A-Lad-In His Lamp

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = A-Lad-In His Lamp
series = Looney Tunes


caption =
director = Robert McKimson
story_artist = Warren Foster
animator = Charles McKimson
Phil De Lara
Manny Gould
John Carey
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
Jim Backus (as Genie, uncredited)
musician = Carl W. Stalling
producer = Edward Selzer
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = October 23, 1948
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 minutes (one reel)
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0040066

"A-Lad-In His Lamp" is a 1948 Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and featuring the Genie and Caliph Hassan Pfeiffer who is after Bugs and the Genie in his lamp. The voice of Bugs Bunny and Caliph Hassan Pfeiffer is voiced by Mel Blanc and the voice of the Genie is played by Jim Backus (who would later be famous for voicing cartoon character Mr. Magoo) in one of his first professional roles. The cartoon is a takeoff of the story of Aladdin's Lamp.

Plot

Bugs is digging a rabbit hole when he finds a lamp in his hole not knowing what it is at first and calls it junk. He thinks he could use it as an ashtray and starts cleaning it up and out pops the Genie and announces that he is here and let the bells ring out and feast his eyes on him. Bugs, suspicious of the Genie at first, asks what he wants. The Genie wants to grant Bugs any wish he wants, but when Bugs tries to give a wish, the Genie makes a bunch of excuses ("Too Schalmataz", "Heavens No", "Too Big"). Bugs gets tired of his excuses and that he wishes for a carrot and the Genie obliges but Bugs doesn't believe it at first and wishes for 2 carrots instead. The Genie grants Bugs' wish of 2 carrots and Bugs says that it is the start of a beautiful friendship.

The Genie wants to go back to Baghdad where he lives and he wants to take Bugs along, so Bugs accepts and he and the Genie in the lamp fly literally with Bugs flying like an "hareplane" as he calls it.

Before coming to Baghdad (the aerial view also shows two bodies of water named Veronica Lake and Turhan Bay), they show various places there including "The Brown Turban", Mad Man Hassan's used magic carpet lot, and a telephone company that gives Persian to Persian calls.

Bugs and the Genie in the lamp arrive in Baghdad but Bugs' flying in the air sputters and conks out and Bugs and the lamp fall into Caliph Hassan Pheffer's Palace (built on a GI Loan!) where he wants the lamp. When Bugs says no he can't have it, the chase starts. When Bugs takes a peek behind a door and ladies shriek, Bugs points out it's a harem ("Er, uh, a harem - I tink"), which encourages the genie to pop out and take a peek himself ("Oh that was a harem all right, I know a harem when I see one.")

When Bugs tries to get the Genie to get him out of the mess he is in, the Genie is taking a bath, and when Bugs tries again, the lazy genie is eating dinner. Bugs doesn't like it one bit and starts hitting the Genie with a stick with the Genie hitting back. Bugs quickly tries to escape from the Caliph by taking a magic carpet, rigged with an outboard motor. On the magic carpet, Bugs tries again with the Genie but the Genie is kissing a girl genie and the girl genie pops out. After the girl genie ducks back into the lamp, the genie warns Bugs if he disturbs him once more he'll be beaten to a pulp, and ducks back into the lamp after the girl genie.

The magic carpet runs out of gas, making Bugs crash land back into the palace and Caliph Hassan Pheffer has the lamp now. When Caliph Hassan Pheffer tries to get the Genie out of the lamp, the Genie is very angry and beats Hassan to a pulp and then the Genie cheers Bugs on his victory. As a reward, the Genie grants Bugs another wish with Bugs whispering what his wish was like. The wish is like he is in a harem with a bunch of female rabbits and Bugs at the end says: "I wonder how the poor rabbits are doing."

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