Hare-um Scare-um

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Hare-um Scare-um is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton, and first released on August 12, 1939 by Warner Bros. It markes the third appearance of Happy Rabbit, an early Bugs Bunny prototype, and the first time he, thanks to a redesign by Charlie Thorsen, appears as a grey rabbit instead of a white one.

The plot of the short features Happy Rabbit confronting an unnamed hunter and his hunting dog. It features Happy Rabbit's first and only singing role and also the first and only time where he dresses in drag to seduce his antagonist just like Bugs Bunny does.

The goofy song the rabbit sings starts something like this [1]:

I'm going cuckoo, woo-woo!

Here comes the choo-choo, woo-woo!

I'm so gooney Looney Tuney, touched in the head

Please pass the ketchup, I think I'll go to bed

etc.

Eight years later, the song will be varied somewhat and reprised by Bugs Bunny in Easter Yeggs:

Here's the Easter Rabbit, hooray!

The happy Easter Rabbit, hooray!

I am getting Looney Tuney, touched in the head

This whole thing is gooney, I should have stayed in bed.

etc.