Hyde and Hare

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Hyde and Hare Looney Tunes series
Directed by	Friz Freleng
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Warren Foster
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Gerry Chiniquy Arthur Davis Virgil Ross Ted Bonnicksen
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	August 27, 1955
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 mins
IMDb profile

Hyde and Hare is a 1955 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng. The cartoon pits Bugs against Dr. Jekyll, who continues to turn into Mr. Hyde. The title is a play on the expression "neither hide nor hair."

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Bugs comes out of his rabbit hole in a city park every morning, because a kind gentleman keeps coming to feed him a carrot. At first feigning a usual rabbit stance, Bugs eventually stands up and confides that he'd rather simply go home with the gentleman, since it would be easier on both of them. As the gentleman brings Bugs home, the camera pans up to see that the name above the apartment is for Dr. Jekyll.

Inside the house, Bugs gets used to his new surroundings. Dr. Jekyll comes across a bubbling potion that he knows he shouldn't drink, but he gives in and drinks the potion anyway. He then transforms into Mr. Hyde, with a monstrous green face and glowing red eyes. Bugs tries running from this monster, but soon the monster reverts back to Dr. Jekyll. Bugs, thinking that the monster is still after both of them, tries leading the Doctor into various rooms and closets, with the eventual re-transformation of the Doctor into Mr. Hyde. This continues for a few minutes, until Dr. Jekyll decides that he's going to pour the rest of the formula down the drain. He goes into his lab, but finds the beaker with the formula empty. The Doctor asks Bugs if he drank the potion, to which Bugs becomes insulted at the idea and leaves.

Walking back to his park, Bugs transforms into a monstrous green rabbit (which implies that he DID drink the formula). The ladies at the park who are busy feeding the pigeons see Bugs and run away screaming. Bugs looks at them and wonders, "Now what's eating THEM? Hum! You'd think they never saw a rabbit before!"

[edit] Trivia

In the cartoon, Bugs utters the phrase "I wish my brother George was here" as he sits down to play a piano. The reference was to Liberace who had a brother George.
This is also the name of a hip-hop album by Del tha Funkee Homosapien, I Wish My Brother George Was Here of the same name.
You can play Hyde Bugs in the Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal video game.
When Bugs first sees Mr. Hyde, he says Ralph Kramden's line to him, "You... are a mental case!"