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29-490: This cartoon marks one of the few instances where Elmer Fudd is voiced by somebody other than Arthur Q. Bryan during the latter's lifetime, being voiced by Dave Barry instead. The film contains footage from the 1950 short film Caveman Inki directed by Chuck Jones and animated by Lloyd Vaughan, Ken Harris, Phil Monroe and Ben Washam. The narrative beings Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in a contemporary setting, where Elmer persistently fires his gun at Bugs. Bugs momentarily breaks

58-494: A caveman version of Elmer, who declares his intent to hunt a sabre-toothed rabbit, a primitive incarnation of Bugs. As Fuddstone engages in various slapstick hunting attempts, including a failed vine snare and a mishap with a poisonous berry, Bugs repeatedly outsmarts him. Bugs suggests the future invention of gunpowder and firearms, prompting Fuddstone to experiment with these ideas. His rudimentary gunpowder explodes, leaving him charred but determined. Bugs then assists in creating

87-452: A fresh script rarely in need of revision. From the start of the show, Quinn was full partner and by 1941, the Jordans and Quinn were splitting a $ 6000 paycheck three ways. Fibber McGee co-star Gale Gordon once recalled that Quinn would sometimes send his ideas to other radio comedians including Fred Allen . In 1943, Phil Leslie became Quinn's writing assistant on the show. Quinn left at

116-422: A primitive firearm using a hollow stick and a taro root. When Elmer tries to use this makeshift gun, Bugs tricks him by reversing the barrel, causing Elmer to shoot himself in the face. The film concludes with modern-day Elmer entering Bugs' hole, inadvertently pointing his gun at himself and repeating his ancestor’s mistake. As Elmer accidentally shoots himself, causing Bugs to remark, "That's what I think". This

145-671: A professional singer. In 1918, he began working as an insurance clerk at the Mutual Life Insurance Company . He sang tenor with the Seiberling Singers and the Jeddo Highlanders on NBC radio. He started as a singer in 1926 on WGBS and he continued as a tenor soloist on WEAF in 1928. In 1929, Bryan was an announcer at WOR radio in New Jersey. Contemporary radio listings in a daily newspaper indicate that he

174-605: A sudden heart attack at age 60 on November 30, 1959, in Hollywood. Bryan is buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery . The DVD specials for some cartoons such as What's Opera, Doc? , in Looney Tunes Golden Collection , include bits of conversation between Bryan and Mel Blanc, affording a rare opportunity to hear them working together, and to hear Bryan's natural voice. Bryan's natural voice

203-608: A time) Gordon returned to the show, and he stayed as Dr. Gamble all the way through its final incarnation on the NBC Monitor series in 1959, as well as playing Floyd on "Gildersleeve" through its conclusion in 1954. Bryan's final original work as Fudd came in the Warner Bros. Edward R. Murrow spoof Person to Bunny . Bryan was a panelist on the early TV quiz show Quizzing the News (1948–49). He would be found in numerous productions in

232-512: Is also heard as the tired hotel guest in A Pest in the House , in which Bryan "talks to himself", Elmer Fudd is the hotel manager. Don Quinn Don Quinn (November 18, 1900 – December 30, 1967) was an American comedy writer who started out as a cartoonist based in Chicago . According to sources, Quinn's career as a cartoonist was short-lived but his career as a writer began after he realized that

261-451: Is one of six cartoons (and the only Bugs Bunny cartoon) scored by using stock music by John Seely of Capitol Records from the Hi-Q library because of a musicians' strike in 1958. The others are Hook, Line and Stinker , Weasel While You Work , Hip Hip-Hurry! , Gopher Broke , and A Bird in a Bonnet . Arthur Q. Bryan Arthur Quirk Bryan (May 8, 1899 – November 30, 1959)

290-533: The Internet Movie Database , Quinn also composed the theme song to the short-lived Desilu - CBS western series Yancy Derringer . Quinn was married twice. His first wife, Garnette Steve, died in 1938 in a fatal car crash in which her car drove off the road and spun several times. He remarried several years later to Edythe Quinn (August 18, 1909–February 25, 1978). Edythe Quinn was a former reporter with

319-765: The film industry when he moved to Hollywood in 1936 to become a scenario writer for Paramount Pictures . Bryan's live-action work remained largely in uncredited cameo roles, usually employing the Fudd persona, or minor supporting roles in B-movies (like the apoplectic newspaper editor in the Bela Lugosi thriller The Devil Bat ). In the 1940 Charley Chase short South of the Boudoir , he speaks in his normal voice, but at one point slips into his Fudd voice while coming on to Chase's wife. He did work steadily, appearing in dozens of films over

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348-602: The Elmer Fudd voice), and later one of Gildersleeve's cronies, Floyd Munson, the barber. His work on the series (in Bryan's natural voice) so impressed Quinn and Leslie, that Bryan was added to the cast of their main show, Fibber McGee and Molly , in 1943. In the early 1940s, Bryan played Waymond Wadcliffe on the Al Pearce & His Gang program on CBS . Bryan starred as Major Hoople (from June 22, 1942, to April 26, 1943), appeared in

377-653: The cast of The Charlotte Greenwood Show , and played Lt. Levinson on radio's Richard Diamond, Private Detective (from September 6, 1950, to June 29, 1951). In the mid-1940s, he had the role of Duke on Forever Ernest . On May 5th 1949, Bryan appeared as "Clarence, the Guardian Angel" on the Screen Directors Playhouse radio series' rendition of Frank Capra 's film It's a Wonderful Life . The episode also starred James Stewart reprising his film role as "George Bailey". Bryan first became involved with

406-602: The character all the way until his death. Bryan's work in animation did not go unnoticed by radio producers. Although his first forays into that medium were accompanied by instructions that he use the Fudd voice, Bryan soon came to the attention of Don Quinn and Phil Leslie , the production and writing team responsible for Fibber McGee and Molly and their supporting characters, two of whom spun off into their radio hits, The Great Gildersleeve and Beulah . The Gildersleeve character, played by Harold Peary , became series broadcasting's first successful spin-off hit; that plus

435-682: The early 1950s predominantly in 1-episode bit parts, such as in the early filmed television comedy, Beulah . He also landed a minor television role in 1955, as the handyman Mr. Boggs in the short-lived CBS sitcom Professional Father . On The Halls of Ivy , Bryan played Professor Warren, head of the college's history department, a role he also had on the radio program of the same name. On September 17, 1956, he became ill with acute gastritis while rehearsing for an episode for Producers' Showcase called "The Lord Don't Play Favorites", three hours before its airtime. Staging director Bretaigne Windust replaced Bryan during production. Bryan died of

464-465: The end of the 1949-50 radio season to pursue other projects. In 1945, Quinn created The Beulah Show for CBS Radio . The program spun off Fibber McGee character Beulah Brown. Beulah was the McGee's maid on radio. Beulah ran on CBS from 1945-1954 and had a television run on ABC from 1950-1952. In 1950, Quinn created The Halls of Ivy a lighthearted comedy about a professor, William Todhunter Hall,

493-533: The fourth wall to comment on the perennial chaos of Rabbit Season. He then leaps over a stone dike and unexpectedly falls into what he surmises to be a cave of giant Indigenous Americans, deduced from a colossal powder horn labeled as a time capsule from 10,000 BC to be opened in 1960 AD. Inside, Bugs discovers a film reel, which he takes back to his hole to view using his film projector . The film depicts various anachronistic prehistoric scenes, including dinosaurs and mammals clashing, before introducing Elmer Fuddstone,

522-485: The magazines and newspapers threw away his drawings he sent in but kept his captions. Quinn was best known as the sole writer (later head writer to Phil Leslie ) of the popular old-time radio show Fibber McGee and Molly for 17 years and as the writer for the program's stars Jim and Marian Jordan for 20 years. Quinn was also the creator/head writer of radio's The Beulah Show , (a Fibber McGee spinoff), and television's The Halls of Ivy . Quinn also created

551-515: The onset of World War II (which cost Fibber McGee & Molly their Mayor La Trivia, when Gale Gordon went into the Coast Guard in early 1942, and "The Old Timer" Bill Thompson was drafted almost a year later) nabbed nearly every other remaining male voice. Bryan was first hired for the new Great Gildersleeve series, to play the part of Cousin Octavia's secretary/assistant, Lucius Llewellyn (using

580-598: The popular Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve character on Fibber McGee and Molly . Quinn was born in November 1900 in Grand Rapids, Michigan . Not much is known about his early life nor is much known about his early career as a cartoonist. However, what little is known is that after discovering that, even though his drawings were thrown away by magazines, his captions were kept, Quinn found a job at WENR in Chicago writing for some of

609-453: The president of small, Midwestern College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees. The audition episode originally starred Gale Gordon , (of Our Miss Brooks fame), and Edna Best as William and Victoria Hall. Although Gordon and Best were replaced by Ronald Colman and Benita Hume during

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638-582: The ratings, in part, due to its timeslot, Tuesday night at 8:30, against the last half of NBC's rotating trio of programs: The Milton Berle Show , The Bob Hope Show and The Martha Raye Show . Quinn broke into television in 1953 as a story editor for the Four Star Playhouse . He would write an episode of the series in 1956. In addition to these two episodes, Quinn also wrote several episodes of Climax! , The Dinah Shore Chevy Show , The Addams Family and Petticoat Junction . According to

667-501: The show's actual radio run, they still managed to make a lasting impression which led to numerous appearances on The Jack Benny Program in the late 1940s. The program debuted on NBC Radio in January 1950 and ran until May 1952. Quinn served as the sole writer on the program. The show also had a short radio run during the 1954-55 television season on CBS . Quinn also wrote for the television series as well. The television show lost in

696-468: The summer of 1935. After the wife of a Johnson Wax executive heard the program, the Jordans, and Quinn, moved to their more memorable radio series Fibber McGee and Molly . Quinn was famous for delaying the actual writing of the scripts. Many from the show remember that he would wait until the last minute then lock himself in his office with a big plate of sandwiches, a huge pot of coffee, and two cartons of cigarettes. And hours later, he would emerge with

725-435: The three of them created Smackout which debuted March 2 on WMAQ . Smackout , a revised version of Luke and Mirandy centered around Jim Jordan in the role of Luke Gray, a proprietor of a general store that was brimming with stock but yet "smack out" of everything, who loved to tell a good tall tale to his customers. The program was picked up by NBC 's Blue Network for national syndication in 1933 and remained there until

754-404: The up-and-coming comedians there. It was there where Quinn met Jim and Marian Jordan in 1931. The Jordans at the time were veterans of Vaudeville and had previously worked at rival station WIBO. The pair already had starred in two programs on WENR, Luke and Mirandy from 1927-1931 and The Smith Family from 1929-1932. Quinn was hired to write scripts for The Smith Family . That same year,

783-556: The years, in such successful releases as Samson and Delilah ; two Bob Hope / Bing Crosby Road to ... films, Road to Singapore and Road to Rio ; and the Ozzie and Harriet feature Here Come the Nelsons . He appeared frequently in live-action short-subjects for Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures . Bryan continued as the Fibber show's secondary male lead, even after Thompson and (for

812-563: Was an American actor and radio personality. He is best remembered for his longtime recurring role as well-spoken, wisecracking Dr. Gamble on the radio comedy Fibber McGee and Molly and for voicing the Warner Bros. cartoon character Elmer Fudd . Arthur Q. Bryan was born in Brooklyn , New York City, on May 8, 1899. He sang in a number of churches in the New York City area and had plans to be

841-661: Was still at WOR as late as September 13, 1931. In October 1931, he began working as an announcer at WCAU in Philadelphia, and in 1933 he moved to Philadelphia's WIP By 1934, he was heard on WHN in New York. In 1938–1940, he was a regular on The Grouch Club , which aired on the CBS Pacific network and was featured in some short-subject films made by the group. Bryan started voicing Elmer in 1940 in Elmer's Candid Camera and voiced

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