Director(s)Chuck Jones
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Top GenresAnimation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short Films
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What's Opera, Doc? Overview:

What's Opera, Doc? (1957) was a Animation - Musical Film directed by Chuck Jones .

What's Opera, Doc? was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1992.

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Quotes from What's Opera, Doc?

[last lines]
Bugs: Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?


Bugs: O mighty warrior of great fighting stock / Might I inquire to ask, ehh, what's up Doc?


Elmer Fudd: Oh, Bwunehiwda, you're so wuvwee.
Bugs Bunny: Yes I know it, I can't help it.


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Facts about What's Opera, Doc?

According to Chuck Jones, there are 104 cuts in this cartoon, an unusually high number for a Warner Bros. cartoon.
In animation historian Jerry Beck's 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was selected as the #1 cartoon of all time.
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. only allotted five weeks for the production of each seven-minute short, but director Chuck Jones spent seven weeks on this short. To cover up for the extra time spent, he had his entire unit doctor their time cards to make it appear as if they working on the Road Runner/Coyote short Zoom and Bored for two weeks before they actually started (since Chuck and his staff were so familiar with the Road Runner formula, they were able to complete Zoom and Bored in three weeks).
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National Film Registry

What's Opera, Doc?

Released 1957
Inducted 1992
(Short, Sound)




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