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Southern Fried Rabbit is a Looney Tunes cartoon by Warner Bros. starring Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam. Directed by Friz Freleng, the animated short was first released on May 2, 1953. In it, Bugs Bunny attempts to shake off Yosemite Sam (here, cast as a Civil War-era Confederate colonel), who is preventing him from crossing the Mason–Dixon line. __________ A severe drought has ruined the carrot crop in Bugs Bunny’s northern home. Upon learning of a boom crop in Alabama, Bugs decides to happily make the trip to the fertile soils. After a lot of walking, he exhaustedly asks, “I wonder why they put the South so far south?“, but finds himself near the Mason–Dixon line that separates the drought-ravaged north from the fertile south. As soon as he crosses the line he is shot at by “Colonel“ Sam, who chases Bugs back over the line, but then, realizing he is north, quickly runs back over the line, saying he has to burn his boots as they “touched Yankee soil!“.
