All This and Rabbit Stew

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All This and Rabbit Stew is a 1941 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery. The cartoon was released on September 13, 1941. It is part of the Merrie Melodies series and the tenth cartoon to feature Bugs Bunny. Avery was not credited as he had left the studio before its release. The title is a parody of that of All This, and Heaven Too (1940). Because of the cartoon's racial stereotypes of African-Americans, United Artists decided to withhold it from television syndication in the United States beginning in 1968. As such, the short was placed into the so-called Censored Eleven, a group of eleven Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts withheld from U.S. television distribution. It was one of 12 cartoons to be pulled from Cartoon Network's 2001 "June Bugs" marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, on grounds of the subject material's offensiveness. No voice actors were credited on screen, but those who participated were Mel Blanc and Darrell Payne. The cartoon entered the public...

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