A Wild Hare

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Hand-Drawn Animation Adventure Animation Comedy Family Short

While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.

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7.7/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 2 nominations total

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Mel Blanc

Bugs Bunny
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Arthur Q. Bryan

Elmer Fudd
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Tex Avery
Writer
- Rich Hogan
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Trivia
The producers' reaction to the gag of Bugs responding to a hunter pointing a gun at him with a confident casual remark, "What's up, Doc?" was so favorable that they decided to make that a standard element of future films featuring the character.

Goofs
When Elmer pulls a carrot out of his pocket, it has a single stem with no leafy material. He then lays it down by Bug's hole and creeps away to hide behind a tree. But when Bugs sticks his hand out to get the carrot, it has several stems and a lot of leafy material.

Quotes
[first lines]
Elmer Fudd: [first occurence of this line] Be vewy, vewy qwiet. I'm hunting wabbits.

Crazy credits
In the 1944 Blue Ribbon reissue of this cartoon, when the WB shield zooms in the copyright notice briefly says MCMXLIV(1944) for a fraction of a second before changing to MCMXL(1940)!

Alternate versions
When the cartoon was re-released as a Blue Ribbon re-issue, it was inadvertently retitled "The Wild Hare." Also, one of the names Elmer Fudd guesses was changed from Carole Lombard, who had recently died in a plane crash, to Barbara Stanwyck.

Connections
Edited into Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)

Soundtracks
Yankee Doodle
(ca. 1755) (uncredited)
Traditional music of English origin

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10/10

Tex Avery gave us the Bugs Bunny we all know and most of us love!

While Tex didn't do the first Bugs cartoon, he did the first one with many of the characteristics of Bugs that make him Bugs, including the catch-phrase, "What's up, Doc". So it's fitting and proper that, while Chuck Jones did more with the wabbit, Tex Avery did the first Bugs to get a date at the Academy Awards, losing to the wrong feline cartoon. *sigh* Bugs wouldn't win an Oscar for another 18 years, but that's for another comment at another time. Highly recommended.