| Windblown Hare | |
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| Looney Tunes (Bugs Bunny) 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 | 7:09 |
| Language | English |
The Windblown Hare is a one-reel 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."
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This cartoon features Bugs Bunny, the Big Bad 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 easily conned into buying the straw house for ten bucks. Along comes the Wolf, reading the book, too. As per the plot, he blows down the straw house just as homeowner Bugs starts to greet him with his catchphrase.
Bugs then buys the wooden house from the second pig, and the three then hole up in the brick house - knowing from the book that the Wolf can't blow it down. Along comes the Wolf again, book in hand, and blows down the wooden house over Bugs' objections. This prompts the Bunny to deliver payback to the Wolf.
To get revenge on the Wolf, Bugs dresses up as Little Red Riding Hood and skips down the roadway. He meets the Wolf sitting under a tree, reading the end of the story. The Wolf asks the "girl" (Bugs) where she is going and Bugs flips the Wolf's book a few pages. The Wolf then speed-reads "Little Red Riding Hood" until he realises he's behind schedule.
The Wolf races over to Grandma's house and claiming he has no time to eat her, kicks her out of the house with barely time to get her nightclothes on. The Rabbit in Red arrives shortly thereafter. 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, and pull out his teeth and back in his mouth. The Wolf retaliates by pulling on Bugs's ears, but Bugs counters that by stepping on the Wolf's foot. After both of them strip each others disguises they argue.
Bugs then refuses to give the Wolf the "present" he brought him. After the Wolf begs Bugs to give him his present, Bugs relents and puts the present (a cake) right into the Wolf's face. Pursued down the basement steps of Grandma’s house, Bugs turns off the light switch downstairs, making the Wolf to go back to the upstairs switch to restore the light rather than risk Bugs's counterattack. After this procedure is repeated, Bugs tricks the Wolf by saying “click” instead of actually turning off the light, prompting the Wolf to automatically turn the upstairs light off and continue down the stairs, allowing Bugs to hit him with a baseball bat.
Bugs tries to escape on a bicycle, but it turns out to be a tandem with the Wolf in the second seat. He steers into a clothesline, yanking the Wolf out of the seat. When Bugs chides the Wolf for blowing his houses down, the Wolf explains those are the Pigs' houses and Bugs then sees it all.
Arriving at the brick house, Bugs overhears the pigs gloating about cheating him into buying their houses. He directs the Wolf to blow down the house. The Wolf says he can't because he can't in the book. Bugs retorts, "Book, shmook! Blow da house down!", and the wolf unsuccessfully tries to blow the house down, but right after, the house blows up. The Wolf and the Pigs think that the Wolf did it, but Bugs is shown with a TNT plunger, saying to the audience, "We did it".
| Preceded by The Grey Hounded Hare |
Bugs Bunny Cartoons 1949 |
Succeeded by Frigid Hare |