Rhapsody Rabbit was the first rabbit pie to be broadcast on Cartoon Network when the channel launched on October 1, 1992. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page.
This article’s plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article’s tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia’s guide to writing better articles for suggestions. The cartoon opens with a bar of “Merrily We Roll Along”, followed by a segment of the “lively” portion of Wagner’s Siegfried funeral march, as Bugs walks onstage to applause and prepares to play the grand piano. Bugs Bunny prepares to play the piano. Although the film is mostly pantomime, Bugs speaks a few times.
At one point he is interrupted by the ring of a phone, timed to echo a short fluttering strain that Bugs is playing at that moment. The phone is inside the piano: “Eh, what’s up, doc? Bugs stops at the very short pause in the piece, acknowledging the applause of the audience. Nearing the end of the Rhapsody, he is in shock after turning to the finale page which consist of scrambled, quick playing, nearly impossible to read notes after which he takes off his shirt, oils his hands, and prays.