It is quite surprising that only five of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies films won Academy Awards, and even more surprising that only one starred Bugs Bunny. Most people would hope and assume that What's Opera, Doc? would have been nominated for and won an Oscar, but it doesn't matter, this medieval themed cartoon is a good choice. The story sees King Arthur saying that one of the knights of the round table should recover the Singing Sword, stolen by the Black Knight, but they have turned chicken. The fool/jester, Bugs, comes in laughing saying only a fool would go, and the King says he will go, under penalty of death. So we see the Black Knight, Yosemite Sam, in his castle sleeping with his dumb fire-breathing dragon, that can't help sneezing and breathing. Bugs manages to get the Singing Sword easily, but then he has to escape, and when the knight and dragon chase him, he runs back into the castle and shuts the gates. The Black Knight tries a catapult and rope to get into the kingdom, until Bugs sneaks out across a long plank of wood. They spot him and chase him into a tower of explosives, where Bugs shuts them in, the dragon sneezes fire, blowing them up to the moon, and the film ends with Bugs walking away with the sword singing. It won the Oscar for Best Short Animated Film. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies were number 20, and Bugs Bunny number 10 on The 100 Greatest Cartoons. Very good!
Review of Knighty Knight Bugs
