phantom_tollbooth Chuck Jones' 'My Bunny Lies Over the Sea' is an odd cartoon due to its setting and its premise. That easily missed left turn at Albuquerque somehow finds Bugs Bunny arriving in Scotland instead of Los Angeles. Here he encounters a fiery red haired Scotsman (a sort of Scottish Yosemite Sam but with bagpipes instead of shooting irons) who he accidentally offends in the best gag of the cartoon. From here, however, 'My Bunny…' slows down considerably as the unusual plot point of a golf tournament is introduced. The golf course is not an ideal setting for Bugs' heckling and the rest of the script attempts to find a way around this self imposed obstacle. The excellent and fast paced Tom and Jerry cartoon 'Tee for Two' showed that the golf course is a rich source of comedy material but sadly 'My Bunny…' struggles to tap into it, resorting to predictable jokes about digging bigger holes and deliberately misjudging your score. Another problem with the cartoon is the underdeveloped Scotsman character who is basically just a walking stereotype with a terrible accent (As you can probably imagine, I'm not a big Speedy Gonzales fan!). He's not fun to be with for the audience or Bugs, who has little to work with. 'My Bunny Lies Over the Sea' is an altogether weak effort, even robbed of the traditional cartoon brightness by its realistically dingy Scottish setting.

MartyD82-1 In perhaps Bugs's first reference to that "wrong turn at Albequerque," he instead finds himself in Scotland where he encounters a Scottish bagpipe player (whom he mistakenly presumes is an old lady being attacked by a monster - if that makes sense to you). After Bugs unknowingly destroys the Scotsman's bagpipes, he decides to settle the dispute by challenging the rabbit to a game of golf. Wackiness ensues.Although nothing above the ordinary, this is still a pretty amusing Bugs Bunny short. The interplay between him and the Scotsman at the beginning is funny (particularly Bugs's portrayal of a Scottish landowner). As are several of the tricks Bugs plays on him when on the links. As far as characterization is concerned, Bugs is his usual tricky self (but no more) while the Scotsman is the stereotypical foreigner complete with a deliberately funny Scottish accent. With no other characters to speak of, this may be one of Bugs's most simplistic cartoons ever (not to be confused with "worst" mind you). The surprise ending is pretty funny too as it finally gives the Scotsman a fair come-uppance.Perhaps the most interesting thing about this short is its animation. Despite being released in 1948, the cartoon both looks and sounds more like a 1950s short. By contrast, later shorts like High Diving Hare and Rebel Rabbit look and feel more like 1940s shorts. This just goes to show how ahead of his time Chuck Jones really was as his less cinematic style of animation was in the 70s and 80s imitated by almost every cartoonist in one way or another.Overall, this is a fairly average Bugs Bunny cartoon. But understand that an average Bugs cartoon is still better than a top cartoon with most other cartoon characters. That alone makes it well worth watching.

movieman_kev Bugs Bunny takes another one of his famous wrong turns and ends up in Scotland, where he mistakes MacRory the Scotsman playing the bagpipes as a monster attacking an old woman and promptly destroys said bagpipes thus infuriating MacRory who challenges Bugs to a game of golf in this Chuck Jones Directed and Michael Maltese written Looney Tunes short. I'm somewhat dissapointed with this short, not because it's bad in any way, just because when I usually catch this writer/director team (either together or on their own), I'm treated to something very special and this short let me down. This cartoon is the eleventh short on disk 1 of the 'Loony Tunes Golden Collection'. My Grade: B-

Richie the G There were too many holes-in-one on this golf match, and it is uncharacteristic of Bugs Bunny not to know that opponents must spot their balls on the green before he is to putt. Funny was the part when Bugs was disguised as an old Scotsman property owner.