oscaralbert Review of Wackiki Wabbit

Wackiki Wabbit (1943)

If the Donner Party could have chosen a Winter Vacation Retreat . . .

[8/10 · 13 July 2016]

. . . Looney Tunes' "Humuhumunukukuapuaa Island" may well have filled the bill. Bugs Bunny opens WACKIKI WABBIT as the sole inhabitant of this barren ocean outcropping. The lack of any food source is no problem for Bugs, since hares grow carrots from thin air through the wonder of Aeroponics (a process which combines Hydroponics with Photosynthesis), which is where we get the term "dust bunnies." However, when the shipwreck survivors invade Humuhumunukukuapuaa, they're hungrier than the Donner Clan on a Meatless Friday. Not satisfied with the prospect of dining upon rump roast A La CANDIDE, the Cannibalistically-inclined castaway pair start a song and dance in anticipation of pigging out on charred hare. The arrival of a cruise ship just then is a dead giveaway that Humuhumunukukuapuaa is one of the Galapagos Islands. As Bugs swiftly sails off to safety, the Darwin Twins are left on Humuhumunukukuapuaa to test Sir Charles' Theory about The Survival of the Fittest. (My money here would be on the tall, thin gentleman of Color, as he would not only be more agile than the Fat White Slob, but presumably more desperate for grub, given his companion's obviously vast lard reserves.)