No Parking Hare

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No Parking Hare Looney Tunes series
Title card to "No Parking Hare"
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Edward Selzer
Story by	Sid Marcus
Voices by	Mel Blanc John T. Smith (uncredited)
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	Charles McKimson Phil DeLara Rod Scribner Herman Cohen
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	May 1, 1954 (USA)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 minutes (one reel)
IMDb profile

No Parking Hare is a 1953-animated 1954-released Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical animated short, starring Bugs Bunny. It was directed by Robert McKimson, and written by Sid Marcus. Similar to Homeless Hare, Bugs finds himself squaring off against a construction worker who wants to build over Bugs' hole in the ground.

1 Plot
2 Censorship
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Construction is done for a new freeway, with the construction waking Bugs and covering him with dirt. Bugs confronts the construction worker (voiced by John Smith), and when Bugs realizes that it's like a freeway that will go through, he declares that he's not moving. The construction worker tries to pack dynamite around Bugs' hole, but only succeeds in creating a large narrow pillar with Bugs' home still intact ("I hear ya knockin', but ya can't come in!")

The construction worker continues to try and get Bugs out, usually with explosives, but Bugs always manages to outwit the worker. The worker eventually tries to pour a large amount of cement on top of the hole, but when the cement is dried up, he finds out that Bugs diverted all the cement around the hole and defiantly placed a door and mailbox on top. In an end similar to Homeless Hare, work was finally diverted around Bugs' hole, this time with the freeway diverted around the hole. Bugs pops out to declare: "The Sanctity of the American Home must be preserved!"

[edit] Censorship

When this cartoon aired on ABC, the following scenes were cut:

Bugs reads Edgar Allan Poe, the construction worker tries to chainsaw through Bugs' dwelling and ends up getting zapped with electricity when his chainsaw hits a fuse box.
Bugs singing "There Is No Place Like A Hole In The Ground". The worker is flying over the hole with a helicopter, drops a bomb as Bugs rises from his bed to turn the page of the sheet music, and gets blown up after the bomb bounces back to the helicopter.
The construction worker building a ladder made of pipes, climbs to the top of Bugs' hole with a stick of dynamite, and tries to light it, only to be beaten by Bugs who blows a match that detonates the dynamite stick and sends the pipe ladder (and the construction worker) crashing down.

The CBS airing of this cartoon edited the pipe ladder scene to remove the construction worker holding the dynamite, the construction worker trying to light the dynamite, Bugs blowing the match through the pipes to ignite it, and the resulting explosion. The edited version makes it seem that the pipe ladder fell because of its slipshod construction.