this place, the tune is the Ride of the Valkyries. Neil Lerner attempts to decipher Carl Stalling's intentions in quoting Wagner at the end of the battle scenes. He suggests that it is connected to the role of the Valkyries, taking fallen warriors to Valhalla. In this case, the use is ironic as Stalling would not view the deceased Japanese soldiers as fallen heroes who deserve an afterlife paradise. As Bugs signals the American ship, the tune is from the scene where Brünnhilde announces her pregnancy. Lerner suggests that Stalling was inspired by the name of Siegfried, "peace through victory". Stalling could intend the scene to represent the United States reaching such a peace. Alternatively, he might be inspired by the stark isolation of Brünnhilde on a rocky mountain – in which case, the reference would have been Bugs being trapped on the island. Reception The Film Daily called the eight-minute short "good fun" and gave the following synopsis: "Bugs Bunny, cast away on a Pacific isle, thinks the setting ideal until he finds his paradise infested with Japanese soldiers. How he single-handedly exterminates the enemy makes for a laugh-filled few minutes of typical Bugs antics, off-screen remarks and action in this Technicolor cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger." Notes Since the 1960s, Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips has been controversial because of its racial stereotyping. However, the cartoon was not one of the "Censored Eleven" and was occasionally shown on television in syndicated packages with other pre-August 1948 Warner Bros. cartoons whose copyrights were under the ownership of Associated Artists Productions. The short debuted on home video in December 1991 on the first volume of Golden Age of Looney Tunes laser disc collection. The niche market format did not cause a stir, but when the 5-disc set was later issued in the more accessible VHS format on 10 separate tapes in 1993, Japanese groups went against its distribution. Originally, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (the copyright owners of the Turner/Associated Artists Productions shorts at the time) defended itself against the Japanese groups and did not withdraw the release , but later both releases were withdrawn. Future releases for both formats replaced the cartoon with Racketeer Rabbit, which already appeared on another LaserDisc and VHS set. The VHS reissue combined volumes 4 and 7 of the 10-tape set. After the pulling of the short in 1993 from home video, the short was also pulled from