Bugs Bunny is standing at the base of the famous
Brooklyn Bridge, (about half a mile from the southern end of the actual street called the
Bowery), telling an old man a story, in carnival-barker style, about how and why Steve Brody jumped off the bridge in July 1886 in the form of pictures: Brody had a terrific run of luck...all bad. He decided he needed a good luck charm...ideally, a rabbit's foot. But he could not find one in the city, so he tried looking in the country forest. At this point, the story is animated. Brody cycles to Flatbush and finds Bugs' house. Brody, holding a knife, pulls Bugs (singing "
All that glitters is not gold") out of his home and tells him that he needs a good luck charm and that "he is it". However, Bugs explains why rabbits feet are NOT all that lucky and directs Brody to "Swami Rabbitima". Brody decides to chance it on the condition he will come back for Bugs if it does not work. The Swami (Bugs in
disguise) asks Brody to enter. Just as Brody starts explaining his bad luck, he has his palm "read" (painted red) then Bugs starts
reading the bumps on his head after hitting Brody over the head with a hammer several times. Brody angrily starts chasing Bugs who quickly deals out
playing cards for
cartomancy. He tells Brody that he has a meeting coming up with a man wearing a
carnation (also Bugs in
disguise), who will be his lucky mascot at gambling; Brody's luck does not change, though. Bugs'
craps shot of 7 suddenly turns up snake-eyes, then Brody plays a
slot machine that comes up with three
lemons that literally roll out of the machine and into his hat. Furious, Brody tries to attack Bugs and is promptly kicked out of the gambling establishment by a
gorilla bouncer. Brody goes back to the Swami who realizes that the cartomancy failed. For his second attempt, Bugs spins a
zodiac wheel which lands on the sign of the
wolf. He tells Brody that it means he is lucky with love, but his flirting with a "lady" (also Bugs in
disguise) only results in a multiple bonking by a
policeman for being a "masher". Brody returns to the Swami and is about to pulverize him when he is asked precisely WHY he wants his luck to change. Taking Brody's answer literally ("So I can get me hands on some
dough!"), Bugs sends him to 29 River Street, home of "
Grandma's Happy Home Bakery". When Brody arrives there and demands the "dough" at gunpoint, a baker (Bugs yet again) gladly obliges with "a mess of
dough" which Brody gets stuck in and is baked into a
pie. Unmasking the baker as Bugs, Brody retraces his steps to unmask Bugs' previous
disguises, leading Brody to believe that "everybody's a rabbit!". When Brody looks into what he thinks is a
mirror (but is actually a
window) and sees Bugs looking back at him, he thinks HE has turned into a rabbit and snaps, hopping down the street and turning onto the
Brooklyn Bridge, hysterically shouting "What's up, doc?!" Seeing a police officer staring contemplatively at the
East River from the middle of the bridge, Brody comes up behind him and begs for help. Turning, the officer reveals himself to be Bugs, demanding (in a thick Irish accent) "''What's all this about rabbits, Doc?''". That being
the last straw, Brody leaps off the bridge, apparently as
suicide. The scene freezes with Brody in mid-air to a poster seen behind Bugs who apparently rushed out to save him off-screen. Bugs ends the story there, and the impressed old man says: "That's enough, son! I'll buy it!" and hands Bugs some
money. This was a reference to
George C. Parker, a con artist who would often "sell" the Brooklyn Bridge to people, thus originating the phrase "Have I got a bridge to sell ya!" ==Historical background==