The Windblown Hare
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| Windblown Hare
Looney Tunes series |
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| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
| Produced by | Eddie Selzer |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | John Carey Phil DeLara Manny Gould Charles McKimson |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 27, 1949 |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes and 9 seconds |
| IMDb profile | |
The Windblown Hare is a 1948-produced Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Robert McKimson. It was originally released on August 27, 1949. The title, another pun on "hair", refers to Bugs being subjected to the Wolf's "blowing the house[s] in."
[edit] Plot
This cartoon features Bugs Bunny, a Wolf, and The Three Pigs. The Pigs, reading their own story in a book of fairy tales, decide to circumvent the story by selling both the straw house and the wooden house before the Wolf can blow them down. Bugs is persuaded to buy the straw house; when the Wolf arrives, homeowner Bugs starts to greet him with the usual "What's up, Doc?", only for the Wolf, carrying out his pre-determined role in the story, to blow down the house before Bugs says "Doc." Bugs then buys the wooden house, leaving the Pigs to hole up in the brick house. When the Wolf comes by again, he ignores Bugs' protests and blows the wooden house down as well.
Wanting revenge on the Wolf, Bugs tricks him into acting out the story of “Little Red Riding Hood” instead. After the Wolf chases Grandma out of her house (claiming he has "no time" to eat her per the story's instructions), Bugs, as Red Riding Hood, arrives. When Bugs Bunny says what big eyes, ears, teeth, and feet the wolf has when he's in grandma's clothing, he pokes both the wolf's eyes, pulls his ears up and down, pull out his teeth and back in his mouth, and step on his foot causing pain. When the wolf acts "smart-alecky", Bugs refuses to give the Wolf the "present" he brought him. As the Wolf begs Bugs to give him his present, Bugs reconsiders, takes out his present (which happens to be a cake) and throws it at his face. Later, Bugs keeps turning off the light in the basement at Grandma’s house as the Wolf turns it on to run down the stairs to catch Bugs. Bugs tricks the Wolf by saying “click” instead of turning off the light.
When Bugs chides the Wolf for blowing his houses down, the Wolf explains his obligation to blow down the pigs houses, and Bugs realizes how he was tricked by the Pigs, who knew full well what the Wolf would do. Bugs tells the Wolf to blow down the brick house, where the Pigs are laughing it up. The Wolf blows, to no effect, but at the same time Bugs blows the house up using dynamite.
[edit] Trivia
In the opening of the cartoon each of The Three Pigs are wearing a shirt that corresponds with the type of house each lives in. The Pig that lives in the straw house is wearing yellow, the wood house is wearing green, and the brick house is wearing red. By the middle of the cartoon the Pig that owns the brick house is wearing the yellow shirt.
[edit] Censorship
- When this cartoon aired on CBS, the part where Bugs pokes the Wolf's eyes out as Bugs does the, "My, what big eyes you have!" routine was cut.
| Preceded by The Grey Hounded Hare |
Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1949 |
Succeeded by Frigid Hare |
