Oily Hare

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Oily Hare Merrie Melodies series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Produced by	Eddie Selzer
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Animation by	Charles McKimson Phil De Lara Rod Scribner Herman Cohen
Studio	Warner Bros. Cartoons The Vitaphone Corporation
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	July 26, 1952
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 min (one reel)

Oily Hare is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short, released in 1952, directed by Robert McKimson, written by Tedd Pierce, and starring Bugs Bunny. The title is a pun on hair oil, as with the earlier cartoon Slick Hare, along with the plotline actually having to do with oil.

[edit] Synopsis

Near "Deepinahearta," Texas, Bugs' rabbit hole in "Deepinahola", Texas upsets an oil tycoon because it isn't producing any oil.

The unnamed tycoon pulls up to the hole in a black stretch limousine that is so long that it requires a long-distance telephone operator in the middle of the car to connect the tycoon to his chauffeur, Maverick, so he can tell Maverick (who does not have a speaking role, but communicates by nodding his head) to stop the car.

Once Maverick stops the car, pulls a motor scooter out from behind the driver's seat and rides the scooter back to the tycoon's back door.

The tycoon surveys the situation and confronts Bugs, who tells the tycoon that the hole is, in fact, his home.

The tycoon tries to evict Bugs, which gets Bugs' dander up. Toward the end of the cartoon, the tycoon has Maverick load Bugs' hole up with dynamite, and says "I'm gonna blow the critter to the outskirts of Dallas!" The hole is so loaded with dynamite that the tycoon, who is in the hole, can't see his hand before his face. Bugs calls down and tells the tycoon to look in the top drawer of his dresser for his "cigareet" lighter, which the tycoon uses while still in the hole!

After the explosion, a gusher of carrots comes out of the hole and Bugs exclaims: "I brought in a carrot gusher! Well, you know, anything can happen in 'Te-ay-xus' ", which closes the cartoon.

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