The Unruly Hare
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The Unruly Hare is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It was directed by Frank Tashlin. It stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, voiced by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan, respectively.
[edit] Plot synopsis
Elmer is a surveyor for a railroad company, and disturbs Bugs' rest by singing "I've Been Wohking on the Wailwoad" a little too loud, "an unreasonable facsimile" of Frank Sinatra. Bugs proceeds to harass the hapless Elmer all through the picture. At the climax, their antics manage to set off TNT in the supply store, and the explosion miraculously lays the ties and the track, followed immediately by an engine in full steam.
Bugs is riding away from Elmer at the back of the train, waving goodbye. He turns to the audience with a suddenly startled look, and leaps from the train, crashing and screeching to a halt. He then stands up, brushes himself off, and in a stark reminder of the still-raging World War II (the cartoon was released in February, a couple of weeks before the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima), tells the audience, "None of us civilians should be doing any unnecessary traveling these days!" He then walks off down the tracks with a pole and a napsack over his shoulder, into the sunset, accompanied by an instrumental bar of "Kingdom Coming". Iris out.
