Sunday, December 7, 2025

Bully for … Scent-imental Reasons


Note from my previous post: 

I decided to investigate Edward Selzer, since he was the producer of  Warner Brothers Cartoon, and so hired Jones and Maltese, where all three worked on My Little Duckeroo (see this blogs Header), so it’s likely that they worked on other animations… and that it may be mentioned on Selzer’s wiki page, where I then found this: 

Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese created Bully for Bugs in direct response to Selzer's declaration that there was nothing funny about bullfighting.

Note the following from the Bully for Bugs wiki page: 

The cartoon was released on August 8, 1953, and stars Bugs Bunny.

My exhusband was born on the anniversary of the cartoons release date— August 8th.  AND YES, my exhusband had bullied me and my children until I was forced to leave!! So the big question— how do he bullies learn the behaviour and is there any way to change it when even our judicial and legal systems encourage it?!  

In the cartoons sidebar (see below), some of the names contain a cryptic communication re: car stalling (from Carl Stalling); hairy love (from Harry Love); more rise noble (from Maurice Noble)… etc.  On viewing their wikipedia pages, one in particular stands out: 

Maurice James Noble (May 1, 1911 – May 18, 2001)

His birthday aka “May one” contains a cryptic “May won”… a date that is particularly meaningful to the inner twin world… and to myself personally, … since my first name is May!!  


Bully for Bugs
Lobby card
Directed byCharles M. Jones
Story byMichael Maltese
Produced byEdward Selzer
(uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byBen Washam
Lloyd Vaughan
Ken Harris
Harry Love (effects animation)
Layouts byMaurice Noble
Backgrounds byPhilip De Guard
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • August 8, 1953(U.S.)
Running time
7:11

Note this next excerpt from the cartoon: 

In his biography Chuck AmuckChuck Jones claims that he made this cartoon after producer Eddie Selzer burst into Jones' workspace one day and announced, for no readily apparent reason, that there was nothing funny about bullfighting and no cartoons about it were to be made.[3] Since Selzer had, in Jones' opinion, consistently proven himself to be wrong about absolutely everything (having once barred Jones from doing any cartoons featuring Pepé Le Pew, on the grounds that he perceived them as not being funny, which led to Jones and Maltese to do For Scent-imental Reasons, which won an Oscar, which Selzer accepted)

On investigating the other cartoon mentioned in the excerpt, we arrive at yet another notable person that connects in cryptic fashion: 

For Scent-imental Reasons
The title card of For Scent-imental Reasons
Directed byCharles M. Jones[1]
Story byMichael Maltese
Produced byEdward Selzer
(uncredited)
StarringMel Blanc
Bea Benaderet
Music byCarl Stalling
Animation byBen Washam
Ken Harris
Phil Monroe
Lloyd Vaughan
Layouts byRobert Gribbroek
Backgrounds byPeter Alvarado
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • November 12, 1949

Note from Peter Alvarado’s wiki page: 

Peter J. Alvarado Jr. (February 22, 1920 – December 27, 2003)


 

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