Here's something I am sure not many people have seen. Below is the original title sequence to the 1961 Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoon "Prince Violent". Why is it so rare? Well, at some point during the late 1970s, the cartoon was retitled "Prince Varmint" by CBS when the cartoon broadcast on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (no doubt to avoid using the word "violent" in the title). The alternate title stuck ever since and WB continued to distribute the CBS-titled copy of this cartoon for a number of years. A new modern set of titles (above), still calling the cartoon "Prince Varmint", were created in 1992 for the Fox Network's version of Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends (this was the version of the cartoon that was aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang a few years back). The cartoon has never got an official release on ANY home video format either.
(On a sidenote - CBS also retitled the Porky Pig cartoon "Curtain Razor" as "Show Stopper" around the same time (late 70s)... luckily that alternate title didn't stick!)
Anyway, here it is!
4 comments:
The music in the credits sounds exactly like the one in ''Knighty Knight Bugs.''
Notice that one of the shields on the side of the Viking ship looks very familiar...
I still dreaming to see Prince Violent in a Video like this was created. I do hope to see in the next Looney Tunes Volume. Thanks for sharing!
They also slapped in a 1959 MM Blue Ribbon Title with the 1946 LT Music And Ended it With The 1953 LT Ending the last time I Saw It On CN. Sloppy editing is unnecessary.
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