tadpole-596-918256 Review of What's Cookin' Doc?

What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)

WHAT'S COOKIN' DOC? simply illustrates the recipe for disaster . . .

[7/10 · 29 April 2016]

. . . that Warner Bros.' uncanny Looney Tunes prognosticators sniffed out 72 years before the event itself. Savvy viewers will see at a glance that the rabbit-shaped statuette thrown at Bugs Bunny (along with a generous heap of fruit and vegetables) at the close of DOC, engraved as a "booby prize," denotes the Elephant Party's nomination for U.S. President, Class of 2016. When James Cagney is announced as the winner of the Main Event here, Bugs immediately screams, "I demand a recount!!" Though the miffed hare had impersonated Edward G. Robinson and Bing Crosby (among others) earlier, he's never more spot on than in channeling Donald Trump's main quotation from the upcoming Pachyderm Convention in Cleveland. Trump might be practicing thumping a bass drum right now, as this is Bugs' Step Two in drumming up a riot from his presumed legion of angry supporters. However, this only elicits the aforementioned produce barrage and booby prize for Bugs in DOC. Now that we've completed 99%-plus of the journey from DOC to the Tuskers Confab, even lay people can decipher Warner's handwriting on the wall (and it's NOT in Mexico!).