Monday, June 28, 2021

A-Lad-In His Lamp

 Robert McKimson, A-Lad in His Lamp, USA 1948


One of the first shorts where Mel Blanc didn't do all the male voices. Yup, an uncredited Jim Backus plays the genie. 

Oh yeah, Bugs finds a genie. 

Smokey, as Bugs dubs him, is your typical jerk genie. He mostly complains and refuses to grant wishes, but he does trick Bugs into wishing them back to the genie's home town of Baghdad, where both rabbit and lamp fall into the hands of Caliph Hassan Pfeffer. 

Not horrible, and not nearly as racist as some of the previously mentioned shorts, although the portrayal of the Middle East isn't exactly 100% accurate. Everything looks straight from a storybook and all the cultures are pretty much tossed together. The caliph is a bit bland. He's not as violative as Yosemite Sam but he's not as dumb as Elmer, so he's doesn't leave the best impression. The genie is a bigger jerk.    

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