Shrunken Cinema/Termite Terrace/Bully for Bugs
From Eccentric Flower
Bully for Bugs
1952
Summary: Bugs inadvertently ends up in a bullfight. The bull loses.
Director: Chuck Jones
Writer: Michael Maltese
Featuring: Bugs Bunny.
Onreel
0:21 Sound cue: "En Caliente." Also played several more times during the cartoon, when one of the characters takes a bow.
0:59 If there has ever been a more distinctively only-from-Chuck-Jones character design than this bull, I don't know what it is.
1:19 Sound cue as the bull chases the matador: "Muchacha" by Harry Warren. See the music page for more on Warren.
1:34 "Dis don't look like the Coachella Valley to me." The Coachella Valley is a major agricultural region of California.
1:39 "I knew I shoulda taken that left toin at Albuquerque."
2:28 "Of course you realize dis means war."
3:24 Sound cue: "La Cucaracha."
4:19 Sound cue: "Chiapanecas" ("Mexican Hat Dance").
6:32 IMDb has it that the music as the bull is flying through the air in confusion is from the overture to Wagner's Rienzi. I'll take their word for it; it sounds about right.
Offreel
In Chuck Amuck, Chuck Jones tells the story of their boss Ed Selzer coming in one day and saying, apropos of nothing, "I don't want any gags about bullfights, bullfights aren't funny!" Jones continues: "Mike [Maltese] and I eyed one another in silent wonderment. 'We've been missing something,' Mike said. 'I never knew there was anything funny about bullfighting until now. But Eddie's judgment is impeccable. He's never been right yet.'"
