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A Lad in His Lamp (1948)

A-Lad-In His Lamp (1948) is a 7 minutes Warner Bros cartoon under the brand Looney Tunes directed by Robert McKimson.

It follows a very set format for the famous and generally hilarious series of shorts. This one stars Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc) in an Aladdin inspired tale (which unfortunately gets mired in occasional stereotyping and board-brush racial caricaturisation) and features a genie in a lamp who, of course, offers Bugs wishes after he rubs a dirty lamp he digs up.

The Lake connection: Blink and you'll miss it but early on Bugs wishes to see Bagdad (sic) and the genie obliged by firing Bugs like a rocket towads the middle east. As Bugs glides like a plane the scene changes [3:06] to an aerial map for Turhan Bay with a body of water in the top right noted as "Veronica Lake".

The same gag was done (better?) back in 1942 for the cartoon Crazy Cruise. It's very much the same joke but they bothered to make the lake into the svelt shape of Lake's body and likely traced the outline of an actual publicity photo pose.

A Lad in His Lamp (1948) - Lake Veronica