! I hope you enjoyed the piece together. 😉

There are other Sam-like characters which I didn’t know.   There was southern sheriff character (no name given) in Stage Door Cartoon 1944,  Cottontail Smith a cowboy  in Super-Rabbit 1943,   in Along Came Daffy 1947 there were two Yosemite Sams – one with red hair and the other black.  In 1949 Mississippi Hare there was Colonel Shuffle a pistol-toting gambler and a second appearance of the Colonel in Dog Gone South (1950). The last short from 1964, Pancho’s Hideaway, the Mexican villain resembles Sam.  And just to think, I assumed they were all Yosemite. 

Thanks for allowing me to be a part of your day.  Please leave a direct link for today’s post in comments to ensure others can find an easy way back to you.  I’m heading over to the A2Z headquarters to see who’s joined the party now.  I hope to see you again tomorrow for the next letter in the alphabet in my Looney Tunes Art Sketch series! X💋X💋 Cathy

 

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