| Ala Bahma | |
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Real Name |
Ala Bahma |
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First Appearance |
Case of the Missing Hare (1942) |
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Original Publisher |
Warner Bros. |
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Created by |
Chuck Jones & Tedd Pierce |
Origin[]
Ala Bahma is a magician who nailed a poster advertising his show over the hollow tree that was Bugs Bunny's home. Even after Bugs protested having his front door plastered over, the magician struck him in the face with a blackberry pie. Bugs decided to go to his show and drive him crazy, taking the place of the rabbit in his hat, and later masquerading as a little boy from the audience. Bugs' revenge was complete when he placed a cigar in the magician's mouth and lit it, causing it to explode (it was a bomb) and stun him, and then conjured a blackberry pie and struck the magician in the face with it on stage.
Public Domain Appearances[]
- Case of the Missing Hare (1942)
Notes[]
- The name "Ala Bahma" is a play on the American state of Alabama.
- This short entered the public domain in 1970 due to United Artists failing to renew its copyright in time.
- Despite Bugs Bunny being featured prominently in "Case of the Missing Hare", the character of Bugs himself is still under copyright and goes public domain in the year 2036.
- Ala Bahma would later reappear in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "The Cat Who Knew Too Much" as a chef and in a brief cameo in Space Jam.