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5: Eggs-cruciating! I’ve really mixed myself into an omelette on this project, which promises to be my longest trail to date, with more and more discoveries hatching. Yet the studios’ creativity kept finding new garnishment to vary the flavor for even the most discerning palate – suitable to grace the table of even their newest stars. The Egg Cracker Suite (Lantz/Universal, Oswald Rabbit, 3/22/43 – Ben Hardaway/Emery Hawkins, dir.) marks Oswald’s final appearance in a starring role – now redesigned as a gray rabbit much in the manner of his last previous appearance, Happy Scouts, and in the form we...

6: “Eggs-trapolation” Into the late 1940’s, with another springtime holiday for eggs on the plate. It’s high time all of Hollywood’s chickens and bunnies took some tips on the subject from the greatest “Wabbit” of them all. Easter Yeggs (Warner, Bugs Bunny, 6/28/47 – Robert McKimson, dir.) – If Walter Lantz could turn his staring Rabbit into an Easter Bunny, it was inevitable that Bugs would sooner or later have to follow suit. (In fact, Bugs would perform Easter services twice, also appearing as an Easter bunny (but without eggs) in the “Freddie, Get Ready” number with Doris Day and...