Of all the Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam cartoons, this has remained one of my personal favorites. The story starts by Sam buying a whole bunch of tickets to see Fearless Freep, the high diving act being promoted by Bugs Bunny at a circus (Sam was splurging). But the fun begins when we find out that the main attraction can't make the show, so Yosemite makes Bugs be the act, or tries to anyway.
What follows is a wonderful series of gags centering around the high diving platform, and Friz Freleng and his crew did an amazing job of building each climb up the platform, followed by someone (guess who) falling down. There is one point in the cartoon where we have one of those brief Looney Tunes moments of pure genius when Sam keeps falling down and we don't even know what the cause is.
Freleng wanted to create a foil for the ultra popular Bugs Bunny that would rival the rabbit's teamings with Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam fits the bill very nicely, thank you very much.
What follows is a wonderful series of gags centering around the high diving platform, and Friz Freleng and his crew did an amazing job of building each climb up the platform, followed by someone (guess who) falling down. There is one point in the cartoon where we have one of those brief Looney Tunes moments of pure genius when Sam keeps falling down and we don't even know what the cause is.
Freleng wanted to create a foil for the ultra popular Bugs Bunny that would rival the rabbit's teamings with Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam fits the bill very nicely, thank you very much.