Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals (originally aired as Carnival of the Animals) is a live action/animated television special featuring the "Looney Tunes" characters Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck and directed by Chuck Jones. The special, based on Camille Saint-Saëns' musical suite of the same name and consisting of entirely new animation, was purposely cast in the successful mold of Jones' own earlier musical cartoons (including "Rabbit of Seville", "Long-Haired Hare" and "Baton Bunny"), and is set the familiar showbiz rivalry between Bugs and Daffy against the orchestral backdrop of conductor Michael
The Carnival of the Animals on the crowing of a rooster's Cock a Doodle Doo. Two pianos: the animals depicted here are quite obviously running, an image induced by the constant, feverishly fast up-and-down motion of both pianos playing scales in octaves. These are dziggetai, donkeys that come from Tibet and are known for their great speed. Strings and piano: a satirical movement which opens with a piano playing a pulsing triplet figure in the higher register. The strings play a slow rendition of the famous "Galop infernal" (commonly called the Can-can) from Offenbach's operetta "Orphée aux enfers" (Orpheus in the Underworld). Double bass and