| Hare Do | |
|---|---|
| Merrie Melodies (Bugs Bunny) series | |
| Directed by | I. Freleng |
| Produced by | Eddie Selzer |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Voices by | Mel Blanc |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Gerry Chiniquy Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross |
| Layouts by | Hawley Pratt |
| Backgrounds by | Paul Julian |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | January 15, 1949 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7:29 |
| Language | English |
Hare Do is a 1948 Merrie Melodies Cartoon starring Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd which was released in 1949. It is one of the few Bugs Bunny/ Elmer Fudd pairings directed by Friz Freleng that was released after Hare Trigger, the debut of Yosemite Sam (most of whose appearances were in cartoons directed by Freleng). The title of the cartoon is an obvious pun on the term "hairdo," another word for a hairstyle.
The cartoon's final scene is a nod to the ending of 1939's A Day at the Zoo, which featured Elmer's prototype Egghead being swallowed up by a lion.
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Elmer Fudd is hunting for Bugs Bunny using his "Wabbit Detector" (which he admits to purchasing from an army surplus store) in the woods and singing "A-hunting I will go, to catch a wong-eared wabbit." At first he sees a caterpillar on the screen, but then he sees Bugs in his sight. As he is searching, Bugs is now guiding Elmer into finding him by telling him that he is getting colder, then getting warmer, and then when he gets to red hot, Elmer falls off the cliff and Bugs is seen coming out of his hole. After an exchange, Elmer gives chase to Bugs. Bugs comes to a speeding car and hops in. Unknowing to Bugs is that Elmer is the one driving the car and Bugs replies that you have to get up pretty early to outsmart this rabbit to which Elmer replies "I got up at a quarter to five." which makes Bugs jump when he sees Elmer and the car stops at a movie theater.
On the way in, Bugs sees that he has to pay 10 cents to get in the theater. Bugs then proceeds pushing his way through the seats, much to the annoyance of the people in attendance. As soon as Bugs settles in his seat watching the movie, he forgets to get a snack, and goes back down to the lobby's candy bar, pushing his way through the same audience again. In a very witty segment, Bugs looks over a combination of numerous ways of getting a candy bar for 20 cents, and makes his choice for a carrot with two dimes taped to it.
Back at his seat, after pushing his way through the audience for the third time, Bugs cannot see without binoculars, but sees some leering eyes in the background which are Elmer's and then proceeds to get out, pushing his way through the audience yet again. Elmer then pushes his way through the audience, and comes across a little old lady, whom is getting sick of the way people are pushing in front of her and starts hitting him with an umbrella. Elmer finds out that the "old lady" is Bugs in disguise and proceeds to strangle him, but Bugs calls for the usher who throws Elmer out.
Back at his seat, Bugs' view is blocked by a woman with a large hat-which turns out to be Elmer. A chase begins when Elmer enters the theater and is greeted by a message on screen requesting him to come to the box office. When Elmer asks about the message, he is greeted with a pie in the face by Bugs. Elmer then chases Bugs into the men's lounge, but Bugs rushes back out and replaces the sign with the sign from the ladies' lounge. Bugs then calls for the usher and reports there's a man in the ladies' lounge. Just as Elmer comes out again, the usher throws him out again. Elmer tries to run back into the theater, but is stopped by the theater's doorman, after running into his coat.
When Elmer sneaks back in, he ends up trampled by the movie patrons going in and out when the intermission and curtain lights flash on. This is operated by Bugs until Elmer catches up to him. Elmer then chases Bugs back to the theater and then Bugs, as an usher, tells Elmer if he has a ticket and then tells him that there will be a lion act in the show. Little does Elmer know that he is part of the act when Elmer is wearing dark glasses and sitting on a unicycle and then as the unicycle comes down the rope, Elmer is swallowed by the lion.
The most notable scenes that were cut when this cartoon aired on ABC were:
Hare Do is available on Disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD set.
| Preceded by My Bunny Lies Over The Sea |
Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1949 |
Succeeded by Rebel Rabbit |