Wet Hare

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Wet Hare is a 1962 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. In this cartoon, Bugs Bunny finds himself at odds with Blacque Jacque Shellacque, a ruthless lumberjack who wants to control the water supply by building a series of dams.

[edit] Story

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Bugs Bunny is taking his morning shower under a waterfall, singing "April Showers" when the water stops flowing. After briefly worrying that the supply has permanently dried up, he decides that beavers were responsible. The "beaver" turns out to be the villainous Blacque Jacque Shellacque, who has built an illegal rock dam in an effort to control the water supply and sell it at inflated prices. Bugs asks Blacque what would happen if he were to remove certain rocks, to which Blacque simply states he would replace them. Jacque laughs off removing a tiny rock, but it dislodges the dam.

Later, Bugs resumes showering, but this time Jacque thinks he's one step ahead of the rabbit when he spots what he believes to be a phony shark fin. The shark is real, however, and Bugs gets the shark to crash into the dam. Later, Bugs sends a lighted stick of dynamite toward a new Shellacque-built dam, but as Jacque tends to it, he doesn't see a huge raft full of lighted dynamite headed toward this one.

Jacque is finally fed up with the rabbit and fires his rifle into the waterfall, thinking he's killed off his nemesis once and for all. Nearby, Bugs - watering his carrot crop - sees that his record player has been destroyed and declares war.

Later, a triumphant Jacque boasts about his new steel dam, but quickly finds his water supply has been cut off. Bugs, as it turns out, has turned the tables and built a dam of his own. An angry Jacque retrieves a cannon and blows the dam apart, only to find another rabbit-built dam. Jacque blows that one up as well, only to find more dams. Finally, Jacque is tricked into attempting to blow up Grand Cooler Dam, but the attempt fails and he is arrested by the federal authorities.

[edit] Quotes

Blacque Jacque Shellacque: I feel like ze busy little beaver!"

Blacque Jacque Shellacque: "The game, she is o-va! This time, we shall sa-par-ate ze men from ze rabeets!" (fires rifle into waterfall) "So much for crazy seeck rabeets! Bah!"