Broom-Stick Bunny

{{Infobox film

|name = Broom-Stick Bunny

|image = BroomstickBunny TC.png

|animator = Richard Thompson
Ken Harris
Ben Washam
Abe Levitow

|background_artist = Philip De Guard

|starring = Mel Blanc
(all other voices)
June Foray
(Witch Hazel){{cite book |last=Webb |first=Graham |title=The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features and Sequences (1900-1999) |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-7864-4985-9 |pages=54}}

|music = Milt Franklyn

|editing = Treg Brown

|producer = Edward Selzer
John W. Burton

|studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons

|distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation

|released = {{Film date|1956|02|25|U.S.}}

|color_process = Technicolor

|runtime = 7:09

|language = English

}}

Broom-Stick Bunny is a 1956 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=283}} The short was released on February 25, 1956, and stars Bugs Bunny.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/60/mode/2up |pages=60–62}} The short is notable for being June Foray's first time working with Jones, though she had previously worked in a couple shorts for other directors. She continued to collaborate with him after Warners' closed their animation department. Foray herself would continue to collaborate with Warner Bros. up until her death.

Plot

On Halloween night, the story opens with a membership plaque to "The Malevolent Order of Witches," which is affiliated with the A. F. of Elves. Witch Hazel brews a potion while consulting her magic mirror, revealing her fear of aging. Meanwhile, Bugs Bunny, disguised as a witch, visits her for trick-or-treating. Mistaking Bugs for a fellow witch, Hazel becomes jealous when the mirror suggests Bugs is uglier. Devising a plan, she invites Bugs in, intending to use him in her beauty potion.

As Bugs discovers Hazel's intentions, he tries to escape, prompting a comical chase through the house. Hazel, wielding a cleaver, pursues Bugs until he convinces her of his innocence. Moved by his tearful plea, she spares him, but accidentally drinks the beauty potion meant for Bugs, transforming into a stunning redhead, said to be a caricature of her voice actress, June Foray, who used her real voice after the transformation.

Shocked by her own beauty, Hazel seeks validation from her magic mirror, only to find the genie infatuated with her. Terrified, she flees on her broomstick, pursued by the enamored genie on a flying carpet. Bugs, now free, cleverly alerts the authorities to the surreal chase unfolding before him.